[CS-FSLUG] Communist Party USA makes it official

[Fred Miller]

Copyright C 2003 Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin   INTERNAL SECURITY 

Look who's endorsing Kerry - Communist Party USA makes it official 

C 2003 G2 Bulletin
 Publishing date: 13.08.2004 18:07

The Communist Party USA is not only calling for a "united front" to defeat
President Bush's big for re-election, as first reported by G2B, it actively
working on behalf of his Democratic Party opponent, John Kerry. 
  
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Officially, the party is still just advocating the defeat of Bush - which,
of course, some would argue, requires a victory for Kerry. 

However, when a G2B correspondent wrote an anonymous email to a party
apparatchik asking how the CPUSA was helping to defeat Bush, the following
reply came back: "The CPUSA supports the John Kerry campaign with donations
and volunteer effort. We believe that defeating George Bush is the single
most important issue this November. ..." 

A survey of the party's website shows an advertisement members are placing
in newspapers around the country. It is headlined: "Top Ten Reasons To
Defeat Bush." 
Remarkably, the political agenda of the Communist Party USA in 2004 reads
remarkably like the Democratic Party platform, with priorities such as
foreign investment, homosexual rights, abortion rights, etc. 

WorldNetDaily previously reported the Democratic Sociliasts of America
Political Action Committee officially urged its members to work for the
election of John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. 

"Kerry was hardly the first choice of our members," said Frank Llewellyn,
national director of the DSA. "Most supported Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean
in the Democratic primary elections and would be very critical of Senator
Kerry's voting record on trade issues, as well as his support for the
resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq; but the most important
concern of our members now is to defeat Bush." 

The DSA is the largest socialist organization in the U.S., with 5,500
members and local organizations in many large cities. It is affiliated with
the Socialist International, a federation of the world's socialist, social
democratic and labor parties. It was founded as a group determined to push
the Democratic Party to the left and has worked closely with the
Congressional Progressive Caucus. 

The statement urged DSA members to participate in get-out-the-vote and voter
education projects with other progressive organizations. 

"It is very important that progressive movements keep organizing and
mobilizing so that we will be in a position to make demands on a new
administration," Llewellyn continued. 

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is a socialist-leaning bloc of about 60
votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the lower chamber. Until
1999, the website of the Progressive Caucus was hosted by the DSA. 

Following an expose of the link between the two organizations in
WorldNetDaily, the Congressional Progressive Caucus established its own
website under the auspices of the Congress. Another officer of the
Progressive Caucus, and one of its guiding lights, is avowed socialist Rep.
Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent. 

The Democratic Socialists of America's chief organizing goal is to work
within the Democratic Party and remove the stigma attached to "socialism" in
the eyes of most Americans. 
"Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work," explains an
organizing document of the DSA. "The Democratic Party is something the
public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing
our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical
subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals." 

Nevertheless, the goal of the Democratic Socialists of America has never
been deeply hidden. Prior to the cleanup of its website in 1999, the DSA
included a song list featuring "The Internationale," the worldwide anthem of
communism and socialism. Another song on the site was "Red Revolution" sung
to the tune of "Red Robin." The lyrics went: "When the Red Revolution brings
its solution along, along, there'll be no more lootin' when we start
shootin' that Wall Street throng. ..." Another song removed after
WorldNetDaily's expose was "Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie?" The lyrics went:
"Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the
revolution comes, We'll kill you all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie,
Bourgeoisie." 

In the last three years, the Progressive Caucus has been careful to moderate
its image for mainstream consumption. 
G2B first reported last October that the CPUSA would not run a candidate for
president, would not support progressive third-party bids but would instead
throw its support behind the Democratic Party in an all-out effort to defeat
President Bush and the Republican Congress. 

Nevertheless, even with this proclaimed ''united front,'' it is unusual to
see the party as vocal about support for a Democratic presidential
candidate. 

As far back as April 17, Joelle Fishman, chairwoman of the party's political
action committee, wrote in a report to the national board that Communists
should not field a candidate of their own in 2004. 

''Our presidential campaigns in the past were a great opportunity to project
our program, and I'm sure we will find ourselves at that point some time in
the future,'' she wrote. ''At this moment, we will convey our program best
by working with all out might to build the broadest possible coalitions,
fronts and networks that can defeat the undemocratic, imperialistic Bush war
machine. This is our responsibility to our own class here and
internationally.'' 

Fishman also mentioned discussions with the Green Party and other ''left''
organizations in which the Communists have argued against presidential and
congressional candidates by third parties, adding, ''one united push is
required to defeat the Republican stronghold.'' 

''The discussion will require a special approach with groups like the Campus
Greens and the Peace and Freedom Party in California,'' she continued. 

At a June 29 meeting in New York, the national committee approved a
resolution making the defeat of Bush and the Republican majority in Congress
the ''number one priority.'' 

''Discussion is also taking place within the Green Party about whether to
run a presidential candidate this year,'' said a report to the national
committee this summer. ''A section of Greens have come to agree that the
defeat of Bush is the number one issue.'' 

While not all of the Democratic presidential candidates energized the
Communists, the party spokesmen never had a bad word to say about Kerry. 

The party was critical of Sen. Joe Lieberman, ''who has played an enabling
role of the Bush administration by leading on compromises that undercut
stronger Democratic proposals, especially in foreign policy.'' It was also
leery of John Edwards and Richard Gephardt because of their association with
the less-progressive Democratic Leadership Council. 

''It will take an extraordinary united all-people's front with a movement on
the ground to defeat the Bush right-wing agenda in 2004,'' explained a
report to the CPUSA national committee June 28, again written by Fishman.
''It can be done with the combination of the labor vote, the women's vote
and African-American and Latino vote, combined with the youth vote, the
peace vote, the environmental vote, the senior vote, the farm vote, etc.,
all of whom are pledged to work as they never have before.'' 

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