MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 6, 1930: 100,000 people demonstrated for jobs in New York City. Demonstrations by unemployed workers, demanding unemployment insurance, occurred in virtually every major U.S. city. In New York, police attacked a crowd of 35,000. In Cleveland, 10,000 people battled police. In Detroit, the Communist Party organized an underemployment demonstration. Over 50,000 people showed up. Thousands took to the streets in Toledo, Flint and Pontiac. These demonstrations led to the creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), sponsored by Republican congressman Hamilton Fish, with the support of the American Federation of Labor, to investigate and quash radical activities.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unemployment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huac</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policebrutality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greatdepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greatdepression</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/riot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/newyork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newyork</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cleveland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cleveland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/detroit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>detroit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flint</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>republican</span></a></p>
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MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar). <a href="https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huac</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anticommunist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anticommunist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/witchhunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witchhunt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BertoltBrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BertoltBrecht</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marxist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>playwright</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
David Zappelli<p>"So instead of saying <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NonCitizen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NonCitizen</span></a> or <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/migrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrant</span></a>, they're supposed to say <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/alien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alien</span></a>. Instead of saying <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/integration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>integration</span></a>, they're supposed to say <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/assimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assimilation</span></a>, things like that. And this particular worker described it as the most #1984 thing that they've ever gotten. And this is happening all across the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a>" </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Orwellian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Orwellian</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Fahrenheit451" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fahrenheit451</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dystopia</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RayBradbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RayBradbury</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NeoMarcarthyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoMarcarthyism</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ideology</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/newspeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newspeak</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FreedomOfSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ThoughtControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThoughtControl</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GreatPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatPurge</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BookBurning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BookBurning</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Wiping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wiping</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Digital</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NineteenEightyFour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NineteenEightyFour</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BrainRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrainRot</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/WhatNext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhatNext</span></a> | "Why <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> ’s <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DataPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataPurge</span></a> is a Digital Book Burning"</p><p><a href="https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/podcasts/what-next-t</span><span class="invisible">bd/2025/02/donald-trump-is-changing-america-down-to-the-code</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>November 25, 1947 - Film industry executives, meeting in New York, announced that the “Hollywood Ten” directors, producers, and writers who had refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) would be fired or suspended, and not hired in the future, thus “blacklisted.”<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Hollywood10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hollywood10</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Blacklisted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blacklisted</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>10/20/1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened public hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood. To counter what they claimed were reckless attacks by HUAC, a group of motion picture industry luminaries, led by actor Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, John Huston, William Wyler, Gene Kelly and others, established the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA).<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History September 19, 1952: The United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. In 1947, his black comedy, Monsieur Verdoux, was released. In the film, he criticized capitalism and its reliance on wars and weapons of mass destruction. The FBI launched a formal investigation of him 1947, after public accusations that he was a communist. Chaplin denied the charges, calling himself a “peace monger.” Nevertheless, he protested the HUAC hearings and the U.S. trials of Communist Party members. Representative John Rankin called Chaplin's presence in Hollywood “detrimental to the moral fabric of America.” Writer George Orwell prepared list of people he believed were communists, which he gave to British intelligence before he died in 1949. The list included Chaplin and Michael Redgrave, as well as Paul Robeson, Katherine Hepburn, John Steinbeck and Orson Welles.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hollywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anticommunism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticommunism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/charliechaplin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>charliechaplin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/orsonwelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orsonwelles</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/steinbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steinbeck</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orwell</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fbi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huac</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/actor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p>hollywood soon wooed her with tidy sums for screenwriting (until, that is, she was blacklisted as a commie by the HUAC). she loathed it, but tinseltown kept her in tipple & she was ready with her dosh (in spite of her frequent need to self-medicate). in the years up to & during the second world war, dorothy wholeheartedly embraced the struggle for civil rights & served as chair of the joint anti-fascist refugee committee. <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/huac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huac</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mccarthyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mccarthyism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dorothyParker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dorothyParker</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>August 7, 1958 - The D.C. Court of Appeals reversed playwright Arthur Miller's conviction for contempt of Congress following a two-year legal battle. He had been charged for refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) the names of alleged Communist writers with whom he attended five or six meetings in New York in 1947.<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ArthurMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArthurMiller</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>June 9, 1954 - Special Counsel for the U.S. Army Joseph N. Welch confronted Senator Joseph P. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) during hearings into alleged communist infiltration of the Army Signal Corps.</p><p>McCarthy had attacked a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fischer, among many others, as a communist. This was alleged due to Fischer’s prior membership in the National Lawyers Guild. The Guild was the nation’s first racially integrated bar association.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/JosephNWelch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JosephNWelch</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a> </p><p>1/2</p>
Hannu Ikonen, MD<p>"US reactivates HUAC to witch hunt modern Commies who <checks notes> oppose Genocide."</p><p>Hey Richie Torres, Adam Smith, Nancy Pelosi, John Fetterman: eat my fuck you fucking genocidaires. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/house-antisemitism-bill-university-protest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/01/house-antisemitism-bill-university-protest</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antifascism</span></a></p>
Patrick Eddington<p>The Founders intended for Congress to be the primary mover on national policy. And it often has been, to the detriment of our individual constitutional rights. My reflections on Congress at age 235.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/statesecrets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statesecrets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/espionageact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>espionageact</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fourthamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fourthamendment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/firstamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firstamendment</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/billofrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billofrights</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.republic-sentinel.com/p/congress-at-235?r=15o1vy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">republic-sentinel.com/p/congre</span><span class="invisible">ss-at-235?r=15o1vy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> 11+ min <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TheHollywoodTen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheHollywoodTen</span></a> (1950)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taancRcLQ8o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=taancRcLQ8</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a> <br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FightBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FightBack</span></a><br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/McCarthyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McCarthyism</span></a><br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hollywood</span></a> <br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/TheBlacklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBlacklist</span></a><br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a><br><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ColdWarHysteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColdWarHysteria</span></a></p>
John Autry<p>10/20/1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened public hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood. To counter what they claimed were reckless attacks by HUAC, a group of motion picture industry luminaries, led by actor Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, John Huston, William Wyler, Gene Kelly and others, established the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA).<br><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History September 19, 1952: The United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. In 1947, his black comedy, Monsieur Verdoux, was released. In the film, he criticized capitalism and its reliance on wars and weapons of mass destruction. The FBI launched a formal investigation of him 1947, after public accusations that he was a communist. Chaplin denied the charges, calling himself a “peace monger.” Nevertheless, he protested the HUAC hearings and the U.S. trials of Communist Party members. Representative John Rankin called Chaplin's presence in Hollywood “detrimental to the moral fabric of America.” Writer George Orwell prepared list of people he believed were communists, which he gave to British intelligence before he died in 1949. The list included Chaplin and Michael Redgrave, as well as Paul Robeson, Katherine Hepburn, John Steinbeck and Orson Welles.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hollywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anticommunism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticommunism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharlieChaplin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlieChaplin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OrsonWelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrsonWelles</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Steinbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Steinbeck</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orwell</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fbi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huac</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/actor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>actor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>This audio-text combination is more compelling than any TikTok video that you will see and hear today:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/VhnCrHZkgNk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/VhnCrHZkgNk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HUAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HUAC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/neofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neofascism</span></a></p>
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