Termination of Texas Professor Over Doctored Video
A Texas professor, Tom Alter, a labor historian and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired on September 10 after a far-right troll doctored a video of him speaking at a virtual Revolutionary Socialism conference.
Alter was provisionally reinstated on September 26, but his case remains uncertain as he awaits a final decision from the university.
“In Texas, a socialist professor is now in the fight of his life against MAGA’s New McCarthyism,”
Professor Alter's case has become a flashpoint in the MAGA right's assault on free speech, higher education, and the people who live, work, and study there.
In an episode of Working People, Professor Alter discusses the sequence of events surrounding his termination.
Author's summary: Professor Tom Alter fired over doctored video.