New Book Showcases FBI Efforts to Sabotage the US Left

[Omaha Steve]

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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/28957-new-book-showcases-fbi-efforts-to-sabotage-the-us-left

Wednesday, 11 February 2015 12:09
By Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout | Book Review

According to writers Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher, The Revolutionary Union (RU) and its later incarnation, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), were products of 1960s left-wing radicalism.

"Leaders emerged from the anti-HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) protests, the Free Speech Movement, the Peace and Freedom Party alliance with the Black Panthers, and the struggles in the final years of SDS, among other key events of the time," they write.

As Maoists inspired by China, they found kindred spirits among disaffected Communist Party USA members and a host of others who were eager to align with like-minded activists to organize and agitate against war and oppression. At its height, they continue, the RCP had more than 1,000 members and several thousand active supporters.

Heavy Radicals tells their story and serves as an instructive guidebook on two distinct levels. First, it showcases the ways that ego and dogmatism led to fractures within both the RU and RCP. Secondly, it highlights the multiple ways that the FBI and local police departments worked in tandem to undermine progressive unity and sabotage effective protests and organizational development.

FULL review at link.

[sabrina 1]

1. Agitation against war & oppression clearly cannot be tolerated in a peaceful, free society!

The more you learn, the more you wonder 'is it even worth bothering to try to change a society whose culture is so entrenched in violence'?

Orwell was so way off in terms of his predictions. Things are WAY worse than could have been imagined.

A government that goes after those who want a peaceful society. What do you call that kind of government?