“There’s a long history in the US of trying to claim that anarchists or communists, or other -isms on the left, are engaged in criminal conspiracies, and then conflating their activism with those so-called conspiracies, casting a wide net to equate speech with violence or critical acts,” said Gibbons of Defending Rights and Dissent. That history goes back to the conspiracy charges against Goldman – Joseph McCarthy’s early attempt at building the Red Scare – to the political imprisonment of Black Panther and American Indian Movement members, to police arresting George Floyd protesters to control crowds.
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