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The October 26th "peace" march in Washington, D.C., may have prompted many levelheaded conservative Americans uneasy about the prospective war on Iraq to throw their support to the president. The protest attracted an estimated 100,000 marchers, nearly all of whom could be characterized as leftwing in their political outlook. But this is to be expected from an event organized and choreographed by the farthest fringes of the Stalinist left.
The Washington, D.C. rally "was essentially organized by the Workers World Party [WWP], a small political sect that years ago split from the Socialist Workers Party to support the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956," noted leftist investigative reporter David Corn in the November 1st-7th issue of L.A. Weekly. "The party advocates socialist revolution and abolishing private property. It is a fan of Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba, and it hails North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il for preserving his country's 'socialist system,' which, according to the party's newspaper, has kept North Korea 'from falling under the sway of the transnational banks and ...