Mock naive question. What is "red-baiting"? Stalinists use the term one way, 99% demogogically. Is it asking inconvenient questions of Stalinized Communists? Anti-Stalinist communists, socialists, social democrats, left-liberals, use it another way as when liberals, welfare state or otherwise, are accused falsely by McCarthyites of being Stalinized Communists.
UfPJ has CPUSA and ex-CPUSA leaders, among other marxist and non-marxist tendencies. I have no problem with Leslie Cagan and the CPUSA rep. on the UfPJ steering committee or Bob Wing, ex cadre in Line of March. Allowing those Stalinist ANSWER pricks to browbeat and harangue themselves into an unwarrented leadership role in a PEACE movement, when there hasn't been a TANK they ever saw mowing down workers, peasants and students they haven't supported, is the scandal. And, if you can't see why it severely limits the growth of the movement, well to quote Lou Reed, "I guess that I just don't know!"
-- Michael Pugliese