..it also appears that the organising coalition in the US, A.N.S.W.E.R, is a front for a small stalinist group the World Workers Party, that supports not just Iraq but North Korea etc authoritarian anti working class scum that take over anti capitalist movements will end up destroying those progressive movements..they too must be organised against!

who cares who the organizers are? If assorted Maoists or Trotskists are willing to prune their political agenda down to a clear broad-based antiwar message then all power to them. We need people willing to work very hard to create a broad democratic opposition to Bush/Blair, and if some of them manage to sustain themselves psychologically with the dream of a future revolution, who cares? What matters (as with the Trots who run Stop the War over here) is that they succeed in building the mass movement.

I find that anyone who has anything positive to say about the socialist system in the former Soviet Union is immediately labeled by some as a "Stalinist." Well, they had free medical care, free education through college, low-rent housing, guaranteed employment, etc. and what do they have now that the United States has imposed its "free market" paradise on them. The Russians have been reduced to a Third World vassal state of the US with all the problems of a Third World country like hunger, disease, prostitution, crime, high infant mortality, unemployment, poverty, etc.

Former Attorney General of the US Ramsey Clark is a member of the International Action Center and Answer. He is a very courageous and moral person, who has spoken out for years against the sanctions killing Iraqi children and the depleted uranium which has given them cancer and birth defects. I really don't think that he or other members of his organization are great admirers of Stalin.

During the 60s and 70s in the US, one of the favorite tactics of the CIA and FBI operations against the Black Panthers and American Indian Movement was to spread lies, gossip and internal dissention in these movements. Do you really believe they have given up on these very successful tactics against the growing movements today?

...Ramsey Clark is heavily involved in the legal defence of Solbadan Milosevic, the epitome of a stalinist if ever there was one ie a murderous ultra-nationalist dictator.
Sure, the Soviet Union had a host of social benefits. So did (and does) the U.S. Hell, even Hitler probably provided a fair standard of living! But all these systems were built on the blood of millions. In the Soviet Union you had the gulags, murder of countless revolutionaries, food shortages, its all pretty well documented.
Therefore yes it is important if we allow our anti-war movement to be hijacked by the followers of one or other repressive model. We allow them to speak for us and we're fucked. To me, being anti-war is about for a world free of state repression wherever it comes from. After all, would you follow an anti-Saddam solidarity movement led supported by U.S. politicians? Of course not! History is full of examples of Leninists, stalinists, Islamists, so-called democrats and other authoritarians destroying their erstwhile allies in fighting fascism or whatever. The Workers World Party is hardly in such a position (!) but the principle is still the same. In the UK we got the same thing, groups like the WRP celebrating Saddam Husseins speeches on their front pages. The Stop the War Coalition shutting up Irani and Iraqi leftwing critics of Islamic fundamentalism in the name of unity.
Luckily here in the UK we have a direct action based peace movement which is traditionally autonomous of party political interests, and as elsewhere there is libertarian anti-capitalist movement of more recent origins which is also consistent in its opposition to all warmongers.

Demonstrations, direct action and petitions are not likely to have any impact on the imperialists that control the US and the UK. The only thing that will stop them is a military power on a par with them. That's why I back North Korea. I may not completely agree or understand their political culture, but North Korea is the only country which is forcing the US to back down. A line in the sand has been drawn at the 38th parallel, over which the US cannot tread. You must decide which side of the line you are on.

molosvic is not stalisnist
its like calling blair or bush a leninist
don't be stupid