"I was absolutely appalled by the manipulations of the SWP in actually
trying to take over complete control" Sydney Peck recalled.
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counterpunch.org Louis Project, October 23, 2020
...Fred Halstead [Out Now! 1991] describes Davis as sharing Dave Dellinger
and Jerry Rubin's belief that tactics dominated politics. Often, it
appeared tactics had become their politics.
Fred had a different vision for the anti-war movement. He saw the
possibility of winning GIs to it's cause in the same way the Bolsheviks won
over the Czarist troops weary of four years of brutal and senseless
slaughter. My old friend, the late Nelson Blackstock, profiled Fred in his
best-selling "Cointelpro: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom":
"Early in 1946, a young sailor named Fred Halstead was stationed on a ship
off the coast of China. WWII had just ended but the fighting on mainland
China had not stopped. A civil war was raging.
Back in Washington the rulers of this country were very interested in the
outcome of that struggle. They would have liked to send their army in to
back up Chiang Kai-shek's crumbling forces, but their attempts to stall the
demobilization of American troops after the war provoked massive protests
among the GIs. It was clear that large scale US military intervention was
out of the question.
Two decades later when the United States began commiting thousands of
troops to another Asian country in an attempt to hold back a revolution,
Fred Halstead remembered what he has seen while he was in the navy. He was
convinced that there were important lessons for the growing movement
against the war in Vietnam.“
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