Workers World Party Behind L.A. Immigration Demonstrations?

Yep, according to Power Line, which linked to the original story in the Washington Times:

This morning's Washington Times reports the astonishing--to me, anyway--news that last week's massive pro-illegal immigrant demonstration in Los Angeles was organized by International A.N.S.W.E.R. ... It is a Communist organization and a front for the Workers World Party. The Workers World Party has been around for quite a while. It is one of the last unapologetically Stalinist organizations in the world; it supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. More recently, the WWP and ANSWER have supported dictators like Saddam Hussein and North Korea's Kim Il Jong.

John Hinderaker further observes:

I once did some research to try to find out who is behind the Workers World Party. I obtained the government forms that it filed. Those forms are not required to identify donors, so, while I could infer that the WWP is kept afloat by donations from a few wealthy donors, I couldn't tell who they were. The individual named on the documents did not return calls asking for more information.

The indefatigable David Horowitz, once a Marxist insider himself, along with his stable of writers on Frontpagemag, have been similarly unsuccessful in digging up the answers on the parent organization of ANSWER. In a 2003 piece, Stephen Schwartz observed of ANSWER and WWP (and we excerpt):

Numerous liberals, leftists, and pacifists have correctly questioned the morality of joining such vermin in their parades. Nevertheless, the main question has yet to be posed: Who pays for the Workers World Party, its weekly tabloid, its website, books, speaking tours, and other extensive activities? Whose money keeps their "Korea Peace Commission," and "Independent Commission of Inquiry to Investigate US/NATO War Crimes Against the People of Yugoslavia" going?

WWP is a minuscule Stalinist group. It does not command thousands of members or control major labor unions. Yet for many years groups of its leading members have constantly flown back and forth to Pyongyang and Baghdad, with side visits to Cuba and other isolated Stalinist territories, staying in hotels and traveling around in "solidarity." Who subsidizes "peace" activities that, regardless of the apparent sincerity of many marchers, aim to defend monsters like Saddam and Kim? Who foots the bill for WWP and its acolytes to assist Milosevic in the dock?

Any normal citizen should wonder whether this "peace" movement is not, in fact, directly funded and controlled by Saddam and Kim. Unfortunately, most Americans have forgotten that, before 1941, Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese militarists bankrolled similar "peace movements" in the U.S., and that the Soviet Communist Party paid for such propaganda for years and years.

We know who stands behind International A.N.S.W.E.R.: the mindless totalitarians of the WWP. Who stands behind them? Americans have a right to know, and if these phony peaceniks really desire respectability, they should be willing to publicly account for their financing, especially for air travel and hotel hospitality enjoyed while they serve as camouflage tourists in states committed to terrorism.

I had been convinced in the back of my mind that Horwitz had actually unmasked these people, but that's not the case. Further, they don't appear in his rogues' gallery, "Discoverthenetworks" either.

Since this piece was written, it's clear that Saddam, if he ever were behind any of this, no longer is. On the other hand, an educated guess would put the thuggish Dear Leader of North Korea at the top of the list of usual and probably suspects. Reasoning forward from his starving populace, you can bet that most of the money he extorts from the world to calm North Korea's aggressive nuclear posture is going not only to buttress his nuclear arsenal, but also to propagandize against his opponents, of whom he finds the U.S. the most dangerous. ANSWER has been behind most of the "peace marches" against the War on Terror, and it's not surprising that it would also foster a "groundswell" of Latino immigrants not only to terrorize Congress into passing suicidal domestic legislation, but also to cause damage to the Republican party via this issue.

Stalinist organizations such as WWP are, if anything, entirely ruthless and above all opportunistic. And what better opportunity here not only to thwart an American foreign policy and immigration policy that includes, at least in part, opposition to the Axis of Evil? Such undermining can also do a termite-job on the Republicans who support that policy as well. Great all-around concept, and part of the ever-elastic dialectic. It is significant, BTW, that very few "peace marches" occured during the watch of Democrat Bill Clinton. WWP and its minions never undermine a government that doesn't move boldly against the remaining Stalinists of the world. And so far, there's only one country left that we know of that still runs under the Stalinist model. Which means the Dear Leader is likely part of this racket, but also clever enough to cover his tracks well.

Schwartz' article also contains another inadvertent clue as to the nature of the WWP. In an old-style, Stalinist organization, a parent cell would appear to be very small, so small that it couldn't possibly fund substantial operations. Or so people thought. But this apparent smallness, as we now know via the unclassified Venona Papers, was due to the fact that the visible part of each subversive organization was the only part run by identifiable members of the Communist Party. Its activities were implemented by fellow travelers and, more importantly, what were known as "secret party members" whose membership was not traceable. (The despicable playwright Lillian Hellmann was finally exposed as such a secret member after her death.) Since Kim's government runs on the Stalinist model, it's very likely that WWP does as well, and its tiny surface masks the hugeness of the iceberg that lies below. These are the people we'll need to find, and there might be some surprises when and if we do.

Power Line calls for a little original research on this topic. We'd do it if we had the time, as Stalinist and Gramscian infiltration, particularly in the arts world, is one of our specialties. But as we've said, WWP has covered its tracks very thoroughly. If Horowitz and his pals haven't been able to get to the root of this evil tree, it will be tough for anyone but a professor on sabbatical to do it. Which is a problem since, statistically, most of them probably agree with the politics of WWP and ANSWER.

Probably the best way to start out is to follow Deep Throat's famous recommendation in another context: Follow the money. Any takers?