Unmasking the Hydra: relationships between the "anti-imperialist left" and the WWP/PSL/CIA
A Counterinsurgency Infecting the Left
"During the Vietnam era, the US government spent a great deal of resources on researching the movement and its impact. It responded to the movement with imprisonment, harassment, and assassination of leaders. An entire system of social rewards was developed to buy people off. The government's most effective strategy, however, was its choosing to contain the opposition rather than attempt to eradicate it. It was by this means that a "loyal opposition" was created - an opposition which the government could manipulate and control, allowing it enough power to reach a large segment of the population, and to disseminate a message of change, but withholding the power necessary for such change to be in any way implemented."
-Amer Jubran; Palestinian Ex-Political Prisoner; “Is the US Anti-War Movement Pro-Resistance?” (source)
UPDATE December 30, 2023
Since this series of articles is gaining traction in light of the genocidal Zionist war on Palestine, we encourage readers to also check out our article on broadening the horizons of solidarity with Palestine here and the structural failures of the US anti-war movement here. They are far more relevant to the urgency of the current struggle.
—AMTF
This document is the 5th part of a series investigating the relationships between the WWP/PSL/ANSWER and the CIA/FBI.
Series Table of Contents:
Part 1: Introduction and Key Terms—A Primer
Part 2: Ray McGovern: Expert Anti-Communist—Nonviolence as Counterinsurgency
Part 3: John Kiriakou: Butcher and Torturer — the Farce of Whistleblower Allies
Part 4: Worker’s World Party: a confidence scheme
Part 5: Unmasking the Hydra: relationships between the “anti-war left” and the WWPSLCIA
Part 6: Ramsey Clark and the afterlife of PHOENIX, COINTELPRO, and MH CHAOS
This project originally began as an investigation into the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) however, what we have uncovered is a conspiracy that is much larger than the PSL. The PSL is actually part of a Hydra of 5 organizations that share much of the same leadership; all of these can directly be tied to Ramsey Clark: COINTELPRO architect.1
Our PRIMARY Organizations of Investigation are:
International Action Center (IAC)
Worker’s World Party (WWP)
Party For Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
ANSWER Coalition (ANSWER)
United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC)
There are many affiliate organizations of this Hydra, the ones of particular note are: Veterans for Peace (VFP), CodePink, Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), Popular Resistance, and Struggle La Lucha.
As we have seen, the Worker’s World Party (WWP) and its spawn have a long-standing strategy of creating front groups to infiltrate various parts of “the movement”. These front groups or affiliate groups invariably share many leadership members.
A small number of individuals end up being leaders of a large number of interconnected organizations that all tie into the WWP/PSL/IAC
Those front organizations host events and protests while maintaining a large social media presence. They will include other members of this hydra and advertise them as if they are part of separate organizations.
One of the dangerous aspects of this is that this counterinsurgency Hydra will often go to the governments of US geopolitical enemies, and advertise themselves as “peace ambassadors”.
However, our investigation has exposed that the“Anti-war left” in the United States is a network of controlled opposition much larger than the WWPSLCIA Hydra. We can thus understand the WWPSLCIA for what it is: not a unique phenomenon but simply one "radical wing" of a larger NGO-CIA-nonviolence counterinsurgency psychological operation (psyop) that operates across the political spetrum of the United States. A psyop that, as Amer Jubran described, “disseminate(s) a message of change, but withhold(s) the power necessary for such change to be in any way implemented.”
One partiularly crucial element for this counterinsurgency is utilizing Black misleadership to appeal to and absorb revolutionary Black politics. Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) serves this purpose especially well; functioning as the “Black Arm” of the WWPSLCIA Hydra. They promote radical politics and routinely wheel out the names and faces of Black martyrs in order to promote nonviolence and “peace.” Chapter 5 of False Nationalism, False Internationalism by E. Tani and Kaé Sera describes how this counter-insurgency strategy originated during the 1960’s:
"The U.S. bourgeoisie had learned that New Afrikan Revolution was much closer than they thought, and that drastic neo-colonial reforms were needed to undercut the mass rising until it had run its course. Further, that the Empire needed to take over and sponsor the unsuccessful non-violent protest movement, needed to make it look more successful for the New Afrikan people. The Civil Rights leadership and their organizations were put on imperialism’s payroll; pushed every day by the imperialist media just like breakfast cereal or deodorants.
The dual role of the New Afrikan petty-bourgeoisie as a vacillating and intermediary class was also being played out, as they ran back and forth allying with both sides. They called for mass protests against oppression, but only so that they could negotiate with the Government to end the protests. Many perceptive people had seen after Birmingham that non-violent protests politics could not even pressure the Empire. Only the threat of rebellion had the power to force concessions from imperialism. This was to become important as the movement developed."
The WWPSLCIA is another “radical” tentacle of this psyop in competition with liberal-left organizations like “We Are Dissenters”, to other “radical” organizations like the “Black Rose” anarchists etc. That’s the crucial thing to understand about highly advanced US imperialist fascism and neocolonialism — the ruling class cultivates all manner of “variety” of political vectors that all point in the same direction while competing internally among themselves for relevance and money.
Institute for Policy Studies
Founded by “ex-intelligence officials” Richard Barnet and Marcus Raskin, the IPS “merged with” the Peace Research Institute (Gene Sharp affiliate) when it was created. It received startup finances from Ford Foundation among others who were fronts for CIA money during the Cold War (and continue to be).
The IPS serves as a “think tank for the left” and co-hosts many events with the WWPSLCIA Hydra. It’s origins and status quo repeat a similar politic that we have seen time and time again in this series: “Make amerikan imperialism seem nicer”. The fundraising and political lineage of the IPS is a worthy topic of investigation for a later date. They are a multi-million dollar non-profit and were sitting on over a 1.4 million dollars in cash and over 11 million in total assets as per 2020 tax filing.
SOURCES:
Ramsey Clark (Dead)
Ramsey Clark Joins WWP between 1976-1980 and creates International Action Center
Founded International Action Center: https://web.archive.org/web/20010302001627/http://www.iacenter.org/
John Kiriakou
All sources can be found here:
Fellow at IPS : https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/john-kiriakou/
Ray McGovern
All sources can be found here:
World Can’t Wait
Advisory Board “War Criminal Watch” (WCW project)
https://archive.ph/sPeEq#selection-539.0-539.34
“Chelsea Manning Support Network”
Steering Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20151007043156/http://www.chelseamanning.org/ourwork/advisory-board
Institute for Policy Studies
Richard Barnet
“Barnet became a fellow at the Harvard Russian Research Center in 1960.2 From 1961 until 1963 he served as special assistant in the State Department for disarmament issues, where he helped set up the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA).”
Marcus Raskin (DEAD)
“special staff member of the National Security Council during Kennedy Administration” (page 35)
Arthur Waskow
”In 1961, Waskow joined the Peace Research Institute as a Research Fellow. He stayed at PRI until it merged with IPS in 1963, where Waskow would become a resident fellow” ; Brian S. Mueller, “Waging Peace in a Disarmed World: Arthur Waskow’s Vision of a Nonlethal Cold War,” Peace & Change 40 (July 2015): 339-367.
Waskow’s “The Worried Man’s Guide to World Peace: Handbook for the Peace Research Institute” explicitly states the PRI collaboration with the DOD and even infamous war criminal Brezinski (Page 48) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.49015000599119&view=1up&seq=48
Waskow was present at the betrayal Oslo Accords in 1993; https://archive.ph/EyhgV#selection-613.379-613.543
Bahman Azad (Afshin Razani)
Hands Off Syria Coalition
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20190626205529/https://handsoffsyriacoalition.net/about/
UNAC
Board of Directors (as of 2022); https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Veterans for Peace
“He joined the Veterans for Peace in the early 1990s and has been serving as Chair of VFP’s Iran Working Group.”; https://web.archive.org/web/20210725062054/https://la.leftforum.org/people/bahman-azad-1
US Peace Council — Founder
Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases
Department of State Affiliation —Bahman Azad changed his name from Afshin Razani after 2010 to avoid scruting
“He is a former Acting Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. He is currently a Professor of Economics and Sociology at Berkeley College in New Jersey”
A very busy man
In 2008 the Director of CMES Peter Golden (himself connected to DoD money) off hand referenced that Afshin Razani was former director
The same name Afshin Razani is listed as an officer of the USPC PEACE EDUCATION FUND, INC. which is the 501c3 that funds the US Peace Council that he founded https://web.archive.org/web/20220804212312/https://dataconnecticut.com/b/company/uspc-peace-education-fund-inc_384787/
In 2013 Afshin Razani is named as being a Professor of Sociology at Berkeley College. This matches his resume in 2013 (above images)
The Youtube resume above also lists him as a the founder of a "Campaign in Solidarity with the Iranian People’s Green Movement" which was a 2009 Color rev attempt in Iran sponsored by the NED.
Another advisor of this Coalition was Ervand Abrahamian, a “Iranian Historian” who “focuses on opposition movements” and gives speeches at State Department think tanks.
Here is a petition signed in support of Green Movement by a bunch of the Peace activists on here and written by Bahman Azad
Returning to CMES which has a large number of associations to the DoD3
Ajamu Baraka
Black Alliance for Peace
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20200425161852/https://blackallianceforpeace.com/coordinating-committee
UNAC
Board of Directors (as of 2022); https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Institute for Policy Studies
Associate Fellow (as of 2019); https://web.archive.org/web/20220405133957/https://ballotpedia.org/Ajamu_Baraka
Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20220614075455/https://noforeignbases.org/about/
Africa Action
Board of Directors (2009); https://web.archive.org/web/20101218032400/http://www.africaaction.org/board-of-directors.html
Green party
VP Candidate 2016; https://web.archive.org/web/20220219014417/https://www.gp.org/ajamu_baraka
Amnesty International4
Board of Directors; https://web.archive.org/web/20220219014417/https://www.gp.org/ajamu_baraka
Brian Becker, Gloria La Riva, Richard Becker, Ben Becker
This family has history of involvement in the WWP going back to the 70’s.
Richard Becker and Gloria La Riva are actually married
All four are founding members of PSL and ANSWER
Gloria La Riva Chairwoman of Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee: https://hi-in.facebook.com/FreeTheFive/videos/1270424716788953/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos
Hatuey Project
Brian Becker and Gloria la Riva are directors;
Judy Bello
Popular Resistance
Steering Committee (2013); https://web.archive.org/web/20130914180118/http://www.popularresistance.org/aboutus/
UNAC
Board of Directors (Since 2012); https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
CodePink
“Joined in 2012”; https://web.archive.org/web/20170528105127/http://deconstructedglobe.com/wordpress/about-the-author/
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Fellow/Board member (2007-2013) ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/judith-bello-21601812?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
Medea Benjamin
US Peace Memorial Foundation
Board of Directors; https://archive.ph/4ZEdE
CodePink and Global Exchange
Co-Founder; https://web.archive.org/web/20210314191525/https://www.codepink.org/medea_benjamin
Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20220614075455/https://noforeignbases.org/about/
World Without War
Advisory Board
https://worldbeyondwar.org/who/#advisory
Phyllis Bennis
Institute for Policy Studies:
Program Director and Fellow for 30+ years; https://archive.ph/XDSDQ#selection-951.1-959.28
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights:
Co-Founder https://archive.ph/Ael3v#selection-371.284-371.327
Transnational Institute (IPS front)
Fellow; https://archive.ph/Ael3v
Jewish Voice for Peace:
Board of Directors; https://archive.ph/MEtVn#selection-3261.0-3279.239
United for Peace and Justice
Steering Committee 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20100108175634/http://www.unitedforpeace.org//article.php?id=3990
Co-Founder: https://archive.ph/Wnrqe#selection-619.181-619.289
“Chelsea Manning Support Network”
Steering Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20151007043156/http://www.chelseamanning.org/ourwork/advisory-board
Sharon Black
Troops Out Now Coalition;
Steering Committee; https://archive.ph/RNGp#selection-633.496-633.508
People’s Power Assembly;
“Coordinator”; https://archive.ph/5Uwwq#selection-393.82-393.118
Workers World Party;
Leader Baltimore Branch; https://archive.ph/65FkK#selection-865.0-865.99
Bail Out the People Movement; https://web.archive.org/web/20120708035709/https://iacenter.org/palestine/palestine_labor122209/
International Action Center (IAC)
“From the U.S. Sharon Black, a representative of the
International Action Center, is participating.”; https://www.mail-archive.com/wwnews@wwpublish.com/msg01887.html
Struggle La Lucha
Newspaper contributing Author; https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/guest-author/sharon_black/
Sean Blackmon
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Leader PSL DC Branch; https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/d-c-youth-at-ukraine-embassy-demand-release-of-young-communists/
Stop Police Terror DC
https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002853/https://www.liberationnews.org/activists-host-cuban-diplomat-at-forum-celebrating-60-years-of-cuban-revolution-2/
“By any Means Neccessary” PSL Podcast
Host; https://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/
Has hosted many folks on this list including: Eugene Puryear, Ajamu Baraka, Margaret Kimberley, Jaribu Hill, Gloria La Riva, Netfa Freeman, Brian Becker,
“Justice First” Nonprofit
Director of Advancement; https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.justicefirst.org/about
“Justice First” Nonprofit is co-run with PSL leader Eugene Puryear and made 288,000 dollars in revenue in 2020
Leah Bolger
Veterans for peace
Ex-President
World Without War
President
Popular Resistance
https://web.archive.org/web/20160522212444/https://www.popularresistance.org/aboutus/
Green Party
Shadow Secretary of Defense
Commander of US Navy
“Deployed to four countries” (where?)
Melinda Butterfield
IAC
member/ representative; https://archive.ph/DxXWp#selection-221.0-221.112 ;
Worker’s World Party
More Evidence https://web.archive.org/web/20220719175744/https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=wwnews%40wwpublish.com&q=butterfield&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
Editor of “Struggle la Lucha” Newspaper: https://web.archive.org/web/20220607113317/https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2022/06/07/pride-month-announcement-from-struggle-la-lucha-co-editor/ (Public announcement changed name from Greg to Melinda)
Leslie Cagan
United for Peace and Justice
Co-Founder ; https://dailycaller.com/2010/09/05/anti-war-groups-battle-for-survival/
John Catalinotto
FIST
Editor; https://web.archive.org/web/20071021025745/http://fistyouth.wordpress.com/category/socialism/
IAC
Spokesperson, leader; https://rebelion-org.translate.goog/espana-y-la-ue-han-perdido-la-oportunidad-de-jugar-un-rol-independiente-de-eeuu-en-iraq/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
More; https://archive.ph/WsV50#selection-507.126-507.232
Worker’s World party;
Leadership since 1960’s: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Workers_World_Party_and_Its_Front_Or/6vOzIPWKrwgC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Editor of Newspaper;
Gerry Condon
Hands Off Syria Coalition
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20190626205529/https://handsoffsyriacoalition.net/about/
Veterans for Peace
Board President; https://cpnn-world.org/new/?p=15853
Muna Coobtee
PSL/ANSWER/Free Palestine Alliance
“Muna Coobtee is a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and a member of the ANSWER Coalition Steering Committee in Los Angeles, representing the Free Palestine Alliance.” ; https://web.archive.org/web/20220208161230/https://www.answercoalition.org/speakers_and_workshops_at_los
Worker’s World Party
Member, Newspaper editor; https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=wwnews%40wwpublish.com&q=Coobtee&x=0&y=0
International Action Center
“Muna Coobti, Esq., International Action Center”; https://archive.ph/1C5uX#selection-2253.35957-2253.36003
Jodie Evans
CODEPINK
Co-Founder; https://web.archive.org/web/20150205095347/http://www.codepink.org/jodie_evans
Institute for Policy Studies
Board of Trustees; https://web.archive.org/web/20110607133841/http://www.ips-dc.org/about/trustees
Drug Policy Alliance
Sara Flounders
International Action Center:
Co-Director https://web.archive.org/web/20220719171311/https://www.c-span.org/person/?93434/SaraFlounders
ANSWER:
Co-Director https://web.archive.org/web/20220719171311/https://www.c-span.org/person/?93434/SaraFlounders
Workers World Party
Troops out Now Coalition
leader; https://archive.ph/RNGp#selection-633.480-633.494
UNAC
Board of Directors (as of 2022); https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20220614075455/https://noforeignbases.org/about/
Hands Off Syria Coalition
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20190626205529/https://handsoffsyriacoalition.net/about/
Margaret Flowers; Kevin Zeese
They are married and a lot of activism “together” will treat them as one entity
UNAC
Zeese & Flowers: Board of Directors (as of 2022); https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Popular Resistance
Founders and Co-Directors;
Zeese: Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20220614075455/https://noforeignbases.org/about/
Zeese: Drug Policy Alliance (“thinktank” that includes former Secretary of State George Shultz among other unsavory government officials on its board)
Co-Founder; https://web.archive.org/web/20131008205156/http://itsoureconomy.us/who-we-are/
October2011 Movement
Coordinating Committee; Full List here https://web.archive.org/web/20111031053843/http://october2011.org/about
Zeese: Green Party
“served as press secretary and spokesperson for Ralph Nader in 2004 and as a senior advisor to Jill Stein in 2016. He ran for the US Senate in 2006;” ; https://archive.ph/1SOjM#selection-711.121-711.269
“Chelsea Manning Support Network”
Steering Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20140929041643/http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/defending-democracy-a-presentation-by-chelsea-mannings-defense-team-now-on-youtube
Voters for Peace
Netfa Freeman
Black Alliance for Peace
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20200425161852/https://blackallianceforpeace.com/coordinating-committee
Institute for Policy Studies
Director of the Institute’s Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) from 2000 to 2010
Current Fellow and Events Coordinator; https://web.archive.org/web/20220329181709/https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/netfa-freeman/
Founder of No War on Cuba Movement; https://web.archive.org/web/20220329181709/https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/netfa-freeman/
Now defunct, the NWCM was a part of ANSWER Coalition; https://web.archive.org/web/20060117185536/http://www.nowaroncuba.org/Organization.htm
Larry Hales
Worker’s World party
Editor of newspaper; https://web.archive.org/web/20131123144106/http://twogoodhands.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/larry-hales-from-bail-out-the-people-movement-in-hartford/
Fight Imperialism Stand Together (FIST)
Lead organizer; https://web.archive.org/web/20131123144106/http://twogoodhands.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/larry-hales-from-bail-out-the-people-movement-in-hartford/
Bail Out the People Movement
Leader; https://web.archive.org/web/20131123144106/http://twogoodhands.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/larry-hales-from-bail-out-the-people-movement-in-hartford/
People’s Power Assemblies
“Larry Hales is a national organizer for the People’s Power Assemblies”; https://archive.ph/jtLQO#selection-893.0-893.198
Jaribu Hill
DOJ
“Jaribu Hill serves as Municipal Judge for the City of Hollandale and is a Special Master for Mental Commitment Cases in Washington County Chancery Court.” ; https://archive.ph/4O7r1#selection-263.105-263.259
Black Alliance for Peace
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20200425161852/https://blackallianceforpeace.com/coordinating-committee12341234
Mississippi Worker’s Center for human Rights
Founder and Director; https://archive.ph/4O7r1#selection-263.0-263.105
Larry Holmes
ANSWER
Co-Founder & Leader (2004) https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2004/07/26/protesters-gather-on-eve-of-convention/31313817007/
IAC & ANSWER
“Lead Organizer”; https://georgetownvoice.com/2003/01/30/in-the-anti-war-movement-is-only-one-a-n-s-w-e-r-right/
WWP & Troops Out Now Coalition https://archive.ph/Fgizt#selection-611.1-615.46
WWP Leadership; https://www.mail-archive.com/wwnews@wwpublish.com/msg03048.html
Joe Iosbaker
UNAC
Steering Committee (2015)— https://web.archive.org/web/20150920022445/https://www.unacpeace.org/about.html
FRSO
Leadership; https://www.workers.org/2012/us/syria_iran_0712/
Ted Kelly
International Action Center
Co-editor of newspaper; https://web.archive.org/web/20220428072407/https://sanctionskill.org/2021/05/30/statement-from-the-international-delegation-to-the-2021-syrian-presidential-election/
“Member”; https://web.archive.org/web/20220513014250/https://www.radio4all.net/program/108863
Philly United Front “coalition of Workers World Black & Brown Coalition, Philly Boricuas, and Party for Socialism and Liberation”
Worker’s World Party
Leader of WWP Philadelphia branch; https://archive.ph/z65kn#selection-851.235-851.287 (event collaboration between BAP and WWP)
Leader of WWP LGBT Caucus; https://web.archive.org/web/20220416004708/https://www.workers.org/2022/03/62695/
Leader in WWP “Prisoners Solidarity Committee”; https://archive.ph/Hfs8v#selection-1363.0-1367.53
Margaret Kimberley
US Peace Memorial Foundation
Board of Directors; https://archive.ph/4ZEdE
Black Alliance for Peace
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20200425161852/https://blackallianceforpeace.com/coordinating-committee
UNAC
Board of Directors (as of 2022); https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20220614075455/https://noforeignbases.org/about/
Hands Off Syria Coalition
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20190626205529/https://handsoffsyriacoalition.net/about/
Cassia Laham
UNAC
Board of Directors (as of 2022); https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Peoples Opposition to War and Imperialism (POWIR)
https://www.andyworthington.co.uk/tag/peoples-opposition-to-war-imperialism-and-racism/
Women Against Military Madness (WAMM)
member of WAMM’s Middle East Committee,; http://www.fightbacknews.org/2022/1/21/wamm-still-saying-no-war-40th-anniversary-celebration
Lamont Lilly
Black Alliance for Peace
Coordinating Committee (2018); https://web.archive.org/web/20180804060551/https://blackallianceforpeace.com/coordinating-committee/
Worker’s World Party
Joined 2011; https://eoinhiggins.com/a-rich-tradition-wwps-lamont-lilly-on-durham-and-the-movement-a216321f0c3f
Vice Presidential Candidate 2016; https://web.archive.org/web/20210613000111/https://www.workers.org/2016/08/26446/
Joe Lombardo
UNAC
Board of Directors; Head Coordinator; https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20220614075455/https://noforeignbases.org/about/
Hands Off Syria Coalition
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20190626205529/https://handsoffsyriacoalition.net/about/
Monica Moorhead
Worker’s World Party
Joined WWP in 1972 and went on many international trips through the 80’s and 90’s; https://archive.ph/iAmnC#selection-747.0-763.23
WWP Presidential Candidate in 1996, 200, and 2016; https://web.archive.org/web/20210618182048/https://www.workers.org/2016/06/25751/
Current Managing Editor of WWP newspaper; https://web.archive.org/web/20210512202011/https://www.workers.org/category/women/
Millions for Mumia Coordinator; International Action Center; https://web.archive.org/web/20050513221606/https://www.mail-archive.com/wwnews@wwpublish.com/msg01116.html
Peta Lindsay
Ida B Wells Education project
Founder and Director; https://web.archive.org/web/20211221005254/https://www.idabwellseducationproject.org/the-board
Party for Socialism and Liberation
“Peta Lindsay is a founding member of the PSL and a member of the PSL Central Committee.”; https://web.archive.org/web/20220731202451/https://www.liberationnews.org/author/peta_lindsay/
2012 Presidential Candidate; https://web.archive.org/web/20220201150046/https://womensmediacenter.com/fbomb/an-interview-with-peta-lindsay
ANSWER
Founding Member and Steering Committee until 2013; https://drive.google.com/file/d/1laICzWd9ueTQW6tt7ZjdL9MbFfJo9XBK/view
International Action Center (IAC)
“National Student and Youth Coordinator of the International Action Center” ; https://www.mail-archive.com/wwnews@wwpublish.com/msg01405.html
Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD)
Leader;
Jeff Mackler
UNAC
Board of Directors; Head Coordinator; https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20220614075455/https://noforeignbases.org/about/
Socialist Action
Presidential Candidate; https://socialism.com/fs-article/the-case-for-voting-socialist/
Sarah Martin
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)
Leader: http://www.fightbacknews.org/2010/9/23/us-progressives-meet-iranian-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad
Women Against Military Madness (WAMM)
Board of Directors; https://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/about-us-2/
John Parker
Worker’s World Party;
2004 Presidential Candidate; https://www.mail-archive.com/wwnews@wwpublish.com/msg03376.html
2016 Senate Candidate; https://web.archive.org/web/20210912005204/https://www.workers.org/2016/04/25042/
ANSWER Coalition
Co-ordinator of Los Angeles ANSWER branch; https://www.mail-archive.com/wwnews@wwpublish.com/msg02920.html; https://archive.ph/BhiQh#selection-85.1479-85.1566
Socialist Unity Party/Struggle La Lucha
2022 senate candidate for Socialist Unity Party; https://web.archive.org/web/20220531014615/https://johnparkerforussenate.org/meet/
Self-identified Leader in Struggle La Lucha; https://web.archive.org/web/20210911174735/https://iacenter.org/john-parker-struggle-la-lucha/
International Action Center;
West Coast Coordinator; https://web.archive.org/web/20220725150005/https://votersedge.org/ca/en/election/2018-06-05/solano-county/senator-united-states-senate/john-thompson-parker ;https://archive.ph/nrJ50#selection-879.94-879.289
Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice;
Coordinator of the Center; https://web.archive.org/web/20220725144917/http://sputnikimages.com/story/list_268281681/8186687.html
“The Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice hosts the Los Angeles branches of Workers World Party, the International Action Center, FIRE (Fighting for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere) and the Prisoner’s Solidarity Committee.” ; https://archive.ph/Yi9uP#selection-851.0-851.370
Sarah Sloan
International Action Center
“ a national organizer with the International Action Center”; https://www.mail-archive.com/wwnews@wwpublish.com/msg01405.html
PSL and ANSWER Leader
“Sarah Sloan is a founding member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and is the National Staff Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition.”; https://web.archive.org/web/20210609043058/https://www.liberationnews.org/author/sarah_sloan/
David Swanson
Source: Peace memorial Foundation “Award resume”; https://www.uspeacememorial.org/Registry.htm
Green Party
“Shadow Secretary of Peace in the Green Party” (2012-2015)
Veterans for Peace
Central Committee (2012-2014)
Voters for Peace
Board Member (2007-2010)
AfterDowningStreet/War Is A Crime
“Co-founder AfterDowningStreet.org, later renamed WarIsACrime.org, May 2005”
World Beyond War
“Executive Director, WorldBeyondWar.org 2014-2021.”
Cornel West
Green party
Black Alliance for Peace
REFUSE Fascism
Democratic Party
Obame Regime
Advisor to Obama during campaign trail, Helped fundraise for Obama and attended 65+ events during 2008 election campaign.
https://archive.ph/S14Ct#selection-943.0-943.658
https://archive.ph/Vd6Yo#selection-617.0-617.202
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
“Honorary chair of DSA”
Sanders Campaigns
Alpha Phi Alpha
Exclusive Black Fraternity for US statesmen
He was a part of their “World Policy Council” thinktank
https://web.archive.org/web/20090225132901/http://www.alpha-phi-alpha.com/Resources/ImageFile/File/image/WPC06-WEB.pdf
Colonel Ann Wright
State Department and DoD
“In 1987, Col.Wright joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State Department’s Award for Heroism”
“She was on the first State Department team to go to Afghanistan and helped reopen the Embassy there in December 2001. Her other overseas assignments include Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada, Micronesia, and Nicaragua.”
CodePink
“National Staff”; https://web.archive.org/web/20220120230621/https://www.codepink.org/ann_wright
Coalition Against US Foreign Military Bases
Coordinating Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20220614075455/https://noforeignbases.org/about/
World Can’t Wait
Advisory Board “War Criminal Watch” (WCW project)
https://archive.ph/sPeEq#selection-539.0-539.34
World Without War
Advisory Board
https://worldbeyondwar.org/who/#advisory
“Chelsea Manning Support Network”
Steering Committee; https://web.archive.org/web/20151007043156/http://www.chelseamanning.org/ourwork/advisory-board
Green Party
“Shadow Secretary of State in the Green Shadow Cabinet, 2012-2015.”
Veterans for Peace
International Action Center Front Organizations
Bail Out the People Movement
“Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee” is IAC/ANSWER:
https://archive.ph/kkGml#selection-431.0-433.75
Youth against war and Fascism == IAC
https://web.archive.org/web/20080723113348/http://www.yawr.org/links/links.htm
Women Organized to Resist and Defend (WORD) is a PSL/ANSWER front
Their “Donate” link originally went right to ANSWER; https://web.archive.org/web/20121022104830/http://www.defendwomensrights.org/about.html#.UIUkhBzP3y0
“We want to thank the ANSWER coalition, which has provided invaluable organizational support and infrastructure”
List of IPS projects circa 2008
https://web.archive.org/web/20081014211531/http://www.ips-dc.org/about/partners
FIST is WWP/IAC;
https://archive.ph/YL8Ii#selection-1255.0-1303.19
More IAC projects
IAC is WWP Front
“we relied on the International Action Center as our “mass organization”, which was in effect a front group. By that I mean that the IAC membership mostly or in large part consisted of WWP members and toed the party-line of WWP. In public events, we would introduce ourselves as WWP or IAC depending on the occasion; it was more of a hat that we put on than a genuine mass working-class organization. Our conception of mass organization was as a way to funnel individual workers into revolutionary ideas.” (source)
Struggle La Lucha/Socialist Unity party founded by WWP members
“Veterans of YAWF are among the founders of Struggle-La Lucha newspaper and the Socialist Unity Party / Partido de Socialismo Unido.” https://archive.ph/z6rN2#selection-791.0-791.131
UNAC Board of Directors (as of 2022); https://archive.ph/1Zj4L
Joe Lombardo; Coordinator
Ajamu Baraka
Margaret Flowers
Sara Flounders
Margaret Kimberley
Judy Bello
Cassia Laham
Bahman Azad
Kevin Zeese
Jeff Mackler
Rhonda Ramiro
Autumn Lake
The Steering Committee for the March 30th Anti-NATO Mobilization:; https://www.nowaronvenezuela.org/take-action/march30/
• Bahman Azad, Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases
• Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace
• Leah Bolger, World Beyond War
• Alison Bodine, Mobilization Against War and Occupation
• Gerry Condon, Veterans For Peace
• Miguel Figueroa, Canadian Peace Congress
• Sara Flounders, International Action Center
• Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance
• Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler, Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ
• Larry Hamm, People’s Organization for Progress
• Madelyn Hoffman, U.S. Peace Council
• Tarak Kauff, Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases, Veterans For Peace
• Cassia Laham, People’s Opposition to War, Imperialism, and Racism (POWIR)
• Marilyn Levin, UNAC
• Joe Lombardo, UNAC
• Tamara Lorincz, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
• Jacqueline Luqman, Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality
• Jeff Mackler, West Coast UNAC
• Alfred L. Marder, U.S. Peace Council
• Sarah Martin, Women Against Military Madness
• Diane Moxley, Green Party of New Jersey
• Nancy Price, WILPF-US Section
• Paul Pumphrey, Friends of the Congo
• Rhonda Ramiro, BAYAN USA
• Cindy Sheehan, March on the Pentagon
• Paki Wieland, CODEPINK
• Phil Wilayto, Virginia Defenders
• Ann Wright, Veterans For Peace, CODEPINK
• Rev. Bruce Wright, Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and Refuge Ministries
• Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance
Sanctions Kill Coalition
Joe Lombardo Co-Founder; nepajac.org/cffletter.pdf
“Joe has been doing a lot of work against U.S. sanctions in a coalition he helped found called the Sanctions Kill
Coalition.”
Margaret Flowers
“Dr. Margaret Flowers is a medical doctor, co-chair of the Sanctions Kill Coalition”; https://web.archive.org/web/20220810201211/https://covidtaskforce.pacifica.org/2021/10/04/sanctions-kill/
Sara Flounders
“Sanctions Kill! organizer Sarah Flounders”; https://covidtaskforce.pacifica.org/2022/02/08/sanctions-kill-part-ii/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190806031534/https://sanctionskill.org/
“The Sanctions Kill Coalition includes the International Action Center, Black Alliance for Peace, United National Antiwar Coalition, Code Pink", and many more”; https://web.archive.org/web/20220810201211/https://covidtaskforce.pacifica.org/2021/10/04/sanctions-kill/
A Million Tiny Fleas chapter on Ramsey Clark is incomplete. An introduction to him can be found here in the meantime.
"Russian Research Center” one of the many many CIA Academic “partnerships” during that period. See: LARSON, DEBORAH WELCH. “The Cold War and the University.” Diplomatic History, vol. 24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 151–56. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24914162. Accessed 22 Jul. 2022.
Directors of “Regional Studies programs” have long served as “spotters” for CIA and State Department recruiters—even (and especially) “Left-leaning”professors.For more information see chapter two; CIA Off Campus by Amy Chen Mills
The current director of CMES is Toby C. Jones who used to work at the NATO sponsored “International Crisis Group” think tank.
Previous Director Eric Davis worked at a whole host of State Department financed thinktanks
2013 project of CMES was funded by the Israeli Consulate
“"I have students who want to go into the FBI, CIA and NSA (National Security Agency)," said Paul Sprachman, vice director for undergraduate studies at Rutgers University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. "People see it as a future and they are intensely interested."
…
At Rutgers, enrollment in Arabic and Persian language courses is up nearly 50 percent. The program enrolled 230 students this semester, making the school's Arabic program one of the largest on the East Coast” (Source)
Amnesty International is the same Ford Foundation funded org that pushes regime change narratives such as the
“babies stolen from incubators” lie that served justification for US invasion of Iraq, in first Gulf War