30-08-2009, 01:11 AM
I have to agree with Helen re: the dangers of conflating FPCC with other left groups, for example, CISPES, which I was a member of-- I even worked with the Van Gosse dude mentioned in the article. It is, IMO, dangerous "leftist" conflation to speak of the FPCC in the same breath as groups of the late sixties seventies and eighties. There was still very much a McCarthyite vibe out there in the days of the FPCC. This meant that the percentage of intel operatives and manipulation of (if not complete control of ) the whole organization would have been much greater than later groups like CISPES, although there were infiltrators there too, and ...