I have no historical background of any of this. I've taken a crash course since Kerry was running for President.
So be patient with me.
Anyway, a 'members sign in view' on ANSWER has this:
- ACE Party
- African People's Socialist Party
- Alaskan Independence Party
- American Beer Drinkers'Party
- American Conservative Union
- American Falangist Party
- American Heritage Party
- American Independent Party
- Americanist Party
- American Nazi Party
- American Party
- American Reform Party
- American Synthesis Party
- America's Party
- Capitalist Party of America
- Centrist Party
- Christian Alliance
- Christian Coalition
- Church of God Party
- Commonwealth Party of America
- Communist Party U.S.A
- Conservative and Populist Party
- Constitution Action Party
- Constitutionalist Party
- Constitution Party
- Creator's Rights Party
- Democratic Libertarian Party
- Democratic Party
- Democratic Socialists of America
- Expansionist Party of the United States
- Family Values Party
- Federalist Party
- Freedom Socialist Party
- Fusion Party of America
- Future Voters of America Party
- Hawaii Nation
- Heart Political Party
- Hui Kalai`aina/Political Party Hawaii
- Independent American Party
- International Socialist Organization
- Labor Party
- Legal Party
- Libertarian National Socialist Green Party
- Libertarian Party
- Light Party
- Multicapitalist Party
- National Alliance
- National Disability Party
- National Socialist White People's Party
- National Syndicalist American Falangist Party
- Natural Law Party of the USA
- New Democracy
- New Liberty Party
- New Party
- New Union Party
- Our Party
- Pansexual Peace Party
- Partido Nacional La Raza Unida
- Patriot Party
- People's Independent Party
- Progressive Labor Party
- Progressive Party of Vermont
- Prohibition Party
- Reform Party
- Republican Party
- Royalist Party of America
- Social Democrats
- Socialist Equality Party
- Socialist Labor Party of America
- Socialist Party USA
- Social Nationalist Party
- Southern Independence Party
- Southern Party
- The Greens/Green Party USA
- Third Party
- United States National Official Monster Raving Loony Party
- United States Truth Party
- Workers World Party
- Working Families Party
- World Socialist Party of the United States
PLP and National Alliance are listed.
Now, nw_arizona_granny has a link at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1341941/posts?page=13#13 of the DSA's own website where they name themselves PLP
And a statement from a big wig is quoted at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1341941/posts?page=25#25
Thoughts?
No worries, Calpernia; you're doing great work :-)
I'm about to go eat supper, so I'll look at that closer later, but offhand I'd assume the National Alliance in the ANSWER-related list you give here is probably the same as the one from Post #23, rather than the 60s-era Alliance linked to SDS. Ramsey Clark has links to some anti-Semitic groups including both Nazi and Muslim groups, which I'd suspect may be how National Alliance and some of the other Nazi groups listed here got involved with ANSWER. PLP on the other hand probably is coming into ANSWER from the old SDS/New Left network. I think ANSWER is designed to pull subversive groups from a number of different areas--New Left/FREEZE, environmentalist, Nazi, Muslim--in under a common umbrella.