Though this book is almost thirty years old, it catalogs the tactics that the United States Government has been carrying since the spectre of fundamental social change came on the scene after the Russian revolution. The government continues to do this, and they will continue to do this as long as it is controled by the capitalist wealthy who know that the interests of the majority of working people in the and theirs are in conflict. Wherever movements that question this society's exploitation and injustice arise, they use the police forces both secret and public to disrupt them illegally, they spy on them, and they are not above violence.
I was active as a member, full time volunteer, and leader of the Socialist Workers Party during the years covered by this book. The law suit and struggle against FBI disruption of our organization, the antiwar movement, and the Black rights movement showed that the apartment I shared with other party activists had been broken into. The deposition the FBI had of me before the trial indicated that the FBI had been following me around, taking notes at everything I said from the time I became an SWP member at the age of 20 and even before. Yet, the FBI spying, that began in the 1930s, had not led to any prosecution of the SWP or any of its members.
We successfully fought this suit not because we believed that the legal system in this country will end the use of the government as a weapon against working people, against unions, Black rights, immigrants, women's rights, or antiwar fighters. We know they will use the government for that purpose as long as the government is in the hands of the capitalists and not in the hands of workers and farmers.
We did this to use the leverage brought about by the antiwar struggles and the outrage at the murders and persecution of leaders of the Black liberation movement, to fight back and fight for the space working people need to change the entire system.
Read this book and you see not only a picture of government disruption in the past, but a picture of what they are doing now, how we can fight against it, and why we need to keep fighting until the government is not controlled by billionaires, but by the workers and farmers who produce the real wealth of society.
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