Manon Bustin - coal miner Inreatened with deportation On March 16, the FBI, CIA and other government spy agencies will be put in the dock. They are facing a lawsuit from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) which claims that, since 1938, they have conspirea to distupt its pontical activity.
The lawsuit - filed back in 1973 for the disruption caused to date. It also calls on the government to stop spying, infiltrating and harassing the SWP.
The suit comes at a bad time for the u nilers. They need to strengthen their secret police to help silence the growing opposition among US workers to their policies of inflation, union busting and They need to overcome the widespread aistrust among working peopie to1 te FBI and CIA, to convince them they are necessary in the "national security".
The trial - scheduled for March 16 -will blow this wide open. It will publicly expose the anti-worker role of these government spy agencies.
Already, the suit has forced the governmenteto release thousands of files which show the SWP accusations of spying, burglary and frame-ups are true.
The files reveal how the FBI plotted against the Black movement, tried to drive union militants from their jobs, sought to discredit the women's movement and undermine mass opposition to the Vietnam war. SWP. However, on November 20 last the party.
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people have a right to hold political is trampling on the rights of all posures, the Attorney General ordered it takes up, the FBI to halt its investigations into the year, the FBI was forced to admit it had continued to maintain files on the SWP despite claims to have halted spying on This was just one of the lies the SWP in the United States.
A concrete example was the case of SWP member Marion Bustin, a coal miner from West Virginia. It was discovered that for 6 years the Immigrahave been trying to find grounds to deport her because of her political views.
The case of Marion Bustin and Hector Marroquin, another member the US government is seeking to deport, will be at As Andrew Pulley (SWP Presidential candidate in the 1980 elections) explained in a recent statement: "The American opinions and express them freely. By denying this right to us, the government socialists? How can workers take power into their own hands? What attitude should socialists take towards violence? What happened in the Russian Revolution! These are just some of the issue The method used to explain the ideas was no accident. Socialism on Trial was literally that. It is a court testimony -that of J.P: Cannon, a founder and longtime member of the socialist movement Cannon and 17 other leaders of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and Minneapolis truck drivers' union were on tat lot ne sociaust views aunng World War Two. They were accused of "sedition" for refusing to give up their ideas and cease fighting for the rights of working people.
Despite a defence campaign, supported by unions representing 2 million workers, the socialists were rail-roaded In having to give Cannon the chance to expound his views from the dock, however, the US ruling class undoubt edly came out the loser. Capitalism, Cannon explains, in its early stages took humanity forward. But now it can only offer unemployment, curbs on demovanay se 666[ aq „ se d s[ AA fo purnonh ng pay e
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