What happened to anarchists under McCarthyism?

[Kropotkin Has a Posse]

I've had little luck trying to find out if anarchists were as persecuted in the second "red scare" as they were in the first. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Red_Snapper]

It quite possible that anarchists would have been persecuted in the second red scare as they had before. The period of McCarthyism raised a lot of suspicion with or without solid evidence. It would seem highly unlikely that anarchists came out unscathed, considering the perceived threat of leftist organizations.

[Enragé]

well seeing as many non-communists were branded communists, i have no doubt many anarchists suffered the same fate

[manic expression]

As NKOS said, "communist" was basically a catch-all term used against anyone on the left (or not on the left). I suspect that anarchists were jumbled together with everyone else.

[Guerrilla22]

Yeah, anarchist, socialist, and communist were all lum ped together into one category. McCarthy refered to the IWW as a communist oraganization. Later he tried to link Edward R. Murel to the IWW, after he began his now famous broadcast criticizing McCarthy.

[apathy maybe]

Anarchism in the USA has been attacked for longer then "communism" has. It was the assassination of President McKinley (in 1901 I believe) that lead to the suppression of anarchists and immigration laws to try and prevent anarchists from entering the USA.