William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire posted: October 22, 2008 William Ayers is a communist. But don't take my word for it. He said so himself: We are a guerilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for more than four years. And not some nicey-nice peace-and-love kind of communist. Through his group the Weather Underground, Ayers was planning to "seize power" in a violent communist takeover of the United States: We need a revolutionary communist party in order to lead the struggle, give coherence and direction to the fight, size power and...