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IC00 O , l 8 2 2 0 . - 4 .' 24 May 1973 - . . SITUATION INFORMTION REPOST. . ' - - - 'The Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) is in the process of trying to organize a new national multi-issue front organization to replace its antiwar contingent, the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (FCPJ). This "united front" concept is a typical CPUSA tactic implemented to attract broad-based support from minority, religious, and nonaligned U. S. revolutionaries. . The new coalition, the Natiohal, D e f k e Organization Against Racist'an-d Political Repressioa(ND0) plans to focus its attention on the issues of prisons,apolice brutality, political repression, and the - U.S. legal system, .-.. .- d - # Supportofor the NDO is being generated by a number of diverse "leftist" groups who met'in Mew York City on M,vch 17 for a national * pre-conference meeting organized by Charlene Mitchell, C PUSA candidate for the U. S. Presidency in 1968. AbernaCby, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Rev. Dan Eerrigan; Julian Eond; Prof. Noam Chomsky, MI"; Rep.. John Conyers American Legal Defense and Education W d , L A . ; Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-Calif. 1; Patrick Gormh, president, Amalgamated Meat- cutters and Eutchers; Rev. Ja.mes Groppi; Fannie Lou Hamer; William Kunstler, attorney; John Lewis, Southern Voters Education Project; Alfred Lopez, Puerfo Rican Socialist Party; Javier Rodriguez, Los Tres del Earrio Defense Committee; Modjeska Simkins, president, ' Southern mnference Education Fund; .Tar& Tyner, chairman, Young Workers -Liberation League, end Henry Winston, chairrnan OC the Coitimwiist Party, U77, was held in Chicago, Illinois on May 11-13, 19'13 to launch the NDO. . . . * A national organizing 'confelcence sponsored by the Rev. Ralph . - (D-Mich); Eert Corona of Casa Hermanidad; Ricardo Cruz,, Mexican- - * c:. .-,. . i-z: . . i . .