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Left Organizers Are Being Targeted and Persecuted

A conversation with Amanda Yee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Maximillian Alvarez

Elijah McClain's mother, Sheneen McClain, left, holds the hand of a protester as they rally outside the Aurora Police Department Headquarters to demand justice for her son on June 27, 2020 in Aurora, Colorado. Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

We talk with Amanda Yee for this urgent mini-cast on the deliberate and terrifying persecution of leftist organizers and activists by the state, including members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in Denver.

Maximillian Alvarez is editor-in-chief at the Real News Network and host of the podcast Working People, available at InThe​se​Times​.com. He is also the author of The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke.

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