There is an ecological niche in politics for groups with titles like "Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigades" and for journalists who get the permutations slightly wrong and don't care.
The title does not come up on Google as clearly linked to any organisation, though I see another commentary links them with Furedi's group and Living Marxism, which took a turn towards radical libertarianism.
The actual remark quoted by CNN does not sound unreasonable:
"[Terri Schiavo's] brain is not functional. It's not going to recover. Let her die in peace," pleaded Sunsari Taylor, a member of the group.
While I don't defend the tactics, and admittedly from a long distance away, I get the impression that there are indeed large sections of the Christian Right who are in fact "Christian Fascists", and maybe the issue is *how* they should be challenged rather than *whether* they should be challenged.
I suspect however it is a mistake to regard Roman Catholics as in this group.
Chris Burford
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:00 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Avakian vs Terry: Loser Leave Town
Outside the Florida hospice where Terri Schiavo is dying, supporters of the RCP and Bob Avakian took on the Christian Fascists who have been raving virtually unopposed.
Here is what CNN wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/27/schiavo/index.html
"After remarks by Randall Terry -- an activist against abortion rights who has been acting as a spokesman for Terri Schiavo's family, the Schindlers -- members of a group calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigades seized control of the microphones and blasted [Randall] Terry as a "Christian fascist thug" trying to interfere in "the most intimate affairs of life and death."
whoops, avakian wasn't actually there, only his acolytes, still there's an image for ya' - world rasslin' federation 'let's get ready to rumble' - in this corner, the one time self-proclaimed 'most dangerous man in amerikkka', in the other, a vile man about whom so many things could be said we don't have time to list them...
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