A former Attorney General will be a top speaker at a national conference for a socialist political party in the United States, the group announced Sunday.
Ramsey Clark (IndictBushNow.org)
Ramsey Clark, who served in the Lyndon Johnson administration, will host a Party for Socialism and Liberation ceremony in Los Angeles next month honoring “radical lawyers,” political prisoners and socialist activists, according to the Marxist-Leninist group.
Clark, who rallied against the Vietnam War, founded the self-described “anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist” International Action Center, an anti-war organization, and IndictBushNow.org, which calls for the prosecution of former President George W. Bush for alleged war crimes. The former Attorney General also helped represent former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein after his 2003 capture and offered legal help to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who was indicted in 1999 on war crimes charges during the Kosovo War.
The November socialist gathering is the second conference for the party that “promote[s] the movement for revolutionary change,” according to the group’s website. The party is backing candidates this year for governor, secretary of state and congress representatives in California.
“The National Conference on Socialism hosted by the PSL will be a truly historic event in the socialist movement,” wrote Doug Kaufmann in the party’s announcement of the conference. “The PSL will continue to organize for the upcoming conference and hopes to connect with hundreds of workers and students from throughout the country who are ready to stand up and fight back. There is no better time for socialism than right now!”
The headline to this article is incredibly offensive and misleading. While it is true that the conference is national in scope and is for socialists and about socialism, this event could not possibly have less to do with “National Socialism” or Nazism, an ideology 180 degrees opposed to what the former AG stands for.
Cute headline; is it a fascist conference?
You should change the headline; “national socialism conference” sounds like you’re talking about a Nazi conference, not “a national conference for a socialist political party in the United States.”
Just a minor point, but I would avoid refering to anything as “National Socialism,” even if it is a technically correct description/modifier for the event.