ADL Continues Fingering Of Left-Wing Groups Progressive Labor Party Added To Targets 9/24/01 1:41:15 PM LSN Staff New York, NY -- Consider it official -- the ADL is now in the business of monitoring "Left- wing/Anarchist" "hate" groups. On their latest "What They Are Saying" web page (), much of which's material has been cribbed from LSN reports (incuding an amusing piece on Third Positionists in Idaho -- which we mistakenly identified as "LSN supporters" in our original piece), the Progressive Labor Party is singled out for attack, for making anti-capitalist statements that contradict the ADL's party line: Left-wing/Anarchist Progressive Labor Party. Added 9/20/01. The Brooklyn-based Progressive Labor Party issued a statement claiming that the attacks of September 11 "are the direct result of the wars that capitalists wage against each other." The PLP's statement argues that the attackers "chose to attack workers rather than make revolution against capitalism." The "little terrorists" (the attackers) don't want to eliminate the "horrors of the capitalist system." They only wish to "grab a piece of the pie from the 'big terrorists.'" The "big terrorists" are the multi-national corporations and the governments who support them, "especially the U.S. government." According to the PLP, the "little terrorists" pretend to be champions of the oppressed, but they are "just in it for themselves." The "U.S. bosses," though, may cry "crocodile tears" for the victims of the attacks, but "these bosses have killed many more workers than that themselves." PLP warns that the danger is that in our "righteous anger against the New York terrorists," people will lose sight of "how much death is caused by the big terrorists-the capitalist system." Worse yet, "some might actively or passively side with the U.S. bosses as they whip up hysteria against Arabs and increase police state fascist policies against the working class." Included in recent ADL briefing have been other left-wing organizations such as the International Socialist Organization and the International Action Center. About them, the ADL stated: Left-wing/Anarchist International Action Center. Added 9/13/01. This New York-based group, founded by Ramsey Clark, issued a statement declaring that the U.S. must stop its "barbaric terrorism." It stated that the IAC extends "its most heartfelt sympathies and condolences" to all who lost loved ones, but asserted that the Bush administration is "taking advantage of the tragic human toll to strengthen the forces of repression while intensifying the Pentagon's war drive, especially in the Middle East." It stated that Arab and Muslim peoples in the U.S. are facing racist harassment and called on those people who oppose racism to "stand shoulder to shoulder with the Arab-American community in the face of this reactionary frenzy." It urged "all anti-war activists and progressive people" to oppose the Bush administration and the Pentagon, as well as "current efforts to strengthen police measures under cover of the present crisis." International Socialist Organization. Added 9/13/01. A September 13 statement of the ISO, based in Chicago, does not condone the attacks but does express fear that they will be used "as a pretext to strengthen US military might." The ISO is also wary of widespread persecution of Arab-Americans. "The people who died in the September 11 attacks are not to blame for the U.S. government's policy," it said. "Neither are millions of Arab Americans to blame for the attacks. We stand with our Palestinian brothers and sisters in their just demand for self-determination and freedom from Israeli oppression and we will oppose any attempt to use this tragedy to justify that oppression." The ADL is vociferously pursuing this war, with the intent of using US bodies to defend Israel, and has expanded its "surveillance" of organizations to include any left-wing organization that opposes their war effort. Such expansion is the necessary conclusion of a policy of fighting "hate", where "hate" is broadly defined it includes anyone who has an opinion that the self-appointed censors don't define as "non-hateful." Ironically, the Progressive Labor Party's slogan on speech issues is "no free speech for fascists". At a recent rally, the International Socialist Organization and International Action Center waived signs calling for "no free speech for haters" and "no tolerance for intolerance." It looks like the World Trade Center's chickens aren't the only ones that have come home to roost. "No tolerance for those intolerant of intolerance" anyone? Libertarian Socialist News Post Office Box 12244 Silver Spring, MD 20908 http://www.overthrow.com (check out our messageboards -- discuss this story on-line!) (Formerly http://www.libertariansocialist.com)
