POWER LINE BLOG on A.N.S.W.E.R (Unreconstructed Marxists)

Power Line Blog | January 18, 2003 | John H. Hinderaker

[Timesink]

Saturday, January 18, 2003

Here is another photo of A.N.S.W.E.R.'s San Francisco office. The woman shown is identified by the Associated Press as "activist Nancy Mitchell." Note the signs. Also, this is a nice office in the most expensive real estate in the U.S. It would be interesting to see where the money comes from. One possibility: A.N.S.W.E.R. lists filmmaker Michael Moore ("Bowling for Columbine") as one of its supporters.


Now, who exactly is "activist" Nancy Mitchell? She is a prominent member of the Workers World Party (as well as the International Action Center, another WWP front which was founded by Ramsey Clark). Let's let her explain her politics in her own words, from the Workers World Party's website:

"Those of us who came to the movement during this period of reaction and through the expansion and success of the I[nternational]A[ction][Committee] over the last decade have had a lot of experience fighting racism and imperialism. But we may feel a little less prepared to do mass agitational work on the need for socialism and building a communist party in the United States.

"But I know I speak for the newer comrades when I say: I'm excited to start. I'm excited to strengthen my ability to talk about socialism, to get the paper out to the workers in my union, to build the branch meetings, to pass out palm cards with the www.workers.org Web site on them. And I'm really excited about having regular Marxism classes and doing introductory classes for students and workers, to show them that Marxism is not some field for academic study--it's a living struggle!"

In fifteen minutes of internet research, you can figure out that the anti-war demonstrations taking place today were organized and led by unreconstructed Communists. This would seem to be significant news. Watch for it tomorrow morning in the New York Times.
posted by Hindrocket at 2:28 PM

 
This is a photo of anti-war demonstrators in Washington, D.C. picking up their signs to begin the demonstration. The signs were supplied by a group called A.N.S.W.E.R., which is the principal organizer of the demonstrations in Washington and San Francisco.


This photo shows the A.N.S.W.E.R. office in San Francisco. The individual on the right is Richard Becker, A.N.S.W.E.R.'s principal spokesman.


A.N.S.W.E.R. is a front for the Workers World Party, a Stalinist group that cheered the Tiananamen Square massacre and supports Kim il Jong and Saddam Hussein. To learn more about A.N.S.W.E.R. and Mr. Becker, read this and this. And Mr. Becker describes his own political views here, in a eulogy to a man whom Becker describes as "the very embodiment of Leninism."
posted by Hindrocket at 1:35 PM

 


Um, no thank you.

Anti-war rallies are scheduled to take place around the world today. We'll probably post images of the protests and counter-protests from time to time.
posted by Hindrocket at 12:29 PM

[CedarDave]

Worst part.. my cable bill help show it... Double YUCK!!

Yeah, I know. But I'm going to sign up for cable next week -- with the war coming on, I don't want to be stuck with ABCCBSNBCPBS for news. Our local provider has FOX so I know I'll get "fair and balanced" (my local bank has FOX News on over the teller windows so you don't notice how slow the lines are)!!

[michigander]

Bump.

[tubebender]

BUMPING a GREAT POST...

[JoeFromSidney]

It's times like this I wish I owned one of those jackets with "FBI" in giant yellow letters on the back. I'd just walk all around the protest all day, wearing that jacket and carrying a camera with a HUGE honkin' lens, snapping hundreds of photos and making the Saddam lovers all paranoid as hell.

Back during the Cold War the pacifists used to hold a demonstration in front of Wright-Patterson AF Base on Hiroshima Day. Some of us would hold a counter-demonstration to support the troops. One time my son was home from graduate school. I usually took a camera with me to the counter-demo, but never had time to take any pictures. I gave my camera to my son and asked him to photograph the event. I had forgotten he had been a photographer for his college paper when he was an undergraduate. He went around doing a very professional-looking job of taking pictures. He told me later that the leader of the pacifists came up to him and asked who he was taking pictures for (the guy had a record of opposing US military action going all the way back to WWII when he was jailed as a communist). My son told him it was just for himself. The commie replied, "Oh, I thought we were being targeted for assassination." It did my heart good to know we put some fear into his slimy little soul.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

According to a World Net Daily story "Has anti-war movement been hijacked?" Ramsey Clark, founder of ANSWER, is legal counsel for Saddam Hussein. Sad-dam, can you say mother of all conspiracies?
(Thanks Mr. Farah for making research too easy :)

[Ben Hecks]

Good article! Welcome to FR; If I might ask, how did you find this forum?

[VietVet]

I know, they are disgusting and infuriating.

I had to skip taking part in the D.C. Chapter/MOVEOUT counter demonstration because I could not honestly pledge I would remain non-violent when a stone's throw from such as these.

And such is their agenda, and their allies, that I do not know how much longer it will be appropriate to remain non-violent.

VietVet

[TLBSHOW]

The question is "why do communists need to preserve Saddam? Radical Islam?

Where was that link to our talk the other night?

[Orion78]

Here are some sponsors of A.N.S.W.E.R.

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Monica Moorehead - Workers World Party
Freedom Socialist Party
Manfred Eber - Chairperson, Communist Party of Austria, Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
H. Charfo - Head of the Department of International Relations, Central Committee, Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, Praha, Czech Republic
Patrik Köbele - Chairman, German Communist Party, Ruhr-Westfalen, Germany
Patricio Echegary - General Secretary, Partido Comunista de la Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maher Kouraytem - The Lebanese Communist Party, Beirut, Lebanon
Oklahoma Socialist Cooperative, Oklahoma
Chris "The Anarchist" Ryan - community organizer and activist, Columbus, Ohio
Victoria D. Gaines - Psychiatric escapee and activist, Hagertown, Maryland
Steven Schroeder - Instructor in Philosophy and Liberal Studies, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
Ross Stuart Marat - Bedfordshire Socialist Alliance, Luton, England

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For more, follow this link
A.N.S.W.E.R.

[Orion78]

"The second upgraded strategy involves the use of the new 'independent' Muslim states in the CIS to establish and develop economic and political cooperation with the fundamentalists in Iran and elsewhere in the Muslim world. According to this assessment the much-advertised feud between the Armenians and the Azerbaijanis of Turkish descent in Nagorno-Karabakh may be a tactical ploy to involve Turkey, Iran and other Muslim countries in support of eventual alliance with Azerbaijan and other Central Asian Muslim states in the CIS. This strategy takes into account the growing power of the fundamentalists and the possibility of gaining control over substantial oil reserves."

[Barset]

save for later. thank you all for getting and posting this.

[unspun]

Here's another link:
http://geocities.com/pastorswatch/main.htm

(Oh wow man. Where can I go, to sign up for International A.O.W.C.U.T.G.D.F.P.?)

[colorado tanker]

Bump to save links.

[Eva]

A.N.S.W.E.R. changed their web site and deleted all reference to any anti-US, anti-democracy, anti-capitalism references and links. There is no mention of Castro, Kim Jong Il. Mumia is still there, though. They also still have the pro Palestinian sites linked. A lot of the more controversial links don't work either.