I agree with this, and furthermore they should receive even retribution for their acts. When Gerry Healy, former leader of the ICFI, wrote about opposing witch-hunts in his 1960 The Future of the Labor Party, he said that the most important witch-hunt to oppose came from within the Left or the leadership of the revolutionary party.

The worst witch-hunting came from submission to Stalinism and their formation of leadership cults that carried out witch hunts against the membership of the revolutionary party. So it is today, and the party should not accept sabotage of democratic discussion in the name of a witch-hunt against views differing from those of the obsolete factional dictatorship.

You do not mention the international Walk-out by Google Workers connected to #metoo anywhere on the wsws.org. Marxists must provide a class analysis of the movement, not a liberal idealistic defense of the government. Defending CEOs, billionaires, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Les Moonves, Google management, and Donald Trump himself from #metoo accusations does nothing to further the cause of the revolution of the working class.

The reaction by the media to the CP5 case of 5 youth, likely from poor backgrounds, should be used against them in the form of even retribution. They deserve to wait in prison until evidence is brought forward to exonerate them. Their careers are the polar opposite of the youth targeted for forced confessions in this case. They ended up in theatres and on national television as a result of illegal interrogations and negotiations, rather than in prisons. Arts programs have gone underfunded while these lucky few plunder their audience, leaving them with cheap, plagiarized images and sounds in “exchange”.

PROOF OF DELAY:

lee le brigand 12 hours ago