This is Woody talking to "Weaver's" Fred Hellerman and Lee Hayes, who asked how he was doing -- while being hospitalized for Huntington's Chorea during the Second Red Scare. (From my book Folksingers & the Bureau)

Aaron Libson, a closeted gay communist was a target of the FBI’s COINTELPRO-CPUSA. When they facilitated publicizing his arrest on sodomy charges, he tried to kill himself but was thankfully unsuccessful. For the FBI... it was a win, he was driven out of the CP, and the group was “embarrassed.”

Coming... September 9, 2025.

[From my upcoming book].The period of imminent revolution the Comintern declared in 1928 ended abruptly when Adolf Hitler assumed power in 1933. To their peril, the communists & social democrats of Germany held to the idea that the Nazis were a temporary phenomenon... #stopfacsism #resist #handsoff

A generous endorsement from Professor Roberts: "The sordid story of the intense and prolonged repression of American communists has never been told better. Aaron J. Leonard’s compelling and highly illuminating book is a must-read for everyone interested in US political history."

Pasadena high school students walking out to protest deportations

Rutgers just sent me the cover for the new book—coming September 9, 2025.

In "Meltdown Expected" I write, that while Jimmy Carter came into office as a champion of human rights, by the end of 1979 he had begun funding Islamist guerillas in Afghanistan, developed the MX missile, embraced the despised Shah of Iran, and tacitly supported the Pol Pot regime against Vietnam.

I have just been given a publication date from Rutgers University Press for my next book, Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism. It will be on the streets starting September 9, 2025. Get ready! @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking at LA's All Power Books w/All Power Musicians Org, on December 3, 7pm (about Folk Singers & the Bureau). The image of Woody Guthrie is from his NY FBI file, taken by an informant in Spokane, Washington. All Power Books 7pm—4749 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles

Excellent graphics from
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Looking forward to speaking on Dec 3.
#woodyguthrie #peteseeger #folkmusic

Looking forward to this!
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Recently talked with ABC Radio (Australia) about Folk Singers & the Bureau. You can listen here:

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

(Photo is from Guthrie's FBI file, for a vagrancy arrest in Ohio)
#woodyguthrie #peteseeger