Karen Bass and Cuba's Venceremos Brigade: Controversial history resurfaces amid criticism over L.A. Fire Dept. cuts

https://adnamerica.com/ ^ | January 10, 2025 | ADN America Staff

[Jonty30]

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing criticism over the timing of her recent overseas trip to Ghana, and budget cuts that hampered the city's fire department from doing its job amid the ongoing citywide blaze. The mayor’s poorly timed foreign travel has raised questions about her priorities and similar past trips.

One of the most interesting chapters of Bass’ political career and international travel involves her past excursions to communist Cuba. The former U.S. congresswoman turned metropolitan mayor played a significant role with the Venceremos Brigade —a group linked to Cuba's communist regime.

[Jonty30]

Treasonous.

[leaning conservative]

Politicians & free vacations, I mean “work trips”, go together as smoothly as peanut butter and jelly.

[Words Matter]

Can she join TRashida on the way out of here?

[Beowulf9]

She's a commie.

[HighSierra5]

So DumBass is a commie? No chit.

[sauropod]

Yep. Learned about this today.

She’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

[piasa]

Ayers, the son of prominent Chicago Democrat Thomas Ayers, was a former SDS organizer who had founded a terrorist SDS splinter group known as the Weather Underground Organization (WUO, aka the Weathermen). In 1968, the future leaders of the WUO visited Cuba to receive training in urban warfare from Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine. The next June, they took over SDS, founding what became the Weathermen. Ayers and other WUO members, including his future wife Bernadine Dohrn, began a wave of bombings and riots. Dohrn also helped found another terrorist group that received training from Cuban intelligence, the Venceremos Brigade (VB), which intersected with Venceremos, a political organization that the RU’s H. Bruce Franklin joined when he split off from Bob Avakian in 1971. Following a bombing attack on the Pentagon in 1972, Ayers and Dohrn became fugitives from the FBI. They emerged from hiding in 1980 following the election of Richard M. Daley as Cook County State’s Attorney, after Ayers’ father used his influence with the Daley machine to arrange a plea bargain for his son and Dohrn. Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn rejoined the political system as academics, and they helped found the Committees of Correspondence (CoC, renamed the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism or CCDS in 2000), an offshoot of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) that began forming in 1991 as the Soviet Union broke up. In 1995, Thomas Ayers and Bill Ayers began working with Chicago community organizer Barack Obama, whose career they continued to support into Obama’s Presidential campaign. ---- fedora

[TigersEye]

Democrat L.A. Mayor Karen Bass's Communist Roots Revealed Rumble 3:05

[TigersEye]

She’s a commie terrorist trained in guerrilla warfare.

Cloward and Piven couldn’t ask for a better commandante to implement their plans.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

And she was considered by Biden for VP and, according to an article I saw in “ The Atlantic”, Biden and his people knew about this. That speaks volumes about this outfit.

[Bernard Marx]

The surprising thing to me is that this info seems new and shocking to everyone. Bass and the Chicago Communist organization have been comrades for 50 years or more. Ayers, Obama and other bastard spawn of this anti-American nest of evil have never really hidden their agenda. Obama proclaimed he was “going to fundamentally change America.” Ayers boasted “Guilty as hell, and free as a bird.” Yet American voters seemed overjoyed to elect Obama to the highest office in the nation and welcomed the Ayers duo into high educational positions to poison young minds through Communist indoctrination. And Bass ended up as L.A. Mayor. God help a country with voters that uninformed and stupid.

[Veto!]

Yep. She’s a. communist.

And isn’t it strange when fires burning rich people’s homes started when she was out of town.

[Fedora]

Bass isn’t the only Venceremos Brigade veteran the Democrats have promoted. In 1993, Bill Clinton tried to appoint Johnnetta Cole as Secretary of Education, but withdrew her nomination after Cole’s VB ties were exposed. After Clinton, Kerry, and Obama, the Democrats had pushed the country so far left that Bass could be promoted as a potential VP candidate despite her terrorist ties being public knowledge on this site and elsewhere.

[AZJeep]

she was considered by Biden for VP
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Apparently, they dropped her just because of this Cuba connection. It was too much even for Biden. Kamala, was considered more “moderate”.

[popdonnelly]

No surprise, a lot of Democrats are Marxists.

[PGalt]

Enemies domestic. Thanks to every poster.

[PGalt]

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/what-is-a-war?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

[mewzilla]

Did they really vote for this?

Case in point...

https://laist.com/news/politics/2022-election-california-general-live-results-los-angeles-city-mayor-bass-caruso

“...The contest was a virtual dead heat on Election Night. Caruso pulled slightly ahead last Thursday, but since then Bass gained a steady lead....”

Sound familiar?

So, no, the likely didn’t vote for this.

Californians: If you want to save your state from Deep State, then SECURE YOUR DAMN ELECTIONS.

[laconic]

And sadly, the majority of the voters in LA, including the wealthy ones, voted for this leftist cretin for Mayor despite knowing her background. She ran against Caruso, not perfect but a guy with a great business and no communist background, and they still voted for this talentless bum. Thus, the well of my sympathy for the residents out there is a lot less than bottomless.

[Liz]

Bass was on Biden’s A-list for VP .......even as Biden and his people knew about her commie connections. Bass and the Chicago Communist organization have been comrades for 50 years or more.

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Truly despicable is..... she and Newson treating the devastation as if they had nothing
to do with it. Its just a “problem” they will show off their political “skills” to solve.

Outrageous.