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By Dave Salner
September 1, 2022

The Militant and union-published Industrial Organizer cover the start of frame-up trial that followed June 1941 FBI raid on Socialist Workers Party headquarters in Minneapolis. In blatant attack on constitutional rights, FBI seized boxes of communist literature freely available for purchase in the bookstore. Thirty-three years later SWP put FBI on trial, exposing decades of spying, disruption.

The Militant and union-published Industrial Organizer cover the start of frame-up trial that followed June 1941 FBI raid on Socialist Workers Party headquarters in Minneapolis. In blatant attack on constitutional rights, FBI seized boxes of communist literature freely available for purchase in the bookstore. Thirty-three years later SWP put FBI on trial, exposing decades of spying, disruption.