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The Carleton Twelve$5.00
The Mark Curtis Hoax: How the Socialist Workers Party Tried to Dupe the Labor Movement
It's not that you're innocent until proven guilty, you are innocent. So said Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, about Mark Curtis, a leading member of the SWP arrested and convicted in the 1988 rape of a 15-year-old black working class girl. This book examines the campaign of misinformation and distortion conducted by the SWP in relation to the case.
Curtis was apprehended after the victim's 11-year-old brother called the 911 emergency number to report a rape in progress. Despite the open-and-shut case against Curtis, the SWP launched a defense campaign throughout the US land internationally, suppressing the facts of the case and presenting Curtis as the victim of a frame-up.
The Mark Curtis Hoax basis its analysis on a study of the 450-page trial transcript and other documents, and examines the motivation behind this conscious attempt to defraud the labor movement.
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| Author | Martin McLaughlin |
| Publisher | Labor Publications |
| Publication Date | 1990 |
| Pages | 253 |
| Publication Type | Paperback |
| ISBN | 0 929087 46 1 |
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