Unholy Alliance by David Horowitz
Professor Todd Gitlin was one of the speakers at the Columbia teach-in against the war in Iraq. A former president of Students for a Democratic Society. Gitlin is a typical veteran of the New Left. In the 1960s, Gitlin was a self-declared “anti-anti-Communist,” choosing not to support the West in its Cold War against the Communist states.
According to Gitlin, Vietnam was something like an American original sin. Gitlin summarizes in these words: “For a large bloc of Americans, my age and younger, too young to remember WW2---the generation for whom ‘the war’ meant Vietnam and possibly always would, to the end of our days---the case against patriotism was not an abstraction.
Gerda Lerner was in her thirties when the New Left was launched in the wake of Khrushchev’s report on the crimes of Stalin in 1956. She was young enough to join its political generation and became one of its mentors, as the sixties radicals shook off the burdens of their Stalinist past and went back on the attack. Her easy assimilation to its attitudes and doctrines reflected its continuities with the Communist past.
By the end of the sixties, the New Left was recognized by its opposition to the anti-Communist Cold War and its Marxist analyses of American society. Like there Communist predecessors, New Leftists viewed America as an imperialist state, the guardian of global system that plundered the poor. Their politics was distinguished by its warm embrace of the Stalinist regimes in Cuba and North Vietnam, and for the Soviet bloc.
In 1960, Maurice Zeitlin was a Berkley Marxist and a founding editor of Root and Branch,
One of the three radical journals that helped to launch the new radical movement. With fellow editor Robert Scheer (later a columnist at the Los Angeles Times and a prominent opponent of the war in Iraq) , Zeitlin wrote one of the first books hailing the triumph of the Communist revolution in Castro’s Cuba. Zeitlin became a professor of sociology at UCLA, specializing in Chile and writing about “dominant classes”. In 1997, he spoke at a UCLA symposium on twentieth-century utopias, where he returned to the subject of Che Guevara. Zeitlin used the occasion of the UCLA seminar to declare his continuing faith in the Communist cause for which Guevara had died.
Leslie Cagan who was to emerge in the anti-Iraq protests as the primary leader of the “moderate” peace coalition. Cagan was selected to head the Coalition United for Peace and Justice by a group of left-wing activists meeting under the auspices of People for the American Way. According to the participants themselves, the organization was created as a public relations effort to deflect criticism that the peace movement was run by the hard-line Communists of International ANSWER, self-styled “Bolsheviks” aligned with North Korea, who had organized all of the national demonstrations to that point.
Leslie Cagan was a sixties radical who became an activist in the Communist movement in college, breaking American laws to travel to the Communist World Youth Festival in Bulgaria in 1968. The following year she joined the First Venceremos Brigade, a project of Cuban intelligence that recruited American leftist to help with the sugarcane harvest. Cagan was a leader in other institutions of the Left, including the extreme-left Pacifica radio network, and was an organizer of demonstrations for a nuclear freeze and for solidarity with Communists in Central America in the 1980s and against the Gulf War in 1991.
Noam Chomsky is a cult figure among contemporary radicals and their leading intellectual figure. A New Yorker profile has identified him improbably as “one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century,” while the left-wing English Guardian refers to him as the “conscience of a nation.” No other individual had done more to shape the anti-American passions of a generation. When Chomsky speaks on university campuses, which he does frequently, he draws ten times the audiences that other intellectuals and legitimate scholars normally do. Chomsky claims to be an anarchist, which frees him from the burden of having to defend any real-world implementation of his ideas. He defends Marxist dictatorships in Nicaragua, Cuba, Vietnam and other third world countries—like Iraq—when they are engaged in conflicts with the United States.
A few more Radicals, Communist, Socialists and organizations that support them.
Howard Zinn-historian
Norman Mailer-author
James Weinstein- author—Says socialist should work within the Democratic Party
Paul Berman-author
Palestine Liberation Organization
NAACP
American Civil Liberties Union
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Lawyers Guild ( an old Communist front)
Ford Foundation
SEIU
AFSCME
World Social Forum
Ramsey Clark
“Not in Our Name”- A front created by Revolutionary Communist Party, a Marxist-Leninist sect aligned with Communist
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