The Progressive-Communist Alliance
That the two sides…happily accepted one another, proudly uniting, shows how far to the left progressives have moved, not to mention their unflagging confidence under the ascendancy of Obama-Pelosi-Reid.”
By CLIFF KINCAID at AIM 11-12-2010
Various communist and socialist groups were photographed and filmed during the October 2 “One Nation Working Together” rally in Washington, D.C. But the real controversy could be found in the fact that the Communist Party USA, a group that served as a subversive pawn of Moscow for decades, was officially invited to be part of it.
The CPUSA was an official “endorsing organization” and was given space to set up a literature table by the rally organizers. Indeed, a two-page official list of “One Nation March” organizations shows that it was given a highly coveted “reserved space.”
Paul Kengor, author of the new blockbuster book, Dupes, called this fact remarkable. He commented, “It’s remarkable because historically, communist involvement at these rallies has been meticulously concealed, hidden from progressives, with the communists using the progressives as props — as dupes. That the two sides…happily accepted one another, proudly uniting, shows how far to the left progressives have moved, not to mention their unflagging confidence under the ascendancy of Obama-Pelosi-Reid.”
The officially-sanctioned groups also included the AFL-CIO and several left-wing labor unions; United for Peace and Justice, founded by veteran Marxist activist Leslie Cagan; Code Pink; the ANSWER Coalition, a front of the Party for Socialism and Liberation; the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC); the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism; Green for All, the group once associated with former White House official Van Jones; Democratic Socialists of America, which helped give Barack Obama his start in Illinois state politics; and the NAACP.
The progressives in the AFL-CIO and other unions which sponsored the October 2 rally in the nation’s capital were excused by the major media for giving special status to a political party that has always elevated the interests of world revolution ahead of the United States. The CPUSA, when it was directly funded by Moscow, was viewed by the FBI and the CIA as a subversive force representing a foreign ideology and America’s destruction. The CPUSA announced objective was a “Soviet America.” That is why the CPUSA and its agents, many of them secret members such as “historian” Howard Zinn, Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis, singer Paul Robeson and labor leader Harry Bridges, were under FBI surveillance and the subject of extensive files about their activities and associates.
Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who picked Davis as his grandson’s mentor, also had an FBI file. But that has turned up missing.
The CPUSA was so extreme during its heyday that it not only defended the mass murderer Stalin but the Hitler-Stalin Pact. The group also supplied Soviet espionage agents in the U.S. Government. Nobody can claim ignorance about the CPUSA at this late date in its history. But top CPUSA officials Jarvis Tyner and Sam Webb were there at the “One Nation Working Together” rally.
Interestingly, an on-line publication that noted the involvement of Tyner and his colleagues was The Root, which is published by The Washington Post. Cord Jefferson, a staff writer for The Root, quoted Tyner as saying, “This is the real deal here. We don’t agree with Obama on everything, but the future of our country is associated with moving the country away from the last 30 years, and he’s part of that. He said the people ought to get involved and make the change that they want, and I think that’s a good thing for the country.”
In terms of the size of the rally, Jefferson acknowledged, “Composed of labor union members, teachers, gay activists and others, the excited crowd was noticeably smaller than the one that overtook the National Mall during Restoring Honor.”
Debating Obama’s Marxism
The CPUSA spin-off, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), took a different tack on Obama. Former Obama associate Carl Davidson, once a top official in the SDS, was helping run the CCDS literature table, explaining why he thinks Obama is not a socialist. “Obama is a Keynesian liberal,” he told me, “and not a very good one.” By that he meant that Obama prefers to use federal government monetary resources to influence but not control outright the economy. He refused to be interviewed on camera, saying conservatives misquote him.
When I commented to Davidson that there must have been a dozen different socialist groups at the event, he laughed and said I had underestimated the number.
Some of these are clearly more important than others. Two of the most important these days are the Workers World Party (WWP) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Some members of the former left to form the latter. They operate front organizations such as ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and the International Action Center.
These groups supplied some of their representatives to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Warwick Hotel in New York City on September 21, while he was in town speaking to the United Nations.
Left-wing press reports say that among the individuals and organizations in attendance at this event were Cynthia McKinney, a former Democratic member of Congress from Georgia and the Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2008; poet and activist Amiri Baraka; Brian Becker of ANSWER; MOVE Minister of Information Ramona Africa; International Action Center co-director Sara Flounders; Ardeshir and Eleanor Ommani, co-founders of the American-Iranian Friendship Committee; former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark; Million Worker March Movement organizer Brenda Stokely; Shafeah M’balia of Black Workers for Justice; Phil Wilayto of Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality; Larry Holmes of Bail Out the People Movement; Don DeBar of WBAIx.org; Ryme Katkhouda of the People’s Media Center; Michael McPhearson of United for Peace and Justice; and Reverend Graylan Hagler.
Michael McPhearson was the “peace organizer” of the “One Nation Working Together” October 2 march and his “peace contingent” assembled near 14th Street and Constitution Ave., where Larry Holmes riled up the crowd at a mini-rally by denouncing recent FBI raids on so-called “peace” and “anti-war” groups.
While Holmes remains with the WWP, Brian Becker left to join the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a favorite of the Kremlin’s propaganda arm, Russia Today television.
The Workers World Party had been investigated by the House Internal Security Committee for its support of the North Korean regime and Arab terrorist groups. But the House Committee was disbanded by liberals in Congress.
In total, there were reportedly “100 leaders and representatives of anti-war, labor, alternative media and Iranian and Palestinian solidarity organizations” at the event with Ahmadinejad. Anti-Israel activists were clearly visible at the October 2 rally, with McPhearson expressing the predominant view that U.S. military aid to Israel should be immediately ended.
Editor’s Message
Glenn Beck has embraced the new book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which contends that the president is driven by anti-colonialism. That is, Obama is determined to reduce the influence of the United States and the West in such places as Africa and the Third World. The book says Obama adopted this approach because of the influence of his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr.
The book, published by Regnery and written by Dinesh D’Souza, is provocative, but I think D’Souza largely misses the main influence on Obama –communist Frank Marshall Davis. Obama didn’t know his father, who abandoned the family. It was for that reason that Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, had asked Davis to serve as a young Obama’s role model in Hawaii. D’Souza devotes only three pages of his book to Davis and says, “During the presidential campaign some conservatives highlighted Davis’s Communist ties.” He is apparently referring to people like me and New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, who broke the story of Davis being Obama’s mentor. Davis was just “Frank” in Obama’s book.
Communist Party official Jarvis Tyner told me in a brief recorded interview at the October 2 “One Nation” rally in D.C. that progressives had better “stick” with Obama and his “dream” for America. The CPUSA literature table featured a poster-size capitulation of everything that has supposedly been accomplished for the progressives and why they should “defend our victories” and vote against the Republicans.
It is Marxism, not anti-colonialism, which motivates Obama. The Marxists know it.
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Cliff’s Notes
Readers of the AIM Report know that we have been critical of the FBI for incompetence in some of its investigations. For example, the FBI completely botched the investigation into the post-9/11 anthrax attacks and was forced to pay financial damages to a former U.S. Government scientist it blamed for the attacks. But the FBI raids in late September on so-called “anti-war” and “peace” groups are absolutely warranted. The evidence that some U.S. activists are involved with terrorist groups in the Middle East and Latin America is substantial.
Anti-communist New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, who has specialized in exposing Barack Obama’s communist connections, reveals that several of the terror suspects whose homes were raided in Chicago worked for a political movement that once included Obama and even sponsored the start of his political career. Loudon focused on the connections of Chicago activists Stephanie Weiner and Joseph Iosbaker, whose residence was searched.
Demonstrations against the FBI have taken place in various cities, including Washington, D.CD. As the protests suggest, the charge of providing material support of terrorism is very serious and could land the “peace” activists in prison for many years. But based on the campaign they are waging, in the form of letters and emails to Attorney General Eric Holder, it appears they are counting on the Obama Administration to rein in the FBI and stop the criminal proceedings before any activists are indicted and convicted.
Remember that, during his stint in the Clinton Administration, Holder was directly involved in the Clinton pardons of Weather Underground members Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg.
We desperately need more congressional oversight of the Justice Department and the internal security threat that comes from the extreme left. The new Congress should re-establish a House Committee on Internal Security. Support the FBI’s probe of the far-left. The trail could lead to the White House.
Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at cliff.kincaid@aim.org
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