Who is International ANSWER, one of the two major organizers of this weekend’s antiwar protests? The Washington Post won’t tell you, but PostWatch will. He links to Powerline, where the guys found this Michael Kelly column from January 2003:
International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is a front group for the communist Workers World Party. The Workers World Party is, literally, a Stalinist organization. It rose out of a split within the old Socialist Workers Party over the Soviet Union’s 1956 invasion of Hungary — the breakaway Workers World Party was all for the invasion. International ANSWER today unquestioningly supports any despotic regime that lays any claim to socialism, or simply to anti-Americanism. It supported the butchers of Beijing after the slaughter of Tiananmen Square. It supports Saddam Hussein and his Baathist torture-state. It supports the last official Stalinist state, North Korea, in the mass starvation of its citizens. It supported Slobodan Milosevic after the massacre at Srebrenica. It supports the mullahs of Iran, and the narco-gangsters of Colombia and the bus-bombers of Hamas.
The Washington Post could replace Harold Meyerson with old Michael Kelly columns and improve the quality of its op-ed page tenfold.
That’s unlikely, so what the Post should do instead is do its readers the same courtesy that Kelly did and tell them the true nature of these protest groups. They’re not just little old ladies from Kansas.