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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby Searcher08 » Fri Mar 11, 2016 11:43 am

American Dream » Thu Mar 10, 2016 1:46 pm wrote:What percentage of
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conniption's postings are monotone propaganda from media that are openly state-funded and/or from sketchy bloggers who paint in the same monotone schemata? I haven't counted yet, but I would daresay it is the vast majority.

That doesn't seem conducive to developing any sort of perspective that is critical of State Power and Imperialism generally. It just means choosing a different set in the power elite to cheer for.



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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:01 pm

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Timothy Snyder on consolidating Russo-fascism

Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 16:15

Timothy Snyder has a cracing op-ed in the NY Times Sept. 20 on how Ivan Ilyin, a "prophet of Russian fascism," is being embraced as the ideological patriarch of Putin's Russia...

The brilliant political philosopher has been dead for more than 60 years, but his ideas have found new life in post-Soviet Russia. After 1991, his books were republished with long print runs. President Putin began to cite him in his annual speech to the Federal Assembly, the Russian equivalent of the State of the Union address.

To complete the rehabilitation, Mr. Putin saw to it that Ilyin's corpse was repatriated from Switzerland, and that his archive was returned from Michigan. The Russian president has been seen laying flowers on Ilyin's Moscow grave...

According to Ilyin, the purpose of politics is to overcome individuality, and establish a “living totality” of the nation. Writing in the 1920s and '30s after his expulsion from the Soviet Union, when he became a leading emigré ideologue of the anti-Communist White Russians, Ilyin looked on Mussolini and Hitler as exemplary leaders who were saving Europe by dissolving democracy. His 1927 article "On Russian Fascism" was addressed to "My White brothers, the fascists." Later, in the 1940s and '50s, he provided the outlines for a constitution of a fascist Holy Russia governed by a "national dictator" who would be "inspired by the spirit of totality."

This leader would be responsible for all functions of government in a completely centralized state. Elections would be held, with open voting and signed ballots, purely as a ritual of support of the leader. The reckoning of votes was irrelevant: "We must reject blind faith in the number of votes and its political significance."


And Putin certainly seems to be putting these ideas into practice. As Russia holds national elections for 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, claims of election fraud are rife... raising prospects of a reprise of the protests similar to those in 2011, following the last Duma election. (Jurist, Sept. 18) We can only hope.
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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Sun Oct 09, 2016 7:22 pm

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A HATEFUL SORT OF LOVE

By George Packer , MARCH 24, 2015


Over the weekend, a group of right-wing extremists from across Europe and the United States met at a Holiday Inn in St. Petersburg. They were there to attend the first convention of the International Russian Conservative Forum—an organization founded by the pro-Vladimir Putin Rodina Party, whose purpose is to create the kind of foreign support for the Russian war in Ukraine that the Communist International mobilized on behalf of the Soviet Union. (Call it the Conintern.) A paramilitary band of Cossacks, armed with leather whips, provided security outside the hall. Inside, fringe political characters from Germany, Italy, Britain, the U.S., and other countries spoke of their devotion to Putin and Europe’s Christian traditions, while expressing contempt for the European Union and denouncing the American way of life, which meant homosexuality, multiculturalism, globalization, and “feminized men.”


The Golden Dawn, a radical right-wing Greek party, was there, but Marine Le Pen’s French National Front, in spite of its coziness with Putin, stayed away, as part of an image makeover. This was, after all, essentially a collection of Fascists, and if most of the participants claimed to reject the label (not all—Italy’s Roberto Fiore, of the Forza Nuova, insisted on the distinction between Fascism and Nazism) it’s only because “Fascist” has become Putin’s fundamental term of abuse for the elected government of Ukraine. According to the International Russian Conservative Forum, the Fascists are in Kiev, and also in Brussels. “The E.U. are Nazis,” Jim Dowson, a Scottish anti-abortion activist, said. With lavish celebrations of the seventieth anniversary of V-E Day just weeks away, Russia was hailed as the Continent’s protector against this new, squishy, mongrelized, morally debased version of the Second World War-era threat. Fascists in St. Petersburg vilified “Fascists.”

What unites this loose tribe of anti-Semites, homophobes, fundamentalists, power worshipers, militarists, and mystics is a hatred of liberalism—a social order based on individual rights, pluralism, tolerance, and international coöperation. They’re marginal figures at best, not without comic potential, and individually they’re probably not worth discussing, if only they didn’t constitute the extreme tip of a global reaction against liberalism. This reaction is the most powerful political force of our time, not just in terms of its electoral success but in its intellectual self-confidence and persuasiveness. And it has little in the way of comic value. It springs from diverse causes in different places and can take widely different forms—far from all of them Fascist, and some of them mutually hostile. We see versions of it in China’s reversion toward Maoism under Xi Jinping; in the rise of the National Front (most recently in Sunday’s local elections) and other European parties on the far right and far left; in the Islamist authoritarianism of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution in his triumphant campaign last week, and in the abandonment, by some of his American supporters, of Israeli democracy as a value; in the Iranian clerical leadership’s doctrinaire hostility to “Western” ideas; and, in this country, in the resurgence of American exceptionalism as a galvanizing force on the Republican right. (Senator Ted Cruz, who just became the first announced Republican Presidential candidate, makes George W. Bush seem like a one-world humanitarian.)

This reaction knows no partisan or national affiliation, and transcends ordinary ideological divides. Its Venezuelan adherents, who call themselves revolutionary leftists, have made common cause with Russian conservatives and Iranian theocrats. No one in American politics resembles Putin more than Cruz, who regularly denounces the Russian leader (along with Barack Obama for not standing up to him). The Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov is an Islamist who organized violent protests against Charlie Hebdo after the January 7th attack in Paris; he’s also a loyal soldier for Putin, an anti-Islamist who counts support for Bashar al-Assad as necessary in the fight against terrorism. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, is an unelected anti-Semite, but he and Netanyahu, the elected leader of the Jewish state, speak a similar language of unquestionable national destiny that overlooks the reality of the millions of people who don’t fit within it.


No single word can quite do justice to the variety and reach of the reaction. The leaders and movements I’ve named above are joined by what they’re against more than by what they’re for. They despise the weakness and moral flabbiness of their liberal opponents. They discount the importance of minority views—criticism is considered illegitimate. They hate the creeping pace, the flawed compromises, and the muddled outcomes of democratic politics. They build their support on the many failures of liberal societies, from crime, social decline, economic stagnation, and political paralysis to terrorism, inconclusive wars, and the impotence of international organizations. They stoke a perpetual sense of grievance rooted in history, which requires an external enemy, and also an internal one. The internal enemy (immigrants, Jews, gays, political dissidents) is, in fact, alien to the nation, and the source of all that ails its essential goodness. To the most complex problems they offer the simplest solutions, promising unity, renewal, regeneration, a return to origins, a purification of the nation through the internal enemy’s expulsion and the external enemy’s defeat. Perhaps the best word for it is nationalism.

Nationalism usually means blind support for one’s country, but it doesn’t require a nation-state. These days, one of the most potent and volatile forms of nationalism is Islamism, which crosses and erases borders. In the broadest sense, it means allegiance to one’s group: allegiance without shades of gray, excluding the claims of other groups; allegiance in the pursuit of power as the group’s right; allegiance regardless of the facts. Nationalism transcends states, and individuals everywhere carry its seeds. We’re all tribal; we all have loyalties and biases; we all harbor an unexamined and indefensible sense of belonging to the chosen group. There’s a little Putin in everyone, forever picking at old scabs, whipping up team spirit, settling scores—us against them, a hateful sort of love. Acknowledging these things is the only antidote to being governed by them.

Nationalism can break out like a fever—just think of this country after the attacks of September 11th, with all the folly and tragedy that resulted. If we now see nationalism on the rise and liberalism in retreat in so many places, it has something to do with those years, when America acted as if it had the wisdom and the power to remake the world in an image of itself. American nationalism, which flared up in the name of liberalism, did lasting damage to that name. The damage weakened America’s ability to speak for the idea of liberal society while emboldening its true enemies.
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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:31 am

Charlottesville Radio Host Rob Schilling Gives A Platform To Neo-Confederate Activists

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Sometimes it’s difficult for racists to find a platform for their propaganda. This is especially true as of late due to YouTube’s crackdown on racist and conspiratorial content.

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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:34 pm

POEMS: TRACY FUAD

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IF SADDAM HUSSEIN AND I MATCHED ON TINDER,
I imagine he’d send me a GIF of a car bomb, a cotton pink explosion. I would say, I cannot peel my eyes away. Mashallah, little girl, he’d say, then send a heart emoji, car emoji, clown emoji, peach emoji, bomb emoji. I would know what he was trying to say and so I’d block him, but after that everyone I swiped would look a little like him, a little bit more like him.



IF I OPENED MY MOUTH IN THE MIRROR OF OIL AND SAW SADDAM,
He’d be twinned and hanging where my tonsils should be, personal evil, he would sing a song I’d recognize because I have been playing it on YouTube: Our father, indeed, Saddam, is our father/With him at home there is no fear/Our father, the kind Saddam, is our father/With him at home there is no fear.




Tracy Fuad is an MFA candidate at Rutgers–Newark. Her chapbook Facts About Saddam Hussein is coming out this spring with Txtbooks.


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American Dream » Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:29 pm wrote:http://thespanishprisoner.com/2014/05/19/the-origins-of-putinophilia/

The Origins of Putinophilia
May 19, 2014

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There is a growing divide in the U.S. Left, between those who simply oppose U.S. intervention in Ukraine, and those who defend, or even praise, Russia’s strongman, Vladimir Putin. Things haven’t always been like this. If I remember correctly, during the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, only the Workers World Party and its front groups defended Saddam Hussein. The rest of the left had no illusions about the dictator. I think a change began in the Left after the anti-war movement failed to prevent the invasion. There began to be talk about a “red-brown” strategy, that is, forming alliances with right-wing, or even fascist, groups that claim to be opposed to U.S. imperialism. The thinking was that the Left by itself was not strong enough, or maybe not committed enough, to successfully struggle against imperialism. And if it is permissible to work with groups with terrible politics, then it is permissible to support governments with terrible politics. Thus, it became possible to see any dictator who ran afoul of the US as an ally against imperialism. Gadaffi and Assad were now on our side, according to this view.

Putin has acquired a special place in these people’s eyes. During Russia’s 2008 border war with Georgia, Bush was unable to do anything. Many on the Left saw this as a humiliation for the hated Bush. (Although I suspect that Bush really didn’t care.) So now Putin can do no wrong in their eyes. He can imprison his critics and persecute gays and ethnic minorities, and they will simply explain it away or ignore it. And as Putin has grown a halo, Obama has become the embodiment of pure evil in these people’s eyes. John Pilger, for example, has claimed, on the basis of no evidence, that Obama was plotting to seize Russia’s naval base in Crimea and start a war. How can anyone take this seriously?

If the Left is to avoid becoming completely irrelevant, it needs to return to the principled anti-imperialism of the past.
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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Sun Apr 01, 2018 10:17 pm

"ANSWER"AND THE "POD PEOPLE"

Kevin Coogan

The IAC/WWP's new group, International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), coordinated the September 29th protests in Washington and San Francisco that drew close to 20,000 participants. ANSWER is now calling for renewed nationwide anti-war actions on October 27th.

There can be little doubt about ANSWER’s ties to the WWP. ANSWER's September 23rd press release, for example, listed as "press contacts" Richard Becker and Sarah Sloan. A director of the West Coast IAC, Becker was one of the WWP leaders chosen to give a presentation honoring the memory of the WWP’s founder, Sam Marcy. As for Sarah Sloan, "Youth Coordinator for ANSWER," she is also the "Youth Coordinator" for the IAC. Wearing her WWP hat, Sloan gave a presentation on the evils of capitalism at a WWP conference held at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology on December 2nd and 3rd, 2000. Teresa Gutierrez, another ANSWER leader, a speaker at the September 29th Washington demo and the "Co-Director, IAC," is further described in an ANSWER press release as the "co-chairperson of the National Committee to Return Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, and [as] a coordinator of the International Peace for Cuba Appeal." Unmentioned in the press release is the fact that Gutierrez is also a long-standing WWP leader who, in her March 14th, 1998 speech at a WWP memorial to Sam Marcy held in New York, gushed, "As a lesbian, as a Latina, as a woman and as a worker, I feel compelled today to express my utmost gratitude to this man [Marcy]." Yet another ANWER statement came from one Brian Becker (not to be confused with Richard Becker), a "Co-Director of the International Action Center," national coordinator of the January 20th, 2001 "Counter-Inaugural Protest" in Washington, D.C., and "a frequent commentator on Fox TV." In the WWP paper Workers World, Brian Becker is identified as a member of the WWP's Secretariat.

The WWP/IAC/ANSWER network is now pushing its own paranoid Marxoid line on the war by claiming that U.S.-led military actions against "Usamah ibn Ladin and other Islamist terrorists is really part of a U.S. imperialist plot." An IAC statement on the current crisis begins: "As the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan continues and civilian casualties mount, the International Action Center condemns in the strongest terms this latest terror bombing of a civilian population." Of course, only the most hardened leftist ideologue (or Muslim extremist) could believe that the U.S. attack in Afghanistan is a "terror bombing" campaign that is intentionally directed at Afghanistan's "civilian population" and not at the Taliban. The IAC statement then calls for opposition to "this imperialist war" and concocts a conspiracy theory blaming the "U.S. military-oil complex" for using the 9/11 attack as "a cynical opportunity" to beat its "rivals in Germany and Russia, for the oil resources of the former Soviet Union," thereby ignoring the obvious fact that both Germany and Russia completely support U.S. actions against Islamist terrorist fanatics.

Given the sheer crudeness of the WWP and its allied organizations, one would have thought that the "capitalist imperialist" press would play a key role in exposing the WWP's central role in both the IAC and ANSWER. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, ANSWER itself reprints reports from both Reuters and the Washington Post about the Washington protests that treat both the IAC and ANSWER as if they were perfectly legitimate groups. CNN's C-SPAN even covered the September 29th Washington demonstration in its entirety. Until now, virtually nothing has been written about the IAC/WWP, even in the upscale left/liberal press -- with two notable exceptions. The first was John Judis' article on Ramsey Clark for the April 22th, 1991 issue of the New Republic. More recently, The Nation magazine's UN correspondent, Ian Williams, wrote a June 21st, 1999 article for Salon entitled "Ramsey Clark, the war criminal’s best friend," which comments on the IAC/WWP.

Outside of these two articles, in order to find any real commentary on the IAC and WWP, one has to turn to the left sectarian and anarchist press. Perhaps the most detailed article dealing with Ramsey Clark, the IAC, and the WWP appeared in the Lower East Side New York-anarchist journal The Shadow a few years ago, in an article by Manny Goldstein entitled "The Mysterious Ramsey Clark: Stalinist Dupe or Ruling-Class Spook?"(to which one is tempted to add "or Flat-Out Kook"). This article has recently been widely circulated on the Internet. Self-described "council communist" Lefty Hooligan has also exposed the WWP/IAC in the punk rock publication Maximum RocknRoll. In his February 1998 MRR column, for example, Hooligan commented on longtime WWP honcho Gloria LaRiva, whose "handcuffs-and-nightstick Leftism is also evident in her unapologetic support for Saddam Hussein's brutality." (This is the same Gloria LaRiva who, according to a report in the August 9th, 1990 Workers World, told a San Francisco audience that "Cuba is far more democratic than the U.S.") Hooligan’s remarks, however, did not prevent MRR from later running a virtual press release from the IAC attacking American perfidy in its misnamed "News" section.

The WWP/IAC connection has also been repeatedly exposed by the WWP's rivals in the fringe Trotskyist movement, most notably in the Spartacist League paper Workers Vanguard, which in its September 28th, 2001 issue casually refers to the "Stalinoid Workers World Party" as well as the "WWP's International Action Center" without further elaboration, presumably since the WWP's role in the IAC is already so well known to fringe leftists. The April-May 1999 issue of The Internationalist (from yet another Trotskyist splinter group) devotes an entire page to attacking the WWP and "its creation the International Action Center" for serving as a "leftist front for reactionary Serbian nationalist politics." The WWP's presence inside the IAC is equally transparent to European leftists like Max Bohnel, a writer for the German Communist paper Neues Deutschland. In describing the IAC in a June 23rd, 1999 article, he wrote: "Hinter dem IAC steht die 'Workers World Party' (WWP), die den langsamen Zusammenbruch der US-Restlinken bemerkenswert gut überstanden hat." ["Behind the IAC stands the Workers World Party, which has withstood the gradual collapse of the remaining US left remarkably well."] Neues Deutschland then points out that both Ramsey Clark and the WWP have even come under criticism from other leftists because of their lack of criticism ["wegen mangelnder Kritik"] for the governments of Iraq and Yugoslavia.

Even activists on the libertarian/isolationist right like Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com have noticed the heavy hand of the WWP. In a July 2nd, 2001 column, Raimondo pointed out that Ramsey Clark "is nothing if not a walking stereotype, ever since he joined up with the Workers World Party cult that runs his 'International Action Center'." Raimondo then continues: "The WWP pod people, having taken over the body of an ex-U.S. Attorney General, use Clark as a front to push their own zealous defense of virtually every tyrant on earth, from Saddam Hussein to the black 'anti-imperialist' militias of Rwanda, to Slobadan Milosevic." After describing Clark as "positively spooky," Raimondo notes that the IAC "not only defends tyrants against US intervention -- it glorifies them as heroic fighters for 'socialism'."

Of course it should be pointed out that the WWP's radical critics themselves often promote views that are almost as wacky as those of the WWP. Nonetheless, up until now it has primarily been voices from the fringe Left that have pointed out the ties between the IAC and WWP, ties that are utterly transparent to anyone with even the slightest knowledge of the Left, but which appear to be utterly opaque to big "capitalist" media outlets like Reuters, the Washington Post, and CNN.


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THE WWP: FROM KIM IL SUNG’S BIRTHDAY PARTY TO THE RUSSIAN "RED-BROWN ALLIANCE"

Kevin Coogan

The Orwellian absurdity that is the WWP reaches its summit with the group's well-known love for that well-known bastion of human rights and free thought, North Korea. Longtime WWP leader Deirdre Griswold captured the sect's admiration for the world's last remaining Stalinist state when she wrote as follows in the April 20th, 2000 Workers World: "In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- the socialist north of the divided land -- no date is more important than April 15, the birthday of Kim Il Sung. . .this year as Koreans celebrate Kim Il Sung's birthday -- and in the U.S.-occupied south, where such actions must be taken in secret because of repressive 'national security' laws -- they will also be telling the world that they are proud of and confident in their new leader, Kim Jong Il [Kim Il Sung's son and heir -- KC], who is following in the socialist footsteps of Kim Il Sung." A frequent visitor to North Korea, Griswold regularly goes into fits of literary rapture when relating her experiences in the North. Her December 22nd, 1986 WW report on her visit to Pyongyang (entitled "A visit to People's Korea where there is housing for all") begins "What a success story!" She then describes a nation where there is "no homelessness, no hunger, no poverty." The fact that North Korea is one of the poorest countries in the world and that North Korea's population faces the threat of famine on a regular basis has somehow escaped Griswold's notice.

Ever since its beginnings as the Global Class War tendency inside the SWP, Sam Marcy's clique has regularly singled out North Korea for special admiration. The WWP's direct "party to party" relations with the North, however, only began to blossom fully after the WWP started attacking Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The WWP's big break came in May 1990, when the first official WWP delegation headed by Marcy visited North Korea "for 12 days in May" at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea. While in Pyongyang, the WWP delegates "had the great honor of meeting and exchanging views with Kim Il Sung." The June 7th, 1990 issue of WW even included a photo op of the WWP delegates with their North Korean friends, including Kim Il Sung, who stood in the center of the photo flanked by Marcy and Griswold.

In April 1992 another U.S. delegation led by Marcy that included Sue Bailey (a WWP'er who heads the "U.S. Out of South Korea Committee"), as well as delegates from the CPUSA, the SWP, and the American Democratic Lawyers Association, again visited North Korea to attend a "Joint Meeting of Parties, Governments, National and International Organizations" organized by CILRECO, an organization that "promotes solidarity with the Korean people." (As the official leader of the U.S. group, Marcy received the North Korean equivalent of a papal blessing.) The Americans, along with delegates from 130 other countries, traveled to the North "to attend mass public celebrations of the 80th birthday" of Kim Il Sung, according to a report in an April 1992 issue of WW by Sue Bailey and Key Martin datelined Pyongyang.

While in the North for Kim's birthday party, the WWP entered into discussions with other hardline Communist groups, including a Stalin-worshipping sect called the Russian Communist Workers Party (RCWP) (Rossiskaia Kommunisticheskaia Rabochaia Partiia, or RKRP), which emerged from the anti-Gorbachev, "anti-revisionist" Movement of Communist Initiative in November 1991. On September 3rd, 1992, WW ran an article by Viktor Tyulkin, the group's top leader and the Secretary of its Central Committee. The introduction to the article explained that Tyulkin and Marcy had first met in Pyongyang during the April festivities for Kim "and [had] discussed the political situation in the USSR and the U.S." They remained in contact, and on Marcy's 85th birthday Tyulkin sent him a "message of solidarity" from the RCWP that was reprinted in the October 17th, 1996 WW. Tyulkin's comrade Victor Anpilov from the Executive Committee of Working Russia also enclosed his own message of solidarity.

Although the RCWP doesn't receive much press coverage in WW, it seems clear that the WWP has a sympathetic view of its activities. In a January 13th, 2000 WW article on Russian politics, the RCWP was singled out for its leadership role both in the strike movement as well as inside the "Communist Workers of Russia" voting bloc. The RCWP "left" is also contrasted favorably to Gennadi Zyuganov's far larger KPRF. Workers World's reluctance to devote extensive press coverage to the RCWP, however, may stem from the fact that any overt alliance with the RCWP would be rather difficult for the WWP's more naive rank-and-file members to stomach, since the RCWP is a textbook example of a radical "left fascist" group.

The anti-globalization movement was recently confronted with the problem of the RCWP after it was learned that two RCWP members were officially invited to take part in the recent Genoa protests by the international association ATTAC (the Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens, which is best known for supporting the proposed "Tobin tax" on speculative transactions.) The leftist International Solidarity with Workers in Russia (ISWoR-SITR-MCPP) group immediately alerted other anti-globalization activists that the RCWP was an extremely racist and homophobic party whose members worship Stalin, campaign against black people in general and rap music in particular, issue material calling for homosexuals to be jailed, and published a party document in 1997 that blamed Russia's economic crisis on "American imperialism and international Zionism." The group also attacked Russian President Vladimir Putin for being so close to "the Jews that he ignores true Russian 'patriots'." According to ISWoR, the RCWP could be best described as "a pseudo-Communist anti-Semitic organization."

At the same time that the RCWP appeals to the far right, it maintains a pro-Stalin analysis of Russia that is almost identical to the one promoted by the WWP. According to the RCWP program, for example, "The RCWP completely rejects the revisionist, opportunist, traitorous line that was promoted and adhered to by the CPSU leadership from 1953-1991, which brought about the temporary collapse of the Soviet Union in a counter-revolution. The XX Congress of the CPSU (1956) was the breaking point in the history of our country and the communist movement."

Victor Anpilov, a former Soviet journalist who became co-secretary of the RCWP in 1992 (but who broke with Tyulkin in 1996-1997 over electoral strategy), also sent his greetings of solidarity to Marcy on his 85th birthday in 1996. However, if anything Anpilov is even further to the right than Tyulkin. After leaving the RCWP, he first entered into an alliance with the notorious Eduard Limonov and his Natsionalno-Bolshevistskaia Partiia (National Bolshevik Party). Today, Anpilov is promoting a new party, the CPSU Lenin-Stalin that backs Stalin's grandson as Russia's new leader.


Kevin Coogan is the author of a crucially important study on the postwar right, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International (New York: Autonomedia, 1999), as well as a regular contributor to Hit List. Among other things, he wrote "How 'Black' is Black Metal? Michael Moynihan, Lords of Chaos, and the 'Countercultural Fascist' Underground," an article which appeared in Hit List 1:1 (February-March 1999), pp. 32-49.


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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:31 am

I find this both horrifying and disgusting:

ANSWER supports Assad —openly

Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 01:47

And not for the first time. These photos were posted to Facebook by a friend from this weekend's "anti-war" (sic) protest in Los Angeles. Note ANSWER placards along with open support for genocidal dictator.

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If you march with ANSWER under ANY circusmtances, you are #PartOfTheProblem.


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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Wed Apr 18, 2018 7:44 am

I don't know Stanley Heller but I like him.

Anatomy of a Flop

by Stanley Heller April 18, 2018

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Looks to me that the ANSWER-IAC-UNAC rallies this weekend were a huge flop. The biggest was in NYC on April 15. The only article I could find that mentioned it was on a Chinese news service that said there was a protest of "hundreds." I saw one video of what I think was the whole crowd and it looked like 400 people. Hell, in 2003 we had hundreds of thousands.

In Washington, DC this past Saturday, it seems from this video there were about sixty marching; imagine, just sixty marchers in the national capital. The video is narrated by medical doctor Margaret Flowers, who at one point (2:30) talks about a "staged chemical attack." In the Bay Area of California several hundred assembled. In Chicago there were about twenty. Their “big” rally, for some reason, is next weekend.

On Friday there was one in New Haven. Around six of us went to counter-protest with flyers. We expected ANSWER would have 100 people. They had about 20. One guy was holding Assad and Russian flags and had a large picture of Assad on his lapel. In Greenwich, CT, a Friday rally got front-page treatment in the Greenwich Times, but the article (and ten photos online) made it all seem pretty pathetic. They said sixty attended at one point or another, almost all being in their 70s. One photo showed no more than twenty people sitting among a lot of empty chairs.

A Los Angeles march had maybe eighty people with many Assad signs. Clay Claiborne spotted among the marchers one “Baked Alaska,” a notorious racist who had marched with the rest of the crappers in Charlottesville several months ago.

Remember, these rallies were the result of months of planning and organizing, with scores of groups sponsoring, and right after a bombing which should have gotten the blood up. What a farce.

The NYC rally seemed to be a mish-mash of all leftist causes, not as Assadist as the other ones, but some carried his flag and photo-bombed the speakers. Judging from the posters and banners of most of the rallies they seemed to stress alarm at the U.S. bombing of Syria (which has been going on since 2014) and the illegality of the strikes (that was true enough). But was there any sympathy in any of the rallies for the Syrians who were gassed, or the Syrians who were merely shot dead or blown apart by bombs? Was there any condemnation in any of these “anti-war” rallies of Russia-Iranian warfare on Syrians?

People are ready to get out massively for certain causes like #MeToo and gun control. Clearly they’re not inspired by an “anti-imperialist” leadership which thinks this is still 2003, that the Arab Spring was just a nuisance and whose minds reject observable facts and prefer conspiracies. It’s time for new leadership and new ideas. One person to listen to is Syrian-American Ramah Kudaimi who spoke on Democracy Now! on April 16.


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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Wed Apr 18, 2018 4:13 pm

Some of "the Left" makes me cringe and yet I definitely believe in conspiracies and radical praxis, just not the Red/Brown approach...


The Workers World Party (WWP)

The Workers World Party is a small Stalinist party formed out of a faction led by Sam Marcy which split in 1958 from the Socialist Workers Party, a US Trotskyist party, due to disagreements between Marcy’s faction’s support for the Chinese revolution and the Soviet crushing of the Hungarian revolution, which was at odds with the positions of the SWP.

The WWP adheres to a crude form of “anti-imperialism” whereby it does not only oppose the United States’ imperialism, but instead dogmatically aligns itself with and offers absolute uncritical support for any entity opposed, at least nominally, to the US no matter how oppressive and reactionary that entity might be, a tendency whose adherents are commonly labelled as “campists“, “tankies” or “anti-imps” within leftist jargon (a more principled radical would instead agree that the United States is indeed an oppressive reactionary capitalist, settler-colonial, racist and imperialist entity which must be opposed, but that many of its opponents are also reactionary and oppressive forces, and that one can stand against US warmongering and against these governments and states). The WWP hence went to the lengths of supporting the Tiananmen Square massacre [archive] and later denying it [archive], defending [archive] the Khmer Rouge [archive] until 2000 [archive], Idi Amin [archive], Slobodan [archive] Milosevic [archive] multiple [archive] times [archive] (more [archive] here [archive]) as well as Radovan Karadzic [archive], Ratko Mladic [archive] and denying [archive] the Bosnian [archive] genocide [archive], glorifying Saddam Hussein [archive] and denying the Kurdish genocide and the Halabja massacre [archive] committed by him (with US support) instead of merely opposing the invasion of Iraq by the US, uncritically supporting [archive] the sectarian insurgency (which included elements which later evolved into Da’esh and the Nusra Front) in Iraq even as it was killing Sufis and Shi’a and attacking leftists, and calling it the “Iraqi resistance” while Iraqi leftists were opposing both the US occupation and the insurgency. Far from stopping war, these grotesque positions of the WWP weakened the US anti-war movement by splitting it and provided the propagandists for the invasion of Iraq, such as former Trotskyist turned neoconservative Christopher Hitchens, with ammunition to attack the whole of the anti-war movement.

The WWP sent members [archive] to support Milosevic [archive] during the Yugoslav War and later sent a delegate to a grouping of Stalinist parties supporting the “Iraqi resistance” [archive] organized by Subhi Toma, an associate of neo-fascist Thierry Meyssan [archive].

The WWP has been quoting Michel Chossudovsky since the 90s [archive] to defend Milosevic [archive] and is on record for using William Engdahl’s book A Century of War: Anglo-American Politics and the New World Order, whose title betrays an obvious LaRouchite ideological underpinning, as source concerning Myanmar [archive], which might also explain why its publications in the wake of Bush’s invasion of Afghanistan [archive] were no different from Engdahl’s conspiracies based about oil and geopolitics [archive].

This might also explain why the WWP dismissed the 2009 election fraud allegations in Iran and subsequent protests [archive] even as Global Research was publishing similar conspiracies by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist James Petras [archive] also published by Petras on neo-fascist Thierry Meyssan’s Voltaire Network [archive].

These doctrinaire positions of the WWP, as well as its authoritarian tendencies, opportunist strategies, willingness to cooperate with the police [archive] and tendency to attempt to control the coalitions it is part through authoritarian and undemocratic methods means it needs to resort to front groups. One such front group was Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (abbreviated as A.N.S.W.E.R. or the ANSWER Coalition) and when the WWP experienced a split which resulted in the formation of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in 2004, the ANSWER Coalition became an affiliate of the PSL.

The WWP, Ramsey Clark and LaRouche

Another such front group [archive] of the WWP is the International Action Center (IAC), founded by the former US attorney Ramsey Clark [archive] and which he co-directs with WWP leader Sara Flounders. Ramsey Clark is a strange figure, having served as Attorney General under the administration of US president Lyndon Johnson, during which he was responsible for the creation of the Interdivisional Information Unit to coordinate the FBI’s COINTELPRO and the CIA’s Operation MHCHAOS (under which leftist groups like the Black Panther Party, the Revolutionary Action Movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Students for a Democratic Society, army deserters and the anti-war press were targeted) and indicted Benjamin Spock for advocating draft resistance during the Vietnam War. Clark retired from the political arena after Johnson dropped out of the Presidential elections in 1968, and adopted a policy of supporting, advising and defending war criminals and fascists opposed to the US such as:

Bernard and Phyllis Coard who overthrew and assassinated Grenadian revolutionary Maurice Bishop,
Nazi concentration camp guard Karl Linnas (such a shame)
Radovan Karadzic
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana (a pastor who helped Hutu militias murder Tutsi families during the Rwandan genocide)
Slobodan Milosevic (with Clark being on the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic)
Saddam Hussein
and finally Lyndon LaRouche himself, with Clark claiming the trial against LaRouche was an outgrowth of COINTELPRO (Clark himself had participated in COINTELPRO), thus echoing LaRouche’s position.

Following the trial of LaRouche, Clark went from being mere legal representative to full supporter of LaRouche, and the Schiller Institute flew him to a conference organized by LaRouche’s movement in Copenhagen in 1990 where he gave a speech in support of LaRouche painting him as a victim of vilification by the US government because he was supposedly a “danger to the system” [archive]. Around this same time, Clark remained silent about the LaRouchites’ use of his name to insert themselves in the mobilization against the Gulf War, thus enabling LaRouche’s infiltration of the anti-war movement.

Clark traveled with WWP delegations to support Milosevic during the Yugoslav War [archive], attended Milosevic’s funeral in 2006 together with General Leonid Ivashov, Gennady Zyuganov and Sergey Baburin [archive] (then a co-leader of Rodina), co-signed an open letter together with Baburin [archive] in March 2009 in opposition to the independence of Kosovo before attending a pro-Milosevic rally by Serbian ultra-nationalists [archive] in April of that same year. Clark presently co-chairs of the International Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic together with fascist Baburin [archive], who is himself also on the Scientific Committee of Eurasianist journal Geopolitica together with Chauprade, Engdahl, Chossudovsky, Narochnitskaya and Nazemroaya, and on the Scientific Committee of Eurasia with Engdahl and Dugin..

Clark is still associated with the WWP [archive] while also simultaneously maintaining his ties to the LaRouche network, having spoken to multiple LaRouche events in 2014 [archive], and in September 2016, the Schiller Institute held a “Securing World Peace Through Embracing the Common Aims of Mankind” conference whose speakers included:

Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Jeffrey Steinberg
Ramsey Clark [archive]
Richard Black, a State Senator for the US state of Virginia
Bashar Jaafari, the Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations [archive]
US Congressman Walter Jones

Cynthia McKinney

Another crypto-fascist the WWP has worked with is Cynthia McKinney, a former US Congressperson for the Democratic Party with a history of 9/11 conspiracism and outright anti-Semitism. McKinney has been close to the vice-president of the LaRouche Movement’s Schiller Institute [archive] Amelia Boynton Robinson [archive] since 2005, and in 2009 she wrote an article blaming George Soros of plotting to install a “one-world government” [archive] (another form of far-right “New World Order” conspiracy theories) before later blaming the “Zionists” for her electoral failure after she ran for the 2008 US Presidential elections as candidate for the US Green Party (which was endorsed by the WWP [archive]).

In 2009 itself, McKinney attended a conference by the Perdana foundation of Mahamad Mahathir, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia (whose advisor Matthias Chang she had quoted in her Soros conspiracy article). Cynthia McKinney praised Mahathir on the website of the Green Party and was photographed in company of Holocaust deniers David Pidcock and Michele Renouf.

In 2011, McKinney led a delegation to Libya which included Ramsey Clark and conspiracy theorist Wayne Madsen [archive] where she spoke on Libyan state television, and which was broadcast on Chossudovsky’s Global Research TV [archive]. Neo-fascists Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Thierry Meyssan (who was a contributor to Eurasia [archive], a journal whose editor is neo-fascist Claudio Mutti, a close associate of Dugin and the founder of the pro-Gaddafi Italian-Libyan Friendship Society) and RT journalist Lizzie Phelan were all present in Libya that same year [archive].

Following the delegation, McKinney worked together [archive] with Michel Chossudovsky, conspiracist Wayne Madsen, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya (who was present in Libya together with Thierry Meyssan that same year) on a speaking tour [archive] at the same time the WWP’s International Action Center [archive] and the PSL’s ANSWER coalition were organizing her tour whose participants [archive] included Ramsey Clark, former member of the WWP and co-founder and leader of the PSL Brian Becker and representatives of the Nation of Islam (which was one of the many far-right groups funded by Gaddafi, had worked with LaRouche in the 90s and was already moving close to the Church of Scientology at that time), including [archive] Louis Farrakhan. This prompted a number of Palestinian activists to condemn her position and the ANSWER Coalition prevented Libyans from attending her speaking tour because they opposed McKinney’s pro-Gaddafi positions.

Sara Flounders and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya later both contributed to McKinney’s book on Libya [archive], published by Clarity Press, a publisher which lists Global Research as its partner website [archive], features books from multiple conspiracy theorists [archive] such as James Petras and Paul Craig Roberts and published Nazemroaya’s book The Globalization of NATO [archive], prefaced by Dennis Halliday, a former United Nations official who presently works with Mahathir’s foundation [archive]. The board of Clarity Press includes Chandra Muzaffar [archive], another associate of Mahathir’s foundation [archive].

In November 2012, McKinney as well as Michel Chossudovsky [archive], spoke at a conference [archive], opened by conspiracist James Corbett [archive], by Mahathir’s foundation again, where she framed the war in Syria in the context of anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories. The next month McKinney and Sara Flounders were both part of a delegation [archive] to Pakistan.

More recent anti-Semitic incidents by McKinney include her promoting [archive] and meeting [archive] Dieudonné, promoting the “Dancing Israelis” 9/11 conspiracy theory [archive] and posting a Global Research article full of anti-Semitic “Rothschild” conspiracy theories on her Facebook [archive]. She has also openly voiced out conspiracy theories concerning the Boston Marathon bombings [archive].

The expected result of McKinney’s flirtations with Holocaust deniers, National Bolsheviks and associates of LaRouche has been that she took on the label of “Alt Left” and allied with Robert David Steele, a former CIA official who openly describes himself as a member of the so-called “Alt-Right” neo-fascist movement, with the aim of fighting the “deep state” in support of Donald Trump, a red-brown initiative named “Unrig” which she promoted on the show of Holocaust denier Kevin Barrett [archive] (on whose show she had already been hosted previously in 2014 [archive]).

The impact of Cynthia McKinney on the US Green Party has been lastingly negative, with its 2016 Presidential candidate Jill Stein sharing the oil pipeline conspiracy theory on Twitter [archive] and being hosted by live on RT by Vladimir Putin (a move which was condemned by Russian Green activists) under whom Russian human rights activists, anti-fascists and Anarchists have faced persecution (something which even members of the red-brown Stalinist opposition groups have experienced), and Jill Stein’s vice-presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka being hosted [archive] by Kevin [archive] Barrett [archive].

While the claims of American liberals that Stein is a “Russian asset” are clearly conspiracy mongering meant to deflect from Hillary Clinton’s electoral loss due to her own mediocrity as a neoliberal candidate by scapegoating third party voters, Stein’s and Baraka’s actions do beg the question of what kind of Left does the Green Party represent: one which opposes American war-mongering while also being internationalists who oppose oppression all around the world, or one which exists in opposition to the American establishment only and is willing to be lenient towards other human rights abusers and oppressors if they are opposed to the US? After all, as writes Russian Marxist Ilya Matveev, the very idea that the Russian government of Vladimir Putin might be anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist is pure propaganda with no basis in reality since it is itself thoroughly neoliberal. What is required from leftists around the world is neither support for the Russian right-wing capitalist government nor to give in to Russophobic hate [archive] as is nowadays being promoted by liberals who seem to have become clones of Louise Mensch who see “Russian agents” everywhere, but instead solidarity with the Russian people on an internationalist basis.

The Party For Socialism And Liberation (PSL)

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is an offshoot of the Workers World Party formed in 2004 by former leaders of the WWP who nevertheless still defend Sam Marcy, his ideology and the WWP. The PSL therefore maintains a similar a reactionary campist worldview and the same analysis as its parent organization on the Tiananmen [archive] Square massacre [archive], Slobodan Milosevic [archive], Radovan Karadzic [archive] and Yugoslavia [archive], going as far as to condemn Iraqi Communists for not supporting the same sectarian insurgency the WWP supported [archive]. Like the WWP, the PSL’s website also often [archive] quotes [archive] Global [archive] Research [archive] as [archive] source [archive].

Despite the PSL being nominally a separate party from the WWP, it appears to have been working extensively enough with the WWP, especially as of 2011, that one might suspect the PSL could be acting as another WWP front. Already in 2005, ANSWER’s anti-war rally featured Ramsey Clark and Brian Becker as speakers [archive], and ANSWER’s 2010 rally against Islamophobia featured Cynthia McKinney and Ramsey Clark [archive] as speakers, and Clark was again hosted by the PSL at one of their talks later that same year [archive]. In 2011 the WWP’s International Action Center [archive] and the PSL’s ANSWER sponsored Cynthia McKinney’s and Ramsey Clark’s tour [archive], and in 2012 the PSL’s teach-in for the anniversary of the Iraq War hosted Ramsey Clark [archive] and the PSL’s Ben Becker was present at the WWP’s talks on Syria [archive]. In September 2013, the IAC and ANSWER Coalition organized protests together [archive]. In May 2017 the PSL’s ANSWER Coalition hosted the screening of a documentary about the life on Ramsey Clark [archive], and in November that year commemorations for the hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution at the WWP’s headquarters featured Larry Holmes of the WWP, Ben Becker of the PSL [archive].





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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby Elvis » Wed Apr 18, 2018 4:21 pm

Cynthia McKinney a "crypto-fascist"... :rofl:

wow


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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby overcoming hope » Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:11 pm

Elvis » Wed Apr 18, 2018 3:21 pm wrote:Cynthia McKinney a "crypto-fascist"... :rofl:

wow


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"a history of 9/11 conspiracism..."

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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Wed Apr 18, 2018 5:42 pm

Even the most abject neophyte knows that the 9/11 umbrella provided cover for opportunists, cultists, crypto-fascists and other such losers and creeps. It doesn't mean that 9/11 research and activism were bad- far from it.

Also, it's not exactly news that the McKinney campaign was dogged by serious errors in judgement and practice, veering towards the kind of muddy right/left synthesis that repeatedly shelters problem people and ideas.

This should be very well known by now.
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Re: Moscow conference draws fascists, neo-Confederates, left

Postby American Dream » Thu Apr 19, 2018 9:30 am

This isn't looking good, y'all...


Baked Alaska, the racist blogger who disrupted the SMCRJ before going to Charlottesville resurfaced yesterday to support Assad with the LA white Left!


If you have followed this blog for a while, you are already familiar with this Southern California neo-Nazi. I first ran into Baked Alaska when he came to Santa Monica on 6 August 2017 along with 25 or 30 other plainclothes klansmen and attempted to disrupt the regular meeting of the Santa Monica Committee for Racial Justice. It turned into quite a ruckus!

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Less than a week later he turned up in the infamous Friday night tiki-touch march in Charlottesville, were was slated to speak to the "Unite the Right" rally. After that he was kicked off The Discord, and went rather quiet.

Six days before Charlottesville, the same racists came to Santa Monica
Progressives rallied & racists ran from September meeting of CRJ



Yesterday, he resurfaced, protesting the air strikes against Assad in Perishing Square with his new friends in the white Left like the Answer Coalition


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i59mEp46n-M


The white Left - Right convergence is reaching new lows.



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