Workers' Rights versus the Secret Police

Seigle, Larry

ISBN 10: 0873484355 / ISBN 13: 9780873484350

Published by Pathfinder, 2001

About this Item

Unmarked. Places the SWP (Socialist Workers Party) and YSA (Young Socialist Alliance) lawsuit against the government and the campaign to support it within its historical context. The SWP and YSA filed the lawsuit in 1973, charging government agencies with "illegal acts of blacklisting, harassment, electronic surveillance, burglary, mail tampering, and terrorism" against the socialist organizations.

Seller Inventory # 28229

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Workers' Rights versus the Secret Police
• Publisher: Pathfinder
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873484355
• ISBN 13: 9780873484350
• Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Law

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Synopsis

How, since the inception of the modern revolutionary workers movement in 1848, the ruling classes have responded with police spies, agents provocateurs, and political frame-ups.

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)