Thanks comrade. Berlet is Pravda...has a certain rign to it...
Some comments.
First, Pravda online today often reflects the views of racial nationalists in a deranged collapse of communist internationalism into national socialism.
According to the article, Newman and Fulani and their grouplet "is positioned to take over the most important American third party of the late 20th century."
Hardly. They are opportunistly attaching themselves like political leeches to the mostly dead Reform Party and the Independent Party in New York state.
"The movement in question is the following of Fred Newman and Lenora Fulani, which began in the Trotskyist sewer in the 70s, went on to lead America's independent left in the 80s,"
This is clueless propaganda. The did not lead anything but their sycophant followers and a few confused collaborators. The left mostly shunned them.
"formed the vanguard of the American beyond left and right movement in the 90s,"
Partly true as they sucked up to the quasi-fascist Buchanan who used them to help organize the Reform Party on his behalf and then betrayed them. "Beyond Left and Right" usually means leftists should take leadership from right-wing populists and fascists to smash the corrupt regime. Bad idea.
"and today is poised to become the most powerful political force in the state of New York. "
Well, partly, they are playing power broker in New York with some powerful politicians and getting access to status and backing for a huge loan to build a theatre in NYC.
This section is really deranged:
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If the origins of Lenora Fulani's movement are bizarre, the origins of the hatred they inspire are far more so. It goes all the way back to Fred Newman's collaboration with Lyndon LaRouche, which was happening at the time LaRouche was conducting his infamous Operation Mop-Up in which his followers brutally physically intimidated members of the Communist and Socialist Workers Parties. Hence, anything with any background with LaRouche was poisonous to the left, but as Newman's life-long associate Harry Kresky said, we did very little mopping. Among the grizzled leftists who emerged from this was Chip Berlet, who has been a member of both the parties targeted by Mop-Up. In 1988, Democratic hierarchs summoned Berlet as their character assassin against Fulani, and has been their personal character assassin ever since. (See "Virtual Retch," Pravda, January 10, 2002)
Berlet's polemics proved powerful and long lasting. They were the basis of the hate campaign launched against Fulani and all her efforts within the Reform Party, and can be said to have been partly responsible for the demise of the Reform Party. Among the most eager to take up the banner of this hate campaign was the New Republic, which is preparing to do so yet again.
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This is largely a mixture of false claims and some facts. To do some research, check out:
LaRouche & Operation Mop Up http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclcmain.html
Newman's roots: Clouds Blur the Rainbow http://www.publiceye.org/newman/napmain.html
As for me, Democrat "hierarchs" did not summon me. Black leftists urged me to write a report about the Newmanites to expose their opportunism and false claims, especially their attempts to parasitize the Rainbow Coalition. Thus the title "Clouds Blur the Rainbow." I never was a member of the CPUSA or SWP or any other left party or communist group. In the post cold war period I don't mind saying it. I wouldn't during the cold war out of solidarity with communists who were demonized and targeted by government repression.
Chip "call me gospodin" Berlet
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> http://english.pravda.ru/columnists/2002/06/19/30738.html
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> I had a hard time following this. Are they saying Fulani united
the
> communists with Ross's people? What do you NYer's think of
> this woman?
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> I have not read this yet, but Pravda's got some interesting
> columns here. A
> couple by Pat Buchanan of all people. And toppling a
> totalitarian regime in
> the US. Is this all typical Pravda?
>
> http://english.pravda.ru/columnists/
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