D: Yeah, their blurb on the WWP/IAC/ANSWER is interesting: http://www.red-encyclopedia.org/groups.html
<A HREF="http://www.workers.org/">Workers World Party</A>: The Workers World Party was founded by <A HREF="http://www.workers.org/marcy/">Sam Marcy</A> in 1959 when he left the <A HREF="http://www.red-encyclopedia.org/#SWP">Socialist Workers Party</A>. Over time, Marcy's political ideology had warped from <A HREF="http://www.red-encyclopedia.org/vocab.html#TR">Trotskyism</A> to an unusual form of <A HREF="http://www.red-encyclopedia.org/vocab.html#ST">Stalinism</A>. The WWP claimed that it supported the rights of workers, but supported the overthrow of workers by the Soviet Union in places like Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. The Workers World Party nominated its first candidate for office in 1980. Though the WWP is small, its membership is highly dedicated and can accomplish much. In 1996, the WWP succeeded in capturing a ballot spot in California which led to WWP Presidential candidate Monica Moorehead getting over 29,000 votes (mainly from California) in 1996. Moorehead once again ran for President in 2000 under the WWP ballot, but this time received less than 5,000 votes. The WWP has created a number of front organizations, including the <A HREF="http://www.iacenter.org/">International Action Center</A> (which has been involved in the anti-globalization demonstrations) and the newly-formed <A HREF="http://www.internationalanswer.org/">ANSWER</A> (an anti-war group). On May 10, FBI Director Louis Freeh named the WWP as a "domestic terrorist group" without providing any evidence, paving the way for future attacks on civil liberties on groups for merely having different opinions than the mainstream. This has brought sympathy from many leftists toward the WWP. However, the WWP continues to do things which will turn leftists away from them, including backing the <A HREF="http://www.red-encyclopedia.org/vocab.html#KI">Kimist</A> dictators of North Korea and supporting the efforts of the anti-Semitic, chauvinistic <A HREF="http://www.rkrp-rpk.ru/">Russian Communist Workers Party</A> (RKRP). Overall, Workers World is one of the most authoritarian groups on the Left today. <A HREF="http://www.red-encyclopedia.org/votes.html#WWP">See the number of votes the WWP received in Presidential elections.</A>
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