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The seeks and an inLal asolci It has hundreds previousiy against American Cocais These FBI ging, bomb and physical hundreds of spies, their jobs.
The documents also revealed how the FBI had plotted against the black and anti-Vietnam wal well IOvClCIls. against trade union •activists. SWP • national secretary Jack Barnes explained at courthouse press conference:
n our tria alie fighting not only for our own rights but rights of all working peo. ple - the miners now on strike against the coal operators, the people of El ›CnO r Sat/Sụn 23/24 May Day 1 Formation of LP & developments to 1945/ Election of 1945 Labour govt and rise & decline of Bevanism Day 2 Rise of new LP left & Bennism/ Tasks for socialists in LP now Workshops History of LP women's sections/ 1931 LP split/ Labour League of Youth in 1930s/ LPYS in 50s & 60s School open to Socialist Challenge supporters. Admission by ticket only. Price f2.50 for both days or £2 single day. Limited 1 must enclose payment, coreques to The Weektions must enclose payment, cheques to 'The Fri 22 May at 8pm Camden Town Hall, opp St. Pancras station London Speakers: Ernest Mandel, Ken Livingstone, Hall opens at 6.30pm with displays on women's movemcat, anui uuccar sururc misa nocraton sotrae struggle of youth; Polish crisis; El Salvador and Turkey.
Buffet available with rolls, cakes, rea and coffee court building in Foley the ideas of revoluSalvador fighting for their right to run their country, and the Americans who do want another Vietoutset the aims ot ' the side have been clear. First they have tried to prove that their long campaign of disruption spying against the SWP/YSA legitimate.
A Justice Department document in the case explains: "The issue is whether the government has the right to keep itself informthe activities groups thạt openly advo. cate revolutionary change in the structure and leadership of the United States, even advocacy might be within the letter of the law.' Secondly, as they concede that the SWP/YSA's activities are legal, they have been forced to try the socialists nenceds. The courtroom has therefore echoed to the words of veteran socialist Farrell Dobbs and Jall Barne. explaining the fundamental ideas of revolutionary socialism and the history of the marxist movement.
On the eighth day of the trial a former FBI street agent, George Bax stand to recall lis 1o y thrs trum, was to the of dirty work against the SWP/YSA. During six of those years he carried out • places available so apply urgently GLC councillor witness for the SWP at least 92 burglaries of SWP offices, photograph ed over 8,000 Tetay rifled through the SWP's trash cans and SWPP members addressen. files all known He was also responsible for the recruitment ntormeks on the SWP/YSA and for 'disruption' allc sucal campaigns against the party and individual members almncu al anving caell vul of politics All these activities were Veteran US socialist Farrell Dobbs has been a key carried out in the name of the various 'thoughtcontrol' laws in the US: the Smith Act of 1940 against the advocacy of socialist ideas, the Voorhis Act which prevents the SWP from affiliation to the Fourth International the 'loyalty programme started by President Truman and maintained sever inceto eseniee 'subversives' jobs, and the Immigration and Naturalisation Act which permits the harassment of non-citizens on the basis of their political lacas Support for the socialists' lawsuit is growing inside the labour movement and from •black, women and civil rights' CUVNA As the SWP national committee statement the trial says: "'A victory in this case would be a vic tory for all victims of government spying and working people in this country.
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