Anton "Tony" Chaitkin (born 1943) is an author, historian, and a former political activist with the

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. He served as History Editor for ''

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''. Chaitkin's father was Jacob Chaitkin, who was the legal counsel and strategist for the boycott against Nazi Germany carried on by the

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in the 1930s.

Activism

Chaitkin became a founding member of the LaRouche movement in the mid-1960s. In 1973, Chaitkin was a candidate for

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, on the U.S. Labor Party ticket. He also ran for

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1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

, and for

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in 1978. 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 (earlier known as LeRoi Jones) and Anthony Imperiale were tools of the

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. On October 18, 1973, Chaitkin was forcibly removed from a press conference for asking a question of former Attny. General Ramsey Clark. In 1990, Ramsey Clark became LaRouche's lawyer on appeal, and said the following, in a letter to then Attny. General Janet Reno, regarding the case against LaRouche:

I bring this matter to you directly, because I believe it involves a broader range of deliberate and systematic misconduct and abuse of power over a longer period of time in an effort to destroy a political movement and leader, than any other federal prosecution in my time or to my knowledge.

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. He was quoted in the movement's ''New Solidarity'' speaking about "Operation Mop Up", saying "many CPers ommunist Party membershave been sent to hospital after jumping Labor Committee members in the CP's own meetings." During the 1990s, Chaitkin helped to lead a campaign that called for the removal of the Albert Pike Memorial from federal property in

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, located in

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Chaitkin charged that Pike was an important founder of the

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. Chaitkin, along with the Rev.

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, participated in weekly non-violent protests at the site of the statue throughout the 1990s, and was arrested in November 1992 by Federal Park Police for "statue climbing." Chaitkin ushered in the LaRouche movement's campaign against the health care reform proposal of U.S. President

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. At an open panel session that included

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held June 10, 2009, Chaitkin said:

President Obama has put in place a reform apparatus reviving the euthanasia of Hitler Germany in 1939, that began the genocide there. ... Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel and other avowed cost-cutters on this panel also lead a propaganda movement for euthanasia... They shape public opinion and the medical profession to accept a death culture... to let physicians help kill patients whose medical care is now rapidly being withdrawn in the universal health-care disaster.

In reporting the incident, journalist

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described it as "the opening volley of an orchestrated propaganda campaign designed to link

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and the White House's health-care reform proposals to the T-4 mass euthanasia program of Adolph Hitler."

Bibliography

Articles
“America’s ‘Young America’ Movement: Slaveholders and the B’nai B’rith”
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'', Vol. 21, No. 16, April 15, 1994
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“Chip Berlet and the Ford Zoo”
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'', Vol. 33, No. 24, June 16, 2007
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Book Reviews
”Spanning the Species: The Inhuman World of Harriman”
Review of ''Spanning the Century: The Life of W. Averell Harriman 1891-1986'' by Rudy Abramson. ''

'', Vol. 19, No. 45, November 13, 1992
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Books
"Who we Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy" Vol. 1: 1750s to 1850s
Anton Chaitkin, 2020
''Treason in America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman''
Washington, D.C.:

, 1998. . 680 pages. ::This work argues that the

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was not successfully concluded, because a significant

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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

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financiers,

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s, and

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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." * ''The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush''. Co-authored with

Webster Tarpley Webster Griffin Tarpley (born September 1946) is an American writer, political activist, and conspiracy theorist. A one-time follower of Lyndon LaRouche, Tarpley is known for his role in the 9/11 truth movement, believing 9/11 was a false flag o ...

. ** Progressive Press. ::An exposé of ties between

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and

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with the

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of Germany. * ''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?''.

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, 1986. * ''Operation South Carolina and the career of Caleb Cushing: How the Eastern Establishment Ran Southern Secession''. New Solidarity, 1983.

References

External links

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