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‘We Accuse’: The Communist Party USA’s answer to 1948 conspiracy charges February 5, 2021 9:34 AM CDT By Eugene Dennis
Left to right: Some of the top leaders of the Communist Party USA swept up in the 1948 Red Scare dragnet descend the steps of the Federal Courthouse in New York: William Z. Foster, Benjamin J. Davis, Eugene Dennis, Henry Winston, John Williamson, and Jack Stachel. | People s World Archives
On Feb. 3, 2021, CNN published by Eliott C. McLaughlin that placed the Communist Party USA alongside Trump’s Jan. 6 Capitol mob and a neo-Nazi organization as the only groups to have “attempted to stage a coup against the United States of America.” CNN and McLaughlin have their history wrong, very wrong.
Commentary: The historical roots of the security failure at the Capitol
Troops, one with a machine gun, stand guard on the steps of the U.S. Senate wing of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 1968. Federal troops were called into the nation’s capital by order of President Lyndon Johnson following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4. AP The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Published: 1/18/2021 6:00:06 AM
During the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6, billows of smoke blanketed the Capitol, where outnumbered U.S. Capitol Police officers tried in vain to contain the mob of pro-Trump extremists.