The USA PotatoThe State Is Escalating Charges Against Protesters. Labor Must Defend Them.
John Caravello is facing decades in prison for an anti-ICE protest. He needs labor to build a national defense campaign.
Matilda T. ZombieQueenReview: Changing Channels, City Lit Theatre, Chicago
https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch868.html
#theater #Theatre #Review #Writing #mccarthyism #redscare #Chicago
WIST QuotationsA quotation from James Thurber
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.James Thurber (1894-1961) American cartoonist and writer
Essay (1958-12-07), “State of the Nation’s Humor: ‘On the Brink of Was,'” New York Times Magazine
More about this quote: wist.info/thurber-james/82297/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesthurber #artist #dissent #humor #nation #paranoia #RedScare #suspicion #writer #writing #comedy #censorship
Thurber, James - Essay (1958-12-07), "State of the Nation's Humor: 'On the Brink of Was,'" New York Times Magazine | WIST Quotations
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
lumpenproletariatContext: The First Red Scare was a massive domestic crackdown brought about by anarchist activity and the wave of mail bombings that targeted government officials in 1919. Even though the era is often associated with the Russian Revolution, the U.S. government’s most aggressive tactics were specifically aimed at the anarchist movement. They saw it as the primary threat to the country, leading to the Palmer Raids and the mass deportation of non-citizen radicals. The whole period was defined by an obsession with dismantling anarchist groups, making them the central target of the federal government’s legal and police actions during that time.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Thx for pointing this out.
I feel strongly that anyone with any interest in #EU countries should read that article:
The same thing seems to be happening in almost(?) all Western #Democracies.
A century ago, it was the #RedScare that befell the world 🌍 with the #CommunistInternational. It was soon followed by the fascist "#BrownScare," aka "#NationalSocialism, " aka #Fascism.
A #FascistInternational is in the making.
MikeDunnAuthorThe Original Luigi
Today in Labor History February 22, 1918: At the height of the first Red Scare, U.S. authorities raided the office of “Cronaca Sovversiva.” Sacco and Vanzetti had written for this anarchist paper and donated money to it. It was their first documented link to the anarchist movement. Luigi Galleani published the paper from 1903 to 1920. He came to the U.S. in 1901 after escaping from an Italian prison. He participated in the Paterson silk strike where he was wounded and charged with rioting.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #strike #redscare #CronacaSovversiva #SaccoAndVanzetti #prison #Riot #luigigalleani #luigi
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davidakThe New Red Scare is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk4aTVko9ks
CW: Police Violence, ICE
#RedScare #USA #Politics #Communism #Socialism #Woke #Capitalism #Solidarity #Workers #Union
The New Red Scare is Here
🍉Karl☭Skalidin🌱https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk4aTVko9ks
#Communism #Capitalism #Propaganda #Redscare #Politics #Economy
The New Red Scare is Here
DoomsdaysCWA wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans
The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence
By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026
"None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.
"American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.
"The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.
"Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'
"I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'
"But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.
"Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."
Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up-call-for-white-americans/
#AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism
