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The following is a list of political organizations in the United States which support left-wing politics: social democracy, socialism, communism, or anarchism.
The list below focuses on creation, splits, merges, and ends of various leftist organizations. This page hopes to outline the extremely messy organizational history of leftism and socialism in the United States. This page also hopes to help readers see that the US history of leftism and history of socialism has deep roots that stretch back to 1848 and earlier.
This page focuses on mass organizations: Leftist orgs which have a mass dues-paying membership, which claimed to have one, or which planned to build one. Many are organized as political parties. Many reject electoral politics altogether. This criterion excludes most organizations focused on publishing media, small collectives with no focus on growth, terrorism, and clandestine cells. Some major paramilitary organizations are included, if they hoped to use propaganda of the deed to achieve socialist revolution or emerged from mass organizations (such as the Weathermen).
This page focus on overtly leftist organizations: Organizations which are capitalism-critical or anti-capitalist. Some progressive capitalist organizations are included, because they have a substantial leftist membership or were critical to the formation of a leftist group. Some major labor federations are included, despite few labor federations explicitly adopting anti-capitalist rhetoric, because labor federation competition is often intertwined with competition between leftist organizations.
The "eras" below describe major movements of socialists or which substantially affected the nature of socialist organizing in the United States.
- Utopian socialisms (mostly before 1900):
- Owenism (mostly 1820s): Inspired by Robert Owen, emphasized worker cooperatives and moral economy
- Fourierism or associationism (mostly 1840s and 1850s): Inspired by Charles Fourier and Albert Brisbane, emphasized communal living in a profit sharing phalanstère
- Icarianism (mostly 1840s to 1890s): Inspired by Étienne Cabet and The Voyage to Icaria, emphasized communal living
- Bellamyism or Nationalist Clubs (mostly 1880s to 1890s): Inspired by Edward Bellamy and Looking Backward: 2000–1887, emphasized public ownership of industry
- Before World War 1 (before 1917):
- Anarchism (mostly 1860s to 1920s): Emphasized propaganda of the deed and syndicalism
- Marxism (mostly 1870s to present): Inspired by Karl Marx, emphasized collective ownership of the means of production (against Proudhon's mutualism) and revolutionary socialism
- Lassallism (mostly 1870s to 1890s): Inspired by Ferdinand Lassalle, emphasized winning elections through a socialist party as key to winning socialism
- First-wave feminism (until ~1920s): Emphasized women's suffrage, women's property rights, and women's legal equality
- After Bolshevik revolution (1917 to 1945):
- Social democracy (mostly 1920s to 1960s): Emphasized reform to socialism, usually through independent socialist parties
- Leninism (mostly 1920s to 1980s): Inspired by Vladimir Lenin, emphasized professional revolutionaries in vanguard party structured through democratic centralism
- Marxism–Leninism (Stalinism, mostly 1930s to 1980s): Inspired by Joseph Stalin, emphasized authoritarian elements of democratic centralism and (variously) opposing social fascism (until 1933) or supporting popular front (after 1933) or supporting Actually Existing Socialism (after 1945)
- Trotskyism (mostly 1930s to 1980s): Inspired by Leon Trotsky, criticized Soviet Union and People's Republic of China as deformed or degenerated workers' states (earlier), or as bureaucratic collectivist or state capitalist (later)
- After World War 2 (1945 to 1990):
- Anti-revisionism (including Hoxhaism, 1950s to present): Upheld Stalinism against Khrushchev's reforms
- Environmental movement (mostly 1960s to present): Inspired by Silent Spring, emphasized ecology and anti-nuclear
- Maoism (mostly 1960s to 1990s): Inspired by Mao Zedong, emphasizes anti-imperialism, mass line, and people's war to revolutionary socialism
- New Left (mostly 1960s to 1970s): Emphasized anti-racism, anti-sexism
- Black power movement (mostly 1960s to 1980s): Emphasized anti-racism, black liberation, and black nationalism
- Second-wave feminism (mostly 1960s to 1980s): Emphasized broad sexual equality, early intersectionality, and early women's liberation
- New Communist movement (mostly 1970s to 1980s): Mixture of New Left with Marxism-Leninism and Maoism
- Anarchism and libertarian socialism (mostly 1960s to present): Inspired by Murray Bookchin, David Graeber, and Noam Chomsky; emphasizes social ecology or deep ecology, communalism or Syndicalism, and community organizing or prefigurative politics
- Democratic socialism (mostly 1970s to present): Inspired by Michael Harrington and Bernie Sanders, emphasized socialist reformism and inside-outside strategy as key
- After Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991 to present):
- Climate movement (mostly 1990s to present): Emphasizes larger greenhouse gas emission reductions and faster decarbonization
- Anti-globalization movement (mostly 1990s to present): Emphasizes opposition to economic globalization and multinational corporations
- Third-wave feminism and fourth-wave feminism (mostly 1990s to present): Emphasizes broad sex positivity, strong intersectionality, and transgender rights
- Millennial socialism: Emphasizes a rejection of older socialisms (especially authoritarian socialisms dominant from 1920 to 1990) for a variety of new, competitor socialisms
- Multipolarity (mostly 1990s to present): Emphasizes importance of competitor hegemons against United States; negatively described as campism
| Name | Started | Ended | History: Start, splits, merges, end |
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Extinction Rebellion (XR) |
2018 | Active | Ideology: Climate movement, civil disobedience, social democracy (minority), anti-capitalism (minority)
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| Independent Socialist Group (ISG) | 2019 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Black Hammer Party (BHP) 75px |
2019 | Active | Ideology: nominally Black liberation (2019), then revolutionary Black separatism and far-right politics; allegedly a cult
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| Socialist Rifle Association (SRA) 75px |
2018 | Active | Ideology: Multi-tendency socialism and mutual aid
Peak membership: 10,000 (2020)[2]
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| Black Socialists in America (BSA) 75px |
2018 | Active | Ideology: Democratic socialism, libertarian socialism, African-American socialism
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| Sunrise Movement (SM) 75px |
2017 | Active | Ideology: Environmentalism (majority) and ecosocialism (minority)
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| Justice Democrats (JD) 75px |
2017 | Active | Ideology: Social democracy and democratic socialism
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| Our Revolution (OR) 75px |
2016 | Active | Ideology: Democratic socialism and social democracy
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| Brand New Congress (BNC) 75px |
2016 | 2023 | Ideology: Democratic socialism and social democracy
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| Colorado Springs Socialists (CSS) 75px |
2016 | 2020 | Ideology: multi-tendency socialism
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| Working Class Party (WCP) 75px |
2016 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism |
Red Guards (RG).svg){kind=small} |
2015 | 2019 | Ideology: Maoism
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| People's Climate Movement (PCM) 75px |
2014 | 2020 | Ideology: Climate movement, Progressive, anti-capitalism (minority)
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| Huey P. Newton Gun Club (HPNGC) 75px |
2014 | Active | Ideology: Anti-capitalism, open carry, and Black nationalism
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| Black Rose Anarchist Federation (BRAF) | 2000 | Active | Ideology: Anarcho-communism, platformism
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Democracy at Work (DAW) |
2012 | Active | Ideology: Market socialism, worker cooperative movement
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| Communist Party of Puerto Rico (PCPR) 75px |
2010 | Active | Ideology: Communism and Puerto Rican independence
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| Bash Back! (BB!) | 2007 | 2011 | Ideology: Insurrectionary anarchism
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| Oregon Progressive Party (OPP) 75px |
2007 | Active | Ideology: Democratic socialism, social democracy, progressivism
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Rose City Antifa (RCA) |
2007 | Active | Ideology: Anti-fascism, Anti-racism, Anarchism
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United States Pirate Party |
2006 | Active | Ideology: Pirate movement (non-socialist leftism), Direct democracy
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New Students for a Democratic Society (New SDS or SDS of 2006) |
2006 | Active | Ideology: Multi-tendency socialism and leftism
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International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) |
2006 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism (SEP youth wing)
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| New Afrikan Black Panther Party (NABPP) 75px |
2005 | Active | Ideology: Black nationalism, Maoism
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| Bayan USA (Bayan) 75px |
2005 | Active | Ideology: National Democracy (Philippines), from Maoism
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| John Brown Gun Clubs (JBGCs) 75px |
2004 | Active | Ideology: Libertarian socialism, open carry, and mutual aid
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Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) |
2004 | Active | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism
Election results: Party for Socialism and Liberation#Election results
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| Anarchist People of Color (APOC) | 2003 | 2010 | Ideology: Anarchism, anti-racism
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| Washington Progressive Party (WAPP) 75px |
2002 | 2023 | Ideology: Democratic socialism, social democracy, progressivism
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| Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives (FRAC) | 2001 | 2006 | Ideology: Anarcho-communism
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| North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC) | 1999 | 2014 | Ideology: Anarcho-communism
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| International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) 75px |
1999 | Active | Ideology: Maoism, operates through numerous front groups
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| Left Turn (LT) 75px |
1999 | 2011 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Critical Resistance (CR) | 1998 | Active | Ideology: Prison abolition, anti-capitalism
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| Left Voice (LV) | 1998 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism and Morenoism
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| Black Radical Congress (BRC) 75px |
1998 | 2015 | Ideology: Racial equality, Economic justice, African-American socialism
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Working Families Party (WFP) |
1998 | Active | Ideology: Social democracy and democratic socialism
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| Fire By Night Organizing Committee (FBNOC) | 1998 | 1999 | Ideology: Maoism, Anarchism
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| Bring the Ruckus (BTR) | 1997 | 2012 | Ideology: Anarchism, anti-racism
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| Atlantic Anarchist Circle (AAC) | 1997 | 1999 | Ideology: Anarchism, anti-globalization
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| Anti-Capitalist Convergences (ACCs) | 1996 | 2004 | Ideology: Anarchism, direct action, anti-globalization
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Labor Party (LP of 1996) |
1996 | 2007 | Ideology: Social democracy (majority), democratic socialism (minority)
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Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) |
1996 | Active | Ideology: Palestinian liberation, anti-Zionism, Jewish left, anti-capitalism (minor focus)
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Green Party of the United States (Greens or GPUS).svg){kind=logo} |
1996 | Active | Ideology: social democracy (majority), democratic socialism and ecosocialism (minority)
Elected officials: List of Green politicians who have held office in the United States History: History of the Green Party of the United States
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South Carolina Workers' Party (SCWP) |
1996 | Active | Ideology: Social democracy and democratic socialism
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CrimethInc. ex-Workers Collective (CWC) |
1996 | Active | Ideology: Anarchism
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| Black Riders Liberation Party (BRLP) | 1996 | Active | Ideology: Revolutionary socialism and Black nationalism
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| Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) 75px |
1995 | Active | Ideology: anarchist collective network for support of political prisoner and prisoners of war (PP/POW)
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| New Panther Vanguard Movement (NPVM) | 1994 | 2002 | Ideology: Black nationalism, Intercommunalism
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| Black Autonomy Federation (BAF) | 1994 | Active | Ideology: Anarchism, Black anarchism
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| Revolutionary Black Panther Party (RBPP) 75px |
1992 | Active | Ideology: Black nationalism, Marxism-Leninism
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| New Party (NP of 1992) 75px |
1992 | 1998 | Ideology: Progressivism, social democracy, democratic socialism
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Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA) |
1992 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) 75px |
1991 | Active | Ideology: Multi-tendency democratic socialism
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| Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA) | 1991 | 2019 | Ideology: social democracy (majority), democratic socialism and ecosocialism (minority)
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Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)[c] |
1993 | Active | Ideology: Palestinian liberation, anti-Zionism, intersectionality, anti-capitalism (minor focus)
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| Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (LRRAF) | 1990 | 1998 | Ideology: Anarchism, platformism
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| Socialist Front (FS) | 1990 | 2012 | Ideology: multi-tendency Communism and Puerto Rican independence
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| Profane Existence (PE) | 1989 | Active | Ideology: Anarchism, anarcho-punk
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| New Black Panther Party (NBPP) | 1989 | Active | Ideology: Black separatism, anti-capitalism, anti-Jewish bigotry, anti-white bigotry
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| Left Green Network (LGN) | 1988 | 1993 | Ideology: Ecosocialism
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| Anti-Racist Action (ARA) Network | 1987 | 2022 | Ideology: Multi-tendency anti-fascist collective network, mostly anarchist
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Solidarity |
1986 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Socialist Alternative (SAlt) 75px |
1986 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
Election results: List of Socialist Alternative election results Peak membership: 1,000 (2020)[27]
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| Socialist Unity (SU of 1985)[28] | 1985 | 1986 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO)_logo.png){kind=logo} |
1985 | Active | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism and anti-revisionism
Peak membership: 1,000 (2021)[29] FRSO-led groups: Anti-War Committee (AWC), National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR), New Students for a Democratic Society (SDS of 2006), Progressive Student Network (PSN), US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) [unclear whether FRSO-led or just FRSO-affiliated]
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| Workers' Solidarity Alliance (WSA) 75px |
1984 | Active | Ideology: Anarcho-syndicalism
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| Organization for Revolutionary Unity (ORU) | 1983 | 1986 | Ideology: New Communist Movement, Marxism-Leninism
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| Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) | 1983 | 2011 | Ideology: Maoism–Third Worldism
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Socialist Action (SAct).jpg){kind=logo} |
1983 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
Election results: Socialist Action (United States)#Election results
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| North Star Network (NSN) | 1983 | 1990 | Ideology: Trotskyism (early) then democratic socialism (late)
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| Fourth Internationalist Tendency (FIT) | 1983 | 1995 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) 75px |
1983 | Active | Ideology: Democratic socialism
Elected officials: List of Democratic Socialists of America public officeholders
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| International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) | 1982 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Workers' Socialist Movement (MST) 75px |
1982 | Active | Ideology: multi-tendency Communism and Puerto Rican independence
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| Internationalist Workers Party (Fourth International) [(IWP or IWP(FI) or IWPfi] | 1982 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism and Morenoism
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| Vermont Progressive Party (VPP) 75px |
1981 | Active | Ideology: Democratic socialism, social democracy, progressivism
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| Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ) 75px |
1981 | Active | Ideology: social democracy and African-American socialism
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| Citizens Party (CP of 1979) | 1979 | 1986 | Ideology: Progressivism, social democracy, economic democracy
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Greenpeace USA (Greenpeace) |
1979 | Active | Ideology: Environmentalism, anti-nuclear, nonviolence, progressivism, anti-capitalism (minority)
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| John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC) | 1978 | 1991 | Ideology: Anti-racism
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| May 19th Communist Organization (M19CO) | 1978 | 1985 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism, propaganda of the deed
Note: Name is reference to shared birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, not a date in organization's history.
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| Center for Democratic Renewal (CDR) | 1978 | 1980 | Ideology: anti-fascism
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| Committee for a Revolutionary Socialist Party (CRSP) | 1978 | 1980 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist–Leninist) [LRS or LRS(ML) or LRS(M-L)] | 1978 | 1990 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism, New Communist movement
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| Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center (OCIC) | 1978 | 1982 | Ideology: Maoism and New Communist Movement
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| Anarchist Communist Federation (ACF) | 1978 | 1984 | Ideology: Anarchism
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| Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (RWH or RWHq) | 1977 | 1985 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism
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| Workers Power | 1977 | 1986 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Line of March (LOM) | 1976 | 1996 | Ideology: moderate between pro-Soviet and pro-China (New Communist Movement) views
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| Revolutionary Workers League (RWL of 1976) | 1976 | 2006 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Puerto Rican Workers' Revolutionary Party (PRTP or PRTP-Macheteros) | 1976 | Active | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism and Puerto Rican independence movement
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| League for the Revolutionary Party (LRP) | 1976 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| International Socialist Organization (ISO) 75px |
1976 | 2019 | Ideology: Trotskyism
Peak membership: 1,500 (2013)[37]
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| Combahee River Collective (CRC) | 1974 | 1980 | Ideology: Women's liberation, Black liberation, anti-capitalism
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| Popular Socialist Movement (MSP) | 1974 | 1982 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism, Guevarism, and Puerto Rican independence
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| Democratic Workers Party (DWP) | 1973 | 1975 | Ideology: New Communist movement, alleged political cult
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| Class Struggle League (CLS) | 1973 | 1975 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Communist Workers' Party (CWP) | 1973 | 1987 | Ideology: New Communist Movement and Maoism (until 1980), then social democracy
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| Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) | 1973 | 1989 | Ideology: Trotskyism (until 1985), platformist anarchism (1985-1989)
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Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)[g] |
1973 | 1975 | Ideology: Maoism
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| Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) 75px |
1972 | 1983 | Ideology: Democratic socialism
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| Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (SRAF) | 1972 | 1988 | Ideology: Multi-tendency anarchism, network of anarchist writers
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| Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA) 75px |
1972 | Active | Ideology: Social democracy
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| Socialist Party USA (SPUSA) 75px |
1972 | Active | Ideology: Democratic socialism
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| African People's Socialist Party (APSP) 75px |
1972 | Active | Ideology: African socialism
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| Communist Party USA (Provisional) [CPUSA(P)][h] | 1972 | Active | Ideology: likely Marxist–Leninist; alleged cult led by charismatic leaders; unlike most groups on this list, is extremely secretive and builds mass membership through targeted recruitment and cold calling through a list of several dozen "entities" (front organizations)
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| Movement for a New Society (MNS) | 1971 | 1988 | Ideology: A radical pacifist, anti-racist, and feminist collective network, influential in anarchist movements
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| New American Movement (NAM) | 1971 | 1983 | Ideology: Democratic socialism
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| Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) 75px |
1971 | 1993 | Ideology: Socialism and Puerto Rican independence
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| Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) | 1971 | 1985 | Ideology: Anti-racism and workplace organizing
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| People's Party (PP of 1971) | 1971 | 1977 | Ideology: left-wing populism, social democracy, and democratic socialism
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| Trotskyist Organization of the United States (TOUS) | 1971 | 1985 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) [CP(ML)] | 1971 | 1982 | Ideology: New Communist Movement (NCM), Marxism-Leninism
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| Liberty Union Party (LUP) 75px |
1971 | Active | Ideology: Democratic socialism, social democracy, progressivism
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| Congress of Afrikan People (CAP) | 1970 | 1980 | Ideology: Black nationalism and Maoism
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| La Raza Unida Party (LRUP) | 1970 | 1978 | Ideology: Democratic socialism and Chicano nationalism
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| Human Rights Party of Michigan (HRP) 75px |
1970 | 1977 | Ideology: Democratic socialism, social democracy
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| El Comité-MINP (El Comité or MINP) | 1970 | 1981 | Ideology: Puerto Rican organizing (early), then New Communist movement (later)
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| Black Liberation Army (BLA) 75px |
1970 | 1981 | Ideology: Black liberation; direct action
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| Malcolm X Liberation University (MXLU) | 1969 | 1973 | Ideology: Black nationalism, anti-capitalism
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| Gay Liberation Front (GLF) | 1969 | 1980 | Ideology: Gay liberation, various flavors of socialism (majority)
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| Socialist Union (SU of 1969)[i] | 1969 | 1980 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| I Wor Kuen (IWK) [义和拳; 義和拳; Yìhé quán, lit. 'Fists of Harmony and Justice'] 75px |
1969 | 1978 | Ideology: Maoism
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Venceremos Organization (VO) |
1969 | 1973 | Ideology: Maoism and Chicano nationalism
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Weathermen or Weather Underground Organization (WUO) |
1969 | 1977 | Ideology: Communism, direct action, and New Left
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| League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) | 1969 | 1971 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism and Black liberation
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| Rainbow Coalition | 1969 | 1974 | Ideology: Revolutionary socialism, anti-racism
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| Revolutionary Communist League (Internationalist) [RCL or RCL(I) or RCL of 1968] | 1968 | 1995 | Ideology: Trotskyism and Marcyism
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| American Workers Communist Party (AWCP) | 1968 | 1979 | Ideology: anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism or Maoism
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| Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) | 1968 | 1975 | Ideology: African-American socialism, unionism
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Republic of New Afrika (RNA) |
1968 | 1973 | Ideology: African-American socialism, Black separatism
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LaRouche movement (LaRouchites) |
1968 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism (1968-1975); after 1975, increasingly a syncretic LaRouchism: economic nationalism and far-right anti-NWO; allegedly similar to National Bolshevism; allegedly a political cult
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| Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) | 1968 | 1969 | Ideology: Socialism and anti-racism
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Young Patriots Organization (YPO) |
1968 | 1973 | Ideology: Revolutionary socialism, anti-racism, and left-wing nationalism
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| Young Lords[j] 75px |
1968 | 1976 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism and Puerto Rican independence
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Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP or RCPUSA) |
1968 | Active | Ideology: Maoism and New Communist movement; allegedly a political cult centered on Bob Avakian
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Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) |
1968 | 1970 | Ideology: multi-tendency communism
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| The Spark | 1968 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism and Voix Ouvrière
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| White Panther Party (WPP) 75px |
1968 | 1983 | Ideology: Communism and anti-racism
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| All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)[k] 75px |
1968 | Active | Ideology: Communism, Black nationalism, African socialism
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| Turnerites or Vanguard Newsletter Group (VNL or VNG) | 1967 | 1989 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Marxist–Leninist Party, USA (MLP) | 1967 | 1993 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism
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| Black Panther Party (BPP) 75px |
1966 | 1982 | Ideology: Maoism, intercommunalism, and mutual aid
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| Jews for Urban Justice (JUJ) | 1966 | 1971 | Ideology: Socialism, anti-racism, Jewish left
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Freedom Socialist Party (FSP).png){kind=logo} |
1966 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Newman Tendency 75px |
1966 | Active | Ideology: an (alleged) therapy cult led by Fred Newman on the basis of social therapy; nominally Maoist (1960-1976), socialist (1979-1993), then supported centrist and far-right candidates
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| Black Mask | 1966 | 1971 | Ideology: Anarchism
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| Pennsylvania Consumer Party (PCP of 1966)[l] | 1966 | 2000 | Ideology: Progressivism, social democracy, economic democracy
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| Communist Party USA (Marxist–Leninist) [CPUSA(ML)] | 1965 | 1969 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism
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| New York Federation of Anarchists (NYFA) | 1964 | 1967 | Ideology: Anarchism
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| Socialist Equality Party (SEP) 75px |
1964 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
Election results: Socialist Equality Party (United States)#Election results
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| Spartacist League/U.S. (Sparts, SL, SLUS, or SL/US) | 1964 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Facing Reality (FR) | 1962 | 1970 | Ideology: Trotskyist, mostly focused on publication
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| Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) | 1962 | 1969 | Ideology: Revolutionary socialism and black nationalism
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Progressive Labor Party (PLP or PL) |
1961 | Active | Ideology: Maoism and Anti-revisionism
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| Revolutionary Organization of Labor, USA (ROL or ROLUSA)[43] | 1961 | 2020 | Ideology: Anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism, Hoxhaism
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| Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) | 1960 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism (youth group of SWP)
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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) |
1960 | 1969 | Ideology: Multi-tendency leftism, socialism, and communism
Peak membership: 35,000 (1968)[46]
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| Workers World Party (WWP) 75px |
1959 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism and Marcyism
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| International Socialists (IS) | 1958 | 1986 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA) | 1958 | Active | Ideology: anti-revisionist Marxism-Leninism
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| Democratic Socialist Federation (DSF) | 1957 | 1972 | Ideology: Democratic socialism
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| Independent-Socialist Party (ISP)[n] | 1956 | 1960 | Ideology: Communism, united front
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| University Pro-Independence Federation of Puerto Rico (FUPI) | 1956 | Active | Ideology: Socialism and Puerto Rican independence
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| News and Letters Committees (NLCs) | 1955 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyist, focused on publication
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| Socialist Union of America (SUA or Cochranites) | 1953 | 1959 | Ideology: Trotskyism and Pabloism
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| Johnson-Forest Tendency (JFT) | 1951 | 1962 | Ideology: Trotskyism, focused on publication
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| National Guardian (NG)[o] | 1948 | 1992 | Ideology: Progressive and Socialist (until 1968), then New Communist movement
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| Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) 75px |
1946 | Active | Ideology: democratic socialism (1970s), Social democracy (modern), Puerto Rican independence
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| Progressive Party of 1948-1955 (PP of 1948) | 1946 | 1955 | Ideology: Progressive capitalism, Social democracy, democratic socialism
Not formally connected with Roosevelt's Progressive Party of 1912-1920 (PP of 1912) or La Follette's Progressive Party of 1924-1934 (PP of 1924)
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| National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions (ASP) | 1945 | 1950 | Ideology: Anti-war, liberalism (majority), socialism (minority)
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| Libertarian League and Book Club (LLBC) | 1945 | 1965 | Ideology: Anarchism
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| An Anarchist Quarterly (AAQ) | 1942 | 1951 | Ideology: Anarchism
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| Why? Group | 1942 | 1954 | Ideology: Anarchism
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| National Federation for Constitutional Liberties (NFCL) | 1940 | 1946 | Ideology: Progressive legal advocacy, allegedly Communist Party USA (CPUSA) front
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| Workers Party (WP) or Schachtmanites | 1940 | 1958 | Ideology: Trotskyism and Shachtmanism
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Socialist Workers Party (SWP) |
1938 | Active | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| Jewish Culture Association (JCA) [יידישער קולטור-פאַרבאַנד or Yidisher Kultur Farband (YKUF)] | 1938 | 2006 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism (CPUSA ethnic association)
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| Marxist Workers Party (MWP) | 1937 | 1940 | Ideology: Communism
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| American Labor Party (ALP of 1936) | 1936 | 1956 | Ideology: Social democracy, Labour movement
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| Revolutionary Workers League (RWL of 1935 or Oehlerites) | 1935 | 1946 | Ideology: Trotskyism (until 1938), then Leninism
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| Council Communists (CC) | 1934 | 1943 | Ideology: Left communism
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| Puerto Rican Communist Party (PCP) 75px |
1934 | 1991 | Ideology: Communism and Puerto Rican independence
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| Social Democratic Federation (SDF of 1936) | 1934 | 1957 | Ideology: Democratic socialism
Note: An earlier organization, also named Social Democratic Federation (SDF), existed from 1889 to 1897.
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| Workers Party of the United States (WPUS of 1934) | 1934 | 1936 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| End Poverty in California (EPIC) | 1933 | 1938 | Ideology: Social democracy, job guarantee
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| Catholic Worker Movement (CWM) | 1933 | Active | Ideology: Christian pacifism, Christian anarchism
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| American Workers Party (AWP) | 1933 | 1934 | Ideology: Socialism and unionism
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| Vanguard Group | 1932 | 1939 | Ideology: Anarchism
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| American Labor Party (ALP of 1932) | 1932 | 1935 | Ideology: Marxism, De Leonism
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| National Student League (NSL) | 1931 | 1935 | Ideology: Communism
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| Communist League of Struggle (CLS) | 1931 | 1937 | Ideology: Trotskyism
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| International Workers Order (IWO) 75px |
1929 | 1956 | Ideology: mutual aid organization led by Communist Party of America (CPUSA) members
Peak membership: 155,000 (1941)[49]
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Lovestoneites |
1929 | 1941 | Ideology: Communism, Right Opposition, Bukharinism
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| League for Independent Political Action (LIPA) | 1928 | 1936 | Ideology: alliance of progressive liberals and socialists
Peak membership: 6062 (1931)[50]
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| Communist League of America [CLA or CLA(O)][p] | 1928 | 1934 | Ideology: Communism, Left Opposition, Trotskyism
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| Socialist Labor Party dissidents | 1927 | 2005 | Ideology: De Leonism and revolutionary industrial unionism
Note: The Socialist Labor Party (SLP) expelled many dissidents, most of whom still held to De Leonism, and who almost all accumulated into one parallel organization.
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| International Labor Defense (ILD) | 1925 | 1956 | Ideology: , civil rights advocacy, allegedly CPUSA front
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| War Resisters League (WRL) | 1923 | Active | Ideology: Radical pacifism and anti-racism; has included anti-war progressives, anarchists, socialists, and other pacifists
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| United Farmers Educational League (UFEL) | 1923 | 1935 | Ideology: Progressive capitalism, Social democracy, democratic socialism
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| Progressive Party of 1924-34 (PP of 1924) | 1924 | 1924 | Ideology: Progressive capitalism, Social democracy, democratic socialism
Not formally connected with Roosevelt's Progressive Party of 1912-1920 (PP of 1912) or Progressive Party of 1948-1955 (PP of 1948).
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| Conference for Progressive Political Action (CPPA) | 1922 | 1925 | Ideology: Progressive capitalism, Social democracy, democratic socialism
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| Workers' Council of the United States (WCUS) | 1921 | 1921 | Ideology: Communism
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| Workers' Council of 1921 (WC of 1921) | 1921 | 1921 | Ideology: Communism
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| Communist Party of America (Central Caucus) [CPA-CC] | 1921 | 1922 | Ideology: Communism
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| Western Progressive Farmers (WPF) | 1921 | 1936 | Ideology: Progressivism (factions), Socialism (factions), Communism (factions)
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| Jewish Socialist Verband (JSV) [Yidisher Sotsyalisṭisher Farband (YSF), lit. 'Jewish Socialist Association' (JSA)] | 1921 | 1972 | Ideology: Socialism, Jewish leftism
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| United Toilers of America (UTA) | 1921 | 1929 | Ideology: Communism
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Communist Party USA (CPUSA or CPA) |
1921 | Active | Ideology: Communism and Marxism-Leninism (until 2000), then democratic socialism
Elected officials: List of Communist Party USA members who have held office in the United States History: History of the Communist Party USA Subgroups and front groups: Young Communist League USA (YCL or YCLUSA), United Farmers Educational League (UFEL), Trade Union Educational League (TUEL) Peak membership: 66,000 (1939)[51] Current membership: 5,000 (2017)[52]
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| Trade Union Educational League (TUEL) / Trade Union Unity League (TUUL) | 1920 | 1935 | Ideology: Communism, Boring from within (1920-1929), Dual unionism (1929-1935)
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| Young Communist League USA (YCL or YCLUSA) | 1920 | 2015 | Ideology: Marxism-Leninism (until 2000), then democratic socialism (CPUSA youth wing)
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Proletarian Party of America (PPA) |
1920 | 1971 | Ideology: Communism
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| Rummagers League (RL) | 1919 | 1923 | Ideology: Communism
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Communist Party of America (CPA of 1919) |
1919 | 1921 | Ideology: Communism
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Communist Labor Party of America (CLPA) |
1919 | 1921 | Ideology: Communism
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Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party (FLP or MFLP) |
1918 | 1944 | Ideology: Left-wing populism, social democracy, democratic socialism
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Farmer–Labor Party of the United States (FLP or FLPUS) |
1918 | 1936 | Ideology: Democratic socialism, social democracy
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| Committee of 48 (48ers) 75px |
1919 | 1923 | Ideology: Social democracy, American liberalism
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| Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party (Left Wing) | 1919 | 1919 | Ideology: Communism
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African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) and CPUSA successors |
1919 | 1947 | Ideology: Communism, African-American leftism, decolonization, and black repatriation
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| Farmer–Labor Party (FLP) | 1918 | 1944 | Ideology: todo
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| National Party (NP of 1917) | 1917 | 1919 | Ideology: Progressivism and social democracy
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| Social Democratic League of America (SDLA) | 1917 | 1920 | Ideology: Social democracy, pro-war patriotism
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| American Alliance for Labor and Democracy (AALD) | 1917 | 1919 | Ideology: pro-war patriotism
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| People's Council of America for Democracy and the Terms of Peace (People's Council) | 1917 | 1920 | Ideology: anti-war, contained socialists and pacifists
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| World Socialist Party of the United States (WSPUS) 75px |
1916 | Active | Ideology: Impossibilism, Orthodox Marxism
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| Non-Partisan League of North Dakota (NPL) | 1915 | 1956 | Ideology: Left-wing populism, social democracy, democratic socialism
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| Russian Socialist Federation (RSF) [Российская Социалистическая Федерация or Rossiyskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Federatsiya (RSF)] | 1915 | 1921 | Ideology: Communism and Russian American leftism
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| Non-Partisan League (NPL) | 1915 | 1956 | Ideology: left-wing populism, democratic socialism, and agrarianism
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| Jewish Socialist Federation (JSF) | 1912 | 1921 | Ideology: Communism (faction), Socialism (faction), Jewish leftism
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Poale Zion (פועלי ציון), lit. 'Workers of Zion' |
1903 | 1971 | Ideology: Socialism, Jewish leftism, and Labor Zionism
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| Wage Workers Party (WWP of 1909) | 1909 | 1910 | Ideology: Socialism
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| Federation of the Union of Russian Workers (URW, UORW, or FURW) [Союз Русских Рабочих (SRR)] | 1908 | 1919 | Ideology: anarcho-communism (until 1912), then anarcho-syndicalism
Peak membership: 10,000 (1917)[53]
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| Irish Socialist Federation (ISF) | 1907 | 1910 | Ideology: Socialism and Irish republicanism
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| Finnish Socialist Federation (FSF) [Suomalainen Sosialisti Järjestö (SSJ)] | 1906 | 1983 | Ideology: Socialism (1906-1936), then social democracy (1936-1980)
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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or "Wobblies") |
1905 | Active | Ideology: General unionism and industrial unionism
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| League for Industrial Democracy (LID) | 1905 | 2012 | Ideology: Democratic socialism (SPA youth wing)
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| Union Labor Party of California 1901 (ULP of California 1901) | 1901 | 1912 | Ideology: Unionism, anti-Chinese bigotry
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Socialist Party of America (SPA) |
1901 | 1972 | Ideology: Democratic socialism
Peak membership: 113,000 (1912)[54]
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| Socialist Party of Puerto Rico (SP) | 1899 | 1956 | Ideology: Socialism and Puerto Rico statehood
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Social Democratic Party of America (SDP or Chicago SDP) |
1898 | 1901 | Ideology: Democratic socialism
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| United Christian Party (UCP) | 1897 | 1924 | Ideology: Socially conservative social democracy
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Social Democracy of America (SDA) |
1897 | 1924 | Ideology: Democratic socialism
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Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth (BCC) |
1894 | 1906 | Ideology: socialist electoral victory through colonization of intentional communities; Bellamyism
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| The Workers Circle 75px |
1892 | Active | Ideology: democratic socialism/social democracy (before 1940's), liberalism (after 1940's), mutual aid (until 2000's), Jewish leftism
Peak membership: 84,000 (1920)[55] Current membership: 10,000 (2010)[56]
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People's Party or Populist Party (PP of 1892 or Populists) |
1892 | 1900 | Ideology: Agrarianism, bimetallism, left-wing populism, and social democracy
Peak membership: "anywhere from 25 to 45 percent of the electorate in twenty-odd states" (1893)[57]
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| Social Democratic Federation (SDF of 1889) | 1889 | 1898 | Ideology: Democratic socialism
Note: A later organization, also named Social Democratic Federation (SDF), existed from 1936 to 1957.
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| Society of Christian Socialists (SCS) | 1889 | 1891 | Ideology: Christian socialism
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| Nationalist Clubs (Nationalists) | 1888 | 1896 | Ideology: Democratic socialism and social democracy
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| Union Labor Party (ULP of 1886) | 1886 | 1892 | Ideology: Unionism, social democracy (majority), socialism (minority)
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| Italian-American anarchist circoli and gruppi in New York City | 1886 | 1887 | Ideology: Anarchism, Italian-American leftism
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| United Labor Party (ULP of New York 1886) | 1886 | 1887 | Ideology: unionism, democratic socialism (until 1887), and Georgism
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| International Working People's Association (IWPA or Black International)[r] | 1881 | 1887 | Ideology: Revolutionary socialism, anarchism, and syndicalism
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| New York Social Revolutionary Club (NYSRC) | 1880 | 1883 | Ideology: Revolutionary socialism, anarchism, and syndicalism
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| International Labor Union (ILU) | 1878 | 1887 | Labor union federation; Ideology: unionism and Marxism/revolutionary socialism
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| Socialist Labor Party (SLP or SLPA or SLPUS) 75px |
1876 | 2011 | Ideology before 1883: Multi-tendency socialism, Lassallism/democratic socialism (majority) and Marxism/revolutionary socialism (minority) and anarchism/propaganda of the deed (minority); revolutionary industrial unionism
Ideology after 1883: De Leonism and revolutionary industrial unionism
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| Lehr und Wehr Verein (LWV), lit. 'Education and Defense Society' | 1875 | 1887 | Ideology: Marxism and German American leftism
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| Social Democratic Workingmen's Party of North America (SDWP or SDWPNA) | 1874 | 1876 | Ideology: Marxism and German American leftism
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| Greenback Labor Party (GLP) | 1873 | 1888 | Ideology: unionism, anti-monopolism, and inflationism)
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| Workingmen's Party of Illinois (WPI) | 1873 | 1876 | Ideology: Marxism and German American leftism
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Knights of Labor (K of L, KofL, KOL) |
1869 | 1949 | Labor union federation; Ideology: unionism, progressivism, and anti-Chinese bigotry
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| Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein (ADAV) | 1867 | 1869 | Ideology: Socialism and German American leftism
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| National Labor Union (NLU) | 1866 | 1873 | Labor union federation; Ideology: Eight-hour day movement, unionism
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| Eight-Hour Leagues | 1865 | 1873 | Ideology: Eight-hour day movement
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International Workingmen's Association (IWA) or First International[v] |
1864 | 1876 | Ideology: Eight-hour day movement; would split between Marxism/revolutionary socialism and Bakunism/anarchism
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| Chicago Workers' Society (CWS) | 1857 | 1904 | Ideology: Communism, humanism, abolitionism, and German American leftism
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| New York Communist Club (NYCC) | 1857 | 1867 | Ideology: Communism, humanism, abolitionism, and German American leftism
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| American Workers League (AWL)[w] | 1852 | 1855 | Ideology: Marxism and German American leftism
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| General Working-Men's League (AAB)[x] | 1850 | 1860 | Ideology: Utopian socialism (akin to Owenism) and German American leftism
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| Turnvereine (Turners) | 1850 | 1917 | Ideology: Fitness culture and German American leftism
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| Icarian movement | 1840 | 1898 | Ideology: Communitarianism, intentional community, profit sharing
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Fourier movement |
1840 | 1892 | Ideology: Communitarianism, intentional community, phalanstère, profit sharing
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| Working Men's Party (WMP) | 1829 | 1831 | Ideology: Communitarianism, utopian socialism, anti-corruption
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Owenite movement |
1825 | 1829 | Ideology: Communitarianism, intentional community, worker cooperatives, profit sharing
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- MERGE UP
- Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP): An anti-racist, anti-fascist skinhead collective network. Created in 1987 among Traditional skinheads (Trads). In 1987, helped found Anti-Racist Action (ARA) Network. Inspired Red and Anarchist Skinheads (RASH). Remains active.
- Red and Anarchist Skinheads (RASH), a leftist anti-fascist skinhead collective network. Created in 2004 inspired by Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP). Remains active.
- Food Not Bombs (FNB): A large leftist mutual aid collective network. Created in 1980. Remains active.
- Had no clear organization structure:
- Youth International Party (YIP or Yippies): A counter-cultural and hippie movement. Created in 1967. As late as 1979, pied several politicians. Faded away in 1980's.
- Structured as cells or network of small collectives:
- Climate Emergency Movement: Climate activist organizations associated with Margaret Klein Salamon. After 2014 People's Climate March, Salamon co-created The Climate Mobilization (TCM) [created 2014, active], in 2016 Salamon pushed for Climate emergency declarations (started 2016, active), Salamon led since 2021 Climate Emergency Fund (CEF) [created 2019-present], Salamon funded through CEF Climate Defiance (CD) [created 2023, active]. No organizations have clear mass membership, but instead focus on direct action for climate change mitigation.
- CODEPINK: A leftist anti-war collective network. Created in 2002 by Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin to oppose the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Medea was previously a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) member and created Global Exchange in 1988. In 2007, began strongly supporting Venezuelan government. In 2020, began boosting Qiao Collective. In 2019, joined International Peoples' Assembly (IPA). In 2021, joined Progressive International (ProgInt). In 2022, condemned Russian invasion of Ukraine and opposed military aid to Ukraine. Remains active.
- Copwatch: A leftist anti-police brutality collective network. Created in 1990, inspired by the Black Panther Party (BPP). Remains active.
- Earth Liberation Front (ELF): A leftist ecodefense clandestine cell network. Created in 1992. Faded away by 2009.
- Armed Forces of National Liberation (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña, FALN): A clandestine cell network that supported Marxism-Leninism and Puerto Rican independence. In 1950, created. In 1974, did Fraunces Tavern bombing. In 1983, dissolved. Remnants joined Boricua Popular Army (Ejército Popular Boricua, EPB or Macheteros, lit. 'machete wielders'). In 1999, Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 FALN members.
- Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS): A collective of anarchist-communist writers. Created in 1996. Still active.
- Unicorn Riot (UR): A small leftist anti-fascist media-making collective network. Created in 2015. Remains active.
- United Freedom Front (UFF): A small Marxist-Leninist terrorist group. Created in 1975. Dissolved in 1984.
- ZNetwork: A libertarian socialist media network. Created in 1986 by Michael Albert and others.
- Structured primarily as a single large collective:
- MOVE: A commune. In 1972, created as Christian Movement for Life. In 1985, MOVE was bombed by Philadelphia police. Remains active.
- National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR): An annual gathering of socialists, anarchists, and greens led by a student collective. Started in 1998. Ended in 2008.
- Peoples Temple: A Pentecostal communist destructive cult led by Jim Jones. In 1954, Jones opened his first church in Indianapolis, Indiana, Community Unity Church (CUC). In 1955, Jones reorganized CUC in a new building as Wings of Deliverance, then renamed the org to Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. In 1956, Jones joined the Independent Assemblies of God (IAoG). In 1959, Jones renamed the org to Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel. In 1963, Jones moved the church to Redwood Valley, California. In 1960s, Jones began to preach "Apostolic Socialism". In 1971, Jones opened a church in San Francisco, California. In 1972, Jones opened a church in Los Angeles, California. In 1970s, Jones founded Truth Enterprises for direct mail sales. In 1973, a "Gang of Eight" defectors fled the church to Montana; in response, Jones began conducting fake suicide rituals. In 1977, Jones moved about 1000 followers to the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project in Jonestown, Guyana. In 1978, Jones attempted to force all Jonestown residents to commit suicide.
These groups are not notable and are also not clearly tied to any notable groups:
- User:SocDoneLeft/American Communist Party (ACP): A conservative communist organization. In 2024, created as merger of splits from Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and Party of Communists USA (PCUSA), with Jackson Hinkle in leadership. Remains active.
- American Party of Labor:[63] A Hoxhaist, Stalinist organization. In 2008, APL created by former members of Alliance! (Marxist–Leninist) [AML] and International Struggle Marxist–Leninist (ISML). In 2018, APL gained observer status in the International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO). Remains active. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Party of Labor (3rd nomination)
- Center for Political Innovation (CPIUSA or CPI): A conservative Communist (or national Bolshevik) group. Allegedly a political cult. Created in 2021 and led by Caleb Maupin, a former RT employee. Briefly dissolved, then reformed, in 2022, after Maupin was accused of sexual abuse. See Draft:Caleb Maupin
- Communist Workers' Platform USA (CWPUSA): A Marxist-Leninist organization. In 2023, CWPUSA created as split from Party of Communists USA (PCUSA) by members who opposed PCUSA working with Caleb Maupin's Center For Political Innovation (CPIUSA or CPI).[64] Remains active.
- Communist Workers Group USA (CWGUSA): A Trotskyist organization. In 2012, created as split from Humanist Workers for Revolutionary Socialism (HWRS). Affiliated with International Leninist Trotskyist Tendency (ILTT). Remains active.
- Group on Advanced Leadership (GOAL): A Black liberation organization. In 1961, GOAL created. In 1963, GOAL member Albert Cleage broke with C. L. Franklin, who was attempting to create a Northern Christian Leadership Conference (NCLC) to parallel Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and created a rival Northern Negro Grassroots Leadership Conference (NNGLC) that invited the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the Nation of Islam, and UHURU. In 1963, Malcolm X delivered Message to the Grass Roots at the NNGLC. In 1963, Cleage helped found Freedom Now Party (FNP). In late 1960's, GOAL dissolved. In 1968, former GOAL members helped found Malcolm X Society (MXS) and then Republic of New Afrika (RNA). Defunct.
- Humanist Workers for Revolutionary Socialism (HWRS): A Trotskyist organization. In 2008, HWRS created as split from Workers' Voice (WV). In 2014, a majority split from HWRS and created Communist Workers Group USA (CWGUSA). In 2014, HWRS dissolved. Defunct.
- In Defense of Communism (IDoC): Unclear origins. Marxist-Leninist newspaper. Remains active.
- Internationalist Group (IG): A Trotskyist organization. In 1996, League for the Fourth International (LFI) and its US affiliate Internationalist Group (IG) created by members expelled from International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) (ICLFI) and its US affiliate Spartacist League/U.S. (SLUS). Remains active.
- Maoist Communist Group (MCG): A Maoist organization. In 2013, Maoists create New Communist Party [NCP or NCPOC or NCP(OC)]. In 2014, members split to create New Communist Party (Liason Committee) [NCP or NCPLC or NCP(LC)]. In 2016, Red Guards (RG) published document alleging that NPC(LC) leadership were guilty of sexual assault; NPC(LC) collapses. In 2016, NPC(OC) renamed to Maoist Communist Group (MCG). In 2020, MCG stopped posting updates. Defunct.
- Maoist Communist Party Organizing Committee (MCPOC or MCP-OC or MCP(OC)):[aa] A Maoist organization. In 2017, created.[65][66] In 2020, stopped publishing.[67]
- Maoist Communist Union (MCU): A Maoist organization. In 2016, Mass Proletariat organization (MPO) created by Maoists, mostly in Boston, Massachussetts.[68] In 2019, MPO became inactive. In 2020, MCU created from MPO remnants.[69] In 2023, MCU created Revolutionary Marxist Students (RMS).[70] Remains active.[71]
- User:SocDoneLeft/Party of Communists USA (PCUSA): A Stalinist organization. In 2014, PCUSA created as split from Communist Party USA (CPUSA). In 2022, left-wing faction American Council of Bolsheviks (ACB) split. In 2023, began working with Caleb Maupin's Center For Political Innovation (CPIUSA or CPI). As a result, in 2023, anti-Maupin faction split to create Communist Workers' Platform (CWPUSA). In 2024, conservative communist faction merged into American Communist Party (ACP). Remains active.
- Revolutionary Maoist Coalition (RMC): A Maoist organization. In 2021, created from unclear origins. Includes several former Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) members.[72] Remains active.
- Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC): A Maoist organization. Variously overlapped with the Maoist Communist Group (MCG) and the Red Guards (RG). In 2012, Maoists in New York City create Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee (RSCC). In 2016, after RSCC leadership expelled from university, dissolved. Defunct.
- Revolutionary Socialist Network (RSN): US group of Trotskyist organizations. In 2019, created. In 2019, inherited most surviving International Socialist Organization (ISO) chapters. In 2019, federated with Socialist Resurgence (SR). In 2022, SR merged into Workers' Voice/La Voz de los Trabajadores (WV), taking its RSN federation with it.
- Social Democrats of America (SDA): A social democratic organization. Likely created in 2021 as a split from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Remains active.
- Socialist Party of America (SPA of 2022): A communist organization. In 2022, created. No links to Socialist Party of America (SPA), created in 1901. Remains active.
- Socialist Resurgence (SR): A Trotskyist organization. In 2019, Permanent Revolution Faction (PRF) created in Socialist Action (SAct). In 2019, PRF split from SAct. In 2019, PRF federated in Revolutionary Socialist Network (RSN). In 2022, merged into Workers' Voice/La Voz de los Trabajadores (WV).
- Trotskyist League (TL): A Trotskyist organization. In 1991, members split from Revolutionary Workers League (RWL) and created Trotskyist League (TL). In 1990s, a minority split and merged into Workers' Voice (WV). Defunct.
- UHURU: A Black liberation organization. Created in early 1960's. Helped create Group on Advanced Leadership (GOAL), Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM), and League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW). Dissolved in late 1960's.
- Ujima People's Progress Party (UPPP): A Black liberation political party in Baltimore, Maryland. Created in 2010's. Remains active.
- Workers' Voice/La Voz de los Trabajadores (WV): A Trotskyist organization. In 1990, Left Trotskyist Tendency split from International Bolshevik Tendency (IBT) and renamed itself Revolutionary Trotskyist Tendency (RTT). In 1990s, RTT merged with a split from Trotskyist League (TL) to create Workers' Voice (WV). In 2008, most RTT members split and created Humanist Workers for Revolutionary Socialism (HWRS). In 2010, WV affiliated with International Workers League – Fourth International (IWLfi). In 2022, WV merged with Socialist Resurgence (SR) to create Workers' Voice/La Voz de los Trabajadores (WV).[73] WV inherited SR's federation in Revolutionary Socialist Network (RSN). Remains active.
The organizations below have sometimes been, incorrectly, described as having socialist politics:
- Progressives:
- Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a progressive activist group created by former socialists and members of Union for Democratic Action (UDA) and Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA); the group was most powerful in the 1940's to 1960's but remains active
- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN): A progressive community organization network. Peak members 500,000.[74] In 1970, ACORN was founded. In 2010, ACORN US filed for bankruptcy. In 2012, some former organizational members of ACORN created Center for Popular Democracy (CPD).
- Citizen Action: A liberal activist organization. Created in 1980. Former members of Massachusetts Fair Share created some chapters. Dissolved in 1999. Succeeded by USAction from 1999 to 2016, when USAction merged into People's Action. May have had ~1.7 million members (600,000 / 0.35).[75]
- Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG): A progressive activist organization. At peak, 50000 dues-paying members.[76] In 1970, created by Ralph Nader. Still active.
- Massachusetts Fair Share: A progressive activist organization. At peak, 110000 dues-paying members.[76] Unclear creation and dissolution dates; 1970s and 1983 likely.[77] Unclear if modern Fair Share Alliance is related.[78][79][80][81]
- National Civil Liberties Bureau (NCLB), which would become the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), both founded by former IWW member and anti-Stalinist Roger Nash Baldwin, who was a victim of the First Red Scare and the Palmer Raids
- National Action Network (NAN): Progressive organization. In 1991, NAN was created by Al Sharpton. Remains active.
- National Black Political Convention (NBPC or Gary Convention):[ab] Progressive gathering of Black political leaders in 1972 which issued Gary Declaration. Inspired Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to be more aggressive.[82]
- National Equal Rights Party (NERP): Pro-labor feminist party.
- Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO): Pro-racial equality third party. Created in 1965. After Voting Rights Act of 1965, LCFO third party created by staff of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) under leadership of Kwame Ture Stokely Carmichael, opposed to the openly white supremacist Alabama Democratic Party under George Wallace. In 1965, LCFO adopted black panther as icon, opposed to white chicken (symbol of Alabama Democratic Party). In 1966, LCFO inspired Black Panther Party (BPP). In 1970: LCFO merged into Alabama Democratic Party.
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a progressive civil rights movement organization. Created in 1960. In 1968, Black Panther Party (BPP) attempted to merge with SNCC. In June 1968, after BPP members allegedly put gun into James Forman's mouth, SNCC distanced itself from BPP. Essentially defunct in 1968.
- TrueMajority: A progressive organization founded by Ben & Jerry's cofounder Ben Cohen. Created in 2002. Merged with USAction in 2007.
- Abolitionists:
- American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS): A narrowly abolitionist group. Created in 1833. In 1839, radical members split to create Liberty Party of 1840 (LP of 1840). In 1840, moderate members split to create American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (AFASS). National organization remained ineffective for decades. State AASS chapters continued until 1870.
- Liberty Party of 1840 (LP of 1840): A narrowly Abolitionist group. Created in 1839 by splitters from American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS). Ran in elections mostly 1840-1844. In 1848, LP of 1840 performed poorly and began to split. Coalitionists leaned toward uniting with Barnburner Democrats and Conscience Whigs, anti-coalitionists demanded an independent party. In 1847, anti-coalitionists split and created Liberty League, which was more radical and adopted other classical liberal principles. In 1848, vast majority of LP of 1840 sided with coalitionists and joined the Free Soil Party. In 1845, anti-coalitionists formed group within LP of 1840. From 1852 to 1860, the scattered radical remnants of LP of 1840 ran token candidates. After 1860, completely collapsed.
- Black Nationalists:
- US Organization (USO): A Black nationalist organization led by Hakim Jamal and Maulana Karenga. Created in 1965. In late 1960s, Jamal (and his leftist politics) left organization, replaced by Karenga's Black/Pan-African cultural educationalism. In 1966, created Kwanzaa. In 1969, on misinformation from COINTELPRO, entered gunfight with Black Panthers Party (BPP) and killed 4 BPP members. BPP called the USO "United Slaves". In 1971, Karenga convicted of assault and kidnapping two women. USO fell apart. In 1974, USO dissolved.
- Conservatives:
- Nation of Islam (NOI), a conservative new religious movement led by Louis Farrakhan that promotes Black nationalism, Black capitalism, social conservatism, and the Yakub myth
- Syncretic:
- Women's Liberation Front (WoLF): A nominally second wave feminist and women's liberation organization. In practice, supports anti-trans policies and conservative commentators. Created in 2014 by Lierre Keith, who supports the anti-civilization Deep Green Resistance movement. Remains active.
- Huey Long's Share Our Wealth Society (SOWS): A group of progressive wealth redistribution organizations. Created in 1934. After Long's assassination, was repurposed to support social conservative, economic leftist Union Party of Charles Coughlin ("Father Coughlin"), which collapsed in 1936.
TODO: """ACORN in the West, Massachusetts Fair Share in the East, the Highlander Center in Appalachia, TWO in Chicago, SEASHA and the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in the South are some of the many ongoing democratic experiments that deserve support and encouragement. [....] The lesson of recent history is that such programs need to be shaped and instituted by citizens themselves. This requires marshalling of power at the ballot box and within the only political party at all receptive to the needs of the disenfranchised, the Democratic party.""" https://democracyjournalarchive.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/berman_mainstream-politics-democracy-3-2_-may-1983.pdf
- American Federation of Labor: In 1881, created as Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (FOTLU or FOOTLU). In 1886, reorganized as American Federation of Labor (AFL or AF of L). In 1955, merged into AFL-CIO. Ideology: "pure and simple" unionism.[ac]
- Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO): TODO
- J18: international anti-G8 event, during 25th G8 summit, "Carnival Against Capital", on June 18, 1999
- N30: 1999 Seattle WTO protests, "Battle of Seattle", from November 30, 1999 to December 3, 1999
- A16: Washington A16, 2000, anti-IMF protests, on April 16, 2000
- Southern Workers Assembly
- list of radical groups Dyson 1971 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3742075
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) https://jacobin.com/2021/10/socialism-1950s-civil-rights-montgomery-boycott-rustin-muste-randolph
- CORE -> National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) -- earlier Poverty Rights Action Center (PRAC) and National Coordinating Committee of Welfare Rights Groups (NCC)
- Rathke was member of SDS and NWRO -> Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), History of ACORN in the United States, ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy, ACORN International https://newpol.org/review/rise-and-fall-acorn/
- ACORN -> Working Families Party (WFP)
black lib ?
- Network of Black Organizers (NBO)
- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)
- Hampton Institute (2013) (HI) 2013-2023[83]
black crm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Caleb_Maupin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_Conventions_Movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Equal_Rights_League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Negro_Labor_Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_National_Labor_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAACP https://www.jstor.org/stable/27557254
anarchist
- 1970s: Black Panther Party (BPP) member and former SNCC organizer Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin imprisoned
- 1970s: in prison, Ervin began working with [Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation]] (SRAF)
- 1979: Ervin released, started working with African People's Socialist Party (APSP)
- 1990s: Ervin, then a member of Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (LRRAF) helps create Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizers (BANCO)
- 2003: BANCO appears to have been renamed Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO)
- 1994: Ervin helps create Federation of Black Community Partisans (FBCP), which seems to run through 1997 and publishes Black Autonomy
- """The emergence of radical feminism, with its anti-hierarchical ethos, afforded another opportunity for the rediscovery of anarchism. Throughout the 1970s, Peggy Kornegger and others contributed to a growing body of anarcho-feminist theory. Meanwhile, although black radicals tended to take Third World Marxist movements as their model, some looked back to anarchism; the Black Panthers reprinted Nechaev’s Catechism of the Revolutionary, and in 1979, a former Panther disenchanted with communism, Lorenzo Komboa Ervin (b. 1947), published his seminal pamphlet, Anarchism and the Black Revolution, introducing the concept of a “Black Anarchism” to radical debate. Another ex-Panther, Ashanti Alston Omowali (b. 1954), began publishing a zine titled Anarchist Panther in 1999.""" [84]
- terminology note: Black autonomy used as anarchist alternative to Black nationalism and Black separatism; sometimes quilombo mentioned
- terminology note: "anarchistic franchise organizations" (AFOs): anarchist inspired groupings with the same name, yet no centralized coordination (Williams 2012)
Black Autonomy Network Community Organization
- Labor federation competition in the United States
- AFL-CIO group: Working America
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- The Communist Party USA (Provisional) [CPUSA(P)] is also sometimes called: "Communist Party, United States of America (Provisional Wing)" [CPUSA(PW)], "Provisional Communist Party" (PCP), "Provisional Party" (PP), "Provisional Party of Communists" (PPC), "Order of Lenin" (OL), or "the Formation" (TF).
- Young Lords also called Young Lords Organization (YLO) or Young Lords Party (YLP)
- The International Workingmen's Association is sometimes spelled as International Working-Men's Association or International Working Men's Association. In German, Internationale Arbeiterassoziation (IAA). In French, Association internationale des travailleurs (AIT). In Spanish, Asociación Internacional de Trabajadores (AIT). In Italian, Associazione internazionale dei lavoratori (AIL). In Polish, Międzynarodowe Stowarzyszenie Robotników (MSR).
- The AFL believed that industrial capitalism's expansion benefitted workers and the AFL generally represented the "conservative" or "right" portion of US union organizing. The AFL's "pure and simple" approach to union activity explicitly eschewed political activity and exclusively focused on working conditions and compensation. The AFL remained largely apart from politics until the 1900's and remained aloof from explicit partisanship until 1924, when it deepened its ties with the Democratic Party.
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