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Contact: Alison Thorne 03-9386-5065, 03-9388-0062
For release: immediately
Lyndon LaRouche Exposed
In "Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium," author
Helen Gilbert provides a highly revealing look at the background and
politics of the LaRouche movement, which is sure to stand candidates in
the upcoming Federal Election under the name Citizens Electoral Council
(CEC.)
Dennis King, whose definitive book on LaRouche was published in 1989,
calls the new publication, "Highly recommended -- packed with vital
up-to-date information to refute the egregious deceptions of LaRouche
organisers."
This small, well-documented booklet from Red Letter Press reviews
LaRouche's origins as a one-time socialist who took a turn to the
far-right in the 1970s. He instigated his followers to physically attack
left organisations and published hysterical diatribes against women,
people of color, Jews, and gays.
In the U.S., LaRouchites actively sabotaged labour reformers in
Teamsters for a Democratic Union and built a multi-million dollar empire
through political spying and defrauding senior citizens. In Australia
the CEC scapegoats Aborigines and in 1997 published a pamphlet titled
"Aboriginal 'Land Rights:' Prince Philip's Racist Plot to Splinter
Australia."
As a perennial U.S. presidential candidate LaRouche is now taking a
milder public tone, but Gilbert finds his essential message the same.
She has studied current LaRouche publications and found a far-right
agenda that combines racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic scapegoating
with extreme hostility toward women and environmentalists.
LaRouche also promotes nuclear power and the banned pesticide DDT. He
seeks to "save" the free market economy. Gilbert defines fascism as a
mass movement that aims to preserve capitalism by smashing working class
gains and eliminating democratic rights. On this basis, she concludes
that LaRouche is a peculiar variety of 21st century fascist.
The author, a longtime feminist, anti-Nazi activist and socialist, first
became aware of LaRouche in the 1970s when he was actively threatening
radicals and spouting conspiracy theories from the front pages of "New
Solidarity."
The 46-page booklet is priced at $7 and is available from Solidarity
Salon: 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick 3056. To order a copy by mail send a
cheque for $8 payable to the Feminist Education Association, PO Box 266
West Brunswick Vic 3055.
For more information or to receive a review copy, contact the Feminist
Education Association which distributes Red Letter Press in Australia at
PO Box 266 West Brunswick Vic 3055 or 03-9388-0062. Web:
www.RedLetterPress.org.
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