Thursday, March 1, 2007

Anti-War Demonstrations

Here's a great article about the organizers of the anti-war movement. The Workers World Party perfected their tactics from the Cold War days when they a practically unlimited budget from the Soviet Union.

Here's an excerpt:
This was no accident, for the demonstration was essentially organized by the Workers World Party, a small political sect that years ago split from the Socialist Workers Party to support the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. The party advocates socialist revolution and abolishing private property. It is a fan of Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba, and it hails North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il for preserving his country’s “socialist system,” which, according to the party’s newspaper, has kept North Korea “from falling under the sway of the transnational banks and corporations that dictate to most of the world.” The WWP has campaigned against the war-crimes trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. A recent Workers World editorial declared, “Iraq has done absolutely nothing wrong.”

2 comments:

Dadeo said...

I wonder if any of them have actually ever lived under a regime like Castro's or Kim's. It would be interesting to see how they really conduct their lives - if they abide by socialist doctrine in their own lifestyles, or if, like Algore, they are willing to talk the talk but not walk the walk.

MJB said...

Dad, please. He's known as "the Goracle" now.