Bay Area Communists Protest Afghanistan War

Last weekend, the Oakland Education Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10, staged a Bay Area protest against the 8th anniversary of the Afghanistan war:

The OEA is a fringe union way to the left of the already liberal California's Teacher's Association. (CTA is my union, by the way, since I have no choice of union membership as a community college professor. Only recently have I had the option of not having my union dues spent in support of far left-wing candidates.) The OEA backed this year's ILWU May Day Action Against Iraq and Afghanistan. Cindy Sheehan and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke at the event. The union is a communist-front organization. The group held mandatory "Free Mumia" classroom teach-ins in the late-1990s (see, "For Class-Struggle Defense of Mumia!")

The ILWU is the West Coast Communist Party union organization of American radical Harry Bridges.

The video is via After Downing Street, the neo-communist action group currently allying with netroots activists and progressive Democratic Party officials. See, "Bay Area Trade Unionists Protest Afghanistan War On 8th Anniversary."

More on that alliance later.

Related: "Speaker Pelosi’s Controversial Marxist Connections."