Technically, an individual, near-billionaire Singham, funds People's Forum, Code Pink, and Vishay Prashad's Tricontinental Institute – not a foreign government. Comparison to the Communist International is incorrect.
Three years ago the U.S. made a similar attack on foreign funding of a supposedly left-wing group. It said the Russian government funded Omali Yeshitela's Uhuru House and African People's Socialist Party. Yeshitela is a con man who uses a left cover. Most of the left said very little in opposition to the U.S. charges. In the present case, the main thing about the government's attack is its well-worn red-baiting trick of leveling the communist charge against groups that are democratic socialist and opponents of U.S. imperialism but not at all communist. Defense of their right to free speech should emphasize this. Of course, communists, too, are red-baited. The government did it when they were a big force in trade unions. And liberals red-bait communists when there is a struggle between them in mass organizations. Americans for Democratic Action and the ACLU have a shameful history of this. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42627): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42627 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120380406/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
