Beth Gonzalez
Beth Gonzalez is a revolutionary, a teacher and student of the science and practice of revolutionary change. She serves on the Standing Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America and chairs its General Secretariat.
She is also one of the co-founders of the Institute for the Study of the Science of Society, whose mission is teaching the methodology of Marxism as a scientific tool for active revolutionaries. She co-authored one of its central texts: Marxist Philosophy: A Study Guide for Revolutionaries in the Age of Electronics.[1]
Founding conference/Leadership
By Allen Harris CHICAGO– With tremendous enthusiasm, fighting spirit and unity, the League of Revolutionaries for a New America was established during a convention held in Chicago on April 29 and 1995.
Attending were 73 delegates and 67 observers, as well as representatives of 30 areas and the national office. They came from 22 states, the District of Columbia and the Lakota Nation.
The meeting was the second national convention of the organization founded in Chicago in April, 1993 and originally called the National Organizing Committee.
Ranging in age from 17 to 80, the participants were Native American, white, black, Latino, Asian and Arab. They were urban, suburban and rural. They were secular and Christian, Muslim, Jewish and people of other faiths.
The convention elected on April 30 the following leadership: General Baker, Chair; Abdul Alkalimat, International Secretary; Beth Gonzalez, National Secretary; Jo Ann Capalbo, Organizational Secretary and Nacho Gonzalez, Secretary-Treasurer.