Today in Labor History September 5, 1917: Federal agents attacked Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) halls and offices in 48 cities across the nation as part of the Palmer raids against the left.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #PalmerRaids #RedScare #police #PoliceBrutality

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/mccarthyism-is-back-together-we-can-stop-it?source=direct_link&

#ReformTheMedia: Similar to the old “#RedScare” and #McCarthyperiods, when scores of organizations and leaders like W.E.B Du Bois, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Paul Robeson and Martin Luther King Jr and others were attacked with #factless accusations, today, prominent organizations and individuals, including CODEPINK, The People's Forum, and Tricontinental Institute have been targeted, with #smears and #accusations propagated by outlets like The New York Times.

#ForeverWars #militaryindustrialcomplex

#NowPlaying #RedScare was a hardcore band out of Los Angeles from 1982–1984. With horror-inspired lyrics, fiercely fronted by Bobbi Brat, they fitted into the #NerdsInThePit era which started with bands like The Weirdos, Germs, and The Bags, up until the year punk broke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laFYjwt2370

People have been joking about being Groucho Marxists for years, but apparently the man was a comrade

https://starsandletters.blogspot.com/2020/10/groucho-marx-and-united-snakes-of.html?m=1

#Marxism #Communism #McCarthyism #RedScare #Hollywood #History

Tours: Arms Aloft / Guerilla Poubelle #2023_07_18 #punknewsorg #aubinnospampunknewsorg_aubin #redscare

>> https://www.punknews.org/article/80504/tours-arms-aloft-guerilla-poubelle

#Republicans reignite the #redscare in service of #Trump

https://flip.it/fMl4o2

#Trump’s “Final Battle”
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/25/trump-communism-red-scare/
The ranting about “#communism” from Trump and #theright is unsettlingly familiar.
#redScare

somehow chinese was set in my chrome settings as higher priority than English (but below English USA) so I opened up beehaw.org to check it out and it was all 你说中文！#redscare

Today in Labor History June 15, 1950: As part of their Cold War hysteria, the Senate opened an investigation of 3,500 alleged "sex perverts" (i.e., homosexuals) in the federal government. The “lavender” scare paralleled McCarthy’s witch hunt against anarchists, communists, socialists and labor leaders. McCarthy hired attorney Roy Cohn as chief counsel for the lavender committee. Together with J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, they got scores of LGTBQ people fired from their government jobs because of the fear that their sexuality had already, or would in the future, make them easy targets for blackmail by the Soviet Union. Both Cohn and Hoover were believed to be gay.

This video clip is the trailer for the 2017 documentary “Lavender Scare.”

https://youtu.be/ZuIYssjmlv0?t=67

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #lgbtq #homophobia #fbi #JEdgarHoover #Sexuality #RedScare #McCarthy #ColdWar #communism #anarchism #socialism #soviet #russia

Today in Labor History June 2, 1919: Anarchists carried out a series of coordinated bombings across the Eastern United States, damaging the homes of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who had launched the first Red Hunt against unionists, commies and anarchists, as well as then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #bombings #PalmerRaids #RedScare #PoliceBrutality #prison #deportations #fdr #union #communism

Tuesday May 23 — that’s tomorrow — in Columbus OH: FSP’s Taylor Dorrell talks with U. of Akron literature prof. Patrick Chura about the lasting legacy of post-WW2 Red Scare and blacklisting.

In-person, 8:00 PM at Two Dollar Radio, 1124 Parsons Ave., Columbus.

See event listing to RSVP:
https://twodollarradiohq.com/events/

#RedScare #blacklist #MikeGold #AlbertMaltz

Today in labor history April 28, 1919: Anarchists mailed 36 booby-trapped packages to enemies of the working class. Inside each package was a 6” x 3” block of hollowed wood filled with dynamite. Their targets included U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, because he had been imprisoning and deporting anarchists and union activists, including Emma Goldman. Other targets included J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #terrorism #bomb #union #RedScare

Happy birthday singer, civil rights activist, and film icon Paul Robeson! Here’s some original fan art to celebrate!
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#HappyBirthday #PaulRobeson #Singer #CivilRightsMovement #RedScare #RaceFilm #TheEmperorJones #BodyANdSoul #Jericho #SongOfFreedom #Art #MovieArt #Movies #MovieHistory

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/07/pentagon-investigates-reported-leak-of-top-secret-ukraine-documents?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

I bet it had zero to do with TikTok, but of course, only TikTok gets banned on government phones. 🤷🏼‍♂️ #sinophobia #communism #redscare

The Rise of ‘#RedScare’ Policy
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/capitolism/the-rise-of-red-scare-policy/
We risk overreacting to the threats posed by #China.

#SomethingFierce

Ever since i heard her story on #TheMoth (11 min), I have wanted to read more about her. She's the daughter of a revolutionary in Chile.

https://themoth.org/storytellers/carmen-aguirre

The US was on the wrong side of history here. Always supporting #coups that help some horrible murderous #dictator, so long as we can stop a democratically elected #socialist trying to get education &healthcare for all. Info on the "other 9/11":
#RedScare #DisasterCapitalism #ShockDoctrine

See next ⬇️

Why are Americans so afraid of Socialism? The Red Scare analyzed. - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqc9xZV1nE
Jun 10, 2021

(Contains strong language.)

#Socialism #Communism #Propaganda #RedScare #Capitalism

Today in Labor History March 23, 1918: 101 IWW members went on trial in Chicago for opposing World War I and for violating the Espionage Act. In September, 1917, 165 IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to subvert the draft and encourage desertion. Their trial lasted five months, the longest criminal trial in American history up to that time. The jury found them all guilty. The judge sentenced Big Bill Haywood and 14 others to 20 years in prison. 33 others were given 10 years each. They were also fined a total of $2,500,000. The trial virtually destroyed the IWW. Haywood jumped bail and fled to the USSR, where he remained until his death 10 years later.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #communism #anarchism #ussr #soviet #BigBillHaywood #antiwar #FreeSpeech #prison #deportation #RedScare

The new #RedScare for red states: #Diversity programs

https://flip.it/9QCMtD

A New Red Scare Is Coming - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaIZ9KGlgts

Jul 9, 2021
If you thought McCarthyism was gone...well, no such luck. In this episode, we'll discuss the US' newest wave of reactionary, anti-communist rhetoric and legislation. As capitalism's popularity wanes among the American population and the economic system begins to show signs of impending collapse, we should expect more kneejerk measures like these to try to rally support around a failing system.

#Capitalism #RedScare