Posted on 12/10/2012 9:15:43 PM PST by Fedora
In light of current events, I thought it would be relevant to post an obscure but important bit of information about a Marxist plan to bankrupt America which I found back in 2005 when I was researching the VVAW.
The information comes from the "8/25/1972 FBI Information Digest Special Report on VVAW" (FBI file HQ 100-448092, Section 32, PDF pp. 31-45). The report was prepared while the government was preparing its case against Scott Camil and other VVAW defendants in the Gainesville Eight trial, initiated after the US intelligence community became aware that Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) was conspiring with other antiwar groups and elements of Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern’s campaign to violently disrupt the Republican National Convention that August. The document summarized information the FBI had collected on VVAW involvement in Communist activity, espionage, and sabotage.
One part of the report mentioned the VVAW's sending of delegates to the World Assembly for Peace, aka World Assembly for the Peace and Independence of the Peoples of Indochina. This was an international antiwar assembly held in Versailles, France from February 11-13, 1972. It was sponsored by the World Peace Council (WPC), the Soviets’ main international antiwar front, along with the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam (aka World Conference on Vietnam), a similar KGB front. The assembly was attended by over 1200 delegates from 84 countries, including delegates from North Vietnam. The VVAW was one of the US organizations that sent a delegation.
The document included a list of other US organizations attending, among which was a group called the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). In researching the background of this group, I discovered they were pursuing a plan to abuse the welfare system to bankrupt the economies of major U.S. cities. Here is the summary of the NWRO's background I compiled during my research:
National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO): CP-supported welfare rights group founded in 1967 aligned with the antiwar movement. NWRO was based on applying the theories of Columbia University’s Marxist sociologist couple Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, who drew inspiration from CP-linked organizer Saul Alinsky (see entry for “United Farmworkers Organizing Committee”) and the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles. In November 1965 Cloward and Piven advanced a plan to deliberately overload the welfare systems of New York and other major cities with more recipients than they could afford and thereby cause an economic crisis to force a socialist political revolution on the national level and federalize the governmental Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare program. Seeking an organizer to implement their plan, Cloward and Piven recruited as Executive Director of NWRO George Wiley, a former member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who had become disillusioned with more conventional approaches to civil rights and had founded a more militant civil rights and welfare rights group, the Poverty Rights Action Center (PRAC), in 1964. Assisting Wiley as Chair of NWRO was Johnnie Tillmon, a single black mother with six children who had formed a welfare rights group called Aid to Needy Children-Mothers Anonymous (ANC-Mothers Anonymous) in Watts in 1963 and had subsequently been elected to the LA County Welfare Rights Organization (CWRO). Under Wiley and Tillmon’s leadership, NWRO drew 90% of its membership from black mothers receiving AFDC welfare, and accordingly it tended to form united front joining the welfare movement, the civil rights movement, and the feminist movement, and after 1969, the antiwar movement as well. In New York City the NWRO received political support from Welfare Commissioner Mitchell Ginsberg, who doubled the number of welfare recipients on the city payroll between 1967 and 1973, which would bankrupt the city by 1975. Following an internal conflict between Wiley and a faction of the NWRO aligned with former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis, Wiley began replacing NWRO leadership with all black males, and appointed former CORE activist James Farmer as NWRO Associate Director. In September 1970 Farmer and Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader James Bevel led a coalition of black civil rights groups called the Family of Man on a march to the Black Panther Party-organized Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention (RPCC) in Philadelphia. Through arrangements made by black VVAW leader Al Hubbard, Farmer’s Family of Man marchers joined marchers from the VVAW’s Operation RAW rally in nearby Valley Forge, where Bevel spoke. Both an NWRO delegation and VVAW leader Al Hubbard travelled to Versailles, France in February 1972 to attend the World Assembly for the Peace and Independence of the Peoples of Indochina, sponsored by the Soviet fronts the World Peace Council and the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam. In 1973 CP members in the NWRO clashed with fascist Lyndon LaRouche, who tried to form a similar group under his own control, the National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization (NUWRO), by sending thugs to physically disrupt NWRO meetings and attack CP members there.
Is there a continuity between the plot mentioned here and current economic problems? I cannot confirm that without additional research (and let me add that even if this is the case, I am not proposing this as a complete explanation of the current economic crisis by any stretch), but in light of Alinsky's influence on the current generation of politicians, it is a line of research worth pursuing.
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Good post—that ACORN link ties a lot together.
Why weren’t Cloward and Piven arrested?
I don’t know, my guess is they got away with a lot because of their academic connections. I think Piven wanted to get arrested for publicity—she signed a petition refusing to pay taxes over the Vietnam War in 1968, and she participated in a post-settlement strike at Boston University that almost got her dismissed along with Howard Zinn, who was one of the CP’s key academic contacts during that period and was her colleague. Zinn had some pretty high-powered legal connections to the same lawyers defending the antiwar protestors, I would think Piven would have turned to those resources in event of an arrest.
From personal knowledge, the watts riots were started by a protection gang,.
The buildings were premarked for those that paid and not to be burned and vandalized and those that wouldn't pay that were to be burned and vandalized (files and records destroyed).
After they were started it got out of hand and the black gangs started hitting all the businesses.
One building I rebuilt wasn't supposed to be hit and the owner was screaming his head off, “I paid, I paid I wasn't supposed to be harmed.
He showed me on the wall of the alley where his building was marked to be not hit and 2 other ones on the same block that had been marked and destroyed,.
Thank you, very useful diagram! A piece I’d like to add to the NWRO/ACORN link outlined there is any link between NWRO and individuals or groups who have influenced the economic policies that complement ACORN’s political activism, either at the federal level or at the state/local level (e.g. NYC or Chicago).
Is history repeating itself?
Of course.
Just check Russia, ca. 1918.
Just because Communism failed in central Europe, it does not mean that it has ended...It has moved to the USA.
Back in the late 50s, when I was still a kid, I remember a program that came to Memphis.
It was called “None Dare Call it Treason”.
It was a rally held in the downtown auditorium to educate
Americans about Communism and how it was out to capture America.
While living in Slovakia, a few years ago, I remember the photos of Russian tanks rolling in.
Shouldn't, John Boehner should be included,however?
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Wiley and Gloria Steinem were a “thing” for a while when she was in her revolutionary mode. She should have taught George how to swim.
Actually, I think Wiley was a much bigger player in the welfare scam operation, or would have been, if he hadn’t of died. Something about his rise (he was charismatic and impressive looking/sounding) just doesn’t set right with me.
His ties to the Communist Party/fronts smells of a convergence movement of black extremism/nationalism with the CPUSA’s old “southern strategy” of creating a black nation within a nation, a strategy also adopted by the marxist/violent Republic of New Africa.
Who better to have “front” for the Party than Wiley. Stokely Carmichael was off on his marxist trip (to Cuba, Guinea, Ghana, etc., H.R. Brown was going to jail or already there, Bob Brown was still an unknown in Stokely’s All-African Revolutionary Party to be, and Huey Newton was in deep doo-doo. Bobby Seal, for the most part, became a non-factor after the Chicago 7 trial and other Black Panther Party leaders were dead, in jail, or on the run.
Only Wiley had a relatively “clean” personna.
Guess we will never know unless some classified or hidden away records tell us more.
However, the NWRO was taken over by several CPUSA members or sympathizers including Beulah Sanders (I believe she later was exposed as a CPUSA member), and one other woman in Milwaukee who was a CPer. They remained leading members of the CPUSA “Vietnam/peace fronts” such as New Mobe, SAC, PCPJ and then possibly in the later Mobilization for Survival anti-defense lobby. However, by then, they had lost most of their influence on the Left.
By the way, the NWRO tactics are those of Saul Alinsky (who I had heard speak and then met), as well as those of Jesse Jackson Jr (SCLC/Op. Breadbasket, Op. Push, Rainbow Coalition, along with his chief strategist, CPUSA covert leader in the South, Jack O’Dell), and Al Sharpton, who began his radical career at the age of 16 at an Angela Davis Defense Committee rally in New York (information on all of them at www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org” and “www.keywiki.org”, for starters).
Just thinking about this brings back the memory that “black extremism” in the “white radical movement” actually started on a national scale at the 1968 “National Conference for New Politics” conference where the CPUSA-aided and guided “black power” people took over the conference from white marxists and liberals. Marty Peretz (aka Marty the Putz), then editor of New Republic, later remarked that since the communists had taken over the conference, “let them pay for it.”
The poor boy still hasn’t learned to this day that the reds have sued him like a piece of toilet paper, only to disgard him when they were through.
Alice Widener wrote a great monograph-type publication about the NCNP for “USA” magazine. It exposed the “who’s who” and “who’s in control of the conference. Lots of Cloward/Piven and Michael Harrington “Democratic Socialists” were there, slowly working to take over the movement.
Perhaps this was the first known convergence of the black extremists and the white marxists. Then the Hayden/BPP convention in Oakland? about 1968/69. Then the NWRO and National Mobe/New Mobe, 1969-70.
Beginning to make some sense, timewise. Fedora. Do your thing.
Wiley and Gloria Steinem were a “thing” for a while when she was in her revolutionary mode. She should have taught George how to swim.
Actually, I think Wiley was a much bigger player in the welfare scam operation, or would have been, if he hadn’t of died. Something about his arise (he was charismatic and impressive looking/sounding) ust doesn’t set right with me.
His ties to the Communist Party/fronts smells of a convergence movement of black extremism/nationalism with the CPUSA’s old “southern strategy” of creating a black nation within a nation, a strategy also adopted by the marxist/violent Republic of New Africa.
Who better to have “front” for the Party than Wiley. Stokely Carmichael was off on his marxist trip (to Cuba, Guinea, Ghana, etc., H.R. Brown was going to jail or already there, Bob Brown was still an unknown in Stokely’s All-African Revolutionary Party to be, and Huey Newton was in deep doo-doo. Bobby Seal, for the most part, became a non-factor after the Chicago 7 trial and other Black Panther Party leaders were dead, in jail, or on the run.
Only Wiley had a relatively “clean” personna.
Guess we will never know unless some classified or hidden away records tell us more.
However, the NWRO was taken over by several CPUSA members or sympathizers including Beulah Sanders (I believe she later was exposed as a CPUSA member), and one other woman in Milwaukee who was a CPer. They remained leading members of the CPUSA “Vietnam/peace fronts” such as New Mobe, SAC, PCPJ and then possibly in the later Mobilization for Survival anti-defense lobby. However, by then, they had lost most of their influence on the Left.
By the way, the NWRO tactics are those of Saul Alinsky (who I had heard speak and then met), as well as those of Jesse Jackson Jr (SCLC/Op. Breadbasket, Op. Push, Rainbow Coalition, along with his chief strategist, CPUSA cover leader in the South, Jack O’Dell), and Al Sharpton, who began his radical career at the age of 16 at an Angela Davis Defense Committee rally in New York (information on all of them at www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org” and “www.keywiki.org”, for starters).
Just thinking about this brings back the memory that “black extremism” in the “white radical movement” actually started on a national scale at the 1968 “National Conference for New Politics” conference where the CPUSA-aided and guided “black power” people took over the conference from white marxists and liberals. Marty Peretz (aka Marty the Putz), then editor of New Republic, later remarked that since the communists had taken over the conference, “let them pay for it.”
The poor boy still hasn’t learned to this day that the reds have sued him like a piece of toilet paper, only to disgard him when they were through.
Alice Widener wrote a great monograph-type publication about the NCNP for “USA” magazine. It exposed the “who’s who” and “who’s in control of the conference. Lots of Cloward/Piven and Michael Harrington “Democratic Socialists” were there, slowing working to take over the movement.
Perhaps this was the first known convergence of the black extremists and the white marxists. Then the Hayden/BPP convention in Oakland? about 1968/69. Then the NWRO and National Mobe/New Mobe, 1969-70.
Beginning to make some sense, timewise. Fedora. Do your thing.
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Ping to Article, and # 1 through # 14.
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Oh my! The Russian revolution has been on my mind all evening and I had not looked at FR until now.
The parallels of decay, unrest and confusion appear significant. I wrote my other post here before seeing yours.
My other laboriously written post here was lost somehow
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The country’s already bankrupt. Obama’s just waiting for his moment to spike the football.
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