{"product_id":"9781978841802-menace-of-our-time","title":"Menace of Our Time","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Long War Against American Communism\u003cbr\u003eCharting nearly a century of state repression, this account follows relentless efforts by US authorities to suppress domestic communism. It examines state laws, police actions, trials, and covert operations like COINTELPRO that stifled union organizing, racial justice, and support for the unemployed.\u003cbr\u003eBeginning at the turn of the century, and ending only with communism’s collapse, the US government and major elements in the wider society undertook an unrelenting effort to suppress and criminalize domestic communism. This book tracks those efforts; from the state laws of the twenties that imprisoned the fledgling communist leadership, the efforts by police and local authorities against communists as they fought for unions, racial equality, and the unemployed, the trials and imprisonment of communist leaders mid-century, the extra-legal efforts of the Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) in the sixties, and the ongoing, relentless attention by the FBI afterward. This is a long-overdue book about the most extensive, repressive effort ever undertaken by US authorities against a political organization that, however problematic, was largely operating within the scope of constitutionally mandated freedoms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58391122411894,"sku":"9781978841802","price":24.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36202856.jpg?v=1785781598","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781978841802-menace-of-our-time","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}