BY Freedom Road Socialist Organization | Chicago, IL | 9/24/19
Nine years ago, on September 24, 2010, the FBI raided and subpoenaed Midwest anti-war and international solidarity activists in a bogus attempt to discover “material support of terrorism.”
BY Mick Kelly | Minneapolis, MN | 1/16/19
A well-known Iranian journalist, Marzieh Hashemi, has been jailed by the FBI. Hashemi is an anchor on Iran’s English language Press TV and has interviewed many progressive U.S. activists. According to credible reports, Hashemi was taken into custody at the Saint Louis, Missouri area’s Louis Lambert International Airport on January 13. The FBI has since moved her to a detention facility near Washington DC.
BY staff | United States | 4/25/18
Fight Back! interviewed Aaron Leonard, who, along with Conor Gallagher, wrote two pathbreaking books that largely deal with the government repression employed against one of the largest groups of the new communist movement, the Revolutionary Union (RU).
BY Brad Sigal | United States | 1/21/18
With 'A Threat of the First Magnitude', Leonard and Gallagher have done an important service in teaching us about who these people are and the methods the FBI used to infiltrate the Revolutionary Union - the largest Marxist-Leninist organization to emerge from the radical movements of the 1960s - as well as other revolutionary organizations of that period and the CPUSA before them.
BY Joe Iosbaker | Chicago, IL | 9/24/17
Today, Sept. 24, is the seventh anniversary of the 2010 FBI raids targeting 7 homes of anti-war, international solidarity and Palestinian-American activists.
BY staff | Los Angeles, CA | 7/05/16
On the morning of July 5, Los Angeles activist Jared Hamil received repeated phone calls from FBI Special Agent A. Brett Fears.
BY staff | Minneapolis, MN | 5/11/16
After a few days of preliminary motions and jury selection, opening arguments were presented on May 11 at the trial of three young local Somali men.
BY Jess Sundin | Minneapolis, MN | 5/10/16
More than 100 people came to the Minneapolis Federal Courts Building to support three Muslim youth from the Somali community charged with conspiring to provide material support to ISIL and to commit murder abroad.
BY Tom Burke | Tampa, Fl | 1/28/16
Tampa anti-war activist Jessica Schwartz says a family member handed her an FBI agent’s card. The card was stuck in the front door of the family home and belonged to FBI Special agent A. Brett Fears.
BY Zachary Schultz | Tallahassee, FL | 11/15/14
On Nov. 12, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) disrupted a FBI recruitment panel at Florida State University.
