Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

6/22/2025

The introduction from the then President Reagan gives us an indication of what’s to come as he adopts that hale-fellow-well-met approach of his to warn of the continuing dangers to the USA of ever-expanding Communism. Thereafter, for about ten minutes, we see examples of the congressional accusatory and defensive rhetoric that abounded during the “witch-hunt” period and subsequently. Then, though, rather counterintuitively it starts to talk to people . Ordinary people. Ordinary socialists or people of the left wing involved in the trades union movement as far back as the 1930s or with anti-war protests - and what many of them say makes eminent sense. They refer back to the whole principles of the founding fathers creating a free America. Free for thought, work, bringing up your family. Fre