Globalization’s False Opposition
By William F. Jasper The New American, May 20, 2002
A coalition of radical subversives led by the Communist Party is spearheading a deceptive campaign to empower the UN and its global institutions.
On April 20th-23rd tens of thousands of radical activists converged on Washington, D.C. It was the latest in a string of street theater extravaganzas demonstrating the revolutionary pincer strategy of “pressure from above” and “pressure from below” being employed to systematically dismantle our constitutional safeguards, undermine national sovereignty, and transfer billions of dollars to international institutions. According to the Establishment media, the protesters who converged on D.C., estimated at 50,000-70,000 strong, were mostly determined idealists, opposed to globalization, the war on terrorism, and U.S. Middle East policies. In truth, the motley mob of militants was led by a coalition spearheaded by the Communist Party, USA and a coterie of veteran extremists hardwired into the global terror network (as well as the Soviet KGB and Cuban DGI) for decades. Most important — and completely unmentioned in the major media reports — is that these street radicals provided the pressure, public distraction, and political camouflage necessary for their supposed opponents at the World Bank to launch a global socialist program in the name of education and yet another bailout of the “former” Soviet Union. While pretending to oppose globalization, the Communist Party leadership and other leaders of the radical Left are agitating incessantly for the ultimate globalization: the transfer of ever more and more power and money to the United Nations and its global institutions.
Reds at the Helm
The marches and protests accompanying the meetings of the World Trade Organization, the G-8, and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have become expected, ritual events. The anti-WTO demonstration that turned into a violent riot in Seattle in 1999 was followed by more violence at the IMF summit in April 2000. Washington, D.C., police arrested nearly 1,300 demonstrators during that melee. Confrontations outside the G-8 summit in Genoa, Italy, last year resulted in extensive property damage, hundreds of arrests and injuries, and one death — an Italian protester shot while attacking the police. The recent convergence on Washington ended without violence, but to those familiar with the track records of the organizations and individuals leading this organized chaos, it is obvious that a return to 1960s-style fires, bombs, barricades, and riots is looming. The Communist leadership role in the escalating street demonstrations has been steadily becoming more apparent. However, the Establishment media has consciously censored this significant information from its coverage. The main sponsors of the April 20th demonstrations were the April 20 Mobilization to Stop the War and International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism). According to an Associated Press story for April 13th announcing the upcoming event, the April 20 Mobilization is merely a “coalition of more than 100 groups including student and labor organizations. They say they oppose the war on terrorism as a ‘war without end.’” And the folks at A.N.S.W.E.R. are “a coalition that began with a broad anti-war theme, but has now focused more on the Mideast conflict, supporting the Palestinians and opposing U.S. aid to Israel.” CNN, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the rest of the mainstream media have followed suit with equally benign — and deceptive — descriptions. It doesn’t take any exceptional sleuthing to dig up the real story on the organizers. According to the April 20 Mobilization’s website, its endorsers include: the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA); the Young Communist League; the Communist Party of Slovakia Bratislava; and many well-known Communist front groups. A quick click of the mouse takes you to the Communist Party’s website and the “April 20 Party Memo” issued on March 23rd by Elena Mora, the CPUSA’s national organization secretary. The Communist Party memo reads:
Dear comrades, As you know, on April 20th, the first large national demonstration against the Bush administration’s war policy will take place in Washington, DC. This event could not be more timely, nor more important.... The April 20th demonstration should be a big priority for everyone.... We helped initiate the April 20th Coalition … which is organizing the rally.... The main issue is mobilizing grassroots participation in the March on Washington.... We aim to have a big, energetic, colorful presence in Washington on April 20th.
Rogues’ Gallery of the Left
The radical gang at International A.N.S.W.E.R. is more cagey about the coalition’s true colors, but it doesn’t take much political sophistication to recognize the group’s Red pedigree. The Communist Party has always recognized the importance of concealing its activities and true objectives by operating through a plethora of front organizations. Besides obscuring Communist leadership and direction, the “united front” tactic also serves another vital complementary purpose: projecting the false impression of popular support for Communist causes. Please bear with us, then, over the next couple pages, as we unmask the labyrinthine network of subversives leading this dangerous charade. Headquartered in New York City, A.N.S.W.E.R. lists its address as: 39 East 14th Street, #206. That also happens to be the address of the International Action Center (IAC), listed as one of the 10 groups on A.N.S.W.E.R.’s Steering Committee. So A.N.S.W.E.R. turns out to be simply a front for the IAC, itself little more than a front for the Communist Party. Founded by radical activist Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general, the IAC is connected at the hip with nearly every anti-American, pro-Communist outfit imaginable. The IAC’s publications and web site praise Fidel Castro and adoringly reproduce his speeches. Following Fidel’s lead, the IAC has launched a campaign to “Free the Five Cuban Heroes.” Who are these “heroes”? Why, the five agents of Castro’s DGI convicted last year on charges of penetrating U.S. military bases in Florida, of course. One of the “heroes” was also convicted of participation in the 1996 murder/shoot-down of four Cuban-Americans in civilian planes over international airspace. But the IAC refers to the killer/spies as “political prisoners.” The IAC is also a leading voice in the “Free Mumia Abu-Jamal” choir. Mumia Abu-Jamal is the convicted cop-killer and former Black Panther who has become the poster child of the international Left. Ramsey Clark’s IAC also took Communist China’s side last year when a U.S. Navy surveillance plane and crew were held hostage. Recall that a PRC fighter first collided with the Navy plane and then another Chinese fighter forced it to land in China. Other groups on the A.N.S.W.E.R. Steering Committee nearly as crimson-hued as IAC include: the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization/Pastors for Peace; the Korea Truth Commission; the Mexico Solidarity Network; the Muslim Students Association of the U.S. and Canada; the Nicaragua Network; and the Partnership for Civil Justice. The Korea Truth Commission (KTC) is the outfit comprised of Communists and other international radical activists charging American military personnel with war crimes during the Korean War. As with most of the other groups in the A.N.S.W.E.R./IAC coalition, the KTC is heavily salted with radical attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), an official endorser of A.N.S.W.E.R. In 1950, the House Committee on Un-American Activities described the NLG as “the foremost legal bulwark of the Communist Party, its front organizations and controlled unions.” The NLG’s activities in the past five decades have surely reinforced that depiction of the group. The NLG has been intimately and openly involved with Fidel Castro, as well as with such terrorist groups as the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation. The Washington Post reported on April 21st concerning the previous day’s protests: “One all-important telephone number — 202-462-9627 — was inked onto many arms; it’s the number those arrested are to call. Legal support was being provided at the number by a local law collective, the National Lawyers Guild, and D.C.-based Partnership for Civil Justice.” Prominent NLG radicals endorse the coalition, such as Executive Director Heidi Boghosian, Los Angeles Executive Director James Lafferty, and Professor Peter Erlinder, a former NLG national president. As expected, wherever an NLG weevil infestation is found, subversives from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) are swarming nearby. The IPS, a radical brain trust with long ties to the Soviet KGB and almost every Communist regime in the world, is right at the heart of the coalitions sponsoring the April 20 Mobilization and other related activities. Phyllis Bennis, a radical author and “IPS Fellow on the New Internationalism,” addressed the April 20th demonstrators from the Capitol steps. Michael Parenti, a longtime IPS apparatchik, is listed as an A.N.S.W.E.R. endorser. Sanho Tree, director of IPS’ Drug Policy Project, spoke at the April 20th D.C. rally, as did Adam Isacson of the Center for International Policy, an IPS clone. Another IPS veteran, Tariq Ali, also addressed the demonstrators. The Los Angeles Times identified Mr. Ali simply as “a Pakistani playwright.” He is much more than that, of course. Besides his longtime efforts for the IPS and its affiliated Transnational Institute, Tariq Ali was also a top member of the executive committee of the Fourth International, the worldwide Trotskyite terrorist apparatus. Comrade Ali has made many interesting statements endorsing violence, even assassination. He has said, for instance: “I think that to achieve the ends we believe in to the establishment of a Socialist republic, I believe that a certain element of violence is absolutely necessary.” The Socialist Workers Party, the violent U.S. branch of the Comrade Ali’s Fourth International, has stated: “As Marxists, we do not believe in individual terror because it underrates the class struggle. We instead believe in increasing the struggle, in mass terrorism!” Other hardcore Marxists in the April 20 Mobilization ranks include Sandinistas from Nicaragua, Zapatistas from Mexico, Weather Underground terrorist supporters from the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, and Maoist cadres from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). The April 24th edition of Revolutionary Worker, published by the RCP, provided this report on the April 20th demonstrations in D.C.:
As we marched off, a white youth with dreads wearing a bandana told us, “Communists, anarchists, Palestinians — it’s all the same. We’re all oppressed by f****** capitalism.... They kill our planet, they kill our animals, they kill us. It’s not right, and we’re here to show that everyone is in solidarity with each other, and that the poor people of the globe are not gonna take it anymore.” Anti-capitalist protesters carried pictures of the flag covered with blood and dollar bills with the slogan “Capitalism Kills.” At the Capitol, anti-capitalist guerrilla theater activists unfurled a huge U.S. flag onto the ground for people to step on. Revolutionaries and internationalists stood on the flag and did exposure about the role of the U.S. in oppressing the people worldwide.
Media Censorship
Virtually all of the information mentioned above was censored from the mainstream media accounts of the April 20th demonstrations. Yet, without knowing these pertinent facts one cannot evaluate properly the significance of the events and put them in the proper context. Very few members of the general public and all too few of the authorities tasked with watching over our internal security will be able to recognize that the activists engaged in the street demonstrations are carrying out a sinister, hidden agenda. The leaders of the “anti-globalization/anti-war” operations are not mere “liberals” or “peace activists,” but seasoned Communist operatives, agents of hostile foreign powers. The U.S. Peace Council, the American cell of the World Peace Council (WPC), worked closely with the coalition that sponsored the April 20th events. The WPC is one of the oldest Moscow-directed Communist fronts still operating globally. WPC operatives, acting under the control of the KGB and its renamed successors, have been involved in espionage, disinformation, penetration, and terrorism for decades, while the WPC and its national affiliates have served as the principal spearhead of the Kremlin’s “peace” and disarmament movements. Mikhail Suslov, the Politburo member in charge of the Soviet peace offensive from the Stalin era until into the 1980s, told the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) in 1949:
Particular attention should be devoted to drawing into the peace movement trade unions, women’s, youth, sport, cultural, education, religious, and other organizations, and also scientists, writers, journalists, cultural workers, parliamentary, and other political and public leaders.
The WPC, the U.S. Peace Council, and the above-mentioned Communist front organizations and activists have been carrying out Suslov’s Cominform directive for over five decades. They supported the Communist Vietcong during the Vietnam War, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, the African National Congress in South Africa, and virtually every other terrorist “liberation” movement on the planet. They have led the “nuclear freeze” movement and every other campaign aimed at crippling America’s national defense and internal security capabilities. The structure, activity, and operational pattern of this subversive network have not diminished since the apparent collapse of the Soviet Union; in fact, its operations have been broadening, multiplying, and intensifying. The continuity — of direction, personnel, and modus operandi — is remarkable, yet none of the media opinion cartel has bothered to remark on it. Failing to provide the public with this vitally important information is not the result of ignorance on the part of our media mandarins, but of conscious censorship. The censorship command center is “Rockefeller Central” in New York City, otherwise known as the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR is a prime axis of “convergence,” where billionaire capitalists (actually corporate socialists) and revolutionary Marxists — internationalists all — hatch and implement their schemes for a dystopian new world order. The CFR elite includes longtime radicals in the Institute for Policy Studies/Communist Party network such as Leslie Gelb (CFR president), Morton Halperin, Anthony Lake, Richard Barnet, Cora Weiss, Jeremy Stone, David Aaron, Karl Inderfurth, Patricia Derian, Karen DeYoung, George McGovern, Johnnetta Cole, Richard Falk, Paul Warnke, Daniel Ellsberg, Gregory Treverton, and Roger Wilkins. Their fellow CFR members in corporate America, the tax-exempt foundations, academia, media, and government provide them and their revolutionary cohorts with the funds, respectability, platforms, and political protection necessary to carry out their subversion.
Subversive Objectives
The April 20th demonstrations, like so many others preceding them, served a number of purposes for this convergence cabal, among which are:
Providing “pressure from below” with demands that more U.S. taxpayer dollars be funneled through the World Bank, ostensibly for education in poor countries.
Co-opting the opposition to the unconstitutional and destructive policies of the Bush administration and the CFR elite concerning globalization, the war on terrorism, and the Middle East.
Polarizing the American public into pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian camps to facilitate the Marxist dialectical process.
Training new revolutionary street cadres for the coming “period of escalating violence” — including more terrorism — as prescribed by Lenin.
Prior to the April 20th demonstrations, the Communist Party, USA and April 20 Mobilization to Stop the War announced that the demonstrators would demand a “U.S. foreign policy based upon social and economic justice” and “increased funding for non-military-based financial aid for education.” Presto! No sooner demanded than given. On April 21st World Bank President James Wolfensohn (CFR) announced that his institution had approved an ambitious, multi-billion dollar commitment to fund education “reform” initiatives in poor countries. The following day the CFR-dominated Bush administration announced that the U.S. would hike its bilateral foreign aid by 50 percent and our funding to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) by 18 percent over the next three years. This Clintonesque exploitation of poor children — to justify robbing American taxpayers to fund the socialist agenda of the UN one-worlders — was greeted with applause and huzzahs, naturally, by the CFR media trust. The diversionary demonstrations and the new global education program almost completely obscured the World Bank announcement on April 20th of another round of bailouts for seven countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), formerly known as the Soviet Union. All seven — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan — are socialist basket cases run by unreconstructed Communists. The World Bank and IMF have not specified how many billions of dollars will be dished out in this scheme, but when it comes time to release the funds, other diversions will undoubtedly be ready to distract the American taxpayers about to be fleeced.
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