Having had numerous run-ins with PL in the 60s, in the anti-war movement, in
the labor movement and in the Peace and Freedom Party, let me say that vid I
found them uniformly anti-democratic, thuggish and anti-intellectual.
If anyone is interested, and I hope you're not, I can write something mor
Ken -- Ellen Israel's memoir of Cuba travel doesn't state that the NLF pushed
for a particular line, and that's not how I read the review either. Ellen
writes:
"One of the most significant outcomes of the 1963 and 1964 Cuba trips was that
they became a catalyst for the anti-Vietnam War effort.
The reviewer writes, "Having met in Cuba representatives of the Vietnamese
National Liberation Front, Ellen and others pushed to make the anti-war
movement an anti-imperialist movement back home on the campus."
This sentence might lead you to believe that in advancing their line on the
anti-war
