Criminal Anarchy w/ Aaron J. Leonard

Longtime friend of the show, historian Aaron J. Leonard joins us to talk about his new book Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism (rutgersuniversitypress.org/menace-of-our-time/…).
It's a history of the monitoring, infiltration, and legal suppression of the Communist Party USA that begins with a very familiar-sounding "black scare" against anarchists after a high-profile assassination in 1901.

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Article on the book: truthout.org/articles/how-a-century-of-anti-co…
Video: Trump says "we took free speech away": youtube.com/watch?v=F4VqMY8djOM
Indypendent article on Antifa: indypendent.org/2025/10/what-is-antifa

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