“International ANSWER” coalition is a front group.
This weekend, an antiwar protest will be staged in Washington, DC and other cities, by the “International ANSWER” coalition. (*) These protests will probably attract a wide variety of progressives. As is reported, “International ANSWER” is a front group for the Workers’ World Party (WWP). (†) The WWP is a sectarian group vocal in its support for war criminal and master planner of genocides Slobodan Milosevic. (‡) Another front group of the WWP’s is “International Action Center.” (§) This is the group that Ramsey Clark, supporter of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, frequently headlines.
I do not espouse anarchy, even though I must admit the anarchists at Infoshop do a nice job of exposing to sunlight the WWP and its front groups. My concern is that while the progressive Left ignorantly allies itself, as if somnambulant, with the sectarian Left, the possibility fades of holding the moral high ground and winning wide support. (**) We must forswear participation with the sectarian Left if we hope to ever successfully advance a genuinely progressive agenda.
Update: 14 March 2003. The anarchists have taken down most of their page for some reason. I commend to you Nathan Newman for further information. (††)
Update: 3 December 2003. I see the anarchists put their page back up.
October 24th, 2002 at 09:36
I, too, am suspect of the ANSWER coalition and a number of its endorsers. On the other hand, no one else seems to be taking the lead in stopping the war against Iraq before it starts. Moreover, even though ANSWER organized the anti-war rallies, most participants do not have a narrow agenda but simply want to prevent a foolish, bloody war. Let us not forget that Winston Churchill and FDR climbed into bed with Stalin to defeat Hitler and Nazi Germany. Were it not for the USSR, Germany most likely would have won World War II. I believe ANSWER’s own political agenda will get lost in the shuffle as a host of Americans in Washington and San Francisco say no to this war.
Regis T. Sabol
Editor
October 25th, 2002 at 01:35
Respectfully, I disagree. It harms the movement more than it helps.
BTW, there are fragments of evidence to suggest that Al Qaeda has allied with Iraq. If that is true, they would have made the same calculation about the short-term ends justifying the means.