ANSWER
Template:TOCnestleft ANSWER:Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (aka International ANSWER)
WWP front
One of the major "anti-war" fronts of the Stalinist Workers War Party from the early 1990's through 2010, ANSWER International ANSWER sponsored many large protests over U.S. involvement in Iraq during both Gulf War I and Operation Iraqi Freedom, among other issues.
Its leadership has consisted almost solely of WWP or Youth Against War and Fascism members, the latter group having changed its name to National ??? Youth.
Over time, ANSWER has deleted from its website "www.internationalanswer.org" lists of speakers/participants and sponsors of its various protests but some have been saved and will be put on here at Keywiki.org.
Since 2006 ANSWER has come under the influence of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a split from the Workers World Party.
Solidarity with North Korea
Larry Holmes, Workers World Party’s first secretary, led a three-person, party delegation to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the end of July, 2013. The DPRK was celebrating the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.
According to Holmes: "We were not the only ones from the U.S. There was a delegation from the Socialist Workers Party. Progressive attorneys Ramsey Clark and Mara Verheyden-Hilliard were there, as was the ANSWER Coalition. [1]
ANSWER protests and participants/sponsors
January 18 National March on Washington DC and San Francisco (joint action); This was part of a Day of International Actions Against the War on Iraq
UPDATED LIST OF SPEAKERS AND MESSAGES (says "updated Nov. 22, 2002) printed out on 1/28/03)[2]
Performances:
- Chumbawamba
- Patti Smith
- Pam Parker
- Luci Murphy - aka spelled as Lucy Murphy - a veteran performer at CPUSA affairs
Speakers & Messages:
- Cynthia McKinney - former Representative D-GA
- Bishop Thomas Gumbleton - Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit Bishop
- Ramsey Clark - former US Attorney General (and creator of International Action Center IAC
- Rev.Al Sharpton - National Action Network NAN Reverend
- Rev.Herbert Daughtry - national pastor, House of the Lord Church, Brooklyn Reverend
- Mike Farrell - actor (MASH)
- Jessica Lange - actor
- Elizabeth McAlister - Jonah House (one of the Berrigan Brothers allies)
- Madhi Bray - Executive Director, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation Muslim American Society (MAS) and veteran WWP fronts supporter/participant
- Brenda Stokely - President, District Council 1707 AFSCME; Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War
- Damu Smith - Black Voices for Peace, a veteran communist and terrorist causes supporter
- Michael Letwin - Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War, long associated with WWP fronts and causes
- Representative of 1199 SEIU New York's Health and Human Service Union - Local 1199 (SEIU)
- Ron Kovic - Vietnam veteran and author of "Born on the Fourth of July"
- Peta Lindsay - ANSWER Youth and Student Coordinator, Howard University student (later id. as a member of the WWP)
- Rev. Graylan Hagler - Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church (Wash. D.C.), veteran supporter of WWP fronts and causes in Washington, D.C., Reverend
- Bayan Bayan USA-International - "Filipino community" - Source: http://www.iacenter.org/102602_[ress-c/htm, (a maoist oriented Philippino group based in the U.S.)
- Free Palestine Alliance
- Macrina Cardenas - Mexico Solidarity Network - a far-left organization
- Yoomi Jeong - Korea Truth Commission - probable WWP front; long associated with WWP fronts/causes
- Nicaragua Network - (pro-Sandinista organization)
- Partnership for Civil Justice - PCJ headed by WWP sympathizers/attorneys, wife and husband Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Carl Messineo. Both are listed in ANSWER materials as members of the Marxist National Lawyers Guild (NLG)
- Muslim Students Association of the U.S. & Canada
- IFCO/Pastors for Peace - IFCO International Foundation for Community Organization, an old organization led by communist sympathizer Reverend Lucius Walker, Pastors for Peace, another front set up by Walker and other leftist clergymen
- International Action Center IAC - an early 1990's WWP front set up, in part, by Ramsay Clark
- Rev.John Dear - Reverend
- Medea Benjamin - Global Exchange a veterans supporter of communist fronts and cause including supporting Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Saddam Hussein. Founder of Global Exchange and associated with Code Pink, along with Jodie Evans.
- Bill Fletcher - Bill Fletcher, Jr. - Co-Chair, United For Peace [UPJ]]; Transafrica, veteran marxist from Frontlines, Crossroads, Transactions, AFL-CIO, [DSA]], and a cofounder of Progressives For Obama PFO
- Blase Bonpane - Director, Office of the Americas, Reverend, veteran supporter of marxist fronts and causes in the U.S. and Central America
- Not In Our Name Project - Not In Our Name NION - an united front created by the maoist Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), its fronts, and supporters from United For Peace & Justice (UPJ)
- Mumia Abu-Jamal - marxist and convicted police killer, Philadelphia
- New York Youth Bloc - a possible WWP front group
- Representative of women's struggle to defend reproductive rights on the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade
New endorsers:
- Janeane Garofalo
- Jessica Lange
- Veterans For Peace - a 1980's creation by far-left marxists and supporters from the old Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam (VVAW), controlled by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and sympathizers
- 1199 SEIU New York's Health and Human Service Union - 1199 SEIU
- Fellowship of Reconciliation - an old member of the Hanoi Lobby, Anti-Defense Lobby and PLO Lobby
- Voices in the Wilderness - a radical group who supported Saddam Hussein
- School of the Americas Watch - a radical, marxist-oriented group led by Blas Bonpane
- New York Youth Block - possible WWP front
- Physicians for Social Responsibility PSR - a mixed group of radical and liberal doctors and aides
- Anti-Flag & A-F Records
- United for Peace - a mixed maoist/communist controlled group
- MADRE - a pro-communist aid group for the FMNL in El Salvador
- Board of Directors of Peace Action of Michigan - Peace Action
- Ramsey Clark to appear live on Al Jazeera on January 10, 2003