Interesting
 
However the Carols Sandoval crowd (eg Lawyers) connected to Atzlan may be a lead to follow over the next search as well as various other law schools in town including NYU, Medgar Evers,  even out at the  U of Chi, and the various CA schools. CES
 
I think Touro Law Center in Huntington
http://www.tourolaw.edu/contact_us/
would be a good possibility too. 
Sent by  CH ST
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: Progressive Labor Party

Fellows:

My familiarity with PLP back in the 1970's did not include a spanish component as it now does. back then the following was true:

"the PLP exists only in portions of California and New York" I don't know if that is still true if theere is an Islamic component now combined with a speanish speaking component.

They are one of the few leftist groups that supports a violent execution of the entire upper class (à la Pol Pot's Cambodia)

It would appear that it has retooled itself with a spanish speaking component going beyon Cuban spanish. Looking at the CIA Worldfact book the PLP name is active in the Carribean which may account for a portion of the Brooklyn component now operating.

However, I will have to do some further cross referencing on GANG organizing which appears now to be going on. The Latin Kings were never connected because they were not intellectual enough.

However the Carols Sandoval crowd (eg Lawyers) connected to Atzlan may be a lead to follow over the next search as well as various other law schools in town including NYU, Medgar Evers,  even out at the  U of Chi, and the various CA schools. CES

Progressive Labor Party: Formed in June 1962 in New York as the Progressive Labor Movement by about fifty former members of the Communist Party USA who considered themselves Maoists. The founders of the PLM sympathized with China in what became known as the Sino-Soviet Split — putting them in direct opposition to the CP-USA's "revisionist" line. Early on in the organization's existence, the leaders of the PLM traveled to Cuba and defied State Department orders against this. The PLM was also one of the earliest activist organizations against the Vietnam war (through the PLM-dominated "May 2nd Movement"). By 1964, the PLM had about 600-800 members and growing. In the summer of 1965, the PLM was renamed the "Progressive Labor Party" (PLP), and in 1966 the PLP was given a highly centralized command structure and a mission to enter Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The PLP supported a very workerist and "Old Left" perspective concerning its members, opposing drug use and counter-culture atire because the leaders felt these things alienated youth from the workers' movement. At the 1969 SDS convention, PLP succeeded in taking over the organization; while many remained with the PLP, most left to form other groups. During the 1970's, the PLP denounced Mao Zedong as a traitor when he met with Richard Nixon in 1972. The PLP took up an anti-revisionist form of Stalinism and supported the "true socialist" regimes of Albania and North Korea. They are one of the few leftist groups that supports a violent execution of the entire upper class (à la Pol Pot's Cambodia). The tiny sect that remains of the PLP exists only in portions of California and New York. They publish a Stalinist newspaper, Challenge.

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