Judith LeBlanc: Top US “Peace” Activist and Communist Leader

The US “peace movement” can take at least part of the credit for the Obama Administration’s proposed cuts in defense spending.

For years the movement has campaigned to end every US war, dump every possible weapons system, close all US bases abroad, and divert US military spending to domestic social programs.

Judith LeBlanc

On e of the key leaders of the US peace movement in recent years has been Judith LeBlanc.

A member of the Caddo American Indian tribe of Oklahoma, LeBlanc is  national field organizer for Peace Action, the country’s largest grassroots peace organization with 100,000 members across the country. She is also formerly the national co-chair of  the peace umbrella group United for Peace and Justice, with Leslie Cagan, who was then a leader of the Marxist Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.

LeBlanc herself is also a Marxist, first joining the Communist Party USA in 1974.

Le Blanc is one of the vice-chairs of the Communist Party  and chairs it’s Peace and Solidarity Commission, the body charged with directing the US “peace movement”.  Leblanc  was formerly a reporter for the People’s Weekly World, forerunner of the People’s World. She has written extensively on her travels to Japan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Australia  and elsewhere and was an eyewitness reporter on the 9-11 attacks and their aftermath in New York City.

In 2002, Judith LeBlanc traveled twice to the Middle East. The first trip  was  assignment to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza in May to report on the struggle to end the Israeli occupation. During that trip she met with infamous Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat.

In October 10-12 she attended the Communist Party of Israel’s Congress. While there she tracked the “crisis in the region in light of the Bush administration’s drive to go to war with Iraq.

Judith LeBlanc, Yasser Arafat, 2002

Leblanc has worked closely with the powerful Japanese and British “peace movements”.

Here LeBlanc addresses a circa 2008 British anti-nuclear rally.

In 2009 Judith Le Blanc toured Australia as a guest of the Communist Party of Australia and  Party led Australian  Anti bases Campaign Coalition the  to take part in the protests against the Talisman Sabre joint US-Australian military exercises which were taking place at Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton from July 6-26 . While in Sydney on her way to Rockhampton, LeBlanc was interviewed by Anna Pha  of the CPA. 

AP: Judith, could you please tell us about United for Peace and Justice?

Judith LeBlanc: United for Peace and Justice grew out of the struggle to prevent the war in Iraq and it was the coming together of the traditional peace and disarmament groups nationally and a range of local peace and justice centres and coalitions and new grass roots groups that emerged in this struggle to prevent the war. It began with 300 organisations and has grown to 1,400 member groups.

Now we are in the midst of retooling the peace movement, so to speak, and finding new ways to involve people in ending the war in Afghanistan and to build a bridge to that longer-term movement that is needed to end US militarisation and the militarisation of our domestic budget.

AP: What is the attitude to those wars in the US?

JLB: I think the peace movement scored an incredible victory with the election of Barack Obama and him keeping his pledge that he would set a deadline, a timetable for US withdrawal from Iraq. Of course the timetable that has been set by the new administration is not all that we would like. But you never win a total victory, you always win part and you continue to struggle.

We feel that in many ways our work to end the war and the occupation in Afghanistan is starting from a sound basis. Majority opinion opposed the [Iraq] war and that was mobilised and galvanised into support for the defeat of McCain.

Now we are trying to take that movement that rose in support of the Obama election and the majority opposition to the war in Iraq into a new national dialogue of the history and the impact of the war and the occupation of Afghanistan…

So now we are operating in a new environment, in a new political space in which perhaps we will have great success in helping people understand that you cannot solve issues around national security with war. That the mere presence of the US military in countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan gives rise to insurgency. So we want to help the American people to begin pressing Congress and the Obama administration to step back and to tell us what is the exit plan…

So, the movement for peace, the social movements in our country, are they ready to fill the political space that the election of Obama has created? Not quite, but I think the peace movement has enough experience in the six years of the struggle to end the Iraq war to know that it is going to take a strong, well organised, vocal peace movement to make the changes that are needed.

AP: So far, how do you assess Obama’s foreign policy?

JLB: I think the Obama administration has made headway changing foreign policy. It has spoken about the differences it wants to make in its relationship to Cuba, in its role in pressing for a just Middle East peace between Palestine and Israel, in its relationship to the Muslim world. But the truth is that in order for those words to become a reality we need a stronger peace movement and we need one that can advocate forcefully and in a meaningful way the direct interconnectedness between peace and justice, between domestic policy and foreign policy…

Obama’s voting record in the Senate was, and he has maintained this position after becoming president, that there is a need to reduce nuclear arms, that there was a need for ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. He is making good on that promise by initiating talks with Russia to cut nuclear armaments. We are hoping, as he said in a speech in Prague recently, that it is not only the moral responsibility of the US to cut nuclear arms but it is a necessity to move towards the abolition of nuclear weapons.

The struggle for nuclear disarmament and the abolition of nuclear weapons is a critical issue for the peace movement to regroup and to retool and for building a mass movement around. We had a very strong and vibrant movement around nuclear disarmament in the ’80s.

We hope to take Obama’s words [on nuclear disarmament] and build a movement that calls for abolition in our lifetimes. We are busy at work planning with our international partners a year-long national petition drive to call on Obama to abolish nuclear weapons.

We are launching it on the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and concluding this petition drive at the time of the May 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference at the United Nations. We hope to apply such mass pressure on the Obama administration that they will take rapid steps to not only sign the joint agreement with Russia to reduce nuclear warheads but also to end the testing of new nuclear weapons and to begin to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in Congress and take giant steps forward before that 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty conference.

We are very hopeful that we can build that mass movement because people understand the nature of war in a different way because of Iraq and because of what’s going on in Afghanistan. They also know that the Obama administration is not the agent of change but can be the vehicle for change. We think that nuclear weapons is a good starting point

Here, circa late 2008, LeBlanc lays out the Communist Party/peace movement’s hope for change under their “friend” Barack Obama.

Judith LeBlanc and the Communist Party USA can take a big part of the credit for America’s likely decision to slash defense spending, through their control of the US “peace movement” and their influence inside the eighty strong Congressional Progressive Caucus.

All this on the verge of a possible worldwide economic meltdown and international instability not seen since WW2!

The Communist party USA is allied to China, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea, and the communist parties of Russia, Palestine and Iraq – all of whom have a strong interest in  reduced American  military power.

The Communist Party USA and the US “peace movement” are “5th columnists” for the enemies of America.

Though they will deny it, the facts speak for themselves.

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14 thoughts on “Judith LeBlanc: Top US “Peace” Activist and Communist Leader

  1. Since the Obama administration has taken office I have notice that there seems to be a lot less peace activists rallying in our state. They used to protest every Tuesday in Bangor Maine, now they do not. I wonder why they have stopped, if i were going to rally against war it seems to me besides Obama breaking his promise to close Gitmo and get out of Iraq, along with other broken promises, Libya would be in the headlights of the peace protesters, but they seem to be mysteriously silent…

  2. I am from Hawaii and Neil Abercrombie CPUSA is now the Governor by a landslide.People here are terminally stupid.

    This is about Obummers family here in Hawaii before we were even a state.

    http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4203

    Hawaii’s first Democratic Governor Jack Burns, explained in 1975: “Every guy in the ILWU was at one time or another a member of the Communist Party of America. This is where they got their organizational information and how to organize, and how to bring groups together and how to create cells and how to make movements that are undetected by the bosses and everything else. …I know what they were about. I said this is the only way they are going to organize.”

  3. Everything she does is right from the Frankfurt School.

    http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/921_frankfurt.html

    The people of North America and Western Europe now accept a level of ugliness in their daily lives which is almost without precedent in the history of Western civilization. Most of us have become so inured, that the death of millions from starvation and disease draws from us no more than a sigh, or a murmur of protest. Our own city streets, home to legions of the homeless, are ruled by Dope, Inc., the largest industry in the world, and on those streets Americans now murder each other at a rate not seen since the Dark Ages.

  4. I will call my Reps and the White House and start complaining everyday about her and this communist White House.

    I feel like an idiot 10 years ago I didn’t know these people existed.

    1. Join the Club, I did not know they were this deeply seated until a few years ago. We tried to convince people we knew not to vote for obama. Tried to get them to read the web pages and we found in general most people are lazy and said oh not here, not in america. We are Americans with communism, if america was a cocktail, it would be the commie cozzi. Sweet tasting and guaranteed to steal your house and land

      1. Sometime there isn’t enough duct tape in the world to keep your head from exploding…:(

    2. Gatekeeper, do not be shocked, these people are as insidious as a serpent or vermine finding the only hole in a wall to work their way into; many of us have tried to warn of them for the last decade or two, and not many listened.

      There is still time now, that they move into the light and are being exposed, to stop them…after all, sunlight is among the best of disinfectents right up there with an Abrams tank.

      These morons seek to make the world a less stable place to incite the fundamental changes in places they seek to have a dominant government rise from the political ashes.

      Look to the post WW1 history and the move to disarm along with the post WW2 – Korea disarmament drives. In both cases there were people who said there would be no need for further arms or great armies, they were wrong.

      Just as they were wrong about the need for the League of Nations or the current United Nations – both useless, and one is gone while the other needs to go away.

      Learn from history, for in England, Chruchill warned constantly of the need to rearm, and Chamberlain gave his famous “peace in our time” while waving the paper speech.

      Learn from France, read the book “60 days that shook the west” and see why economically, politically, and militiarily the allies suffered such crushing defeats, and how close Hitlers armies came to losing at one point.

      If we forget the past, and fail to warn others of it when we do learn it again, then we are as guilty of failing them, as if we had turned against the nation like the socialist administration we currently have in office.

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