Undemocratic Left

"What You Should Know About the WWC/IAC"

British anarchist site criticizes the Workers' World Party.

Kevin Coogan "International Action Center: Peace Activists with a Hidden Agenda" Interactivist Info Center

Nathan Newman, "What is a Front? WWP & ANSWER"

The Workers World Party:
    » supported the Chinese government's 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre
      http://www.workers.org/ww/tienanmen.html
    » supports the "socialist" North Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong Il
      http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0425.php
      http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0509.php
    » and views Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a beacon of anti-imperialist resistance
      http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/iraq0125.html

Leo Casey: It is wrong to exclude Lerner, "Answer is best conceivable tool for discrediting the entire anti-war movement.

Ted Glick on ANSWER and Washington demo and Leftist Parties

Nathan Newman writes, "As I've said in the past and Michael Lerner is saying, please go to Saturday's demos. March in solidarity with the millions of people who will march all over the world that day to oppose the US's unilateral rush to war. But the censorship of dissent within the movement by ANSWER in San Francisco shows why they should not be allowed anywhere in leadership of the movement after this weekend. I'm extremely happy that ANSWER had no role in planning New York's rallies this weekend."

Ian Williams, "Ramsey Clark: The War Criminals Best Friend" Salon June 1999

"The Mysterious Ramsey Clark"

The former AG has allied himself with war criminals and the Stalinist Worker's World Party.

Peter Carlson, "The Crusader [Ramsey Clark]," Washington Post December 15, 2002

Liza Featherstone, "Peace Gets a Chance" The Nation Oct. 18, 2002

Michelle Goldberg, "Peace kooks" Salon October 16, 2002

The new antiwar movement is in danger of being hijacked by bizarre extremist groups -- and most protesters don't even know it.

Todd Gitlin, "Who Will Lead" Mother Jones October 14, 2002

An antiwar movement is finally, thankfully stirring. But the ideology-bound leaders of that movement are steering it away from the millions of Americans whose concerns and ambivalence might fuel it.

David Corn, "Behind the Placards:The odd and troubling origins of today’s anti-war movement," L.A. Weekly, November 1 - 7, 2002

Todd Gittlin, "The war movement and the peace movement" Open Democracy

Michael Bérubé, "Toward an Ideal Antiwar Movement: Mature, Legitimate, and Popular" Boston Globe Nov. 2002 (my link is to Max Sawicky's web-log)

STOP THE WAR COALITION/IRAQ/RESPECT

[This is a mirror of the Stop the Stop the War Coalition which is no longer online. Thie site was authored by a British left ist and provides invaluable insight into the STWC.)

Part One: A Personal Journey Through the Stop the War Coalition

Part Two: Unholy Alliances: The Stop the War Coalition, The Extreme Left and Islamic Fundamentalists

Part Three: Sinning by Omission: The Stop the War Coalition and Palestine

Part Four - Playing Pontius Pilate: Why Shouting "End the Occupation" Isn't Helpful

Part Five - Stop the War Coalition Rehab: A 7-Step Programme

Nathan Newman, "Hijacking the Affirmative Action Movement, " Progressive Populist March 5, 2003