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Launched as the '''''National Guardian''''' in October 1948 by [[James Aronson]], [[Cedric Belfrage]] <ref>FBI Silvermaster file, [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster055.pdf Vol. 55, pgs. 35 - 39], Cedric Belfrage, James Aronson, and [http://www.geocities.com/avflf/RedTerror_1.htm Ilya Ehrenberg].</ref> John McManus, its contributors included pro-Communist writers such as [[Agnes Smedley]] and [[Anna Louise Strong]]. [[Wilfred Burchett]] was also a significant influence in the ''National Guardian's'' editorial policies. Testimony by [[Elizabeth Bentley]] and confirmed by the [[Venona]] intercepts, revealed that Belfrage made contact with Soviet espionage agents during [[World War II]]. In 1947 the [[FBI]] questioned Belfrage, who admitted to having provided confidential information to the Soviets.
Launched as the '''''National Guardian''''' in October 1948 by [[James Aronson]], [[Cedric Belfrage]] <ref>FBI Silvermaster file, [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster055.pdf Vol. 55, pgs. 35 - 39], Cedric Belfrage, James Aronson, and [http://www.geocities.com/avflf/RedTerror_1.htm Ilya Ehrenberg].</ref> John McManus, its contributors included pro-Communist writers such as [[Agnes Smedley]] and [[Anna Louise Strong]]. [[Wilfred Burchett]] was also a significant influence in the ''National Guardian's'' editorial policies. Testimony by [[Elizabeth Bentley]] and confirmed by the [[Venona]] intercepts, revealed that Belfrage made contact with Soviet espionage agents during [[World War II]]. In 1947 the [[FBI]] questioned Belfrage, who admitted to having provided confidential information to the Soviets.
[[Progressives for Obama]] webmaster<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/carldavidson Carl Davidson,] LinkedIn.com, retrieved March 13, 2010.</ref> [[Carl Davidson]] was a regular pro-[[Maoist]] contributor in the 1970s.<ref>[http://www.wengewang.org/read.php?tid=10925 ''Left in Form, Right in Essence: A Critique of Contemporary Trotskyism,''] Carl Davidson, (1973). This pamphlet was originally published as a series of 12 articles in early 1973 in the ''Guardian'' newsweekly. Second printing Spring 1974. Retrieved from 对当代托洛茨基主义的批判：英文论集百花齐放 - 中国文革研究网, March 15, 2010.</ref>
==Korean War disinformation==
==Korean War disinformation==
Throughout the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, the paper supported so-called "[[national liberation|national liberation struggles]]", Africa in the 1950's, Southeast Asia in the 1960's and early 1970's, and Latin America in the 1980's.
Throughout the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, the paper supported so-called "[[national liberation|national liberation struggles]]", Africa in the 1950's, Southeast Asia in the 1960's and early 1970's, and Latin America in the 1980's.
==Break with Maoists==
In 1975 a break between the Maoist October League (OL) and the ''Guardian'' lead to bitter private meetings and internal staff struggles. After an exchange of public [[polemic]]s on foreign policy and the International Women’s Day actions/”no united action with [[deviationism|revisionist]]s” line finally the OL to pulls its cadre out of the staff. Renee Blakkan, Martin Nicolaus, Nancy Nikcevich and Rod Such resigned; [[Carl Davidson]] was also associated with the OL position but did not resign at this time.<ref>[http://www.revolutionintheair.com/chron/chron4.html Chronology of Political Events, Part Four 1975-1980.] Max Elbaum. Retrieved from Revolution In The Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che, March 18, 2010.</ref>
==Post-60s radicalism==
==Post-60s radicalism==
By the 1980s as it became more and more obvious even to Marxists that Marxism-Leninism was failing, and Marxist class struggle was a hard sell, the ''Guardian'' reinvented itself along with other elements of the American left and shifted to issues of ethnicity and gender and a kind of Marxism-Leninism of race and sex emerged, complete with a special vocabulary of clichés', buzzwords and slogans. Epitomized by a new knee-jerk rhapsodizing about the radical [[feminist]], [[gay agenda|gay rights]] and anti-racist movement. In the 1980s they took on a new intensity and significance. Radical antiracist, gay, and feminist cadres with Marxist-Leninist tendencies found a congenial home in the new ''Guardian''. <ref>John George and Laird Wilcox, [http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-wilcox.jsp''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America''], Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992, (ISBN 0-87975-680-2), pgs. 125-131. </ref>
By the 1980s as it became more and more obvious even to Marxists that Marxism-Leninism was failing, and Marxist class struggle was a hard sell, the ''Guardian'' reinvented itself along with other elements of the American left and shifted to issues of ethnicity and gender and a kind of Marxism-Leninism of race and sex emerged, complete with a special vocabulary of clichés', buzzwords and slogans. Epitomized by a new knee-jerk rhapsodizing about the radical [[feminist]], [[gay agenda|gay rights]] and anti-racist movement. In the 1980s they took on a new intensity and significance. Radical antiracist, gay, and feminist cadres with Marxist-Leninist tendencies found a congenial home in the new ''Guardian''. <ref>John George and Laird Wilcox, [http://www.questia.com/library/book/nazis-communists-klansmen-and-others-on-the-fringe-political-extremism-in-america-by-john-george-laird-wilcox.jsp''Nazis, Communists, Klansmen, and Others on the Fringe: Political Extremism in America''], Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1992, (ISBN 0-87975-680-2), pgs. 125-131. </ref>
==Further reading==
==Further reading==