NEWS FLASH TO MEDIA: ANTIFA IS COMMUNIST!
BY WILLIAM F. JASPER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
No matter how many communist
hammers & sickles or images of Marx, Mao, and other communists the
violent Antifa radicals display, the Fake News media continue to present
them as idealistic "anti-fascists."
“When we fight, we fight for communism, and all our constructive and
destructive activity is geared toward building our party, which will
wage a protracted people’s war, establishing socialism and continuing
the revolution under the rule of the working class.”
So
declares
Red Guards Austin, the masked “Antifa” thugs of Austin, Texas, who
march about displaying the communist hammer & sickle symbol, and who
also openly display
banners emblazoned with images of Karl Marx and mass-murderers Mao Zedong and Vladimir Lenin. See, for example, the photos to the right and immediately below, from their website (see here and here; the article continues below the photo.)
Unequivocally Communist
The organizers, theorists, strategists, and writers of Antifa (short
for “Anti-fascist”) are unequivocally communists, as is evident not only
from their obvious communist tactics and their own admissions and
public proclamations, but also from their ties to (and support from)
formal communist parties, as well as their adoption of communist
slogans, symbols, chants, and causes. Many Antifa leaders and groups
unabashedly proclaim themselves Maoists, Marxist-Leninists, Stalinists,
or Trotskyites.
The above-mentioned black-clad hoodlums of Red Guards Austin, for
example, offer unalloyed praise for one of history’s most notorious
dictators and mass murderers in
“A Tribute to Comrade Joseph Stalin.” As
Maoist communists, they also have great affection, of course, for Mao
Zedong, the only dictator ever to top Stalin in the bloodletting and
liquidation business. According to the meticulous research of the late
Professor R. J. Rummel, Mao’s regime
murdered over 76 million Chinese.
Mao is, nevertheless, idolized by Red Guards Austin. In listing the
“weapons” of their cause, these Antifa hoodlums say: “The first and most
important among these [weapons] is the Maoist party — Red Guards
Austin’s reason for existence is to build this party with other Maoists
in the US.”
The Red Guards Austin are not the only
Antifa group proudly declaring their communist lineage and their
adherence to Marxist-Leninist ideology. Indeed, virtually all of the
Antifa organizations around the country that have been rioting and
burning our cities and physically assaulting American citizens openly
declare their communist sympathies. This is no secret, yet the
establishment news media continue to refer to the Antifa criminals and
terrorists by their preferred labels: anti-fascist, anti-Nazi,
anti-racist.
CNN Investigative Report Unmasks ... Zilch
For example, on August 22, 2017, CNN produced an “investigative news”
report entitled “Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement” that did zero
unmasking. Instead, the CNN report glamorized Antifa, providing a public
relations bonanza for mayhem makers. “We are meeting members of the
Rose City Antifa, short for Anti-Fascist,” CNN reporter Sara Ganim
explained as she went to a secret meeting in Portland, Oregon, with the
masked Antifa members. “This group’s main goal is to disrupt neo-Nazis
and white supremacists, but also to take on government and capitalism,”
Ganim noted. CNN’s reference to “taking on” capitalism was as close as
the “unmasking” got to even hinting at Antifa’s core communist
motivation. A young masked Antifa woman tells Ganim’s CNN audience that
“Antifa is any group that is willing to stand up to fascists by any
means necessary.”
That sounds pretty idealistic — maybe even admirable — does it not?
After all, everyone knows fascists and Nazis are bad. Shouldn’t we stand
up to them? But here’s the rub: For Antifa activists,“fascist” is a
totally elastic label that can be stretched to smear anyone with whom
they disagree, including brave people who truly fought fascism — people
such as my parents and my uncles who put their lives on the line in
World War II to fight Hitler and the Nazis. My father was a paratrooper
in the 82nd Airborne (D-Day, Battle of the Bulge); my mother was in the
Army Nurse Corps (England, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany). My
parents were fiercely anti-Nazi, anti-fascist, anti-racist, and
anti-KKK — and, just as fiercely, anti-communist. It was the
anti-communist part that made them, and millions of other patriotic
veterans like them, “enemies of the people” in the eyes of the Communist
Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Weather
Underground, and the Black Panther Party — the ancestors of today’s
Antifa. So, during the 1960s and ’70s, my parents and other
anti-communist Americans who had actually fought the Nazis had to endure
being called Nazis by Marxist-Leninist baby-boomer brats and hardcore
communist terrorists who were bent on establishing a totalitarian
dictatorship that would have been every bit as tyrannical and genocidal
as Hitler’s.
Antifa's Professor Mike Isaacson
So it continues today. According to Professor Mike Isaacson (shown at
right), an Antifa leader who teaches at the City University of New
York’s John Jay College of Law, “Anti-communism is code for fascism.”
There you have it: If you’re an anti-communist, if you’re averse to
living in a communist police state — 24/7 surveillance, repression,
torture, gulags, genocide, etc. — well, then, you’re obviously a
FASCIST. If you stand anywhere to the right of Mao Zedong or Fidel
Castro, you are a FASCIST, and, according to the Antifa jihadists, you
should be treated as such. Which means that not only have you forfeited
your right to speak, but also your right to exist. It’s “Off with your
head!” Literally. The Antifa website It’s Going Down wants to bring back
the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror, with a campaign to
“Make the Guillotine Red Again.” Communist
megalomaniacs from Marx to Lenin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel
Castro, and Pol Pot have invoked the French Revolution’s massive
bloodletting as their inspiration for remolding society.
Prof. Isaacson, a founder of Smash
Racism DC, an Antifa group in our nation’s capital that participated in
the violent and disruptive “protests” during President Trump’s
inauguration, has gained infamy for his numerous public endorsements of
Antifa violence and his many tweets supporting murder of police
officers, some of whom are his law school students. Here are a few of
his offensive tweets that have caused outrage:
• July 18, 2017 — “Dead Cops are good, Laci.”
• August 16, 2017 — “What’s even the point of a cop that isn’t dead?”
• August 17, 2017 — “I hear their police stations catch on fire with an accelerant.”
• August 23, 2017 — “Some of y'all might think it sucks being an
anti-fascist teaching at John Jay College but I think it's a privilege
to teach future dead cops.”
• August 29, 2017 — “Off the pigs”
And he teaches law at a prestigious law school! A committed
Marxist-Leninist, Isaacson has even developed a Marxist, collectivist
method of grading his students because, he says, the “pursuit of
knowledge is a collective pursuit.”
“Few academic or professional endeavors are the result of individuals acting alone,”
states
Isaacson’s grading curve policy for his class, “ECO 101: Introduction
to Economics and Global Capitalism.” “All graded assignments will
receive grades reflective of not only individual efforts, but also class
effort,” the class description continues.
In September, due to public outcry over Isaacson’s outrageous
anti-police statements and his support for Antifa violence, he was put
on administrative leave by John Jay College. However, that public outcry
didn’t arise because of any coverage of Isaacson in the “mainstream”
media; it came about thanks to outrage from police unions and coverage
of the Antifa prof’s antics by the independent conservative media. For
its part, the establishment Fake News media was content to present
Isaacson as a credible academic and quote his more “nuanced” — and
seemingly more moderate — statements, without hinting at his radical
Marxist roots.
The members of the press have no excuse for continuing to treat
communist Antifa revolutionists as brave “anti-fascists” and romantic
crusaders fighting against Nazis, racists, and social injustice.
Ignorance and incompetence only go so far in explaining the bias,
imbalance, and self-censorship in the media’s Antifa coverage. Willful
blindness to the facts and sympathy for the Antifa agenda (if not a
total endorsement of its violent communist methods) are clearly at play
here.
Below are some of the additional important facts that the American
people need to know about the Antifa “phenomenon,” but which the
pro-Antifa media have ignored, censored, downplayed, or half-hidden from
the general public’s view.
Without Organized Communist Leadership Antifa Wouldn’t Exist
Communist parties and communist organizations such as the
Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), Communist Party USA (CPUSA),
Workers World Party (WWP), By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), Freedom Road
Socialist Organization, and RefuseFascism.org provide the key
leadership, ideological indoctrination, organizing, and training for the
Antifa rioters. They also provide the chants, slogans, signs, and
banners for the Antifa confrontations. This is not new; it is a
continuation of the same communist organizational operations that have
run through the radical Occupy Wall Street, anti-war, anti-police,
immigration (DACA, Dreamers), environmental, and other protests over the
past several decades. This is not difficult to document, as we have
been showing for years from the radicals’ own admissions and publicly
available documents. (See
here,
here,
here, and
here.)
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Professor Cornel West (shown at right)
promotes Antifa as “saviors” — with help from the media.
Prof. West (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Union Theological Seminary) has
been a hardcore Marxist activist for decades, openly working with the
Revolutionary Communist Party, the violent Maoists who idolize Mao
Zedong and his murderous Red Guards who terrorized China in the 1960s
and '70s.
West claims that Antifa thugs at the deadly Charlottesville,
Virginia, riot on August 12 “saved” him and his leftist clergy comrades
from being beaten by the fascists. We have counted dozens of stories in
the major media that have repeated this claim by West, many of which
have gone on to use this as an accolade for the masked felons and as
supposed evidence of Antifa’s “anti-fascist” bonafides. Not a single
story we have seen has even mentioned Cornel West’s communist
credentials, let alone questioned his motives in glorifying Antifa, or
(perish the thought!) asked whether or not the “saving” operation may
have been planned from the start for precisely the propaganda value that
it obviously has accrued.
Antifa author/professor Mark Bray admits Antifa’s communist ideology and origins in his Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,
but disingenuously entangles it with the less-understood anarchist
label and the more benign-sounding socialist label. (Professor Bray is
shown below on "Democracy Now!" with a cover image of his handbook shown
to the right.) He also attempts to ennoble and sanctify the Antifa
brand by clothing it in “anti-fascist” garb and dishonest rhetoric that
claims the group’s well-documented record of initiating violence is
somehow justified as “self defense.” Repeating a thesis of his book,
Bray told Sean Illing of the left-wing Vox website: “Anti-fascism
originated in response to early European fascism, and when
Mussolini's Blackshirts and Hitler's Brownshirts were ascendant in
Europe, various socialist, communist, and anarchist parties and groups
emerged to confront them.” (Article continues after photo.)
Antifa Flag: Designed by Communist Propagandists
The Antifa flag was designed by Communist Party propagandists to
serve communist purposes. Where did the Antifa logo (pictured below)
with the red and black flags (symbolizing communist/anarchist unity)
come from? The rallying symbol, ever-present on flags and banners at
Antifa events, can be traced back to Germany in the 1920s, reports the
radical left-wing
Jacobin magazine, in
“The Lost History of Antifa.”
According to the
Jacobin
account, it was “devised by Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists
members Max Keilson and Max Gebhard, [and] has been since become one of
the Left’s most well-known symbols.” What the
Jacobin article
doesn’t tell readers is that the Association of Revolutionary Visual
Artists was an official propaganda arm of the German Communist Party,
which was a subservient branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. Max Keilson and Max Gebhard were high-level Communist Party
members. Keilson’s wife, Margarete Schnate-Keilson, was a top member of
the German Communist Party’s Central Committee, and a ruthless agent of
the Comintern (Communist International), the global network of Soviet
spies, assassins, propagandists, and agents of influence. Among her many
exploits, for which she received Soviet and East German honors, was
helping convicted
atom bomb spy Klaus Fuchs escape.
She later married Fuchs. An undated black-and-white photo (presumably
from the 1930s) shows a German Antifa gathering in an auditorium with a
huge Antifa flag/banner in the center of the stage flanked by communist flags with the hammer & sickle on either side.
SDS Radicals From the ’60s
Prof. Mark Bray is certainly aware of this history, as well as the
essential red/black, communist/anarchist ties that run throughout
Antifa’s current composition, but he does not share this crucial
information with his television audiences. And his media interviewers
are complicit in his deception. Communist SDS leader and Weather
Underground terrorist Bill Ayers is one of the many radical Marxists now
continuing their 1960s activism through Antifa. At a Trump campaign
rally in Chicago on March 11, 2016, Ayers joined Antifa, Revolutionary
Communist Party, and Communist Part PUSA agitators who violently blocked
the rally, causing it to be cancelled. A
video interview with Ayers at the event
also shows many of the other participating communist groups, as well as
featuring a young anti-Trump woman who sings/chants about “armed
revolution” and “it’s time to pick up a gun.”
More SDS Reds from the 1960s, such as C. Clark Kissinger and Dan Siegel, are helping the Antifa anarcho-communists:
• Clark Kissinger was national secretary of the SDS in the 1960s and
was such a devoted Maoist that he visited Communist China twice and was
an avid propagandist for Chairman Mao’s bloody Cultural Revolution and
Red Guards. His fervor has not dimmed over the past five decades: He
continues as an activist comrade in the Revolutionary Communist Party,
writes for the RCP’s Revolution newspaper/website, runs the Revolution
Books bookstore in New York City, and is a leading figure in the Occupy
Wall Street movement, as well as in the RCP fronts (and Antifa’s guiding
allies) Refuse&Resist, NotInOurName, and RefuseFascism.org.
• Dan Siegel was an SDS leader and, as student body president at the
University of California-Berkeley, led the 1969 “Bloody Thursday” riot,
also known as the “Battle for Peoples’ Park” at UC Berkeley. He has been
a radical “civil rights” lawyer ever since. He is an Occupy Wall
Street/Occupy Oakland activist and a longtime friend and adviser to
radical Oakland Mayor Jean Quan. Siegel’s Occupy comrades turned the
series of Occupy Oakland protests in 2011-2012 into bloody riots that
were some of the most violent, destructive, and costly operations of the
Occupy movement. The Occupy Oakland conflagrations served as a
principal training ground for Antifa recruits.
Few familiar with Siegel’s background were surprised when he showed up as the attorney for
Professor Eric Clanton, the now-infamous Antifa thug arrested and charged with
the cowardly and vicious attacks (which could easily have been lethal)
in Berkeley last April. In those attacks, several Trump supporters at a
rally were (allegedly) clobbered by Clanton, who was wielding a heavy,
steel bike lock. One of the victims, who was struck on the head in a
sneak attack, was seriously injured. Clanton, the alleged attacker, then
blended back into the crowd, a typical tactic recommended in the Antifa
handbooks. However, the attacks were caught on video, and online
sleuths were able to
unmask Clanton as the alleged attacker using computer forensic tools.
Revolutionary Communist Party
The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) is a central player in Antifa
violence. Whether the Antifa mayhem erupts in Boston, Berkeley,
Charlottesville, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St.
Louis, Oakland, Seattle, or elsewhere, the RCP cadres are inevitably
exercising a leading role. This is evident on many levels, the most
obvious being the distinctive RCP signs carried by the Antifa activists.
Again, this is no secret; the RCP’s web address (
www.revcom.us) is
printed on the signs. This RCP branding is clearly visible even in many
of the photos accompanying “mainstream” media reports on Antifa. But
the Fake News journalists virtually never point out this fact, nor do
they show the slightest inclination in probing the RCP’s organizing
role. Ditto for the RCP’s front group, Refuse Fascism. The
RCP/RefuseFascism cadres have been hard at work for decades recruiting
and building an American version of Mao’s Red Guards to implement a
Maoist Cultural Revolution here in the United States.
They do not hide this. In fact they boast of it. One example out of
many: An interview with RCP leader Raymond Lotta in the RCP’s
Revolution newspaper for May 9, 2016, titled
“The Cultural Revolution: The Furthest Advance of Human Emancipation Yet.” “The
Cultural Revolution was the high point of the first stage of communist
revolution,” avers Comrade Lotta. “The Cultural Revolution was the most
far-reaching attempt in modern history, and in human history, to
revolutionize and restructure a society away from all exploitation and
oppression.... During the course of this, millions and millions of
people revolutionized their world outlook — that is, their basic values,
their approach to reality — and the whole ethos, or spirit, of society
was transformed.” Yes, and millions of people were, jailed, tortured,
and executed in the process, while the remaining hundreds of millions
(except for the privileged Communist Party elites) were enslaved. In
Antifa, the Maoist RCP has already formed the basis for their
long-envisioned Red Guard Amerika.
On September 11, 2017, the RCP’s Revolution published a Refuse Fascism article entitled
“Shameful, Dangerous, Wrong Attacks on Antifa,” which takes to task those elements of the “progressive left” that have criticized Antifa’s violent methods.
Below are several of the many photos available on a
Chinese-language website
showing the grisly reality of the Cultural Revolution. The photos below
of public condemnation of Chinese accused of “thought crimes” do not
begin to show the depths of torture and despair and the horrendous
murders of Mao’s Red Guards, whom Antifa glorify and seek to emulate.
(Article continues beneath photos.)
Communist Workers Party
The Communist Workers World Party (WWP) provides key support to
Antifa efforts. Like the RCP, the WWP is a hardcore, unapologetic
communist organization with a long history of violent “protest” and
rioting. While the RCP true believers channel Mao, the WWP have chosen
Bolshevik death-dealer Leon Trotsky. In an editorial in the third issue
of the party’s publication,
International Workers Day, the
group proclaimed, “We are THE Trotskyists. We stand 100% with all the
principled positions of Leon Trotsky, the most revolutionary communist
since Lenin.” On August 14, two days after the deadly
Charlottesville mayhem, WWP cadres led a similar attack that
toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier in Durham, North Carolina.
Clearly, they were hoping to provoke a riot similar to the lethal
Charlottesville melee. Among the WWP Trotskyists arrested were Takiyah
Thompson, Ngoc Loan Tran, Dante Emmanuel Strobino, Peter Gull Gilbert,
and Raul Jiminez. The WWP is holding a
“#Do It Like Durham” Workers World Party Forum in
New York City on October 14, featuring Takiya Thompson and Ngoc Loan
Tran. Thompson, who climbed the Confederate statue in Durham, North
Carolina on August 16 and put the rope around its neck that was used to
pull it down,
has become something of a celebrity among the “progressive” Left, since a video of her “heroic” exploit went viral.
Black Lives Matter
Antifa
ally Black Lives Matter (BLM) has provided the most successful
communist exploitation of race hatred since the 1960s-’70s. The “white
privilege” mantra of the BLM activists was invented by Noel Ignatiev
(shown at right), a member of the Communist Party USA and a co-founder
of its most militant Stalinist/Maoist offshoot, the Provisional
Organizing Committee.
Ignatiev is also a co-founder of the New Abolitionist Society (the
object of which is to “abolish the white race”) and co-founder of
Race Traitor: Journal of the New Abolitionism.
“The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race,”
says Ignatiev, who
is white. And, says this white Red who exploits and incites blacks to
attack whites, “The abolitionists do not limit themselves to socially
acceptable means of protest, but reject in advance no means of attaining
their goal.” In other words, “By any means necessary,” the slogan that
has become one of the refrains of the Antifa/BLM militants.
According to Ignatiev, “If
you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer,
you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive
to the world! They only murder, exploit and oppress non-whites!”
This kind of racist, anti-white speech has become standard fare among
millions of students marinated in Ignatiev’s communist propaganda, and
can be regularly seen and heard at BLM/Antifa events. The three radical
lesbian co-founders of Black Lives Matter — Patrisse Cullors, Alicia
Garza, and Opal Tometi — identify themselves as "Black queer women" and
are members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which draws much
of its inspiration from Ignatiev’s Provisional Organizing Committee.
(We have previously traced much of the BLM’s Marxist-Leninist-terrorist
lineage
here.)
Media Censorship
It goes on and on. The evidence that Antifa is a communist instrument
serving the anti-American, anti-liberty communist agenda is
overwhelming. Which is not to say that all, or even most, of the young
activists involved are conscious of this fact, or even realize that the
chants and slogans they are mouthing, or the memes they are tweeting,
are weaponized words designed by communist propagandists such as Mao,
Trotsky, and Ignatiev.
However, there are many in the media who cannot claim ignorance as a
defense; they are consciously censoring this crucial information that
Americans need to understand the world and make vital decisions. And
they must be called to account for this unconscionable betrayal.
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