"Dear New University...."
This week's issue of New University, the UC Irvine campus newspaper, features a letter to new UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman in response to his recent message to the UCI community on campus civility.
http://www.newuniversity.org/2014/10/opinion/dear-chancellor-gilman/
To be brief, the National Lawyers Guild was established in the 1930s as a legal arm of the Communist Party USA, a fact I have sent in to the online edition of New University (not yet posted).
These missives by UC chancellors are thinly-disguised pleas to the pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel voices on UC campuses to clean up their acts.
As for the NLG, their Los Angeles chapter head, James Lafferty, has spoken at UCI as part of the Muslim Student Union's annual hate-Israel week of events. He has also participated in other anti-Israel protests in Los Angeles, and has been a leader in the Occupy LA protests.
Gary, the attenuated CPUSA (which had been reduced to the point where one out of five members was an FBI informant, and J. Edgar Hoover had to arrange covertly to subsidize the party to give his agency a raison d'etre for more funding), lost control of NLG circa 1972. The carcass was fought over by a few Maoist bands, who hated each other more than they hated CPUSA, and hated CPUSA more than they hated the bourgeoisie. Then what was left settled into a comfortable campus conformity, and became largely irrelevant. So what difference does it make at this point, anyway?
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