Mark Curtis
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Mark Curtis is a former member of the American Socialist Workers Party who, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was the subject of a high profile defence campaign by the SWP after he was charged and convicted of raping a 15 year old high school girl in 1988. The SWP and Curtis' defenders claimed that he had been framed by the police due to his politics and his trade union activities. Curtis was paroled in 1996 after serving eight years of a twenty-five year sentence.
External links
- Parole Mark Curtis Now (http://www.themilitant.com/1995/5939/5939_7.html) October 23, 1999 article in the SWP's newspaper, The Militant.
- Strange doings in the SWP (http://www.wsws.org/public_html/prioriss/iwb5-20/swp.htm) an anti-Curtis article from the Workers' League arguing that Curtis was guilty.
- US socialist wins freedom (http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1995/214/214p18b.htm) 1996 report from Green Left Weekly.
- Mark Curtis and Jack Barnes (http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=%22mark+curtis%22+swp&start=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&selm=3AD912A4.41F9C6DA%40it.canterbury.ac.nz&rnum=17) usenet post on the case.