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WITCH destroys the democracy of any society or organisation that practises it.
This is one of the hard lessons the left learned in the period of McCarthyism and the cold war. Now it has to be learned by the left today.
CINDY JAQUITH, editor of the socialist paper, The Militant, looks at the most infamous of all the cold war frame ups, which led to the judicial murder by the US government of Ethel Julius Rosenberg The Rosenbergs were indicted in 1950 on charges of stealing the 'secret' of the atom bomb. Indicted with them was Morton All three maintained were completely innocent.
At their trial in 1951, the government's main was a crude drawing said to be a sketch of a bomb lens David Greenglass testified that he had obtained the sketch at the reHUNTING Korea Rosenberg's the Rosenbergs chair, Judge said:
American Korea, casualties priçe of your treason ... Charged Although of the US government Sobell.
munist they 'foreign 'evidence' mould.
That drive was in full swing in the time of the trial. The FBI, judge, and prosecution made full use of the courtroom to whip up pro-war sentiment in favour of Washington's invasion of Korea. In his closing statement sending to the electric Irving Kaufman 'Your conduct ... has already caused the Communist aggression with the resultant exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may, pay the the Rosenbergs were formally charged with being spies, their real crime in the eyes was that they were supporters of the ComThey were also Jewish. The object was to portray all CP members as 'spies', agents "traitors'. This smear would then power be applied more widely, to others who defended the Soviet Union from imperialist attack, favoured socialism over capitalist exploitation, or simply opposed the antiEthel and Julius Rosenberg, murdered for their beliefs January 1953. It explained that them te fill a er lend bons Socialist Action 18 November 1983 deleted from the trial transcript
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