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[Dennis Perrin]

> Baraka was in the Leage of Revolutionary Struggle. He split in 1988 when
> LRS decided to go along with the DP in the general election. I don't
> remember any organization called "Revolutionary Communist League." The
> Call was the paper of the October League, later CPML, led by Klonsky.
> There was a Communist Labor Party but not any Revolutionary Communist
> League so far as I know. Earlier there had been a Communist League [?not
> sure of this title] which became the CLP. I talked with two people from
> the CLP, and thought highly of them -- for one thing they were the most
> civil of all the new communists I met, and understood what they were
> talking about (though I disagreed with much of it)-- unlike travellers
> from some groups who clearly had nothing more to say than what they had
> been instructed to say. Nelson Peery (the leader of the CLP) was a black
> war veteran, who wrote a book of memoirs which I haven't read but which
> drew some admiring reviews.
>
> Carrol

No offense to Carrol, but does anyone take any of this shit seriously, apart 
from some entertainment value?

Dennis