Defense of free speech, debate met with slander and threats of reprisal – The Militant

....Workers and our unions need to fight tenaciously whenever bosses — or the political correctness police — use thought control measures to throw any worker out of a job, regardless of whether we agree with their opinions. As the class struggle heats up, bosses will increasingly try to muzzle militant workers for speaking out about the impact of the capitalist crisis on our lives — as they have done in the past.

Working people and youth have a right to consider competing viewpoints, to think for ourselves and express our own views without being threatened with losing our livelihoods by those who claim they know what is in our best interest. We need to jealously guard the right to free speech because we need more  discussion and debate, not less, to forge political clarity on the way forward to strengthen the unity and fighting capacity of the working class.

Defense of free speech, debate met with slander and threats of reprisal – The Militant