Her Venceremos Brigade was connected to the M-19 group that set off a bomb in the US. Capitol in 1983.
…….In 1973, Bass began a long-term involvement with the Venceremos Brigade (VB), a Cuban Communist front group founded in 1969 by Fidel Castro and the radical members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and administered by the Cuban intelligence service, the General Directorate for Intelligence (DGI). Portraying itself as a well-intentioned group of volunteers dedicated only to helping poor Cubans harvest sugar cane, VB’s real purpose was, as bestselling authors and political commentators David Horowitz and Peter Collier explained in their 2005 book Destructive Generation: “to meet Cuban and Vietnamese officials in Havana to map out strategies for the war in America, the ‘other war,’ which would ultimately defeat the United States in a way that the battlefield situation in Vietnam never could have.”
…….In the 1980s, Bass was affiliated with Line of March, a Maoist organization that aligned itself with the New Communist Movement, which in turn was a Maoist initiative inspired by international Communist movements in Cuba, Vietnam, and especially China. Line of March was founded in 1980 in Oakland, California, by the Communist and political activist Irwin Silber, who considered the Communist Party insufficiently radical for his taste. Line of March’s members carried out their activities in a deliberately clandestine manner and called themselves “rectificationists.” As David Horowitz explains: “’Rectificationists’ is like reeducation camps in Maoist China…. If [Bass] was part of a rectification movement, she’s a Maoist.”
……..In the 1980 and 1990s, Bass spoke frequently to a variety far-left organizations, including the Democratic Socialists of America.
……..When deadly race riots erupted in Los Angeles in April 1992 following a widely publicized police beating of a drug-impaired, belligerent motorist named Rodney King, Bass was employed as director of the local Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment. She encouraged local foundations as well as businesses and community leaders to invest in grassroots, community-based activist groups — like the one that she headed — as a means of addressing the societal injustices that allegedly were the root causes of the black rage that had fueled the riots.
Characterizing the torching and destruction of Korean-owned stores during the L.A. riots as positive occurrences, Bass said: “The night before the uprising, a lot of us were in a meeting discussing how we might reduce the number of liquor stores in South Central [Los Angeles], and a few days later, like a miracle, a large chunk of the stores we wanted to close were burned to the ground. That’s not the way we wanted it to happen, but the rioting accomplished in a few days what we have spent decades working to achieve.”
…….“If people burned down those stores, they must have been unhappy with them,” Bass told the Associated Press in a news report published on November 16, 1992.
……….In September 2009, Bass co-hosted the Council on American-Islamic Relations‘ 6th Annual Ramadan Iftar dinner — the evening meal with which Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset — inside the Capitol Rotunda in Sacramento, California.
……..In April 2013, Bass attended a summit hosted by the Final Call, the official communications organ of Louis Farrakhan‘s Nation of Islam (NOI). She also appeared alongside Tony Muhammad, the director of NOI’s Western Division, at NOI events in 2014 and April 2015, the latter of which was an anti-police-brutality rally that also featured a speech by Mauluna Karenga.
And now she’s Mayor of Los Angeles.
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