Socialist adviser Tiffany Caban celebrated Women’s History Month by honoring a group of extremists, including a Communist Party leader campaigning to overthrow the United States and an anarchist who inspired the assassination of President William McKinley .
Caban’s newsletter sought to spotlight 10 union organizers, journalists and artists, the missive noted.
“This Women’s History Month, we decided to highlight the lives and words of ten revolutionary women from New York, some of whom made history at the time, and others of whom continue to write history today,” wrote the far-left Queens police. “These are some of the women whose spirits we hope to carry forward as we seek to build a safer, healthier city for all.” »
At the top of the left’s list was Emma Goldman, a Russian immigrant and anarchist who advocated “for birth control and free love,” the newsletter noted.
Goldman, however, confessed in her autobiography that she had conspired with her lover, Alexander Berkman, to plan the failed assassination attempt on steel magnate Henry Clay Frick in response to the killing of strikers at Homestead, in Pennsylvania, in 1892.
Nearly a decade later, Leon Czolgosz, who shot McKinley in Buffalo in 1901, said he was inspired by one of Goldman’s speeches declaring that “all leaders should be exterminated,” the Republic of Saint-Louis.
Also highlighted was Elizabeth Flynn Gurley, chairwoman of the Communist Party USA, who, according to the newsletter, “was imprisoned for her beliefs.”
Gurley was arrested in 1951 for violating the Smith Act, a federal law prohibiting advocating the violent overthrow of the government, and spent at least two years in prison.
After his death in 1964, the Soviet Union held a state funeral for his comrade in Moscow’s Red Square, attended by 25,000 people.
Caban, a staunch advocate for sex workers, also highlighted trans activist and former prostitute Cecilia Gentili, whose funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral turned into a “sacrilegious” affair, according to Church leaders .
She was praised as “St. Cecilia, mother of all whores” and another mourner sang “Ave Maria” with the lyrics changed to “Ave Cecilia”.
Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) called Caban “reprehensible” for defending individuals who were clearly expressing their desire to “destroy this country.”
“A Communist Party president who was convicted of trying to overthrow the United States government should never be celebrated by anyone who claims to defend American values,” Ariola told the Post.
Radical policies encouraging anarchists and attempted murder conspirators should surprise no one, said City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn).
“It is completely logical that the Marxists in the Council support this,” Vernikov said. “After all, they are following in their radical footsteps by sowing as much chaos as possible and excusing and protecting the criminal elements who destroyed our city.”
Caban did not respond to a request for comment.
New York Post
