Obama's Numerous Links with International

Marxism Exposed
AN INTERVIEW WITH TREVOR LOUDON

by John Charlton

Mr. Trevor Loudon

(Sept. 14, 2009) — Revelations that Obama was not just chummy with Marxists and
Socialists throughout his life, but even may have been recruited by the KGB, first
surfaced with Tom Fife, the physicist’s testimony (see www.rense.com for audio file).

More recently, a New Zealand researcher has obtained documents which connect the
dots, and seemingly confirm the Fife testimony.

To get a better understanding of the Communists network in America, I requested an

interview with Trevor Loudon, of New Zealand Research Associates, who has spent
much of his life investigating international Marxism and its operatives. Such is Loudon’s
authority, that Media Matters recently named him the “Blogger who nailed Van Jones.”

What follows is a highly informative interview with Mr. Loudon, which is a must read for
all thoughtful American citizens in the present national crisis.

The Post & Email interviewed Mr. Loudon by email, at his residence in Christchurch,
New Zealand.

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MR. CHARLTON: I asked you for this opportunity to interview you on the basis of a
research article you recently posted on the Internet at your blog, The New Zeal,
regarding the Communist Network in Chicago a generation ago. But before we discuss
it, can you tell me something about yourself, for the readers of The Post & Email,
who might be unfamiliar with Trevor Loudon, the New Zealand researcher.

MR. LOUDON: I have been researching communism since the 80s-when our own
Moscow aligned Marxists turned New Zealand anti-nuclear and destroyed the ANZUS
Alliance.

My special interest is the ability of the far left to infiltrate and manipulate “moderate”
political parties and institutions to influence public opinion and alter government
policies.

I began studying the US communist movement after observing the strength of the Anti-
Iraq war movement.

MR. CHARLTON: What was it that lead you to investigate the Communist Network in
Chicago?

MR. LOUDON: General research into the Communist Party USA led me to stumble on a
reference to Obama and his communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis in early 2007. It
piqued my interest-even at that stage I could see he was marked for high office. The
more I dug, the more I found-ties to Democratic Socialists of America and Committees
of Correspondence and direct evidence of Communist Party support during his 2004
Senate campaign.

MR. CHARLTON: What importance did the Communist Network in Chicago have
among the Communists in the U.S.A., before, during and after WWII?

MR. LOUDON: Chicago was the birthplace of US communism — the party was founded
there in 1919. Chicago and Detroit were the centers of Midwest communism into the
1930s. The communist influenced “Black renaissance “movement was centered in two
places-Harlem and Chicago’s South Side.

Chicago’s advantage in communist terms, was that the industrial South Side with its
large working class white, black and Latino populations was bordered by the more
affluent Hyde Park area, and the thoroughly communist infiltrated University of Chicago.
The Marxist academics of the UC had half a city of proletarians on their doorstep to
experiment with and practice on.

Hyde Park has been a major center of Socialism and communism ever since. I believe it
is no accident that Obama based himself there.

MR. CHARLTON: First, for those who may be unfamiliar, can you say something about
Communism, Marxism, Leninism? What’s their origin and what’s the difference between
them?
MR. LOUDON: Marxism is the collectivist political philosophy developed by Karl Marx
in the mid 19th century. Basically it states that class struggle is the motive power of
social change and that the working class is destined to overthrow capitalism and
establish a classless, communal society-communism.

Leninism — developed obviously by Lenin, father of the 1917 Russian revolution — is

simply a philosophy and series of interlinked tactical strategies for achieving power for
one group at the expense of all others.

Marxism-Leninism is the use by Marxists, of Leninist strategies to achieve power.

Most modern communists pay lip service only to Marxism, which has been well and truly
discredited. Leninism on the other hand has proven highly successful and has been
used to take power in dozens of countries.

Most communists today are Leninists in practice, Marxists in name only.

MR. CHARLTON: What role did the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics have in
spreading Communism internationally? And in organizing Communist parties world-
wide?

MR. LOUDON: From the late 1920s to the late 1980s, the Soviet Union was
unquestionably the leader of world communism.

Soviet defector and former KGB operative Anatoly Golitsyn, claims that even the Sino-
Soviet split of the early 1960s was faked in order draw the US closer to China.

I support that view.

MR. CHARLTON: Can we discount claims that the USSR backed communist
organizations in the West, since communists existed in the West before they did in
Russia?

MR. LOUDON: Once the Russian revolution was consolidated, the Soviet Union
became the supreme ruler of the world communist movement.

All direction came from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union until the Khrushchev
era, when more ‘independent” forms of communism were introduced.

While some parties were nominally more independent and even critical of Moscow in
some instances, the Soviets still maintained their central coordinating role.

MR. CHARLTON: What were the goals of the American Communist Party?

MR. LOUDON: A socialist/communist America — (and they) still are.

From early on the US communists put great emphasis on infiltrating the labor unions,
the Democratic Party, the US government and the “civil rights” movement.
While hugely reduced in size the US communists and their allies in Democratic Socialists
of America, Committees of Correspondence and the wider “progressive” movement
have huge influence on the more than 70 strong Congressional Progressive Caucus,
the AFL-CIO and several large black and Latino organizations.

These are being used to break down and alter the character of US society.

MR. CHARLTON: Who were the early leaders of this party in the U.S.A. in the inter
war years (1918-1939)?

MR. LOUDON: William Z. Foster and Earl Browder were the main leaders in this
period.

MR. CHARLTON: Who were the ringleaders, movers-and-shakers of the Communist

Network in Chicago?

MR. LOUDON: In post-World-War-II Chicago you had prominent leaders like William
Patterson and his wife Louise, later it was Jack Kling, the Childs brothers (both later
revealed to be FBI agents) Claude Lightfoot, Ishmael Flory, Milton Cohen, Abe
Feinglass, Richard Criley, Frank Wilkinson, Frank and Bea Lumpkin and Ted Pearson-
today its John Bachtell, Scott Marshall and his wife Roberta Wood.

MR. CHARLTON: Who were the prominent African Americans in the Chicago network?

MR. LOUDON: In the 40s they included William and Louise Patterson, Ishmael Flory,
Claude Lightfoot, Frank Marshall Davis and Oscar Brown. Vernon Jarrett (father-in-
law of Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett) and future Chicago mayor Harold Washington
were close to the network as was future Obama friend Timuel Black and close Obama
associates: former Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer and one term Illinois Senator
Carol Moseley Braun.

MR. CHARLTON: Can you tell me something about the Jarrett family?

MR. LOUDON: Vernon Jarrett was a prominent Chicago journalist who used his
columns to promote Barack Obama during his 2004 Senate run (Jarrett died soon
after).

In the later 40s Jarrett worked in at least three communist influenced or controlled
organizations in common with Frank Marshall Davis — the two worked together on the
publicity committee of a communist controlled Packing House Workers strike support
committee in 1948.

After that Vernon Jarrett ran a black oriented radio program in partnership with
Communist Party member Oscar Brown-later a famous jazz musician.

The Jarrett’s were family friends with the Bowman family and Valerie Bowman became
Valerie Jarrett through a five year marriage to Vernon Jarrett’s now deceased son.
Valerie’s mother Barbara Taylor Bowman runs the Erikson Institute in Chicago. Tom
Ayers, father of Weather Underground terrorist leader and Obama associate Bill
Ayers served on the Erikson board as did Bill Ayers’ wife Bernardine Dohrn. Bill Ayers
claims to be a friend and Hyde park neighbor of Barbara Bowman, who incidentally is
an adviser on early childhood education to the Secretary of Education.

Valerie Jarrett hired Michelle Obama for a Chicago City job in the 90s and became a
close friend and advisor to both Michelle and Barack, leading to her current job in the
White House.

MR. CHARLTON: Can you tell me who was Frank Marshall Davis? And what were
his connections to the Chicago Network?

MR. LOUDON: Frank Marshall Davis was a prominent Chicago journalist and poet in
1940s Chicago. He was member of the Dorie Miller Club of the Communist Party, but
never publicly admitted membership.

Davis left Chicago for Hawaii in 1948, where he worked on the Honolulu Record, a
paper controlled by the communist ‘owned’ International Longshoremen’s Worker
Union.

Davis was an active, but still covert Party member in Hawaii and went underground
with the Party in the mid 50s-after a Senate Inquiry into communist activities on the
islands. Davis was one third of a three member underground cell with his wife Helen
Canfield and one other comrade.

At one point the FBI observed Davis photographing obscure Hawaii beaches, leading to
speculation that he may have been involved in intelligence gathering.

Davis was marked by the FBI for immediate arrest in the event of war with the Soviet
Union.

Like many of his comrades Davis was an official in the Hawaii Democratic Party.

In 1970 Davis was introduced to a 10 year old Barack Obama, by Obama’s

grandfather-who was Davis’ friend and drinking buddy.

The Davis/Obama relationship endured until 1978 when Obama left for college in Los
Angeles.

Frank Marshall Davis was listed as an endorser of the well documented Communist
Party front-Committee for Protection of Foreign Born until at least 1974.

Davis died in 1987.

MR. CHARLTON: Why did Davis go to Hawaii?

MR. LOUDON: It was reportedly at the suggestion of both the singer/activist Paul
Robeson and ILWU boss Harry Bridges-both covert party members.
MR. CHARLTON: Did Barry get help from Davis to go to Occidental? To get into
Columbia or Harvard?

MR. LOUDON: No evidence

MR. CHARLTON: Did the Chicago Network invite Barack Obama to Chicago?

MR. LOUDON: Obama claims that he was inspired to leave New York for Chicago in
1983 after the election of the city’s first black mayor Harold Washington-who was
involved in Party fronts well into the 1980s.

It is important to note that Obama attended “socialist conferences” at the Cooper union
while in New York.

Cooper Union was the usual venue of the annual Socialist Scholars Conference which
was organized by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — the US’s largest
socialist/Marxist grouping.

Chicago DSA allied with the Chicago CP to elect Harold Washington and Carol Moseley
Braun.

DSA endorsed Obama in his 1995 Illinois State senate run.

Obama joined the Chicago New Party at that time. The New Party was a coalition of
ACORN, DSA, Committees of Correspondence and SEIU activists

Obama worked closely with several DSA members in Chicago, a well as with come
cadre from Committees of Correspondence — a Communist Party splinter group.

Several of Obama’s close friends, neighbors and colleagues were involved with DSA
including Saul Mendelson, Quentin Young, Timuel Black, Rabbi Arnold Wolf, Jackie
Grimshaw, Leon Despres and Congressmen Danny Davis and Jan Schakowsky.

Of those Mendelson was an ex Trotskyite, Young is an ex Communist, Despres was

an ex Socialist Party member and Trotskyite, Black is also a member of CoC and Davis
has ties to both the Communist Party and CoC.

MR. CHARLTON: What history is there between Obama and the Communist Party
since his arrival in Chicago?

MR. LOUDON: Obama’s main documented links to the Chicago left were through DSA,
Committees of Correspondence and the New Party.

Prominent CoC leader Manning Marable wrote in Britain’s Socialist Review of November
2008:

What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organizer. He has
read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is. A lot of
the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist
Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who
have worked with him for years…

That said, both the Chicago Communist Party and Young Communist League
campaigned for Obama in his 2004 Senate race and both organizations overtly
campaigned for Obama in 2008.

Communist Party leader Sam Webb recently described Obama as a ‘friend.”

MR. CHARLTON: What does Obama mean by “Change we can believe in“? Who is
this “we”, and what is this “change”?

MR. LOUDON: We is the broad ‘progressive movement” which includes the Communist
Party, Democratic Socialists of America, Committees of Correspondence, Freedom Road
Socialist Organization, ACORN, AFL-CIO, Change to Win, Demos, Institute for Policy
Studies, Center for American Progress, Campaign for America’s Future, George Soros’s
Open Society institute, United for Peace and Justice, Jobs with Justice, Economic Policy
Institute, US Action, Apollo Alliance, the more than 70 strong Congressional Progressive
Caucus, Progressive democrats of America, the wider Democratic Party…..etc, etc and
their allies in the MSM, academia and government.

The change is towards a unionized, centralized, oligarchic “progressive” society where

the values of the left reign supreme and traditional American values are demonized and
all opposition is marginalized-by whatever means necessary.

MR. CHARLTON: Was Obama ever a Communist Party Candidate? A Socialist Party
candidate?

MR. LOUDON: I doubt he was ever that silly. The New Party which Obama did join
was established by DSA, CoC, ACORN, SEIU and the far left Institute for Policy Studies,
but it was leftist, rather than openly Marxist.

MR. CHARLTON: Who in the current Obama Administration has ties to the Communist
or Socialist parties?

MR. LOUDON: Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has ties to the Communist Party, DSA,
Socialist International and Cuba.

David Bonior (formerly number two Democrat in Congress) who is working for
Obama to re-unite the AFL-CIO and Change to Win is a paid up DSA member.

Carol Browner (Energy/Climate change) has ties to the Socialist International-which

despite its name now includes several ‘former’ communist parties — and China as an
“observer”.

David Axelrod was mentored by two Communist Party linked activists, Don Rose and
David S Canter in his early days in Chicago. At one point Canter, an importer of Soviet
literature was required to register as an agent of the Soviet Union.
Van Jones, was of course involved with STORM and the Bay Area Committees of
Correspondence.

New manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom is an anti-capitalist with some links to DSA

There are others who I’d rather “keep my powder dry” on at this time.

MR. CHARLTON: Is there any significance in the kind of authority or power he has
given to each, regarding the “Change” that he wants to introduce?

MR. LOUDON: Take “manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom — I predict that he will push for
card-check to increase union power.

He will also push for single payer health care. He will run the argument that to make US
industry competitive, industry must be relieved of the health benefits burden. It must
instead be loaded on to the taxpayer to get “industry’-unionized industry only of course-
“back on its feet.

All the Czars have, I believe, been picked to centralize and socialize their
particular sector of US society — or to provide camouflage for their
underlings who will do the real work.

MR. CHARLTON: What significance do you put on the evidence you have gathered?

MR. LOUDON: That’s for my readers to decide.

MR. CHARLTON: For the record, from your research, can you say if there is any kind
of collaboration or alliance between international Communism and Islamic
Fundamentalism?

MR. LOUDON: That goes very deep. It is nothing new-the communists have been
infiltrating Islam since the twenties, just as they have Christianity in the west and
Hinduism and Buddhism in South Asia.

There are numerous links between Middle Eastern communist parties and the PLO and
other radical Islamic groups. The same in the US-the left has bent over backwards to
defend Islamic radicalism and attack all US efforts to defeat militant Islam.

MR. CHARLTON: Does China have any role in the Communist Party in America?

MR. LOUDON: Yes-the Communist Party USA has developed extensive ties to China in
recent years. The Russians haven’t been forgotten though. Party leader Sam Webb was
in Moscow a couple of years ago.

MR. CHARLTON: Why should free peoples everywhere, be wary about Communists
after the fall of the Berlin Wall?

MR. LOUDON: Because China has 70 million party members and the movement is very
strong in Europe, Japan, Latin America, Southern Africa and of course Russia.
You also have 70 members of the congressional progressive caucus, most of whom
would be very comfortable in a European socialist or communist party.

You have a president who…….

Your media tells you little of communist/socialist strength overseas and nothing of your
internal threats.

The big advantage that modern communists and socialists have over their 1950s
counterparts is that today they have virtually zero governmental or media opposition.

Until Fox news that is.

MR. CHARLTON: What kind of Communist infiltration is there in the Main Stream
Media in the West? Is their editorial policy based on this?

MR. LOUDON: The left infiltrated the journalism schools very early in the piece-turning
budding reporters into “social change agents” rather than objective news gatherers.

Add to that a craven fear of being labeled a “McCarthyist” and a deliberate policy of
infiltrating leftists into key media positions and you have a big problem.

The MSM practically went through Sarah Palin’s underwear drawer — which is perfectly
legitimate as every candidate for high office deserves scrutiny — but gave Barack
Obama and Van Jones a free pass.

MSM bias is blatant. Thank god for the internet and Glenn Beck.

MR. CHARLTON: Is there anything you would like to add?

MR. LOUDON: Thanks for the opportunity to address your readers.

MR. CHARLTON: Thank you for your time and availability Mr. Loudon; it has been a
pleasure to speak with you about the Communist ties of Barack Hussein Obama.

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There has been a follow up to this interview at: Jones 2 Bloom: Obama plays the
Socialist Shell-game, and at : Socialists Proliferate in Obama Administration

Mr. Loudon is scheduled to speak at the 40th Anniversary Conference of

Accuracy in the Media, Oct. 23, 2009, in Washington, D.C..

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