Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 11:25:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Cabral <kcabral-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us>
Subject: Re: Initials


On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, Ken Helmeczi wrote:

> At 08:37 PM 7/4/96 -0700, Jim Miller wrote:
> Most of them are members, or former
> >members, or sympathizers of one or more of the following
> >(active or defunct) groups (partial list): CPUSA, SWP,
> >RCP, CPML, PL, SL, SA, S, COC, CWP, CLP, ISO, DSA, WWP,
> >LM, etc.
> 
> Jim,
> Could you post the actual names of these groups?  Some of them I recognize,
> but most, as initials, mean nothing to me; I am not all that familiar with
> left American politics.  Appreciated!

Sounds like:

RCP = Revolutionary Communist Party 
CPML = Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) 
SL = Socialist Labor Party
SA = Socialist Action
S = Solidarity 
S = Socialist Party USA
COC = Committees of Correspondence
CWP = Communist Worker's Party
CLP = Communist Labor Party
PL  = Progressive Labor Party
ISO = International Socialist Organization
DSA = Democratic Socialists of America
WWP = Worker's World Party
LM = Labor Militant
CPUSA = Communist Party USA
SWP = Socialist Worker's Party
-

	I've never heard of many of these parties, including the CP-ML.
And grouplets like the CWP broke up and now have formed the League of
Revolutionaries for a New America (or something like that). The CLP is
also now defunct, or at least Justin Schwartz says so. Many of its members
have gone off on their own, or joined refoundation groups like Solidarity
or the Committees of Correspondence. 

Kevin
Cols, Oh





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