Leftist Parties of the USA

Party	Abbr.	Publications	Contact	Ideol.	Internat.	Elections		other
Party	Abbr.	Publications	Contact	Ideol.	Internat.	Parl. '04	Pres. '04	other
Action IWA			e-mail	anar.	ex-AIT	-	-	f. 1999 as split from WSA
African People's Socialist Party auxiliary organization	APSP	The Burning Spear	e-mail	black rad. left. nat.		-	-	f. 1972, led by Omali Yeshitali
All-African People's Revolutionary Party local group	AAPRP		e-mail	black left. nat.		-	-	f. 1972
Alliance Marxist-Leninist (North America)		Alliance	e-mail	stal.	ISML	-	-	f. 1989
American Indian Movement - Grand Governing Council	AIM-GGC		e-mail	indian nat.		-	-	f. 1993 as split from other AIM, led by Vernon Bellecourt
American Indian Movement - International Federation of Autonomous Chapters	AIM-IFAC		e-mail	indian left. nat.		-	-	f. 1968, led by Russell Means
Anarchist Communitarian Network			e-mail	anar.		-	-	f. 2001
Anarchist People of Color			e-mail	anar.		-	-
Arissa			e-mail	rad. left.		-	-
Atlantic Anarchist Circle other page						-	-
Barrio Union (Unión del Barrio)		La Verdad	e-mail	chicano left. nat.		-	-	f. 1981
Bay Area Anarchist Communists			e-mail	anar. com.		-	-	f. 2003
Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizers	BANCO			anar.		-	-
Black Radical Congress	BRC		e-mail	black rad. left. nat.		-	-	f. 1998
Bolshevik Tendency			Tel. +1-510-2782971	tro.	IBT	-	-	f. 1982 as split from Spartacist League
Bring the Ruckus			e-mail	anar. com.		-	-	f. 1997
Committee for a Unified Independent Party / International Workers Party unofficial	CUIP/IWP		e-mail	black nat.		-	-	f. 1979 as New Alliance Party, led by Fred Newman
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism	CCDS	Corresponder, Dialogue & Initiative	e-mail	ex-com., left. soc.		-	-	f. 1991 mainly as split from CPUSA
Communist Party USA	CPUSA	People's Weekly World, Political Affairs	e-mail	com.	ex-WMR	-	supported Dem. Party	f. 1919, led by Sam Webb
Communist Voice Organization		Communist Voice, Struggle	e-mail	ex-mao.		-	-	f. 1995 as split from Chicago Workers' Voice Group
Communist Workers Organization	CWO		e-mail	tro.		-	-	f. 2002
December 12th Movement		Arm the Masses	e-mail	black rad. left. nat.		-	-	led by Omowale Clay
Democratic Socialists of America	DSA	Democratic Left	e-mail	left. soc.	SI	on list of Democratic Party	-	f. 1983, active in Democratic Party
Echanges et Mouvement				left. com.		-	-
Federation of Northwest Anarchist Communists	FNAC		e-mail	anar. com.		-	-	f. 2002
Federation of Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives	FRAC		e-mail	anar.		-	-	f. 2002
Freedom Road Socialist Organization [Fight Back]	FRSO	Fight Back	e-mail	stal.	ICS	-	-	f. 1999 as split from other FRSO
Freedom Road Socialist Organization [Freedom Road]	FRSO	Freedom Road	e-mail	ex-mao., stal.	ICS	-	-	f. 1985
Freedom Socialist Party	FSP	The Freedom Socialist	e-mail	tro.	FS	-	supported SPUSA, SWP and WWP	f. 1964 as split from SWP
Great Plains Anarchist Network			e-mail	anar.
Green Party of the United States other page	GP-US	Greensweek, Greenpages	e-mail	green		0.30%	0.098%	f. 1996 as split from GPUSA
The Green Alliance			e-mail	left. green		-	-	f. 2002
Independent Progressive Politics Network	IPPN	Independent Politics News	e-mail	left. soc.		-	-	f. 1995, alliance
Industrial Workers of the World	IWW	Industrial Worker	e-mail	anar. syn.	IWW	-	-	f. 1905
International Communist Current	ICC	Internationalism		left. com.	ICC	-	-
International Socialist Organization	ISO	Socialist Worker, International Socialist Review	e-mail	tro.	ex-IS	-	-	f. 1977
Internationalist Group		Internationalist	e-mail	tro.	LFI	-	-	f. 1996 as split from Spartacist League
Internationalist Perspective		Internationalist Perspective		left. com.		-	-	f. 1986 as split from ICC
Internationalist Workers' Group other page		Internationalist Notes	e-mail	left. com.	IBRP	-	-	f. 2002
Labor Party		Labor Party Press	e-mail	left. soc.		-	-	f. 1996, led by Mark Dudzic
Labor Standard		Labor Standard	e-mail	tro.	close to USFI	-	-	f. 1998, partly active inside Solidarity
Labor's Militant Voice	LMV	Labor's Militant Voice	e-mail	tro.		-	-	f. 1998 as split from Labor Militant
League for the Revolutionary Party	LRP	Proletarian Revolution	e-mail	tro.	COFI	-	-	f. 1976
League of Revolutionaries for a New America		People's Tribune/Tribuno del Pueblo	e-mail	ex-mao.		-	-	f. 1997, formerly the Communist Labor Party
Left Green Network			e-mail	left. green		-	-	f. 1989
Left Party		Frontlines	e-mail	tro.	CIR	-	-	f. 2002 as split from Socialist Alternative
Left Turn		Left Turn	e-mail	tro.	ex-IS	-	-	f. 2001 as split from ISO
Liberty Union Party			e-mail	rad. left.		0.0027%	0.00022%	f. mid-1990s, exists in Vermont
Maoist Internationalist Movement	MIM	MIM Notes, Maoist Sojouner	e-mail	mao.		-	-	f. 1983
Marxist-Leninist Organizer				stal.		-	-
National Black United Front	NBUF	Frontpage	e-mail	black left. nat.		-	-	f. 1980, alliance
New Afrikan Liberation Front	NALF	Taion Time		black rad. left. nat.		-	-	f. 1995, led by Herman Ferguson
New Afrikan People's Organization	NAPO	By any means necessary		black rad. left. nat.		-	-	f. 1984, led by Chokwe Lumumba
New Democracy		New Democracy Newsletter	e-mail			-	-
New Party			e-mail	left. soc.			-	f. 1991
News & Letters Committees		News & Letters	e-mail	ex-tro., marx.	MH	-	-	f. 1955
Northeastern Federation of Anarchist Communists	NEFAC	The Northeastern Anarchist, Ruptures, Barricada	e-mail	anar. com.	ILS	-	-	f. 2000
Organizing Committee to form the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist)	OCCPUSA(ML)	Proletariat, Labor's Champion,		mao.		-	-	f. 1983
Pan-African Revolutionary Socialist Party				black left. nat.		-	-	f. 1983
Party for Socialism and Liberation	PSL	Socialism and Liberation	e-mail	rad. left.		-	-	f. 2004 as split from WWP
Peace and Freedom Party	PFP	Partisan	e-mail	left. soc.		0.026%	0.023%	f. 1967, many tendencies
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee	PFOC	Breaktrough	e-mail	rad. left.		-	-	f. 1974
Progressive Labor Party other page	PLP	Challenge-Desafío-Le Defí	e-mail	mao.		-	-	f. 1965
Progressive ProAction Party			e-mail					led by Mark A. Dotz Jr.
Ray O. Light Group				mao.	ICS, ICMLPO[M]	-	-
Red and Anarchist Action Network		Praxis Journal, RAAN-Network News		anar. com.		-	-	f. 2002
Republic of New Afrika	RNA	The New Afrikan		black rad. left. nat.		-	-	f. 1968
Revolutionary Anti-Authoritarians of Color	RACE		e-mail	anar.		-	-	f. 2001
Revolutionary Communist Party	RCP	Revolutionary Worker / Obrero Revolucionario	fax: +1-312-227-4497	mao.	RIM	-	-	f. 1975
Revolutionary Workers League	RWL	Fighting Worker	e-mail	tro.	ITC	-	-	f. 1976 as split from Spartacist League
Revolutionary Workers Party (Trotskyist-Posadist)	RWP(T-P)	Proletarian Revolution	e-mail	tro.	TPI	-	-	led by Jen Cobbins
Social Democrats USA	SDUSA	New America	e-mail	soc. dem.	SI	on lists of Democratic Party	-	f. 1972 by right wing of SPUSA, active in Democratic Party
Socialist Action		Socialist Action	e-mail	tro.	USFI	-	-	f. 1983 as split from SWP
Socialist Alternative		Justice	e-mail	tro.	CWI	-	-	f. 1986 as Labor Militant, active in Labor Party
Socialist Equality Party, other page	SEP		e-mail	tro.	ICFI	0.00076%	0.0015%	f. 1966 as Workers League
Socialist Labor Party	SLP	The People	e-mail	DeLeonist		-	-	f. 1876
Socialist Organizer		The Organizer	e-mail	tro.	SIQI	-	-	active in Labor Party
Socialist Party USA	SPUSA	The Socialist	e-mail	left. soc.		0.013%	0.0061%	f. 1901
Debs Tendency			e-mail	rad. left.		-	-	f. 2003
Socialist Workers Organization	SWO	Socialist Viewpoint	e-mail	tro.		-	-	f. 2001 as split from Socialist Action
Socialist Workers' Party	SWP	The Militant	e-mail	tro.	SWP	0.0026%	0.0070%	f. 1937, led by Jack Barnes
Society for Economic Equality			e-mail	DeLeonist		-	-	f. 1983 as split from SLP
Solidarity		Against the Current	e-mail	tro.		-	-	f. 1986
Fourth International Caucus				tro.	USFI	-	-	formerly the Fourth Internationalist Tendency
South East Anarchist Network			e-mail	anar.		-	-	f. 2004
Spartacist League of the U.S.		Workers Vanguard	e-mail	tro.	ICL	-	-	f. 1966 as split from SWP, led by James M. Robertson
The Greens/Green Party USA	G/GPUSA	Green Politics, Synthesis/Regeneration	e-mail	green	FGPA	-	-	f. 1984 as Green Committees of Correspondence
The Spark		The Spark	e-mail	tro.	UCI	-	-	f. 1971
Trotskyist Labor League		The Toiler	e-mail	tro.	ITLT	-	-	f. 2003 as split from WIL, led by Sidney Martinez
Trotskyist Unity Organization			e-mail	tro.		-	-	f. 2003 as split from RWP(T-P), led by Joey Refallo
Truth		Truth	e-mail		ex-UIT, ex-Mov	-	-	called Socialism! until 2001
United People National Party (Partido Nacional La Raza Unida)		El Sembrador	e-mail	Chicano left. nat.		-	-	f. 1970
United States Pacifist Party			e-mail	pacifist		-	-
Unity Organizing Committee unofficial		Unity	e-mail	Asian-American		-	-	f. 1991 as split from League of Revolutionary Struggle
US Marxist-Leninist Organization	USMLO	Voice of Revolution	e-mail	ex-mao.	ex-alb.	-	-	split from Marxist-Leninist Party
Vermont Progressive Party		Moose Crossings	e-mail	left. soc.		-	-	f. 1999
Workers Action		Workers Action	e-mail	tro.	CRFI	-	-	f. 2003
Workers Democracy Network		Workers Democracy	e-mail	tro.		-	-
Workers International League youth organization	WIL	Socialist Appeal, New Youth	e-mail	tro.	IMT	-	-	called Socialist Labor until 2001
Workers Party U.S.A		The Worker	e-mail	stal.	ex-alb.	-	-	f. 1992
Worker's Socialist Party of the United States	WSP-US		e-mail		rad. left.	-	-	split from WSPUS in 2002
Workers Solidarity Alliance	WSA	Ideas and Action	e-mail	anar. syn.	AIT	-	-	f. 1984
Workers World Party	WWP	Workers World	e-mail	ex-tro., rad. left.	ICS	-	0.0011%	f. 1959 as split from SWP
Working Families Party	WFP		e-mail	left. soc.		0.10%	0.11%	f. 1999
World Socialist Party of the United States	WSPUS	World Socialist Review	e-mail	rad. left.	WSM	-	-	f. 1916
Parties probably disbanded Chicago Workers Voice Group, Fireworks, International Socialist League-Fourth International (ISL-FI), Liberation League, National Committee for Independent Political Action (NCIPA), New Afrikan Liberation Movement, New Liberty Party, Unity & Struggle Communist Union