50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington's Political Police and the American Working Class. - Softcover

Larry Seigle; Farrell Dobbs; Steve Clark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604880635 ISBN 13: 9781604880632

Publisher: Pathfinder Press, 2014

Synopsis

The 15-year political campaign of the Socialist Workers Party to expose decades of spying and disruption by the FBI and other federal cop agencies targeting working-class organizations and other opponents of government policies. Traces the origins of bipartisan efforts to expand presidential powers and build the “national security” state essential to maintaining capitalist rule.

Also available in Spanish (ISBN: 9781604880625) and Farsi (ISBN: 9789645783332)

“[The authors] chronicle the Socialist Workers Party’s fifteen-year struggle which ultimately led to a victory in federal court (still standing) for the working class.” —Proto View (formerly Book News)

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About the Author

Larry Seigle was a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers party from 1971 to 1991.
He is author of:
50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington's Political Police and the American Working Class (2014, coauthor)
The Rise and Fall of the Nicaraguan Revolution (1994, contributor)
Workers' Rights versus the Secret Police (1981)
"Cuba and the Castro Leadership" in Revolutionary Cuba Today: The Record of a Discussion (1980) The Rise and Fall of the Nicaraguan Revolution (1994, contributor)

Farrell Dobbs (1907–1983) was national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party from 1953 to 1972 and the SWP presidential candidate four times. In 1934 he emerged from the ranks of the Teamsters as a central leader of battles that transformed the union movement during the Great Depression. He was a leader of the strikes that year that made Minneapolis a union town and later of the organizing drives that brought a quarter million over-the-road truck drivers into the Teamsters union across the Midwest and Mid-South.
During World War II, Dobbs and other central SWP leaders organizing labor opposition to Washington’s war aims were railroaded to federal prison by the US imperialist rulers.
He is the author of the series on the Teamster battles of the 1930s (four-volumes, 1972–77) and Revolutionary Continuity: Marxist Leadership in the U.S. (two volumes, 1980–83). Other works include:
Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions (2019, coauthor)
50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington's Political Police and the American Working Class (2014, coauthor)
Selected Articles on the Labor Movement (1983)
Counter-Mobilization: A Strategy to Fight Racist and Fascist Attacks (1976)
The Structure and Organizational Principles of the Socialist Workers Party (1971)

Steve Clark (1948– ), a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee since 1977, is editorial director of Pathfinder Press and managing editor of New International magazine.

Active from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s in the fight to halt the US war in Vietnam, Clark joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1970 and Socialist Workers Party in 1971. He is a leader of the party’s work in solidarity with the socialist revolution in Cuba. He was editor of the Young Socialist magazine (1974–75) and YSA national secretary (1975). He edited the Militant newsweekly (1977–80, 2011–12) and the socialist news magazine Intercontinental Press (1981–84).

Clark is the editor of Malcolm X Talks to Young People and other collections of speeches and writings by Malcolm X, and author of the introductions to Are They Rich Because They’re Smart? and The Clintons’ Anti-Working-Class Record, both by SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes. In July 1980 Clark interviewed Maurice Bishop, central leader of the workers and farmers government in the Caribbean island of Grenada, for the Militant and is editor of Maurice Bishop Speaks: The Grenada Revolution and Its Overthrow, 1979–83 and author of “The Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop” in New International No.6.

Among Clark’s other articles in New International are “Farming, Science, and the Working Classes” and “The Politics of Economics: Che Guevara and Marxist Continuity,” co-authored with Jack Barnes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pathfinder Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604880635
• ISBN 13: 9781604880632
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 126