Now is not like then.
Wrong> “Now” is becoming just like the Fall of 1969. I was there and saw how SDS was morphing into a psychotic communist terrorist group, even in the open, while my friend and FBI undercover operative Larry Grathwohl was inside the WUO. He testified before congress about his experiences and then wrote a good book entitled “Bringing Down America”.
Antifa’s only option now is to go for armed violence since they have been significantly stymied in the streets and a lot of their regional leaders arrested on FEDERAL charges.
What is key here is to discover their “underground railroad” aid/escape networks before they go deep underground. The FBI never really uncovered the WUO’s network which stretched from coast to coast.
The most violent of the BLM protesters will become the newer versions of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), the Republic of New Africa (Black Marxists/Maoists), the Black Panthers updated, and the BPP successor in violence, the Black Liberation Army (Brinks Nyack robbery/killings with the help of the WUO’s May19Coalition and possibly RNA members).
What is new is a psychotic anarchist “Black Bloc” network of violent protestors who led the attack on the World Trade Organization (WTO) international meeting in Seattle, 2000. Created by a Filippino professor and Maoist-oriented supporter of the New People’s Army, Walden Bello (wrote for the US maoist-oriented weekly the “Guardian”) and a few other assorted communists.
There was also a Red Bloc of an anarchist/Marxist faction in the protests from about 2000 thru the mid 2000 teens.
A couple old SDS/WUO leaders have surfaced in the Black Lives Matters support network, Eric Mann and convicted/jailed bomber Susan Rosenberg. I suspect that others will be uncovered as federal investigations into this Marxist black/white movement continue. Might even find Mark Rudd and Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dohrn back in action.