Anton Chaitkin

{{Short description|American writer, historian, and LaRouchist activist}} {{Infobox person | name = Anton Chaitkin | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1943 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = original writings on American political and economic history{{citation needed|reason=The article doesn't discuss any of his writings. It looks like he is rather known for his activism than his writing. Even the categories of this page don't reflect that he's a writer. They only list "politician".|date=July 2024}} | occupation = writer and historian | website = [https://www.antonchaitkin.com/ www.antonchaitkin.com] }} '''Anton "Tony" Chaitkin''' (born 1943) is an author, historian, and a former political activist with the LaRouche movement. He served as History Editor for ''Executive Intelligence Review''.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

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.<ref>[http://hnn.us/comments/23439.html History News Network] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070419074839/http://hnn.us/comments/23439.html |date=April 19, 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm Bush book: Chapter -2]</ref>

==Activism== Chaitkin became a founding member of the LaRouche movement in the mid-1960s.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}

In 1973, Chaitkin was a candidate for Mayor of New York City, on the U.S. Labor Party ticket.<ref>"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.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1973/1973_03.pdf|title=Journals|work=Mises Institute|accessdate=29 November 2014}}</ref> He also ran for Governor of New York in 1974, and for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district in 1978.<ref>[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32609 Our Campaigns - Candidate - Anton H. Chaitkin]</ref>

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 CIA.<ref>"A socialist Caucus Denounces Gibson And His Enemies--Baraka and Imperiale; Group Scores C.I.A.", RICHARD PHALON. ''The New York Times'', September 10, 1973, Page 74</ref><ref>"Arraignment Put Off in Council Melee". ''The New York Times'' September 7, 1973, Page 74</ref> On October 18, 1973, Chaitkin was forcibly removed from a press conference for asking a question{{which|date=July 2024}} of former Attny. General Ramsey Clark. In 1990, Ramsey Clark became LaRouche's lawyer on appeal,{{relevance inline|reason=What does this have to do with Chaitkin? It sounds rather sounds like this statement belongs into the LaRouche article or the LaRouche movement article|date=July 2024}} and said the following, in a letter to then Attny. General Janet Reno, regarding the case against LaRouche: <blockquote> 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.<ref>"Crowds and Demonstrators Focus Attention on Beame; Victimization an Issue", MAURICE CARROLL, ''The New York Times'' November 2, 1973, Page 26</ref> </blockquote> 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.<ref>"Newark, Jersey City, Trenton Mayors Hail Economist's Call for Aid to Cities", FRED FERRETTI, ''The New York Times'', April 22, 1975, Section: The Week In Review</ref>

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."<ref>"Five Independent Candidates Are In Race For Mayoralty", Peter Khiss, ''The New York Times'', October 7, 1973,</ref>

[[File:Albert Pike statue, Washington (558221844).jpg|thumb|left|Albert Pike Memorial in Washington, D.C.]]

During the 1990s, Chaitkin helped to lead a campaign that called for the removal of the Albert Pike Memorial from federal property in Judiciary Square, located in Washington, D.C. Chaitkin charged that Pike 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,<ref name=autogenerated1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cecaust.com.au/main.asp?sub=info&id=WAMD-A3.htm |title=Citizens Electoral Council of Australia |access-date=2008-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713193704/http://www.cecaust.com.au/main.asp?sub=info&id=WAMD-A3.htm |archive-date=2007-07-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=July 2024}} and was arrested in November 1992 by Federal Park Police for "statue climbing."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etext.org/Politics/LaRouche/iclc.0320.larouche.pike |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118175433/http://www.etext.org/Politics/LaRouche/iclc.0320.larouche.pike |archivedate=2008-01-18 }}</ref>{{dubious|date=July 2024}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etext.org/Politics/LaRouche/eir.930222 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228132026/http://www.etext.org/Politics/LaRouche/eir.930222 |archivedate=2007-12-28 }}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=July 2024}}

Chaitkin ushered in the LaRouche movement's campaign against the health care reform proposal of U.S. President Barack Obama. At an open panel session that included Ezekiel Emanuel held June 10, 2009, Chaitkin said: <blockquote>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.<ref name=Blumenthal>{{cite web|title=Behind the Obama-Hitler Slur|first=Max |last=Blumenthal|authorlink=Max Blumenthal|date=August 24, 2009|work=The Daily Beast|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-24/behind-the-obama-hitler-slur/p/|accessdate=August 26, 2009}}</ref> </blockquote> In reporting the incident, journalist Max Blumenthal described it as "the opening volley of an orchestrated propaganda campaign designed to link [Emanuel] and the White House's health-care reform proposals to the T-4 mass euthanasia program of Adolph {{sic}} Hitler."<ref name=Blumenthal/> {{See also|Views of Lyndon LaRouche#Health care policy}}

== Bibliography == '''Articles''' *[https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n16-19940415/eirv21n16-19940415_028-americas_young_america_movement.pdf “America’s ‘Young America’ Movement: Slaveholders and the B’nai B’rith”]. ''Executive Intelligence Review'', Vol. 21, No. 16, April 15, 1994. [https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1994/eirv21n16-19940415/eirv21n16-19940415.php Full issue available]. *[https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2006/eirv33n24-20060616/eirv33n24-20060616_076-chip_berlet_and_the_ford_zoo.pdf “Chip Berlet and the Ford Zoo”]. ''Executive Intelligence Review'', Vol. 33, No. 24, June 16, 2007. [https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2006/eirv33n24-20060616/eirv33n24-20060616.php Full issue available].

'''Book Reviews''' *[https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1992/eirv19n45-19921113/eirv19n45-19921113_052-spanning_the_species_the_inhuman.pdf ”Spanning the Species: The Inhuman World of Harriman”]. Review of ''Spanning the Century: The Life of W. Averell Harriman 1891-1986'' by Rudy Abramson. ''Executive Intelligence Review'', Vol. 19, No. 45, November 13, 1992. [https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1992/eirv19n45-19921113/eirv19n45-19921113.php Full Issue available].

'''Books'''

* [https://www.amazon.com/Who-We-Are-Americas-Universal/dp/B08NS611G9/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= "Who we Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy" Vol. 1: 1750s to 1850s], Anton Chaitkin, 2020 * [https://archive.org/details/treasoninamerica00chai ''Treason in America: From Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman'']. Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1998. {{ISBN|9780943235004}}. 680 pages. ::This work argues 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."{{citation needed|date=May 2013}} * ''The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush''. Co-authored with Webster Tarpley. Executive Intelligence Review. ** Progressive Press. {{ISBN|978-0-930852-92-4}} ::An exposé of ties between Prescott Bush and W. Averell Harriman with the Nazi Party 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?''. Schiller Institute, 1986. * ''Operation South Carolina and the career of Caleb Cushing: How the Eastern Establishment Ran Southern Secession''. New Solidarity, 1983.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.antonchaitkin.com/ Official website] * [https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Anton+Chaitkin%22 Anton Chaitkin] at Google Books. * [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%E2%80%9CAnton%20Chaitkin%E2%80%9D Anton Chaitkin] at Internet Archive. * [https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1105226A/Anton_Chaitkin Anton Chaitkin] at Open Library. * [https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKchaitkin.htm Anton Chaitkin] at Spartacus Educational. * [http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84011329/ Anton Chaitkin] at WorldCat. *[https://larouchepub.com/tv/tlc_biographies.html ”Biographies of Some People Who Have Appeared on The LaRouche Connection: Anton Chaitkin“]. 2002. larouchepub.com.

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