To: gao seng who wrote (263390 ) 6/12/2002 5:20:09 PM From: gao seng Respond to FOURTH ESTATE COVERS FOR FIFTH COLUMN Becker reported for Workers World news service that the conference was called “Socialism Toward the 21st Century” and was hosted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. “Participants debated and discussed the prospects for socialism and the validity of Marxism and Leninism as the doctrine of the revolutionary struggle to overcome oppression, poverty and exploitation,” he said. Communist delegates from Vietnam, China, North Korea and Laos attended. In addition to the Workers World Party, delegates from the U.S. came from the Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Action, the Freedom Socialist Party and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a group that includes some of the old Soviet-era CPUSA veterans. There is supposed to be a ban on travel to Communist Cuba but it was relaxed by the Clinton administration to accommodate extremists like Becker and his comrades. This is a new front group created for the occasion. He is also associated with the International Action Center, a group founded by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Becker and Larry Holmes, another Workers World Party operative, have been the main spokesmen for this group for several years. Its Web site proclaims, “Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed, Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression within the United States.” Holmes got his picture in the Washington Post as he was speaking at one of the rallies. The Post identified him only as being with International ANSWER. aim.org
