First great political rights battle of the 1980s
Subtitle: an evening in solidarity
By: sponsored by Political Rights Defense Fund
Publisher: sponsored by Political Rights Defense Fund
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Socialist Workers Party; Young Socialist Alliance (U.S.)
Notes: "Support the lawsuit that has brought the FBI, CIA and INS to court for its 40-year campaign of disruption, spying and harassment of the Socialist Workers Party."
Table of contents: title: 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 .