Incredible article!
The reporting out the the UK during this campaign has been far better than our own national media here at home.
Michael Klonsky (born 1943) is an American educator and political activist, a leader of the New Communist Movement.
Klonsky’s father, Robert Klonsky, had been arrested as a communist in the 1950s and convicted of violating the Smith Act. In the late 1960s Michael Klonsky was the national secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society, which he joined as a student at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge). He was one of five S.D.S. members arrested on May 12, 1969, when prank phone calls sent police and firefighters to the S.D.S. offices in Chicago. In the 1970s he headed the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), in which role he was one of the first westerners allowed to visit the People’s Republic of China.
More recently Klonsky has been a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago; his academic work focused on small school size as a solution to the problems of inner city schools. He is now the director of the Small Schools Workshop, a school outreach program associated with UIC.