Former member of the Canadian fraternal party to the US SWP, the Canadian Communist League, if memory serves. Went to Stanford, has an MA in Russian history. Threads on leftist_trainspotters and marxmail on Yardley, google away.
BTW, you read or hear about from Kevin Keating, the reply by Frontpage contributor, Stephen Schwartz, in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, to Keating's, Anarchy mag. piece on Schwartz, "From Munis to Meese: State Department Surrealism, ??? My best friend from college, Eric Kirk lives up there in Humboldt county and writes for the AVA occasionally. Cockburn writes for them too, at the length The Nation used to give him. AVA is a feisty rag, The publisher thinks Irv Sutley, an ex of Judi Bari was the one behind the carbomb in Oakland.
And, overthrow.com, thanx for reminding me, time to catch up w/ Bill White, that National Alliance neo-nazi loon. Once he called me, a leading cadre on the West Coast for the CPUSA on a yahoogroups.com list he was hounding. Heh.
-- Michael Pugliese