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Bernie Sanders' ties to the Socialist Workers Party


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every "dem" and anyone else who thinks they want to vote for sanders...

need more serious information. So many liberals are being made a fool of.

Bernie Sanders campaigned for Marxist party in Reagan era

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/bernie-sanders-campaigned-for-marxist-party-in-reagan-era

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have to read the article...

"Bernie Sanders campaigned for the Socialist Workers Party in the 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns and was investigated by the FBI for his ties to the Marxist group."

"Sanders has always played down the extent of his involvement with the party, which included radicals who praised the Soviet Union and Cuban communists, and has denied ever being a member. Asked in 1988 about his role as an SWP elector in 1980, he said: "I was asked to put my name on the ballot and I did, that’s true." In fact, his ties to the party are deep and enduring."

"But his personal files from his time as mayor of Burlington, from 1981 to 1989, archived at the University of Vermont, show that he supported and campaigned for the communist SWP and maintained a close relationship with its senior members. While Democrats campaigned for President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984, Sanders spent the Reagan era supporting fringe Marxists with no chance of reaching the White House."

"During Pulley's White House run in 1980, he called for the abolition of the U.S. military and the nationalization of "virtually all private industry," as well as the abolition of the military budget and the establishment of "official ... 'solidarity' with the revolutionary regimes in Iran, Nicaragua, Grenada and Cuba," according to a New York Times report at the time."

"During that same campaign, Pulley hailed the Cuban revolution as a model for the U.S. and claimed that "racism [had] been abolished" on the island. His running mate, Matilde Zimmermann, described the contention that Cubans lived under a dictatorship as American "propaganda."

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this article is pitching some truth bombs....

 

"the thing is, Sanders wasn’t wrong about the right-wing lunatics or the fascist dictatorships. As he has spent decades pointing out, the CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. It was complicit in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961. In 1973, it assisted in the military coup against Salvador Allende’s socialist government in Chile, which eventually led to the murderous fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet."

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1 hour ago, Clevfan4life said:

this article is pitching some truth bombs....

 

"the thing is, Sanders wasn’t wrong about the right-wing lunatics or the fascist dictatorships. As he has spent decades pointing out, the CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. It was complicit in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961. In 1973, it assisted in the military coup against Salvador Allende’s socialist government in Chile, which eventually led to the murderous fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet."

Anyone can research and find such information. What is your point?

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15 minutes ago, Chemist said:

Anyone can research and find such information. What is your point?

at the tine that he said it...it might not have been widely disseminated info. It still isnt for that matter. Ive made mention of this stuff here myself and "the usuals" acted like it was bs...

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1 hour ago, Chemist said:

Anyone can research and find such information. What is your point?

just another change of subject by clevis. The point of the thread is sanders' affinity for hard core communists/socialists in his past.

that has nothing to do with the cia helping Britain topple Mohammad Mosaddegh . Figures that sanders would bitch about that - mosaddegh stole the British oil company in iran from them. It was a major socialist move. Of course sanders hated it, he favors socialism, surely dreams of being a socialist despot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now part of BP) and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves.[11]Upon the refusal of the AIOC to co-operate with the Iranian government, the parliament (Majlis) voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country.[12][13][14] After this vote, Britain instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically.[15] Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the British-built Abadan oil refinery, then the world's largest, but Prime Minister Clement Attlee opted instead to tighten the economic boycott[16] while using Iranian agents to undermine Mosaddegh's government.[17]:3 Judging Mosaddegh to be unreliable and fearing a Communist takeover in Iran, UK prime minister Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration decided to overthrow Iran's government, though the predecessor Truman administration had opposed a coup, fearing the precedent that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) involvement would set.[17]:3 British intelligence officials′ conclusions and the UK government's solicitations were instrumental in initiating and planning the coup, despite the fact that the U.S. government in 1952 had been considering unilateral action (without UK support) to assist the Mosaddegh government.[18][19][20]

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which, btw - how familiar:

"In 1971, Venezuela nationalized its natural gas industry, and began taking steps to nationalize its oil industry. The oil industry was officially nationalized in 1976. At that time, the Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) was formed."

Both fascist tyrannical oppressive regimes. Sanders loved both. In fact, Sanders is catching hell from his own socialist demoquck party for refusing to admit that Maduro is a dicktater.

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1 hour ago, calfoxwc said:

just another change of subject by clevis. The point of the thread is sanders' affinity for hard core communists/socialists in his past.

that has nothing to do with the cia helping Britain topple Mohammad Mosaddegh . Figures that sanders would bitch about that - mosaddegh stole the British oil company in iran from them. It was a major socialist move. Of course sanders hated it, he favors socialism, surely dreams of being a socialist despot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now part of BP) and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves.[11]Upon the refusal of the AIOC to co-operate with the Iranian government, the parliament (Majlis) voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country.[12][13][14] After this vote, Britain instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically.[15] Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the British-built Abadan oil refinery, then the world's largest, but Prime Minister Clement Attlee opted instead to tighten the economic boycott[16] while using Iranian agents to undermine Mosaddegh's government.[17]:3 Judging Mosaddegh to be unreliable and fearing a Communist takeover in Iran, 

so ur own cut and paste acknowledges BP refused tge audit thus acknowledging they were not in good standing with their "contractual" obligations. Mossadegh did exactly as he should have. What ur article fails to lead onto is that these events are directly responsible for the ayatollahs coming back to Iran and gaining power. 

 

ooops....thst was certainly a good job out of the u.s huh? 

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