Pop Front Communists and WWII demobilization

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>    There was a small thread on this started by Yoshie a while back. I always
>pick up the CPUSA paper PWW at the YMCA ("...at the YMCA"....by the Village
>People! BTW, only one of the Village People was gay!), the August 11th issue
>with the banner headline on the top fold of the front pg. is, "U.N.
>Challenges Bush on Racism, " has a letter inside from William Pomeroy.
>Michael Pugliese
>
>"Lew  Moroze, who died on July 7th, was one of a group of U.S. Communists
>who were in the U.S. Army in the Philliphines during and just after WWII,
>and who are remembered by Filipino  comrades for their support and
>solidarity. They helped to organize a massive demonstration of U.S.
>servicemen in Manila at war's end to demanxd return to the United States.
>     This was just not a homesick movement but, was to prevent retention of
>large U.S. forces in the Phillipines for imperialist purposes against
>liberation movements throughout S.E. Asia. The Phillipines guerilla
>movement, Hukbalahap, (see Pomoroy book from Int'l. Pubs. on the Huks, M.P.)
>which had fought Japanese occupation and , led by
>Partido Kommunista Phillipines (PKP), was a major
>political factor in the post-war independence, was a principal target of
>imperialist plans."
><snip> William Pomoroy, London

Thanks for this post (& others on the same topic), Michael.  Someone 
should do a documentary film on the subject before all the servicemen 
who participated in the movement die.

Yoshie