Title: First great political rights battle of the 1980s : an evening in solidarity /
Authors: Political Rights Defense Fund
Subjects: Socialist Workers Party Trials, litigation, etc.; Young Socialist Alliance (U.S.) Trials, litigation, etc.
Contents: This case began in 1973, [and] has turned up evidence that the FBI, the CIA, and other agencies disrupted, spied on, harassed, and blacklisted the Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance and their members for more than 40 years. The two organizations are demanding an injunction against such activities, and $40 million in compensation. This trial — the culmination of an eight-year legal battle — would challenge the government's right to spy on, infiltrate, and harass legal political organizations. It will also take on the whole web of McCarthyite legislation (the Smith Act, the McCarran Act, the Voorhis Act) used by the FBI to justify their illegal investigations .