Communists Behind “Free Palestine”
October 30, 2023
FROM Cliff Kincaid:
A “National March on Washington” to “Free Palestine” and “End all U.S. aid to Israel!” is scheduled for November 4 and is sponsored by several openly communist groups, including the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism & Liberation. Other sponsors include:
Palestinian Youth Movement
American Muslim Association
The People’s Forum
National Students for Justice in Palestine
Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)
Maryland2Palestine
Of these groups, the New York-based People’s Forum is significant in the communist realm, for it offers a course on Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, more commonly known as Lenin, described in course materials as “ a well-loved revolutionary across countries and movements, whose name embodies the spirit of working-class internationalism.”
The instructor is Brian Becker, the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition who is also a founder of and a central organizer for the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Becker was once a member of the secretariat of the Workers World Party, an openly Marxist-Leninist party. He switched from one communist group to another during a factional dispute.
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