Michael Steven Smith recently co-edited From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style and co-hosts the weekly “Law and Disorder Radio.” He has written Lawyers for the Left, In the courts, in the streets, and on the air and Notebook of a Sixties Lawyer: An Unrepentant Memoir and Selected Writings. He has also co-edited, with Frances Goldin and Debby Smith Imagine Living in the Socialist USA; co-edited with Michael Ratner Che Guevara and the FBI and with William M. Kunstler, co-edited The Emerging Police State. A longtime activist, Smith is a retired labor and civil rights attorney in New York City.
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