----- Original Message ----- From: <Redlabour at cs.com> To: <asdnet at igc.topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [ASDnet] Communists, Go Home -Washington Times
>...John, maybe you should specify just which parts of this you think are
untrue. I'd say the information on the Workers World Party / IAC (Becker
and Holmes) and the RCP / Refuse and Resist (Kissinger) is correct. The
slurs begin with lumping the Institute for Policy Studies and the National
Lawyers Guild in with the above Stalinists.
Did you think people wouldn't notice that the WWP (in the guise of its new
front ANSWER) was running the show? They certainly seemed to be from the
segment I watched on C-SPAN. Events over the last couple of years have been
drawing a line between the democratic left and the authoritarian left. I'm
thinking particularly of Bosnia and Kosovo (and those who would defend
Milosevic), and aspects of strategy in the anti-globalization campaigns
(whether to keep involved mainstream labor groups like the AFL-CIO and the
ICFTU (internationally).
Here's L.A. Kauffman writing in her e-newsletter Free Radical on Sept. 17:
There still will be teach-ins and at least one
large interfaith vigil in D.C. that week. Meanwhile,
the International Action Center -- front group for
the Stalinist Workers World Party, with a long
history of supporting murderous dictators like
Nicolae Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, and
Slobodan Milosevic -- is planning to go forward
with a September 29 "March Against War and
Racism" in Washington. I suspect a lot of other
groups may sign on, because there's a widespread
desire to do something. But you won't catch me
supporting a "peace march" organized by a
bunch of authoritarian opportunists who have
no problem with slaughter, so long as it's
committed by their pet tyrants.
I'm not sure it's going to be possible to continue to straddle the line
between the democratic and authoritarian lefts.
David Walls
Sebastopol, CA