Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and ho… - Michael Parenti

Economically deprived groups are seen as a threat because they want more, and more for the have-nots might mean less for the haves.

Throughout its history, the CIA has resorted to every conceivable crime and machination to make the world safe for the Fortune 500, using false propaganda, economic warfare, bribery, rigged elections, sabotage, demolition, theft, collusion with organized crime, narcotics trafficking, death squads, terror bombings, torture, massacres, and wars of attrition.

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather than undermined democratic forces.