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Aaron Leonard

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Author | Historian Heavy Radicals, Folk Singers & The Bureau, and soon to come Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism.

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Aaron Leonard’s Biography

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Aaron Leonard is author of Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists (Zero Books, 2015), and A Threat of the First Magnitude—FBI Counterintelligence & Infiltration: From the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union—1962-1974, (Repeater Books, UK, January 2018). His research interests focus on twentieth century US history, particularly the FBI's efforts against organizations deemed threats to US “internal security." He has a B.A. in Social Science with a concentration in Hist…

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The FBI's Maoist Faction

The FBI's Maoist Faction

A secret FBI plan to divide the Communist Party of the United States by starting a Maoist faction is finally …

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The FBI and the Shattering of Students for a Democratic Society

The FBI and the Shattering of Students for a Democratic Society

This past August, when protests in response to the police killing of Michael Brown did not abate after the fi…

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Articles

Fitness And Probity Thematic Assessment: What MiFID Firms Need To Know

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By Joe Beashel, Sara Ross, Aaron Leonard
| Mondaq
Joe Beashel’s articles from Matheson are most popular: within Finance and Banking topic(s) Matheson are most popular: within Antitrust/Competition Law, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Mediation & Arbitration topic(s) in Ireland with readers working within the Technology industries Following the Central Bank of Ireland’s publication of the findings from its thematic assessment of the Fitness and Probity (“F&P”) regime within the MiFID industry, as outlined below, one message is clear:...
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The Humanity Confronting the Darién Gap

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By Aaron Leonard
| Substack
For those tuned in to the Apple TV series Pluribus—a series worthy of discussion in its own right, but for another day—the episode “The Gap,” immediately sprung to mind on picking up the The Darién Gap (Rutgers University Press), the latest book by global journalist Belén Fernández.
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How a Century of Anti-Communism Cleared the Way for Trump’s Authoritarianism

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By Aaron Leonard, Anton Woronczuk Verified
| Truthout Verified
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Listening to the incendiary rhetoric emanating from Trump and MAGA world, one would think the United States of today, decades after the collapse of the communist bloc, was enmeshed in an existential struggle against communism. Even before his election win in 2024, Trump claimed his opponents’ economic policies were at the extremes of leftism.
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