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Home Front: Politix
May Day Immigration Protests Celebrate Communist Uprising
2006-05-01
(CNSNews.com) - Monday, May Day, is International Worker's Day and the communist celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution. It is also a day when illegal immigrants plan to boycott work, school and shopping in an effort to show the contribution of undocumented aliens to the U.S. economy. Protesters will march in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles to urge Congress not to support a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), which would make it a felony to illegally enter the U.S. or facilitate the illegal entry of someone else.

Calling it "a day without an immigrant," boycott organizers chose Monday because of its socialist and communist roots, according to Lee Siu Hin of Immigrant Solidarity Network. "We're linking workers' rights and immigrant rights. That should be very clear," Lee told Cybercast News Service.

The socialist anti-war group Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (International A.N.S.W.E.R) was one of the organizers of the April 10 protests that drew hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. The group is also organizing Monday's boycott. "It is a show of political and economic force against the way immigrants are being treated and attacked in the U.S. It is meant to show the qualitative impact of immigrants in the U.S. by their absence, their absence in the labor they produce in this country and by the wealth they produce," Carlos Alvarez, spokesman for International A.N.S.W.E.R. told Cybercast News Service.
"Immigrants contribute billions to the economy and receive few benefits in return. We will settle for nothing less than full amnesty and dignity for the millions of undocumented workers presently in the United States," International A.N.S.W.E.R.'s website states. Alvarez noted that while May Day is mostly associated with the Bolshevik Revolution, the group is stressing International Worker's Day.

International A.N.S.W.E.R. was founded by Ramsey Clark, the man who served as U.S. attorney general during the administration of President Lyndon Johnson and is currently one of the lawyers representing deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Ramsey also supported Slobodan Milosevic during NATO's campaign, Benard Coard, the murderer of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop of Grenada, Radovan Karadzic, the indicted Bosnian Serbian war criminal whom he defended in a New York civil suit brought by Bosnian rape victims, and the Rwandan pastor who is accused of telling Tutsis to hide in his church and then summoning Hutus to massacre them, and then leading killing squads.
Despite the fact that May Day protests started in the U.S. in 1886 when the Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions demanded an eight hour work day, every country but the United States and Canada celebrates the holiday with protests. On May Day 2000, London police arrested 195 "anti-capitalist protesters," according to the BBC, for rioting and violence that led to the destruction of a McDonald's restaurant.

But its ties go back to communist Russia. The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) is endorsing Monday's boycott. In 1917, Bolshevik communists led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Russian government, leading eventually the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. While the Bolshevik Revolution was in October, the RCP celebrates it on May 1.

The RCP is calling Monday "Revolution #45." "On May 1, we celebrate our achievements in this world-historic struggle and especially the first great milestones on that path: the October Revolution of 1917, where the proletariat for the first time seized and held power for nearly 40 years in what became the Soviet Union; and the Chinese Revolution, and especially the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," the RCP website states.

John Keeley, communications director for the Center for Immigration Studies, said Monday's protests will further alienate people who are legal residents of the U.S. Those legal residents, he said, "simply want kids to go to school Monday and workers to show up for work." "If I were trying to illicit broad sympathies of the very fair minded American public, this would be that last day I would have selected. Any day but Monday," Keeley told Cybercast News Service. Keeley also criticized what he called the "explicit communist agendas and sympathies" of some of the organizers of Monday's protests.

Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said the May Day message "will hurt [protest organizers] if it is widely known, but so far it is a well kept secret."
OK, we won't tell anyone.
He told Cybercast News Service that there is "irony in the fact that President Bush is backing these groups' message," a reference to Bush's support for a guest worker program and provisions to allow those who have come into the country illegally to work toward a legal immigration status.
Posted by:Steve

#13  THe GWOT for the Failed/Angry Left is about saving Socialism, includ Communism, and forcing same on unsuspecting America without any side resorting to mutually destructive global nuclear war - is why America on 9-11 was attacked by ragged Government-less, nation-less terrorists, as oposed to the uniformed conventional forces and comandos of the Red Armies of Russia-China. CLINTONISM already presumes that mainstream America is pro-Socialist in general and pro-Communist or pro-Leftist-Socialist in particular. THe Dems usage of the derogatory label "FASCIST" against Dubya and GOP-Conservative led America denotes the superficial premise that SOCIALIST America suffers from poor, unreliable, dishonest, or malicious SOCIALIST NATIONAL LEADERSHIP under the GOP-Right, leadership and national conduct whose integrity and credibility can only be saved or salvaged by the antithesis of the Fascist Right , the LEFT. RIGHTIST SOCIALIST AMERIKA'S SOUL CAN THUSLY ONLY BE SALVAGED OR SAVED BY LEFT-BASED SOCIALISM, WHICH FOR THE CLINTONS AND CLINTON-LED DEMS IS MARXISM-COMMUNISM AND COMMUNIST TOTALITARIANISM. Being true to their super-PC form, the chicken-little Lefties and Commies don't call themselves what they are, but instead hide behind the all-encompassing PC label of "ANTI-FASCISM/RIGHTISM". The Dems-Leftists > CLintonian [Leftist/Marxist]SOCIALIST America can fight for "empire" as long as in the end Amerika unilaterally gives up or forcibly loses its own empire. Amerika can fight for empire but NOT keep or govern its own empire, NOR ITSELF. WITH SUCH HONEST, STALWART, "DAMN THE TORPEDOES" AND "REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR/ALAMO" POLITICIANS AS THE CLINTONS AND DEMS IN THE WHITE HOUSE TELLING THE TRUTH TO THEIR OWN PARTY AND AMERIKA'S SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST MAINSTREAM, AMERIKA WILL WIN THIS WOT FOR SURE AND RUSSIA-CHINA/COMMIE ASIA WILL LOSE [ = WILL WIN]!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-05-01 21:22  

#12  OT, Shieldwolf, back in 1990 I lived in Beaverton. Loved Oregon and the people there.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-05-01 19:50  

#11  Same thing here in Oregon : a guy in town has a Napoleon 12-pounder that he fires on major holidays at the pioneer cemetary across the way from me.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2006-05-01 18:55  

#10  OP I guess it depends on where you live but here in Tennessee if you can afford it you can own a 20 pounder and fire anything you want out of it. A good friend has a 3" ordnance rifle and we do live fire with it. It will fire a 10 pound projectile using 1 1/2 pounds of Fg black powder about 3 miles. We do a live fire out of a 6 pound Napoleon using cannister to show what cannister does. Devastating.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-05-01 18:37  

#9  mcsegeek1,

Not half as much as watching politicians (from both sides) exchange our security and soverignty(sp?) to a few illegal votes.

Not a third as much was watching those same politicians piss on each and every law abiding 'real' immigrant who has (and still is) waiting in line to legally immigrate to our shores in favor of a few lawbreakers and CRIMINALS (ILLEGAL Aliens and their employers) who couldn't care less about the United States, our culture, or our laws.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-05-01 18:23  

#8  The very name "Bolshevik" is a lie, they were a definite minority. That shoulda been the first clue...
Posted by: mojo   2006-05-01 15:34  

#7  Here in Red China, May Day is a weeklong public holiday. I'm getting some much-needed rest - all day today I did absolutely nothing, and it felt great. :)

I was talking with many Chinese people last week, and none of them seemed to know that May Day was a Communist holiday. They just seemed to view it as a natural holiday like Lunar New Year. They were rather surprised when I informed them it wasn't a Chinese holiday, but rather an International Communist holiday. Once I reminded them of the old Soviet parades in Red Square, they seemed to get it.
Posted by: gromky   2006-05-01 13:47  

#6  We are in the middle of a war and these bozos are protesting for the right to invade us!

Posted by: 3dc   2006-05-01 13:20  

#5  I think it's time to engage in a little "civil disobedience", and demand the government cease to limit the types of arms the US people can possess. I'd LOVE to have a 12-pounder loaded with grape aimed down the main thoroughfare in Washington, DC, and New York City, and DARE these marchers to proceed. The American people MUST reassert control of their nation, or it will be lost. That means standing up not only to the gangs that want to destroy it, but to the government entities that facilitate that destruction.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-05-01 13:18  

#4  Don't really care who's backing them. Is it just me, or does the spectacle of persons who are here illegally, DEMANDING anything, just piss you off?
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-05-01 11:50  

#3  I just found out this morning that the LLL MOonB@ts will gather near my office. I will be out with my camera phone for a few quick snaps at lunch.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-05-01 10:28  

#2  I must say, the Commies are very good at getting bodies into the street for mass marches.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-05-01 10:17  

#1  There it is! I was wondering who was funding and organizing this event.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-05-01 10:00  

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