Anton Chaitkin

Anton "Tony" Chaitkin is an author, historian and political activist with the LaRouche movement. He serves as History Editor for "Executive Intelligence Review.

Chaitkin's father was Jacob Chaitkin, who was the legal counsel and strategist for the boycott against Nazi Germany carried on by the American Jewish Congress in the 1930s. [ [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKchaitkin.htm Anton Chaitkin ] ] [ [http://hnn.us/comments/23439.html History News Network ] ] [ [http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm Bush book: Chapter -2 ] ] His late sister, Marianna Wertz, and his brother-in-law, William F. Wertz Jr., have also been active in the LaRouche movement. ["Writer and Translator Marianna Wertz, 54;" "Washington Post". Washington, D.C.: Jan 19, 2003. pg. C.11]

Activism

Chaitkin became a founding member of the LaRouche movement in the mid-1960s, and describes it as follows:

In New York about two years after the JFK assassination, I saw a poster on the street for an ad hoc "Free University" conducted in a loft on 14th Street. I attended an economics class taught by Lyndon LaRouche. He said the change then being pushed through our national strategy by Anglo-American financiersndash away from industry in the advanced countries, toward cheap labor, would lead to fascist policies and a systemic collapse. We agreed to form a philosophical/political association whose purpose would be to take the world out of the hands of that oligarchy.

We took the approach that the underlying axioms of twentieth century thought in science (Newtonian, Euclidian); literature, art and music (various types of existentialism and fascism); economics (all of it exclusively British imperialism), psychology and philosophy, and academia generally. were beyond bad. They represented an attack against classic humanist thought, against the most beautiful accomplishments of our civilization. [http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6834]

In 1973 Chaitkin was a candidate for mayor of New York City, representing the National Caucus of Labor Committees. ["Look at This: Communist Party Needs 'Trotskyist' Goons!," "New Solidarity", Vol. IV, No. 4, April 30-May 4 1973 (Published Weekly by the National Caucus of Labor Committees), pp. 1, 4-5.] [http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1973/1973_03.pdf] He also ran for Governor of New York in 1974 and for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district in 1978. [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32609 Our Campaigns - Candidate - Anton H. Chaitkin ] ]

During the early 1970s Chaitkin was repeatedly cited for disrupting meetings. Chaitkin was among ten NCLC members arrested for participating in a melee at a Newark city council meeting. The group was asserting, among other things, that two local political figures, activist and poet/playwright Imamu Imir Baraka (also known as LeRoi Jones) and Anthony Imperiale were tools of the CIA. ["A socialist Caucus Denounces Gibson And His Enemies--Baraka and Imperiale; Group Scores C.I.A.", RICHARD PHALON. "New York Times", September 10 1973, Page 74] ["Arraignment Put Off in Council Melee". "New York Times" September 7 1973, Page 74] Due to his heckling, Chaitkin was forceably ejected from a press conference held by a competing candidate for U.S. Senate, Ramsey Clark, in October 18, 1973. ["Crowds and Demonstrators Focus Attention on Beame; Victimization an Issue", MAURICE CARROLL, "New York Times" November 2 1973, Page 26] Chaitkin was arrested for disorderly conduct and criminal trespass on April 21 1975, for trying to sneak into a conference of mayors posing as an accredited journalist. ["Newark, Jersey City, Trenton Mayors Hail Economist's Call for Aid to Cities", FRED FERRETTI, "New York Times", April 22 1975, Section: The Week In Review]

He was quoted in an organization publication as saying "we intend to disrupt the campaigns of our major opponents." He was quoted in the movement's "New Solidarity" speaking about "Operation Mop Up", saying "many CPers [Communist Party members] have been sent to hospital after jumping Labor Committee members in the CP's own meetings." ["Five Independent Candidates Are In Race For Mayoralty", Peter Khiss, "New York Times", October 7 1973, ]

During the 1990s, Chaitkin helped to lead a campaign that called for the removal of the statue of Albert Pike from federal property in Judiciary Square, located in Washington, D.C. Chaitkin charged that Pike, a leader of the Scottish rite of Freemasonry and author of Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, was an important founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Chaitkin, along with the Rev. James Bevel, participated in weekly non-violent protests at the site of the statue throughout the 1990s [http://www.cecaust.com.au/main.asp?sub=info&id=WAMD-A3.htm Citizens Electoral Council of Australia ] ] , and was arrested in November 1992 by Federal Park Police for "statue climbing." [http://www.etext.org/Politics/LaRouche/iclc.0320.larouche.pike] [http://www.etext.org/Politics/LaRouche/eir.930222] According to the Citizens Electoral Council they "beat the trumped-up charges," while according to the "Washington Post" both were found guilty of a misdemeanor and sentenced to one week in jail. ["Judge Convicts Two Protesters Of Pike Statue", "Washington Post". Washington, D.C.: Apr 20, 1993. pg. C.05]

Books, articles, and pamphlets

Chaitkin authored "Treason in Americandash from Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman". The basic premise of the book is that the American Revolution was not successfully concluded, because a significant Tory faction has persisted in US politics which is philosophically opposed to the ideas of the Revolution, and has sought to undermine them. According to Chaitkin, this faction has included Wall Street financiers, Boston Brahmins, and Confederate secessionists. Chaitkin describes the book as "a 600-page history of the struggle between the American nationalists and the tory-British-racist-imperialist faction from the Revolution to the Harriman-Dulles years." [http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6834]

With Webster Tarpley, Chaitkin co-authored "The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush," which claimed to expose the ties of Prescott Bush and Averell Harriman with the Nazi Party of Germany.

*"Treason in Americandash from Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman," Executive Intelligence Review (Most recent edition printed 1998. ISBN 978-0943235004.)
*"The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush," with Webster Tarpley, Executive Intelligence Review. (Most recent edition published by Progressive Press (ISBN 978-0943235004.)
*"Is Joseph Goebbels on your campus?", Lyndon LaRouche PAC, 2006.
*"Why the British kill American presidents." The New Federalist, 1994.
*"The bottom of Bush's closet : the queer case of Mary Sue Terry", LaRouche for Justice, 1990.
*"American Prometheus: Who made the United States a great power?", Schiller Institute, 1986.
*"Operation South Carolina and the career of Caleb Cushing ; How the eastern establishment ran southern secession," New Solidarity, 1983.

References

External links

* [http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6834 A brief autobiographical sketch] by Chaitkin