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SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY
The Socialist Workers Party — the main organization of American Trotskyism — holds a singular place in the history of political imprisonment: its leaders were the first people convicted under the Smith Act, jailed during World War II for their opposition to the war with the Communist Party's applause. From the 1941 Minneapolis trial through the James Kutcher loyalty case and the landmark lawsuit that forced the FBI's disruption programs into the light, the SWP's history is a chronicle of thought-crime prosecution and its defeat. The events below trace it.
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