Oregon Socialist Workers 1974 Campaign Committee v. Paulus

The Oregon Socialist Workers Party (OSWP) is a tiny, unpopular political party. It believes in the inevitability of world revolution. For many years it has been under continuous surveillance by government agents, many of whom joined the OSWP. Its offices have been broken into, and its members have been subjected to repeated harassment by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the police.1 Apparently this type of surveillance and harassment was ordered stopped a few months before this action was filed.2

In Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, 96 S.Ct. 612, 46 L.Ed.2d 659 (1976), the Supreme…