Open City | Following the Flags in San Francisco

L.A. Weekly ^ | Nov. 1-7, 2002 | Steven Mikulan

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Jane Fonda joins with Revolutionary Communist Party

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According to L.A. Weekly writer Steven Mikulan; "the “Not in My Name” campaign - which pushes an anti-war statement signed by scores of prominent and celebrity lefties, including Jane Fonda, Martin Luther King III, Marisa Tomei, Kurt Vonnegut and Oliver Stone - has been directed, in part, by C. Clark Kissinger, a longtime Maoist activist and member of the Revolutionary Communist Party."

Mikulan continued; "Lately, another kind of debate has swirled around the doctrinaire beliefs of the anti-war movement’s organizers. International ANSWER (Act Now To Stop War and End Racism), the group behind Saturday’s march, is the creation of a Trotskyite sect called the Workers World Party, which noisily supports such pleasure domes as North Korea and Yugoslavia under Milosevic. Similarly, the Not in My Name project, which sponsored a celebrity anti-war petition campaign, can be traced back to the Maoist Revolutionary Communist Party, who, like the WWP, has nary a discouraging word to say about Saddam Hussein — or any anti-American tyrant and guerrilla movement." - Steven Mikulan, LA Weekly Writer in Open City: Following the Flags in San Francisco, Fri Nov 1, 2002. The LA Weekly is an alternative weekly newspaper.

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This story also reported in Behind the Placards The odd and troubling origins of today’s anti-war movement, by David Corn, Washington Editor for the progressive The Nation.

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C'mon you guys! Just cuz it's the night before an election,
don't neglect Janie and her Bolshevik friends!