Unfortunately, a great deal of the materials on this subject matter prefer to focus on its presumed legal importance rather than the victims or even the oppressors in the situation. For us socialists, the claim that the SCOTUS’s ruling in favor of the Illinois neofascists set a valuable precedent and prevented a slippery slope into government tyranny is laughworthy. These were the same judges who a few months before outlawed the miners’ right to strike on the grounds of the Taft‐Hartley Act, and a pile of FBI documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that from 1953 to 1959 ACLU officials had been secretly cooperating with the FBI’s witchhunt of ‘Communists and subversives’ within the organization.