LENNI BRENNER

'Lenni Brenner' (born 1937) is an American Marxist writer. In the 1960s, Brenner was a prominent civil rights activist and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War.
Brenner was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. He became an atheist at age 10 and a Marxist at age 15. Brenner's involvement with the American Civil Rights Movement began when he met James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality, later the organizer of the "freedom rides" of the early 1960s. He also worked with Bayard Rustin, later the organizer of Martin Luther King's 1963 "I had a dream" March on Washington. (Neither were Marxists.)
Brenner was arrested three times during civil rights sit-ins in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent 39 months in jail when a court revoked his probation for marijuana possession, because of his activities during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement at the University of California in 1964.
He was an anti-war activist from the first days of the Vietnam war, speaking frequently at rallies in the Bay Area. In 1963 he organized the Committee for Narcotic Reform in Berkeley. In 1968 he co-founded the National Association for Irish Justice, the American affiliate of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.
In the 1990s, he and Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael), the legendary "Black Power" leader of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, co-founded the Committee against Zionism and Racism. They also published The Anti-War Activist.

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Writing

Brenner is the author of four books, ''Zionism in the Age of the Dictators'', ''The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir'', ''Jews in America Today'', and ''The Lesser Evil'', a study of the Democratic Party. His books have been favorably reviewed in 11 languages by prominent publications, including ''The Times'', The London Review of Books, Moscow's Izvestia and the Jerusalem Post.
His articles have also appeared in ''The Nation'', ''Amsterdam News'', ''Jewish Guardian'', ''Atlanta Constitution'', ''Washington Report on Middle East Affairs'', ''Middle East Policy'', ''Middle East International'', ''Journal of Palestine Studies'', ''New Statesman'', ''Al-Fajr'' and ''United Irishman''.
In 2002, he edited ''51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis''. It contains complete translations of many of the documents quoted in ''Zionism in the Age of the Dictators'' and ''The Iron Wall''. In 2004, he edited ''Jefferson & Madison On Separation of Church and State: Writings on Religion and Secularism''.
Brenner spoke at the inaugural meeting in London of Jews Against Zionism [1].
Brenner is said to be working on a memoir, tentatively called ''The World's Grouchiest Marxist''.

External links

★ Lenni Brenner: biographical details

★ Lenni Brenner. Zionism in the Age of the Dictators

★ Lenni Brenner. The Iron Wall

★ Lenni Brenner. 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis, ''CounterPunch'', December 23, 2002.

★ Lenni Brenner. Beyond the UN's Rhetoric: Holocaust History, ''CounterPunch'', January 29, 2005.

★ Lenni Brenner. The plot to stigmatize "51 Documents" on Amazon.com, ''CounterPunch'', May 25, 2005.

★ "It's All Rabbis and No Jews": An Interview with Lenni Brenner