<div>The Call was the paper of the Communist party-Marxist-Leninist. Formerly the October League.  Notables: Carl Davidson. Ignobles: Mike Klonsky. We used to call The Call "wrong number." </div> <div> </div> <div>Now I'm gonna stick my neck out on this one (because who knows if there wasn't some sect by that name in Tulsa, or northern Minnesota, or wherever), bet all my winnings so far, Regis, and say there never was a Revolutionary Communist League. Permutations of the same, but no RCL, at least not in the US, and at least not from the '60s-70s. </div> <div> </div> <div>Of course, Michael P. would know for sure.</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike Hirsch</div> <div> </div> <div><br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Pugliese</b> <<a href="mailto:michael.098762001@gmail.com">michael.098762001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 10/14/05, Thomas Seay <<a href="mailto:entheogens@yahoo.com">entheogens@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br>> That was the Revolutionary Communist League, wasn't<br>> it?<br>> The one that Baraka was in.<br>><br>> Thomas<br><br>League of Revolutionary Struggle (Frank Bardacke despised them for<br>their disruptive role in the Watsonville Cannery Workers strike. Mike <br>Murase, a Maxine Waters staffer, and LRS cadre who ran the office of<br>the Rainbow in Ca. was under the delusion that the Jesse Jackson<br>campaign in the 8th C.D. in '88 was under the hegemony of Line of<br>March and engaged in numerous petty maneuvers impacting outreach to <br>the Asian and Pacific Islander communities, funding for campaign<br>activities and the election of delegates to the national DP convention<br>that summer.Wasn't able to prevent the election of a Venceremos<br>Brigadista as a Jackson delegate though ;-) Baraka attempted to <br>recruit my friend Eric Kirk over dinner in Santa Cruz once.An LRS<br>member I knew at UCSC, a brilliant grad student who later went to Yale<br>English Dept. and was called, "an obnoxious marxist, " by Harold <br>Bloom, told me once over hamburgers and fries near the beach in Santa<br>Cruz that, "even social democrats like you should get a pit bull for<br>protection."<br>  The Stanford undergrad library has bound volumes of the newspaper <br>of the Congress of Afrikan Peoples, the org. that Baraka was a leader<br>of before LRS. Fascinating to flip through.<br><br><br>--<br>Michael Pugliese<br><br>___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk"> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>________________________________________<br>`And these words shall then become<br>Like oppression's thundered doom <br>Ringing through each heart and brain,<br>Heard again -- again -- again--<br>`Rise like Lions after slumber<br>In unvanquishable number--<br>Shake your chains to earth like dew<br>Which in sleep had fallen on you--<br> Ye are many -- they are few.'<br>--------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy:<br>Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" [1819]<br><br>