Truly Filipino -- In the 1950s, Congress formed a Committee on Un-Filipino Activities that engaged in
redbaiting and red-tagging.
'In the past years, 'red-tagging' or '
redbaiting' has been proven dangerous,' said Mong Palatino, chairperson of Bayan's Metro Manila chapter.
(24) Shahn's ultimate nemesis during his brief tenure at Black Mountain was Robert Motherwell, with whom he'd had a confrontation a few years earlier in which--adopting the
redbaiting rhetoric overtaking US cultural and political life--Motherwell called him "the leading Communist modern artist in America." Along with being a friend, Olson felt closer to Shahn's political and aesthetic sensibilities.
union as a threat to be dealt with by
redbaiting its more leftist
In 1988, The Village Voice published a shrill attack on Harvest of Sorrow that accused Conquest of, among many other things, "
redbaiting" Walter Duranty, the New York Times correspondent in Moscow whose Panglossian reporting on Stalin won him a now-discredited Pulitzer Prize.
It is true that in the era of the postwar settlement, anti-union legislation,
redbaiting, capital flight, and highly paid union avoidance attorneys replaced Pinkertons and strikebreakers as the cornerstone of efforts on the part of capital and the state to create more orderly and constrained relations between employers and workers.
Both Robesons denied that they were members of the Communist Party, and Eslanda refused to allow
redbaiting to silence her.
People who stand for economic justice ought to turn such
redbaiting on its head and name it what it is--hypocrisy.
Indeed, the exercise added the term "
redbaiting" to the American lexicon.
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Redbaiting was also an issue in the selection of members of the Mayor's Committee on Conditions in Harlem, established by the LaGuardia in the days following the riot.
Produced at the height of the cold war, the gladiator film Spartacus (1960) is recognized as an answer to HUAC's
redbaiting members of the Hollywood film community.
She does not, however, engage the substantial revisionist literature that has indicted Truman for being too precipitate and too simplistic, for quickly reversing Roosevelt's cooperation with Moscow, for attempting "atomic diplomacy" in August 1945, for exaggerating the Soviet threat when the United States enjoyed a preponderance of power, and for "
redbaiting" political critics on the left like Henry Wallace.
