[1][4] The Waz League claimed a working-class base and shared the populist tendencies of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party.
[6] Sennai Likkay served as vice chairman of the 15-member Central Committee of the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs (POMOA).
[7] The Waz League supported the entry of the Seded (the new political organization formed by Derg officers) into POMOA, as means of weakening influence of the All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement (Meison).
[1] Shimelis Mazengia, Mengistu's speech writer and credited with invention many Amharic versions of Marxist terminology, was a former Waz League activist.
Two other prominent ex-Waz League figures were Maj Girma Neway (a senior police officer) and Roberto Gigano.