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'''Institute for Policy Studies''' ('''IPS''')
'''Institute for Policy Studies''' ('''IPS''') is among a variety of [[CPUSA]] splinter groups claiming the mantle of the [[Left]] spun-off from a series of [[Glossary_of_espionage_terms#Fronts_and_cutouts|front groups]] and issue-oriented action "committees."<ref>[http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/pdf/OT0305.pdf The Politics of Peace: What’s Behind the Anti-War Movement?], by John J. Tierney, Capital Research Center. Retrieved from http://www.capitalresearch.org September 14, 2007.</ref> [[A.N.S.W.E.R.]] is the largest of these groups, which also include [[United for Peace and Justice]] (UPJ), [[Code Pink]], [[Not In Our Name]] (NION), the [[Green Party]]. The [[War on Terror]], which included [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]], prompted these groups to form coalitions and seek allies. Their aim is a “struggle” against “oppression” and “imperialism,” code words in the lexicon of revolutionary [[socialism]].
Assisted Organizations:
Not In Our Name (NION), a satellite of the [[Revolutionary Communist Party]], decries the War on Terror as a ploy: “We will not stop until all of us are free from your bloodthirsty domination.” Many contmeporary antiwar organizers used to support the [[Soviet Union]] and its proxies such as the [[Vietcong]], the [[Sandinistas]], [[North Korea]], [[Fidel Castro]]’s [[Cuba]] and the Communist guerrillas in [[El Salvador]].
The second largest anti-war umbrella group to emerge since the 9/11 terror attacks is United for Peace and Justice (UPJ). UPJ was in charge of planning the massive August 29, 2004 demonstration in New York City on the eve of the Republican National Convention. Like A.N.S.W.E.R., it claims to be a response to the events of 9/11. But it’s also an old Soviet-style “[[agitprop]]” front group directed by a veteran Communist activist. UPJ was created in October 2002 at a gathering of representatives of fifty diverse organizations (e.g. the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-wing think-tank, and the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group) who met in the offices of People for the American Way. UPJ claims responsibility for organizing
Activists denounced Operation Iraqi Freedom<ref>[[NAMBLA|NAMBLA Bulletin]], Editorial: War in Iraq?, March 2003. </ref> at the very moment when [[Saddam Hussein]]’s forces appeared utterly defeated by the U.S. military (i.e., well before the [[Iraq]] insurgency). The demonstrators wanted to protest any U.S. military actions, including those that successfully defeated a tyrannical regime.
==Assisted Organizations==
* [[Greenpeace]]
* [[Greenpeace]]
Derivative/Controlled Organizations:
==Derivative/Controlled Organizations==
* [[Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy]] (SANE)
* [[Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy]] (SANE)
==Refernces==
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[[Category: Anti-war movement]]