Tag: Free Speech
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Speak out! Tom Alter, MAGA McCarthyism, and the fight for free speech
The Tempest Collective is a supporter of the Committee to Defend Tom Alter and encourages everyone to attend this event on Thursday, November 6 at 7 pm ET, as well as to join the fight to defend Tom Alter and the growing list of victims of Trumpite repression and the broad attacks on all of…
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Rehabilitating McCarthyism
As Trump continues to escalate his campaign of domestic repression, Tempest offers a perspective from Bill Keach on the repression of another period—the McCarthy era.
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Statement by the Committee to Defend History Professor Tom Alter
A call for support for professor fired for speaking at a socialist conference.
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Against the New McCarthyism
Ashley Smith argues that the Left must reject both the civility trap that liberals and Democrats have fallen into, which simply legitimizes Kirk’s bigotry as debate, and the dead-end of individualist violence. The task for socialists is to advocate and build the capacity to carry out collective organizing, protests, and strikes to advance democratic demands.
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Defend Walden Bello!
Information on the arrest of Philippine activist, intellectual, and politician Walden Bello and a call to build a campaign in his defense.
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It’s their democracy, not ours, but we must defend it
Bourgeois democracy isn’t full democracy, but British socialist David Renton argues that socialists should not be indifferent when the ruling class threatens to shed its democratic skin.
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No free speech for fascists (excerpted)
A chapter from David Renton’s forthcoming book, No free speech for fascists is excerpted, and is entitled: “Since when did the Supreme Court ever protect free speech?”