Van Jones: BO's Green Jobs Czar and his affiliation with Communist groups

Van Jones was appointed by BO as the Green Jobs czar on the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Van Jones was a leading member of STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement).

STORM was a left-wing revolutionary organization based on openly communist, Marxist, and Maoist principles and revolutionary practices. Several of STORMS's leaders had pre-existing relationships with self-described Communist organizations. From a self summary of STORM, they write: "We did have a political commitment to the fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism. We upheld the Marxist critique of capitalist exploitation. We agreed with Lenin’s analysis of the state and the party. And we found inspiration and guidance in the insurgent revolutionary strategies developed by Third World revolutionaries like Mao Tse-tung and Amilcar Cabral." "All of STORM’s members developed a basic understanding of and commitment to revolutionary Marxist politics with a particular emphasis on the historical experiences of Third World communist movements."

STORM's Self Summation: http://web.archive.org/web/20070719020533/http://leftspot.com/blog/files/docs/STORMSummation.pdf
Wiki on STORM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Together_to_Organize_a_Revolutionary_Movement

Jones has been quoted about his time in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of." " I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."
Source: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the_new_face_of_environmentalism/Content?oid=290098&showFullText=true