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...Maher was one of the founders of the national May 2nd Movement and organizer of its Harvard chapter...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: May 2nd Leader Denies PLP Controls Movement | 4/28/1965 | See Source »

...Maher said he joined Progressive Labor "in terms of personal commitment" a month ago. He officially became a member of the party at its opening convocation in New York two weeks ago. "I stopped attending the meetings of the national M-2-M about two weeks before I joined PL, simply because I did not have enough time, "Maher said...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: May 2nd Leader Denies PLP Controls Movement | 4/28/1965 | See Source »

Progressive Labor is widely known as the Chinese faction of the Communist Party of America, which has now set up an independent organization. This is not accurate, according to Maher...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: May 2nd Leader Denies PLP Controls Movement | 4/28/1965 | See Source »

...Pekin, we're for revolution here," Maher stated. "We may agree with the Communist Chinese on many points. But the whole logic that people in the U.S. cannot arrive at a position that happens to coincide with the Chinese position is a false one. To call someone pro-Chinese is too use a terminology that conceals more than it reveals about the person...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: May 2nd Leader Denies PLP Controls Movement | 4/28/1965 | See Source »

...statement Maher helped write that is being distributed by PL across the country accuses Luce of having been dropped for other reasons: "like all of us he was under tremendous pressure. He was facing 20 years in jail and a $20,000 fine for having visited Cuba. Early this year, we had discovered that he had succumbed to these pressures. To escape, he began using heroin, embezzling funds form the movement to pay for his need; indeed, he finally sold out to the police, to the 'destroy-PL' campaign. To feed his illness, to escape form the reality...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: May 2nd Leader Denies PLP Controls Movement | 4/28/1965 | See Source »

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