FBI on Trial: The Victory in the Socialist Workers Party Suit Against Government Spying [Paperback]

Margaret Jayko (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1988

The 1987 victory in the 14-year SWP legal battle against the FBI, CIA, and other government spy agencies “increases the space for politics, expands the de facto use of the Bill of Rights, increases the confidence of working people that you can be political and hold the deepest convictions against the government and it’s your right to do so and act upon them.”—From the introduction.

Foreword by Leonard Boudin, index. Appendices: “Workers Rights versus the Secret Police” by Larry Siegle; “Political Rights Defense Fund Financial Summary and Statement.” Now upgraded with enlarged type.

Product Details

• Paperback: 353 pages
• Publisher: Pathfinder press; 1st edition (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873485297
• ISBN-13: 978-0873485296
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,006,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A weapon against growing repression, May 5, 2006

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This review is from: FBI on Trial: The Victory in the Socialist Workers Party Suit Against Government Spying (Paperback)

Under the guise of "homeland security" the US government has made unprecedented legal attacks on the civil liberties and civil rights of the people of this country. From immgrants to librarians, from union activists to anyone who talks on the telephone, covert and overt attacks on the civil rights of Americans continue to grow. Their target is not "terrorists" but against the threat of working class resistance to the growing attacks on living conditions. They are afraid the entire working class will follow the example immigrants are setting by coming into direct action against them, rather than depending on the Republicans and Democrats who are in the pockets of the rich.

This book documents the historic victory the Socialist Workers Party won in its suit against the US government's illegal Cointelpro attacks on the SWP and on the trade union, Black liberation, women's right, and antiVietnam war movements the SWP was a part of. Read these documents, and you will see that the FBI and the other federal agencies have no concern for "law and order," or "terrorism." Their real concern is to do whatever they can get away with inside and outside the law to disrupt struggles in the interests of working people.

Read this book so you will know not only of these crimes of the FBI and the government in the past, but so you will know how to fight them now and in the future.