An activist now charged with assaulting two U.S. Marines as part of an Antifa mob has ties to Heather Booth, a senior Democrat and chief DNC trainer who founded a training academy devoted to the teachings of the late pro-violence community organizing guru Saul Alinsky.

This is yet more proof that Antifa, the anti-fascist coalition that uses heavy-handed fascist tactics, is becoming closely integrated with the Democratic Party, many of whose activists support its goal of overthrowing the government of the United States by force. (I executive-produced a three-part documentary series, America Under Siege, about Antifa and other political actors.)

Joseph Alcoff, 37, is facing charges in Philadelphia including aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly attacking two Marines of Latino ancestry, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, Fred Lucas reports at Fox News. Alcoff and two others charged in the melee have entered not guilty pleas. The beatings took place during a Proud Boys rally that was protested by Antifa. The victims, who say the perpetrators screamed racial slurs during the attack, say they were not aware of the rally.

It has been reported that Alcoff worked as the anti-payday lending campaign manager for the labor-backed leftist coalition group, Americans for Financial Reform, even while he participated in violent Antifa actions. Americans for Financial Reform, by the way, advocates an economy-crushing “financial speculation tax” on all Wall Street trading activity involving financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, derivatives, futures, options, and credit default swaps.

Fox reports: “Alcoff participated in congressional Democratic press conferences, was a guest on a House Democratic podcast and met with senior officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2016 through 2018.”

House and Senate Democrats co-sponsoring the proposed Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic (SAFE) Lending Act, sent out press releases in February 2018 which included a quotation from Alcoff.

“The Consumer Bureau and Congress have in the past understood the way that payday lenders structure loans to catch Americans in a cycle of debt with exorbitant interest rates,” Alcoff said in the statements. “It is unfortunate that some in Washington would rather open the loan shark gates than continue to think about sensible borrower protections. The SAFE Lending Act would put Washington back on track to stop the debt trap.”

Alcoff also posed for photos with now-House Financial Services Committee Chairman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and ranking member on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). The Washington Free Beacon previously reported that Alcoff met with then-Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray and senior CFPB officials three times in 2016 and 2017, while he was reportedly an Antifa leader in the nation’s capital.

But what has not been reported is that Americans for Financial Reform was founded by Heather Booth, a longtime socialist-feminist agitator and contemporary of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn whose involvement in radical, anti-American causes stretches back to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 1960s. She later went on to become training director for the DNC.

In 1973 Booth (pictured above) co-founded the Chicago-based Midwest Academy, a training institute for community organizers. “Alinsky is to community organizing as Freud is to psychoanalysis,” she has said.

The Midwest Academy describes itself as “a national training institute committed to advancing the struggle for social, economic, and racial justice. From local neighborhood groups to statewide and national organizations, Midwest Academy has trained over twenty-five thousand grassroots activists from hundreds of organizations and coalitions.”

“Truly reaching socialism or feminism will likely take a revolution that is in fact violent, a rupture with the old ways in which the current ruling class and elites are wiped out,” she said in the 1970s.