Communist Groups Helped Organize Petraeus Protest

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Communist Groups Helped Organize Petraeus Protest | National Review Online.

Protests against General David Petraeus Monday by CUNY students were organized by an ad hoc committee that includes several Communist groups.

A leaflet for the protests, which refers to Petraeus as a “war criminal” and “mass murderer,” says that the events were organized by the Ad Hoc Committee Against the Militarization of CUNY and were endorsed by the Internationalist Group, Workers Power-US, and IGNITE.

These groups are explicitly Communist in nature. Workers Power states that it is a “revolutionary, communist organization . . . in the tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky.” The Internationalist Group uses the hammer and sickle alongside its articles. IGNITE is a self-described “communist youth league.”

Attempts to reach these groups were unsuccessful save for a phone call to the Internationalist Group. Jan Norden, the organization’s leader, told National Review Online that the Internationalist…

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