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The Red Scare Still Haunts America
The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.
President Donald Trump is once more calling opponents “communists” as his administration wages policy fights on trade and in the courts.
Communism is a classless, moneyless and stateless society. So far, so simple. And so far out of reach. Or, we could define it ...
A lawyer has taken to X to argue that Republicans are more aligned with communism than Democrats in response to repeated ...
Red Star Over Palestine, a history podcast from Jacobin Radio, looks at the different strands of the Palestinian left and the ...
Danielle Dionne was a Communist. She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter my home, I experienced an instinctive moment of fear ...
academic freedom across the country came increasingly under threat as McCarthyism and anticommunism took hold during what would be known as the second Red Scare. As the government increasingly sought ...
Bill Knight was the mayor of Blairmore, Alberta, Canada's first communist-declared town. "Red is a state of mind," explained Knight. "Back in 1929 there were no Reds. Things were prosperous ...