>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus
>Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 00:09:59 -0700
>
> Chris (and CB) Alot of the nicest leftists I've known and met have been
>CPUSA or ex-CPUSA. Mostly rank and file Jimmy Higgins types (a few leaders
>like the recently deceased William "Bill" Sennett who fought the fascists
>in Spain), either Jewish or Slavic, Polish, Italian, etc. in the open
>hearted, passionate way I remember from East Coast cities. Folks that
>walked many a picket line and endured much, to build what elements there
>are of racial, social and economic justice in this country and give some
>breathing room to the Vietnamese, Nicaraguans, South Africans, etc.
> A cliche (which doesn't make this one false) heard by many, "tourists of
>the revolution, " as Hans Magnus Enzenberger termed it, is to distinguish
>between the people and the USG.I distinguish bwteen that nice elderly
>couple that gave you the use of their couch to sleep on for 2 months, and
>leaders of their Party that give a platform to such anti-semites as Anpilov
>http://www.communist-party.ca/english/spark/html/ANPILOV.html
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>http://www.panorama.ru/works/patr/bp/1eng.html
>NATIONALISM, EXTREMISM AND XENOPHOBIA Extremism and xenophobia in electoral
>campaigns in 1999 and 2000 Vladimir Pribylovsky
>NATIONAL PATRIOTS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE ELECTION FOR THE THIRD STATE
>DUMA
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>http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/317/cprf.html
>Michael Malkin examines the Great Russian chauvinism and anti-semitism of
>the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
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