Lynn Wells
Lynn Wells began participating in civil rights demonstrations in Washington, D.C. at age fourteen, and she had been a member of civil rights and student organizations as they unfolded in the 1960s, first SNCC, then Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC).
October League
The October League was the result of a fusion in May 1972 of Mike Klonsky’s Los Angeles October League and the Georgia Communist League headed by Lynn Wells. Both of these local collectives originated in the RYM-II section of 1969 SDS. Wells was a leader of the Southern Student Organizing Committee.[1]
Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist
National Anti Klan Network National Coordinator Lyn Wells is a former member of the Central Committee of the October League (OL), a Marxist-Leninist group which evolved into the Communist Party - (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML).
n 1972 Wells gave an address to an OL labor conference. Standing below photos of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao, she said:
- It is true that building a party requires conscious work on the part of communists. A party is the organized conscious expression of the working-class struggle and cannot develop out of the struggle spontaneously. It takes years of difficult work, developing an experienced core of cadre, raising the theoretical level and deepening ties with the masses. While being close to the united front, the communist organization is at the same time separate with an independent life of its own.[2]
"Civil liberties" work
In the Summer 1985 issue of Shmate: A Journal of Progressive Jewish Thought Leonard Zeskind joined Chip Berlet, Jean Hardisty, Lynn Wells and others in lamenting the emergence of the extreme right. Wells, identified as “Executive Director of the National Anti-Klan Network,” observes:
- Political work against fascism by progressive movements has consisted primarily of a struggle to preserve our civil liberties and the right to organize against the establishment, which periodically names various movements its “enemy.”
In I986 the National Anti-Klan Network changed its name to the Center For Democratic Renewal. The masthead of its newsletter, The Monitor , however, continued to list Lynn Wells as executive director and Leonard Zeskind as director of research.[3]
References
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line Workers Vanguard New Left Maoism: Long March to Peaceful Coexistence The October League First Published: Workers Vanguard No. 32, November 9, 1973]
- ↑ [The Watchdogs A close look at Anti-Racist “Watchdog” Groups Second Edition Part 2 By Laird Wilcox]
- ↑ [The Watchdogs A close look at Anti-Racist “Watchdog” Groups Second Edition Part 2 By Laird Wilcox]