The Venceremos Brigade
In July, members of the 52nd contingent of the Venceremos Brigade traveled to Cuba to demonstrate their solidarity with the country’s communist government. They were the latest of approximately 10,000…
Bernardine Dohrn
National Lawyers Guild: Origins and Early Years
The National Lawyers Guild is a radical-left association of attorneys, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers. Since its founding in 1936 or 1937, the Guild has consistently been identified…
National Lawyers Guild: The Second Red Scare
The willingness of Guild members to represent communists in several high-profile investigations and prosecutions during the late 1940s and early 1950s, combined with strong anti-communist sentiments in Congress and among…
National Lawyers Guild: The Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
The National Lawyers Guild was the first racially integrated national bar association in the United States, and actively opposed military segregation during World War II. A number of notable civil rights…
National Lawyers Guild: Consolidation and Internationalism
The year 1973 proved to be pivotal for the National Lawyers Guild and for the consolidation of its radical political ideology. That year’s convention has been described as “the cataclysmic…
National Lawyers Guild: Activities and Positions
The NLG generally espouses a radical-left ideology. Its objective is “to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights and ecosystems over property…
National Lawyers Guild: Leadership, Structure, and Financials
The NLG operates as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. It lists more than 50 local chapters on its website, some of which also have their own nonprofit tax-exempt statuses. The NLG…
Instruments of Woke: National Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild, a nonprofit association of left-wing attorneys and others connected to the legal profession, has recently received attention for its association with some of the most controversial…
A History of Radicalism at the National Lawyers Guild
The National Lawyers Guild, a nonprofit association of left-wing attorneys and others connected to the legal profession, has recently received attention for its association with some of the most controversial…
“Pathological Altruism” May Kill a City Near You
San Francisco had a public health crisis last year. But it wasn't COVID. It was a 150 percent increase in the number of drug overdoses (697), more than double the…