The Guardian
From KeyWiki
The Guardian was a radical left, independent weekly newspaper published between 1948 and 1992 in New York City. The paper was founded by James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage and John T. McManus. It was originally named the National Guardian.
The National Guardian was cited as a Communist Party CPUSA and Soviet propaganda publication by HCUA in 1956, thusly:
"established by the American Labor Party in 1947 as a 'progressive' weekly * * *. Although it denies having any affiliation with the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), it has manifested itself from the beginning as a virtual official propaganda arm of Soviet Russia." [1] as listed in Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications and Appendixes, House Document No. 398, House Committee on Un-American Activities, December 1, 1961, p. 193
Some of its earliest writers were directly linked to Soviet operations, including Cedric Belfrage[2] and [3]
Contents |
The Guardian supporters and fundraising efforts sponsors
Source: The Guardian, April 13, 1983, p. 2, fundraising message
"We Interrupt This Newspaper to Bring You An Urgent Message"
- $35,000 Matching Fund deadline: May 1
- Contributions needed immediately for the Guardian to continue publication
Source:[4]
"We Interrupt This Newspaper to Bring You An Urgent Message"
- $35,000 Matching Fund deadline: May 1
- Contributions needed immediately for the Guardian to continue publication
"35: 1948-1983" "Now, during its 35th anniversary year, join us in offering much-needed support to the Guardian - an essential voice committed to today's struggles for peace, liberation and social justice" - Banner over list of supporters as follows:
- Robert Allen - Editor, The Black Scholar
- Robert Armstrong - North American Congress on Latin America NACLA (originally the "intelligence" arm of SDS)
- Eleanor J. Bader - Coordinator, Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization AbuseCARASA
- Norma Becker - Mobilization for Survival MFS
- Robert Boehm - Center for Constitutional Rights CCR, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy LCNP
- William Boilinger - Interamerican Center, Los Angeles
- Rev. Ray Bourgeois - Reverend Maryknoll Missionaries Maryknollers
- Anne Braden - civil rights activist
- Dennis Brutus - president South Africa Non-Racial Olympic Committee
- Dick Bunce - Managing Editor, Socialist Review SR
- Wilfred Burchett - journalist
- Judy Butler - NACLA Report on the Americas NACLA
- Leslie Cagan - National Mobilization for Survival Mobilization for Survival MFS
- Rev. Ben Chavis - National Black Independent Political Party NBIPP
- David Chen - Asian American Caucus for Disarmament
- Jack Colhoun - Co-Chair, National Committee Against Registration and the Draft (NCARD)
- Marc Cooper - News Director, KPFK Radio (aka Pacifica Radio
- Paul Costello - Theoretical Review
- Bruce Cronin - Mobilization for Survival MFS
- Rene Cruz - Union of Democratic Filipinos
- Jennifer Davis - American Committee on Africa ACA
- Emile de Antonio - Film director, writer
- Dave Dellinger - Institute for New Communications
- John P. Demeter - Radical America
- Marlene Dixon - Democratic Workers Party DWP
- Bernadine Dohrn
- Peter Drucker - Solidarity, A Socialist-Feminist Network
- Ruth Gage-Colby - American Humanist Association
- David Graham DuBois - W.E.B. DuBois Foundation
- Dan Georgakas
- Eileen Hanson - Writer, photographer
- Harry Haywood
- Paul Hoeffel - journalist
- Paul Irish - American Committee on Africa
- James Jacobs - Political Surveillance Project National Lawyers Guild NLG (aka as Jim Jacobs
- Dr. Michio Kaku - Professor of Nuclear Physics - CCNY
- Muhammad Kenyatta - president, Harvard Black Students Association
- Richard Lapchik - American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society (ACCESS)
- Richard Levins - Science for the People, Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee (PRSC)
- Sidney Lens - author
- Richard Lewontin - Science for the People
- Don Luce - Southeast Asia Resource Center
- Harry Magdoff - Co-editor, Monthly Review MR
- Anjun Makhijani
- Emma Mar - State Chair, California Peace and Freedom Party CPFP
- Manning Marable - National Vice-chairperson, Democratic Socialists of America DSA
- Al McSurely - National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO NALC AFL-CIO
- David McReynolds - Socialist Party USA SP
- Matt Meyer - student activist
- Michael Munk - Department of Urban Studies, Rutgers University
- Vicente Navarro - Johns Hopkins University
- Scott Nearing
- Michael Parenti - author, lecturer
- James Petras - State University of New York, Binghamton SUNY Binghamton
- Luis Prado - Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee PRSC
- Michael Ratner - president, National Lawyers Guild NLG
- Murray Rosenblith - War Resisters League [[WRL] and WIN Magazine
- Sheila Rowbotham
- Mel Rothenberg
- Rose Rubin
- Sheila Ryan - National Emergency Committee on Lebanon possibly a project of the Palestine Solidarity Committee PSC
- Charles Schwartz - Professor of Physics, U.C. Berkeley Un. of California, Berkeley
- Pete Seeger
- Jeff Segal - National Lawyers Guild NLG
- Zwelakhe Sisulu - South African journalist
- Helen Sobell (Dr) - (i.e, the wife for convicted and later admitted Soviet spy Morton Sobell)
- Joe Stork - Middle East Research and Education Project MERIP
- Paul M. Sweezy - Co-editor Monthly Review MR
- Al Szymanski - University of Oregon
- Bill Tabb - Department of Economics, Queens College
- Heidi Tarver - Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador CISPES
- Caldwell Taylor - Grenada Mission to the United Nations
- Edith Tiger - Director, National Emergency Committee on Civil Liberties (NECLC)
- Daniel Tsang - Editor, The Gay Insurgent
- Juliet Ucelli - New York Marxist School NYMS
- Baldemar Velasquez - President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)
- Phil Wheaton - EPICA
- Abe Weisburd - Coordinator, Committee in Solidarity with Vietnam, Kampuchea and Laos (and regular Guardian staff writer)
Organizations Supporting the Guardian Fundraising appeal:
- Agencia Periodistica de Informacion Alternativa
- Bay Area Socialist Organizing Committee
- U.S. Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador - (CISPES)
- Citizen Soldier
- Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse - (CARASA)
- Covert Action Information Bulletin - CAIB
- Haymarket Peoples Fund
- Latin American Perspectives
- Lawrence Hill and Company
- Line of March LOM
- MERIP Reports
- Mobilization for Survival MFS
- National Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala NNSPG
- Race & Class
- Science & Society - cited as a "Communist publication", as listed in "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications, HCUA, 1961, p. 199 [5]
- Socialist Review SR
- Southern Africa Magazine
- WIN Magazine
Guardian Staff, Writers and Contributing Writers/Guardian Associates
In this section, lists of Guardian Staff, Writers, and Contributing Writers known as Guardian Associates will be listed from various issues covering over 20 years (roughly 1970-early 1990's). Some of these individuals will show up elsewhere in the media and in marxist/socialist/communist groups, fronts and causes.
"Guardian" issue of September 13, 1989:
- Karen Gellen - Editor
- William A. Ryan - Editor
- Karen Gellen - Foreign Editor
- Shreeram Krishnaswarni - News Editor
- Dan Cohn - Cultural Editor
- Jonathan A. Bennett - Staff Writer (on leave)
- Barbara Day - Staff Writer
- Anna DeCormis - Staff Writer
- Laura McClure - Staff Writer
- Akinshiju Ola - Staff Writer (on leave)
[Some are members of the Guardian staff cooperative; others are members of the staff and elected coordinating committee]
- Jose Diaz - Editorial Assistant
- Manmood Nadia - Photo Editor
- Mike Colbert - Librarian
Business Staff:
- Ellen Davidson - Business Manager
- Donald Eggert - Circulation Director
- Nelda Scudder - Sustainer Program
- Lisa Hopkins - Sustainer Program
- Jack Morris - Fulfillment
- Matthew Lore - Circulation Assistant
Production:
- Mary Templin - Production Manager (on leave)
Guardian Associates:
- Richard H. Abeles
- Eric Alterman - in 2010, he was a writer for the far-left "The Nation" and a leader of the leftist group of writers known as JournosList. He was also a professor at CUNY in New York City.
- Robert Armstrong
- Eleanor Bader
- Edwin Barrow
- Jill Benderly
- Herb Boyd
- Jack Calhoun - (a leader of the deserters movement in Canada during the Vietnam war - exact infor to follow))
- Gay Farley
- Jonathan Fried
- Anne Fuller
- Rose Gorelick
- Nafisa Hoodbhoy
- Frieda Jones
- Jeff Jones - possibly the old SDS/WUO leader who in the late 2000's is a key leader of the marxist/sociaist Apollo Alliance
- Kwame Karkan
- Kevin. J. Kelley
- Hanna Lessinger
- Carl Leven
- Malaika
- Barbara Miner
- Mimi Morris
- Marion Munsell - one of the oldest communists associated with the Guardian
- Stuart Ozer
- Fred. L. Pincus
- Elayne Rapping
- Judith Rew
- Frances Rudner
- Dennis Schaal
- Jeff Segal - SDS?
- Jack A. Smith
- John Trinkl
- Araia Tseggai
- Mundi Vundia
- Abe Weisburd - a key player in the various Mobes and PCPJ in the Hanoi Lobby
- Lynora Williams
- Sam Zuckerman
"Guardian" issue of April 3, 1991, Vol. 43, No. 23: Letters to the Editor:
- Richard Kallet - San Francisco
- Franklin Rosemont - Chicago
- Cynthia Chris - Brooklyn
Writers/Contributing Writers of articles/columns, etc.: [Staff writers are not listed again]
- [{Ron Daniels]] - "is president of the Institute for Community Organization and Development in Youngstown, Ohio. He served as director of the National Rainbow Coalition and as deputy campaign manager for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign.
- Laura McClure
- Michael Novick - Guardian Bureau, L.A.
- Heather Rhoads - Special to the Guardian (STTG) "Heather Rhodes is an editorial intern at The Progressive
- Carrie Wofford
- Joshua Nessen
- Nick Alexander - STTG, Oakland
- Jack Colhoun - Washington, D.C. a longtime member of the Hanoi Lobby and Guardian writer
- Samori Marksman - Article: "Singham, 'people's ambassador,' now silent" re Archie W. Singham an old marxist
- Jeff Jones - Guardian correspondent and former SDS/Weathermen leader
- Phil Hill - STTG, longtime Guardian contributing writer and radical
- Neil Corbin- STTG - Ramallah
- Joe Lauria - STTG
- Fred Weir - STTG, longtime Guardian contributing writer
- Paul Fauvet - STTG, Mozambique
- Ben Lowe - STTG, England
- Millie Thayer - STTG, Guatemala and regular Guardian contributing writer
- Noam Chomsky - "Opinion & Analysis" column
- Lisa Maya Knauer - movie review of "Guilty By Suspicion" on the "blacklist"
- Barbara Day - movie review of "The Five Heartbeats"
- Neil deMause - on television shows
- Mike Zielinski - book reviewer re El Salvador, and leader of the pro-FLMN front, CISPES
- Chuck Idelson
External links
References
- ↑ House Committee on Un-American Activities, Report, Trial By Treason: The National Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs and Morton Sobell, August 25, 1956, p. 12
- ↑ The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors, Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, Regnery, 2000 pp. 249 & 302
- ↑ Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, 1999, pp. 109-111, "Cedric Belfrage: Betrayer of Two Nations"
- ↑ The Guardian, April 13, 1983, p. 2, fundraising message
- ↑ Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House Report 1311 on the CIO Political Action Committee, March 29, 1944, p. 96

