[6][7] (He describes himself as a "child of a blacklisted set designer" during McCarthyism,[8]) whose mentor was CPUSA executive committee member Gil Green.
Almost from his arrival, he was on the executive committee of SLATE, an early New Left free speech organization based at Berkeley.
"[11] Myerson was member of the National Student Association (NSA) on its left-wing, unlike Tom Hayden and Al Haber, who were more centrist.
"[6] He helped for an "Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination" in the San Francisco Bay area to support the NAACP and CORE.
[6] In 1964, he protested the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater as well as US President Lyndon Baynes Johnson for his position on the Vietnam War.
There, a delegation from the National Liberation Front (NLF) from North Vietnam invited him to visit, based on his pamphlet.
[16] In 1992, Myerson left the CPUSA along with Herbert Aptheker, Angela Davis, Gil Green, and Charlene Mitchell.
In 1994, Myerson accused CPUSA leader Gus Hall of living a "good bourgeois life" including "an estate in fashionable Hampton Bays.