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Behind the Placards: The odd and troubling origins of today's anti-war movement (David Corn, NOVEMBER 1 - 7, 2002, LA Weekly)

[T]he demonstration was essentially organized by the Workers World Party, a small political sect that years ago split from the Socialist Workers Party to support the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. The party advocates socialist revolution and abolishing private property. It is a fan of Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba, and it hails North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il for preserving his country's "socialist system," which, according to the party's newspaper, has kept North Korea "from falling under the sway of the transnational banks and corporations that dictate to most of the world." The WWP has campaigned against the war-crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. A recent Workers World editorial declared, "Iraq has done absolutely nothing wrong."

Officially, the organizer of the Washington demonstration was International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). But ANSWER is run by WWP activists, to such an extent that it seems fair to dub it a WWP front. Several key ANSWER officials--including spokesperson Brian Becker--are WWP members.

This Brian Becker character was the one they had on MacNeil/Lehrer last week. This is great--like the 50s all over again--with front groups and fellow travelers, the whole nine yards. Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins could be our Hammett and Hellman, if either of them was as talented as Dash. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 21, 2003 7:58 PM