Case Reveals Fbi Burglary, Provocation, Bomb Threats. U.s. Socialists Expose Government

sions on our Civil liberties by anew detending ail peoples paneration of spies. provecateurs. and pismbers Aatumene Baten sules Feitter {Vernes Bellecosrt) In 1973, the Socialist Workers! Party and the Young Socialist Alliance (US supporters of the Fourth International) brought a case against the US Government, This case is concerned about the US Government!s programme of harassment, spying and disruption of socialists and supporters of democratic rights in the USA, After attempts by the US Government to delay and disrupt the hearings it is finally coming coming to trial on March 16th 1981, It is being hailed as the first great civil liberties battie of the 1980's in the US, So far, the seven long and arduous years of hearings have achieved the following:

-it has forced the government to turn over more than 200,000 pages of documents on the infamous COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Programme)disruption operation and on massive illegal programmes against the Black, labour, women's, antiwar and socialist movements in the US, These files reveal that the US government's bag of dirty tricks included burglary, bugging, getting people fired from jobs, and even bomb threats and physical violence, - It has fought for full exposure of the dirty work of thousands of government informers, These spies were instrumental in the FBI's most was later lifted). non citizen underhanded work, like the campaign to defame Dr. Martin Luther King, and physical violence against civil rights workers, often instigated and carried out by FBI informers, In 1978, then Attorney General Griffin Bell was held in contempt of court for refusing to comply with a court order to turn over the files of 18 informers against the SWP and USA (the contempt citation The upcoming trial will establish that these crimes continue to this day. Tworecent developments in the suit clearly illustrate this:

The SWP is Included on a /ist of 668 "proscribed" and "questionable" organizations, maintained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The list is used to harass and intimidate non citizen members of the SWP and USA, Two members - Marian Bustin, a 26 year old coalminer who was born in Scotland, and Hector Marroquin, a political refugee from Mexico -are currently facing the threat of deportation, The INS blacklist, like all such lists, is also aimed at the right of free association of all people in the USA, citizen and The government admitted that an investigation of the YSA and SWP is being carried out today under the name "Foreign CounterintellCENSORSHIP would tend to undermine the authority of the state'', he may prevent its tion, broadcast, Under this, members of provisional Sinn Fein are banned from the airwaves even if they are being interviewed solely as local The real political reason why the Government and RTE drop their pretence of political balance in the case of the anti-imperialist militants is because they understand the res— onance which Irish Republicanism has, in its demand for the withdrawal of British Troops and an end to part ition, They want all discussion of trelands! political future to take place in the collaborationist atmos— phere of pariour chats between Haughey and Thatcher, The repeal of section 31 of the Broadcasting Act would be a major advance for the Irish working class, for it would allow them, from considering in full the alternatives open, to decide who has their best political