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In February, California senator Janet Nguyen (R-Santa Ana), the countrys first Vietnamese-American state legislator, whose district includes more than 100,000 people of Vietnamese descent, wasremovedfrom the Senate chamber after objecting to the lionization of deceased former state assemblyman and senator Tom Hayden, acommunist collaboratorduring the Vietnam War. Nguyen was born in Saigon a year before the city fell to the North Vietnamese forces in 1975 and legally immigrated to the United States with her family four years later, settling in southern California.

When the posthumous lionization began of Haydens service of almost two decades in California state government, Nguyen was distressed. She knew Hayden as someone who had aided and given comfort to the communist enemy in her country of origin. She felt compelled to express the sentiments of her heavily refugee-populated district, whose families had suffered greatly because of North Vietnamese brutality. The community blames the U.S. anti-war movement for undermining the war effort and contributing to the eventual victory of the North Vietnamese communists.

During the Vietnam War in the 1960s,Hayden, a prominent and vocal voice for the North Vietnamese communists, had organized a campaign with Jane Fonda, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy to cut off American aid to the existing government of South Vietnam and cooperate with the Vietcong and Khmer Rouge. Hayden traveled to southeast Asia numerous times during the conflict to strategize with the enemy on defeating Americas anti-communist plan. When reports came to light that American soldiers were being tortured in communist captivity, he proclaimed the reports to be propaganda. Hayden and Fonda notoriously weakened the morale of American POWs by participating in broadcasts for the North Vietnamese in which they accused American troops of war crimes.

After Haydens passing October 23, 2016, the California Senate held a ceremony five months later on February 20, 2017, honoring his service to the state legislature. California Democratic Party chairman John Burton praised the former senator as one of the great visionaries and as a guy with a lot of courage. President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles) crowed, He dedicated his life to the betterment of our state and our great country through the pursuit of peace, justice and equity. Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara)applaudedHayden for his street activism against the Vietnamese war.

These undue accolades proved to be too much for Nguyen, who is aware of the truth regarding Haydens anti-war pursuits. She left the chamber and, later, unsuccessfully attempted to gain approval to recess the session later in the week in remembrance of the one million Vietnamese who died because of the war and to speak about Haydens actions in Vietnam.

Although refused permission, Nguyen returned to the Senate four days later and gave her statement anyway, speaking first in Vietnamese and then English.

Mr. Hayden sided with a communist government that enslaved and/or killed millions of Vietnamese, including members of my own family, she said. Mr. Haydens actions are viewed by many as harmful to democratic values and hateful toward those who sought the very freedoms on which this nation is founded.

Regretfully, Senator Nguyen didnt get far with her statement, as she was chastised for being out of order, had her microphone cut off, and was ultimately removed from the California Senate floor. The following weekend, over 100 local Vietnamese Americans, who felt that the memory of their lost loved ones and the brutal assault on their country had been disrespected, attended arallyin support of the senator and her right to speak out against Haydens actions.

A week later, recognizing the public relations implications of dragging a Vietnam war refugee from the state Senate floor, de Leon attempted an apology that essentially excused Nguyens removal for violating chamber rules by citing thetimingof her remarks. However, this response appeared disingenuous, given that Nguyen was denied permission to speak and, instead, told to either post her comments online or provide them following adjournment, an apparent violation of Senate rules.

In May, once again, Nguyen was forced to act on her anti-communist beliefs whenAssembly Bill 22was introduced by California assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-San Francisco). The legislation amended an existing statute for removing a public employee who is knowingly a member of the Communist party or member of an organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States or of any state by force or violence. Essentially, the bill would allow communists to work legally in California government. On May 10, the billpassedthe Assembly and was headed for a Senate vote.

Constituents from Nguyens district, often referred to as Little Saigon, were up in arms about A.B. 22. Many had lived under communist oppression and strongly protested the measure. With district support, Nguyen promptly launched a petition to oppose the legislation. Plans were readied in the local Vietnamese-American community to send protesters to Sacramento.

Claiming that his bill didnt endorse communism or encourage communism, Bonta maintained that he was protecting peoples rights and following constitutional precedents that made it illegal for government to fire employees due to their political affiliations, a claim that rang hollow for Nguyens constituents.

For now, it appears that Sen. Nguyens efforts and those of the community she represents succeeded in thwarting plans to allow those espousing communist ideologies to work in California government. On May 18, Bonta announced withdrawal of the bill and apologized to veterans and those who fled the communist regime in Vietnam. Nguyen must be commended for her valiant quest to stand up in the face of acclaim for a traitorous communist collaborator and for her actions to stop legislation that would have normalized communist ideology in the Golden State.

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Janet Levy, MBA, MSW, is an activist, world traveler, and freelance journalist who has contributed to American Thinker, Pajamas Media, Full Disclosure Network, FrontPage Magazine, Family Security Matters and other publications. She blogs at http://www.womenagainstshariah.com

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Communism is a political ideology that seeks to establish a future without social class or formalized state structure, and with social organization based upon common ownership of the means of production. It can be classified as a branch of the broader socialist movement. Communism also refers to a variety of political movements which claim the establishment of such a social organization as their ultimate goal.

Early forms of human social organization have been described as "primitive communism". However, communism as a political goal generally is a conjectured form of future social organization which has never been implemented. There is a considerable variety of views among self-identified communists, including Maoism, Trotskyism, council communism, Luxemburgism, and various currents of left communism, which are in addition to more widespread varieties. However, various offshoots of the Soviet and Maoist forms of MarxismLeninism comprise a particular branch of communism that had been the primary driving force for communism in world politics during most of the 20thcentury.

The book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism.

In 1925 he joined the Young Communist League of Germany (KJVD). In 1929 he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He worked as a volunteer in the communist publishing house Kmpfer-Verlag in Chemnitz. He became a member of the regional leadership of KJVD in Saxony. In 1932 he became editor of Junge Garde ('Young Guard').

With the National Socialist takeover in Germany, Verner went into exile. Towards the end of 1933, he became a member of the Scandinavian Bureau of the Young Communist International, and edited Jugendinternationale (the German-language publication of the Young Communist International). In 1934 he shifted to Paris, were he became editor-in-chief of Junge Garde (now published in exile), a position he held until the spring of 1935. He moved to Belgium, as the KJVD reorganized. Verner fought as a volunteer in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. After the Spanish Civil War, he emigrated to Sweden.

4. Stalin, from the time of the first revolution leads the life of a professional revolutionist. Prisons, exiles, escapes. But during the entire period of the reaction (190711) we do not find a single document article, letter, resolution in which Stalin formulated his own appraisal of the situation and its perspectives. It is impossible that such documents do not exist. It is impossible that they are not preserved, if only in the archives of the police department. Why dont they appear in the press? It is perfectly obvious why: they are unable to strengthen the absurd characterization of the theoretical and political infallibility that the apparatus, which means Stalin himself creates for itself.

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It was a scene straight out of the 1950s, but the year was 2017. Travis Allen, a Republican from southern California, took to the floor of the state assembly on 8 May to denounce communism. To allow subversives and avowed communists to now work for the state of California, he railed, is a direct insult to the people of California who pay for that government.

Allen was speaking out against a move to remove language from the California code that that bars members of the Communist party from holding government jobs in the state.

Anti-communist language remains on the books in several states, and in California at least, its not going anywhere. After facing backlash from Republicans, veterans and the Vietnamese American community, the bills sponsor, Democratic assemblyman Rob Bonta, announced last week that he would not move forward with the bill.

Ive been called a commie. Ive been told to go back to China. Ive had death threats, Bonta told the Guardian. He described as ironic and curious the fact that one of his Republican opponents was wrapping himself in the flag while supporting a law that blatantly violates our first amendment rights, but said he respected the emotions that the issue had raised for refugees from communist regimes.

With intrigue about Russia driving the daily news cycle, cold war sentiments are bubbling up again, despite the fact that our erstwhile adversary is decidedly capitalist these days. Its a marked reversal from just a year ago, when an astonishing number of Americans embraced the candidacy of a self-identified socialist, and a reminder of how deep anti-communist suspicion runs through the American psyche.

Bonta is not the first legislator to fail in an attempt to drag state laws into the 21st century. A similar effort was made in California in 2008, when a bill passed only to be vetoed by then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. I see no compelling reason to change the law that maintains our responsibility to ensure that public resources are not used for purposes of overthrowing the US or state government, or for communist activities, the governor wrote in his veto statement.

Joe Fitzgibbon, a Democratic state representative in Washington, has attempted three times since 2012 to pass legislation getting rid of his states law barring communists from voting or having government jobs, but has faced considerable opposition from Republicans.

He called the law a mark of shame for Washington state in a recent interview with the Guardian, and said he will keep trying.

I wonder if now that Republicans have a different opinion on Russia, if maybe theyll be more receptive, he said. My hope is that they will change their tune on whether people should be discriminated against for their political beliefs. Maybe they can talk to their Russian friends about that.

Lest there be any misunderstanding: members of the Communist party are currently allowed to hold government jobs in every American state. Such laws were passed around the country during the so-called red scare of the 20th century, but they have long since been ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court.

Some states have managed to move on. Arizona lawmakers voted in 2003 to update the states loyalty oath. Now, instead of swearing they are not members of of the Communist party, elected officials and public employees must vow not to be terrorists. Candidates for elected office in Illinois still receive a loyalty oath when they register to run, but filling it out is optional. Pennsylvania stopped requiring candidates to sign a loyalty oath in 2006, after a Socialist Worker party candidate objected.

While these red scare relics can seem comical, Michael Risher of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California said they can still have serious consequences. Occasionally someone will dredge them up and use them to try to scare people to stop them from speaking out, he said.

In 2006, he recalled, a California legislator asked the state attorney general whether an anti-subversive law could be used to go after Mexican American student activists. At the time, there was considerable rightwing suspicion about the student group MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztln) and its supposed goal of reconquista, or returning California and other parts of the south-west to Mexico.

The danger is not so much that someone will be sentenced to life in prison, but that they will be restrained from doing something that they would otherwise do, Risher said.

In New York City, a public school principal has been placed under investigation over allegations of recruiting students to join the Progressive Labor party, a communist group. The principal, Jill Bloomberg, is an outspoken critic of racial inequality in the school system, and she has sued the citys department of education for violating her civil rights.

Bloomberg accused the school district of using a tactic that people have used for years to discredit very, very legitimate anti-racist fight back: to cast it as communism, as if that automatically discredits it. She is not a member of the communist group, she said, but if I were, it would not be illegal or a violation of the schools regulation.

Either way, she said the investigation has placed a pall over her school, as teachers second-guess their ability to speak freely to their students. If youre teaching the Harlem renaissance and the civil rights movement, can you say Paul Robeson was proud to be a member of the Communist party? she asked. Or can you only talk about communism if you present it as a negative?

For Rossana Cambron, a national vice-chair of the Communist Party USA, which has about 5,000 members, the failure of Bontas bill was very disappointing. Still, she said, such efforts are in no way a priority.

Were too busy fighting Trump to be looking into those kind of things.

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Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has called on people not to worry about a communist resurgence in the country because he said the government would not let the banned ideology return.

"We must overcome this issue about communism. All Golkar members must be deployed to help the government overcome this issue and we must ensure that there is no room for the growth of communism," the senior Golkar Party politician saidon Sunday during the party's national leadership meeting in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan.

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"We can't bury the ideology. It will still exist, but ifthose people try to establish a political party or aim to change the country's ideology [of Pancasila], we have to [combat] that because that violates the Constitution," Luhut said.

Despite the now-defunct Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) having been banned for almost 50 years, Indonesian government, law enforcement and military officials are currently experiencing another surge of communist-phobia.

The Indonesian Military (TNI) has cracked down on people selling and wearing T-shirts bearing the hammer-and-sickle symbol and religious zealots have even forced Bank Indonesia to clarify that its signature recto-verso logo on new bank notes have nothing to do with the PKI.

The official fear has grown worse because of unfounded reports about huge numbers of Chinese workers coming into the country.

Luhut said that there were definitely many Chinese workers arriving along with Chinese investment and illegal workers were unavoidable. (wit)

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May 19, 2017 7:22 PM

SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) Rob Bonta is an East Bay assemblyman who thought he was introducing a simple bill.AB 22 would have removed part of California law that bans communists from working in state government.

While it hasnt been enforced in about 50 years, Bonta quickly learned that when it comes to communism, legislation is not that simple.

When asked if he was now or had ever been a member of the Communist party, Bonta replied with a laugh, Yeah, of course not.

But tell that to people on Facebook who wrote things like Rob Bonta wants communism in California!

Currently, California law says it is cause for dismissal to be a member of the communist party. But Bonta says its already meaningless

Thats because in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a federal law barring members of the communist party from working in a defense facility. It said, the inhibiting effect on the exercise of first amendment rights is clear. So Californias law would also be unenforceable.

My original intent was this would be a technical cleanup bill, said Bonta. Take [out] unconstitutional language clearly deemed unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court off of Californias law books. It turned into for some communities to be much more than that.

When it came time to present the bill on the floor of the State Assembly, some Republicans were strongly opposed.

Communism stands for everything that the United States stands against, said Travis Allen (R-Huntington Beach). Were for freedom, were for justice. Were for democracy. Were for the rule of law. And communism is none of these things.

Bontas Democratic colleagues also had concerns and several didnt vote for the bill.

And then there were the Facebook posts dozens of them targeting Bonta with virulent criticism.

Go to a communist country if you want communism, read one. Stop communism, Stop Rob Bonta, read another. You are a traitor with all us soldiers.

In the end, Bonta decided the effort to clean up the law wasnt worth the pain it was causing veterans and Vietnamese Americans, so he pulled the bill

There have been experiences in certain communities experiences with communist regimes that are incredibly negative and very painful, said Bonta. So there were some vocal folks from those groups who came forward and you know, that spoke to me.

Bonta said he has no interest in re-introducing the bill, but that he will continue to talk to the offended groups to make sure they understand his intention was not to invite communists into state employment.

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