The Progressive Caucus
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...asp?grpid=6497
is an organization of Members of Congress founded in 1991 by newly-elected
House Representative Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont), the former mayor
of Burlington and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA),
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/gr...asp?grpid=6428
which describes itself as "the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist
International."

As of April 2007, the Progressive Caucus included Sanders (who became a U.S.
Senator in 2006), Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and 69 members of the House
of Representatives, all of them leftist Democrats and almost all in
districts heavily gerrymandered to guarantee the re-election of any
Democratic Party incumbent, no matter how extreme.

On November 11, 1999, the Progressive Caucus drafted its Position Paper on
economic inequality.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19757
It reads, in part, as follows: "Economic inequality is the result of two and
a half decades of government policies and rules governing the economy being
tilted in favor of large asset owners at the expense of wage earners. Tax
policy, trade policy, monetary policy, government regulations and other
rules have reflected this pro-investor bias. We propose the introduction or
reintroduction of a package of legislative initiatives that will close
America's economic divide and address both income and wealth disparities. .
The concentration of wealth is a problem because it distorts our democracy,
destabilizes the economy and erodes our social and cultural fabric."

In order "to bring new life to the progressive voice in U.S. politics," the
Progressive Caucus has worked closely with Progressive Challenge, a project
of the Institute for Policy Studies.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/gr...asp?grpid=6991
Progressive Challenge is a coalition through which the activities and
talking points of leftist groups are synchronized and harmonized with one
another, producing coordinated, mutually-reinforcing propaganda from some
200 seemingly-unconnected groups.

In 2005 the Progressive Caucus crafted its "Progressive Promise" document,
http://cpc.lee.house.gov/index.cfm?S... ectionTree=5
which advocates socialized medicine; radical environmentalism; the
redistribution of wealth; higher taxes; the elimination of numerous
provisions of the Patriot Act; dramatic reductions in the government's
intelligence-gathering capabilities; debt relief for poor countries; and the
quick withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. These measures, says the
Progressive Caucus, would help "re-build U.S. alliances around the world,
restore international respect for American power and influence, and reaffirm
our nation's constructive engagement in the United Nations and other
multilateral organizations."

Until 1999 the Progressive Caucus worked in open partnership with Democratic
Socialists of America. After the press reported on this link, the
connections suddenly vanished from both organizations' websites.

As of June 2006, the following Members of Congress belonged to
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
the Progressive Caucus:
Neil Abercrombie;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1251
Tammy Baldwin;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1319
Xavier Becerra; Madeleine Z. Bordallo;
Corrine Brown;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1249
Sherrod Brown;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1514
Michael Capuano;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1515
Julia Carson; Donna Christensen;
William "Lacy" Clay;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1323
Emanuel Cleaver;
John Conyers;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1987
Elijah Cummings; Danny Davis;
Peter DeFazio;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1314
Rosa DeLauro;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1315
Lane Evans;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1513
Sam Farr;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1512
Chaka Fattah;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1268
Bob Filner;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1317
Barney Frank;
Raul Grijalva;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1316
Luis Gutierrez;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1265
Maurice Hinchey;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1762
Jesse Jackson, Jr.;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1758
Sheila Jackson-Lee;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in....asp?indid=981
Stephanie Tubbs Jones;
Marcy Kaptur;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1250
Carolyn Kilpatrick;
Dennis Kucinich;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in....asp?indid=630
Tom Lantos;
Barbara Lee;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in....asp?indid=936
John Lewis;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1302
Ed Markey;
Jim McDermott;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1199
James P. McGovern;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1507
Cynthia McKinney;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1508
George Miller; Gwen Moore;
Jerrold Nadler;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1986
Eleanor Holmes Norton;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1955
John Olver;
Major Owens;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1766
Ed Pastor;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1765
Donald Payne;
Nancy Pelosi;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1248
Charles Rangel;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=2085
Bobby Rush;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1198
Bernie Sanders;
Jan Schakowsky;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1506
Jose Serrano;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1351
Louise Slaughter;
Hilda Solis;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1247
Pete Stark;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1266
Bennie Thompson; John Tierney;
Tom Udall;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1318
Nydia Velazquez;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1350
Maxine Waters;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1264
Diane Watson;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1269
Mel Watt;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1267
Henry Waxman; and
Lynn Woolsey.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1148
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The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) is the premier Maoist party in the
United States. Its earliest roots can be traced to June 1, 1962, when, in
the immediate aftermath of that year's Sino-Soviet split, approximately
fifty members and ex-members of the U.S. Communist Party met at the Hotel
Diplomat in New York. Favoring the Chinese brand of Communism over its
Russian counterpart, these radicals founded the Progressive Labor Movement
(PLM) to promote their political views. By 1966, the several-hundred-strong
PLM renamed itself the Progressive Labor Party (PLP), which, at its first
convention, decided to join forces with the radical Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS).
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...asp?grpid=6723
But PLP shunned the counter-culture image of SDS and opposed the latter's
calls for student revolution -- urging young people instead to avoid doing
anything that would alienate fellow students or their communities. PLP tried
unsuccessfully to take over SDS's National Office, thereby pushing SDS even
further to the political left -- toward hard-line Maoism. Opposition to PLP
tactics led to the formation of yet another Maoist group, the Revolutionary
Youth Movement, which eventually split into two factions -- one becoming the
notorious terrorist group Weatherman;
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/gr...asp?grpid=6808
the other spawning a 1969 splinter group called the Bay Area Revolutionary
Union (co-founded by H. Bruce Franklin,
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=2207
Robert Avakian,
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1177
and Charles Hamilton), which would become the Revolutionary Communist Party
in 1974.

RCP's "Draft Program" http://revcom.us/margorp/progpart1-e.htm
consists of the following major tenets:

- "Of all the tyrants and oppressors in the world, there is none that has
caused more untold misery and committed more screaming injustices against
the people of the world than the rulers of the U.S. This is a country
founded on genocide and slavery. . The rulers of the U.S. have plundered and
slaughtered their way to the top position within the worldwide system of
capitalist-imperialism -- a system of global exploitation, of political and
military domination, and of murderous rivalry among the imperialist powers
themselves."

- "The imperialists in their endless quest to turn everything into a means
for private profit, and in their monstrous methods of warfare to enforce and
extend their domination . generally wreak havoc on the earth and its
resources. . To bring down this system is the urgent need of the world's
exploited and oppressed. In the U.S. itself, it is our special challenge and
responsibility to make revolution, at the earliest possible time, right
within the belly of this most powerful imperialist beast . as part of the
world proletarian revolution."

- "The ultimate goal and the historic mission of the proletariat is
communism, a world in which human beings are no longer divided into
classes. . Socialist revolution will put an end to the profit-over-all,
expand-or-die insanity of capitalism. . As the crucial first step in this,
the new proletarian power will immediately seize and socialize ownership of
the major means of production -- that is, convert them into the common
property of the people, in the form of state ownership or collective
ownership by large groups of working people. The state will also institute
socialist economic planning to consciously regulate and guide social
production to serve the masses and revolution."

RCP considers capitalism the root cause of the world's most destructive
social ills, such as: (a) Racism: "The history of the development of
capitalism in the U.S. is a history of the most savage oppression of the
Black, Native American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, Asian, and other
oppressed peoples"; (b) Discrimination Against Immigrants: "Millions of
undocumented immigrants live in the shadows of U.S. society without the most
basic rights . Entire groups of immigrants, such as Arabs, are scapegoated
and demonized, and non-European immigrants generally are targets of racism;
and (c) Subjugation of Women: "In the face of the brutal oppression of women
and the traditional thinking of thousands of years, the proletariat will
make dramatic changes upon coming to power."

In RCP's calculus, "revolutionary war" is the only means by which people can
ultimately be freed from capitalism's shackles. Says RCP: "Marx once noted
that 'Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with the new.' The
old ruling classes have never voluntarily stepped down from power. . Thus
the proletariat must overthrow and thoroughly smash and dismantle the
bourgeois state. And that requires war. In the words of Mao [Zedong]: 'A
revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class
overthrows another.' War brings with it great bloodshed and destruction, and
the proletariat will ultimately abolish war. But this will be done, and can
only be done, by abolishing the system of capitalist accumulation and class
oppression that constantly gives rise to war."

The early to mid-1980s were a time of intense activity for RCP. In the
summer of 1983, the organization set up terrorist training camps in
Colorado, drawing people from the Iranian Student Association and the
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) -- the latter of
which is known for its involvement in heroin trafficking. Police have also
linked the RCP to heavy-weapons-trafficking endeavors carried out in unison
with the Ohio-based "Outlaws" motorcycle gang.

In October 1983, RCP tried to sabotage American efforts to deploy Pershing
and cruise missiles in Germany. Toward that end, the noted RCP member C.
Clark Kissinger led a "World Without Imperialism Contingent" (WWIC) on an
eight-week tour of Germany to lay the framework for these efforts.
Accompanied by members of Peru's Marxist guerrilla army, the Shining Path,
Kissinger and his RCP comrades penetrated Mutlangen U.S. military base in
West Germany, where Pershing II intermediate-range missiles were stored. In
November of that year, RCP / WWIC members were involved, along with Red
Cells and other German anarchist-terrorists, in an assault against Vice
President George Bush's caravan during the latter's visit to Krefeld,
Germany. Two months thereafter, the RCP newspaper Revolutionary Worker
(renamed Revolution in 2005) called for the assassination of President
Ronald Reagan.

This was approximately the period during which RCP sought to establish
alliances with radical environmentalist organizations, as exemplified by its
November 22, 1983 joint public meeting with representatives of Greenpeace.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/gr...asp?grpid=7222
RCP's radical agendas found further expression when the Party sponsored the
March 12, 1984 founding conference of the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement in London.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...asp?grpid=6354

Throughout its history, one of RCP's principal objectives has been to foment
civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts
occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown
and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King
riots.
http://www.jbs.org/visitor/campaigns/sylp/lapd/riot.htm
During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained
close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had
circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a
statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=1178
titled "It's Right To Rebel" -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.
Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58
people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned,
and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary
of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence
http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/9...0501/2002-0429
_latimes_AnAnniversaryofSadness-Richardson.htm
as "the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the
United States."

Robert Avakian
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/i...asp?indid=1177
is RCP's Founder and current "Chairman-in-Exile." As a result of 1981
criminal indictments issued against him and several other RCP leaders for
their break-in to White House grounds during a presidential ceremony,
Avakian and his cohorts fled to Paris, where they have been living ever
since. From his Parisian base, Avakian continues to agitate for the violent
overthrow of the U.S. government. RCP National Council member C. Clark
Kissinger http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/in...asp?indid=1386
in 1987 founded the group Refuse & Resist
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/gr...asp?grpid=6165
to serve as a recruiting office for RCP. More recently, he created the
organizations Not In Our Name
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/gr...asp?grpid=6163
and World Can't Wait.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/gr...asp?grpid=7213

In late 2005, RCP launched its Revolutionary Communist Speaking Tour,
designed to "build a communist movement among the people locked on the
bottom of society in the current era of Bu****e Christian-fascism." The
organization further disseminates its message via literature that is
distributed by Revolution Books, which operates a number of stores
nationally.
Today RCP maintains offices in sixteen U.S. metropolitan areas: Chicago, Los
Angeles, San Francisco/Berkeley, Washington, Miami, Atlanta, Honolulu,
Baltimore, Cambridge/Boston, Detroit, New York City, Cleveland, Portland
[Oregon], Philadelphia, Houston, and Seattle. It is also active in Western
Europe, particularly in France, Germany, and England.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/g...asp?grpid=6197

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