Crackdown in the States
Lawmakers around the country are attempting to stifle protest movements. They're the real threats to free speech.
Articles by
Chip Gibbons
Chip Gibbons is a writer and activist whose work has been featured in Truthout and the Dissent NewsWire. He is also the policy and legislative counsel for Defending Rights and Dissent, but the views expressed here are his own.
Repressing Radicalism
The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.
The Imperial Bureau
The FBI embodies authoritarianism more than any other domestic agency. It can’t curb Trump’s autocratic tendencies.
A Game of Russian Roulette
Couching opposition to Trump in anti-Russia language will only end up benefiting the Right.
The Trial(s) of Harry Bridges
In the 1930s and '40s, conservative forces waged a relentless campaign to deport militant labor leader Harry Bridges.