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The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on the U.S. Left. On July 22, the MAGA-led House Ways and Means Committee issued subpoenas against The People’s Forum and BreakThrough News, demanding internal communications and financial records.
This follows the State Department’s release of a 100-page McCarthyist report which attempts to link left-wing organizations, figures, and popular social movements in the United States to a subversive campaign of infiltration by the Cuban government. It is classic red scare fearmongering intended to suppress the organic rise of anti-capitalist consciousness within the United States, and to pave the way for more imperialist interventions throughout Latin America.
Despite our political differences with The People’s Forum and BreakThrough News, we at Left Voice unequivocally condemn the state’s attacks on these organizations. The People’s Forum has played an important role in organizing actions against the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza and other aggressive acts of U.S. imperialism. BreakThrough News is one of the most influential news outlets on the U.S. Left, platforming perspectives which would otherwise not be given airtime by the bourgeois press. The subpoenas are an attack on basic First Amendment rights including freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
In the face of escalating attacks from the state, it is essential that the Left close ranks, defending one another despite whatever differences we may have. If the state can advance in any of its attacks on one organization of the Left, that will only pave the way for further attacks. The Left must be at the forefront of defending basic democratic rights.
Both The People’s Forum and BreakThrough News have published statements denouncing these attacks and calling for signatures in solidarity. Both statements are linked below:
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