How Communists Destroyed the US/New Zealand Alliance-A Lesson For Today's America<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
 
 
The Obama presidential campaign achieved one positive thing. It was alerted many Americans to the re-surgent marxist influence in US politics.Reports of Obama's links to Democratic Socialists of America and Communist Party USA reached millions via the internet, even if it never made the mainstream.So?
 How can fewer than 10,000 revolutionaries possibly affect a country as powerful as the USA? In politics influence trumps numbers. How many Mafiosi stand for Parliament in Sicily? None. Therefore the Mafia have no political influence in Sicily? Secondly, the real threat of communism has seldom been identified. Espionage and revolutionary violence are important, but they are not the REAL threat To illustrate, I will give an example from my own country, New Zealand.For decades New Zealand was a loyal member of the Australia, New Zealand, United States alliance-ANZUS.In 1984 voters threw out the "conservative" government of Rob Muldoon and elected the leftist Labour government of David Lange.Within months ANZUS was on the rocks. New Zealand banned US nuclear warships from her harbors.
 
Why?New Zealand's pro-Soviet communists, the Socialist Unity Party (SUP) controlled the New Zealand labor movement.The SUP's Soviet masters wanted to break a Western country away from the US umbrella, in the hope of weakening the NATO alliance. The Soviets regarded my country as the West's weakest link, so they ordered the SUP to build up the New Zealand peace movement and expand its influence into all sectors of society.
In 1976 the SUP, set up an affiliate of the Moscow controlled World Peace Council-the New Zealand Council for World Peace.
From the SUP's Auckland Regional Newsletter November 12 1980To date in the region the Peace Council has made good progress among trade unions but more effort must be made to build on this and take the peace question to the factory floor. Also needed now is to broaden the Peace Council into other areas of the Community, join up prominent personalities including MPs, increase church involvement, university involvement, other peace groups, community clubs etc. Here branches and comrades can act as catalysts. We must be extremely careful that in building the Peace Council it does not become overburdened with "SUP" people or be labelled just another "SUP" front. If our Party is working correctly, only a few comrades, reporting back to the Region and Branches and taking forward issues from the same sources, are necessary to ensure effective involvement in the Peace movement. The broadest possible base is needed if we are to make the Council effective.Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer and British double agent, knew the New Zealand situation well;
"KGB activity increased as the result of the election of David Lange's Labour government in New Zealand on an antinuclear programme in 1984.... The [KGB] Centre ... was jubilant at Lange's election....In its attempts to draw New Zealand into nuclear-free activities, the Soviet authorities had made tremendous efforts to penetrate and strengthen the Labour Party, partly through the local Party of Socialist Unity…and partly through the Trades Union Congress."SUP members studying in Moscow were taught how to turn the new government into a tool of Moscow through a series of covert steps. 1 anti nuclear policies formulated in Moscow.
2 SUP members indoctrinated by Soviet tutors to promote anti-nuclearism through the peace movement, the unions and secret members in the Labour Party..
3 SUP to create a "public groundswell" to pressure Labour into adopting Moscow's anti-nuclear policies.
Step 4 SUP/union/peace movement activists to ensure Labour passed the policies into law.
Step 5 SUP to keep up propaganda to achieve maximum public acceptance of Moscow's policies.By that time the SUP had substantial influence in Labour's executive and policy council, so the process went smoothly . The Soviets were amazed at how easily their SUP agents were able to plant the communist cuckoo's egg in Labour's nest.
By carefully playing all of its many strings in tune, the SUP was able to turn Soviet policy into Labour Party policy. By playing the patriotic and anti American cards, the SUP was able to make Kiwis proudly destroy ANZUS-while thinking it was their own idea.. That is the real "secret" of communism The ability of communists to influence moderate leftist parties so that they become the unknowing conduit for communist policies. 
While the Soviet Union no longer exists, the same process plays out today-through Obama's  Democratic Party.  
 
Trevor Loudon is a new Zealand based researcher and writer, specializing in far left politics.
 
He blogs at newzeal.blogspot.com