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VVAW distributes literature at an event that is used to collect intelligence on military tactics and methods in Vietnam. Considering the fact that the VVAW has meetings with the North Vietnam Communists and VVAW members travel to Moscow and Hanoi, this is a very serious matter. VVAW collects military intelligence concerning US tactics and methods in Vietnam War.

Norfolk-based sailor uses Web to channel opposition to war By LOUIS HANSEN, The Virginian-Pilot © November 5, 2006 NORFOLK - Jonathan Hutto graduated from Howard University with a degree in political science and a résumé of social activism. He worked for the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International after college. He whipped up grass-roots protests against police departments and college administrators. One day in 2003, broke and seeking direction, Hutto enlisted in the Navy. The Navy couldn't have known it then, but they know it now: They had signed up a sailor strongly opposed to the Iraq war. Seaman...

The Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission yesterday unanimously granted a request yesterday by a socialist candidate for mayor to conceal the names of his campaign donors from public disclosure. Chris Hoeppner, a member of the Socialist Workers Party, had sought the exemption, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling which found exemptions appropriate if donors to candidates with unpopular political views could reasonably fear harassment if their names were made public. Though the office of Seattle mayor is nonpartisan, Jim Lobsenz, Hoeppner's attorney, presented evidence that supporters of candidates identifying themselves as socialists have been threatened and harassed in Seattle and...

SEATTLE—“We’re getting an especially good response when we explain that our campaign supports workers’ struggles to organize unions and strengthen their unions,” Chris Hoeppner, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Seattle, told participants in a June 25 Militant Labor Forum here. The meeting celebrated substantial progress in the effort to place the SWP candidate on the ballot. In nine days 4,900 signatures have been collected—more than three times the city requirement. Some 30 campaign supporters had fanned out across Seattle that day and the preceding week, campaigning with the party platform and collecting signatures to gain ballot status for...

OBERLIN, Ohio—Days after the conclusion of the 43rd constitutional convention of the Socialist Workers Party, held here June 9-11, socialist workers, young socialists, and others were hitting the streets of Seattle and Pittsburgh, campaigning to put SWP mayoral candidates on the ballot. In New York, socialists are organizing a similar effort that will start mid-July. Socialist workers and youth also signed up for teams in late June and early July to the Western coalfields, Midwestern meatpacking factories, and auto plants in the South to sell the Militant and the Marxist magazine New International to working people. The convention, attended by...

UN probes Wheat Pool Payments of $23.15M made in oil-for-food scandal congressional hearing told Steven Edwards CanWest News Service Saturday, April 30, 2005 UNITED NATIONS -- The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool has emerged as one of the companies involved in Iraq oil-for-food deals now under investigation by a U.S. congressional committee probing the United Nations aid program, which Saddam Hussein manipulated to skim off billions of dollars for himself. The focus on the company comes as the UN announced Friday it had discovered a staff-rule violation by Canadian businessperson and international diplomat Maurice Strong, whose long record at the world body...

Michael Berg: "... I don’t think that my son’s murder was solved, if you know what I’m saying ..." On Saturday I attended International ANSWER's latest "EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION" to protest the Bush administration's "criminal wars, occupations, torture and assault." According the flyer, thousands of protestors would "Speak Truth to Power" in a march from the White House to Donald Rumsfeld's front lawn. The highlight of the event was to be a celebrity speech by Michael Berg, the father of terror victim Nick Berg. Given Mr. Berg's recent rhetoric espousing what he regards as the Bush administration's culpability in his son's...

Even after 33 years, the Communist Daily World (CDW) articles covering the activities of John Kerry and Vietnam Veterans Against the War in early 1971 remain shocking. The Communist world understood clearly then what John Kerry even today tries to deny. The anti-war movement typified by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War was not simply a protest movement making a statement that the war in Vietnam was being wrongly waged in the sense that another military strategy might be more successful. No, the VVAW at its core was avowedly anti-American, willing to propagate lies about "war crimes" allegedly committed by...

In the last two decades, politics in many Western nations has been enlivened by the appearance of a new political entity that calls itself the Green Party. The implication, reinforced by the rhetoric of its spokesmen, is that environmentalism is one of its major concerns. In a number of European states, it also has a mildly socialist agenda, being hostile to business and opposed (for example) to the U.S. attack on Iraq. In Germany, and to a lesser extent in some other European countries, it has bagged enough votes in general elections to insist on being included in governing coalitions...