Below post on May 27 (click here) in Internet newsgroup (aka usenet)alt.politics.socialism.trotsky says that Richard Becker resigned from the national organization:
3 or more of the major leaders of the WWP resigned from the WWP two weeks ago. Gloria La Riva, Richard Becker and a few others resigned. Reasons are not yet forthcoming. WWP pledges to issue a statement on this shortly. The above mentioned individuals are among the best known public WWP members and on the West Coast are THE best known leaders of the party. Additionally, Richard is the public spokesperson for Int'l ANSWER. How this will play out is important for the anti-war movement nationally given their stature.
See also the below story about a guy dealing with your "green hat" friends and others.
From World Net Daily comes this article, not about the split, but about ANSWER's suppression of dissent within the "antiwar" movement:
Activists: Anti-war leaders 'McCarthyists' Leftists who reveal movement's Stalinist ties silenced from within
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Posted: May 21, 2004
By Sherrie Gossett
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Away from the media spotlight, Nathan Newman, a prominent attorney and activist, accused the anti-war ANSWER coalition of having conducted an "ideological inquisition" and "witch hunt" against leftist critics.
Newman, former vice president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, is a union lawyer, political activist and frequent contributor to Technology Review, Progressive Populist, and American Prospect.
A political activist and former union organizer, he also was the project director at NetAction, a consumer technology advocacy group and wrote "Net Loss," a book addressing Internet policy and related issues of economic inequality.
Newman's offense? He repeatedly has described the ANSWER [Act Now to Stop War and End Racism] coalition, a prominent organizer of the anti-war rallies, as a front group for the neo-Stalinist Worker's World Party, or WWP, a group he describes as supporters of "mass murderers," "morally reprehensible," and "not fit to associate with."
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Newman later announced a resolution was passed by the Guild in order to stifle such dissent.
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How did the NLG come to pass the resolution? Newman explained the resolution was proposed by a member of the D.C.-based law firm, the Partnership for Civil Justice, which does legal work for Workers World and the International Action Center, or IAC, and was picked by the WWP as a member of ANSWER's steering committee.
Partnership for Civil Justice, or PCJ, lawyers Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Carl Messineo are frequent speakers at ANSWER-led events, and Verheyden-Hilliard was the emcee of the October rally in Washington.
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