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FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY OF WASHINGTON, Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) ne ee core ed - Tn April, 1966, a source advised that the members of the Seattle Branch, Socialiet Workers Party (SVP), executed a statement of resignation from the National SWP, dated April 9, 1966, following which they referred to themselves ag the Seattle - : Branch, SWP (Unaffiliated), and temporarily adopted the name s ¥recdom Socialist Party of Washington, aka Freedom Socialist ‘ Party (FSP). The group led by RICHARD FRASER, aka Dick Fraser, : Richard Kirk, Dick Kirk, formerly a member.of the SiIP National. Committee, and his wife, CLARA FRASER, aka Clara Kaye, Organizer of the Seattle Branch, SWP, were known as the KIRK-KAYE Tendency. Their disagreement with the National SWP was over the questions © * of the Negro strusgle, the colonial revolution, the Vietnamese War, regroupment, women's emancipation, and party organizational principles. The SWP has been designated by the Attorney General of the United States pursuanes to * Executive Order 10450. In duly, 1955, this source advised that the above group and others held a convention on July 9, 1966, at their headquarters, Freeway Hall, 3815 Fiftn Avenue Northeust, Seattle, Washington, having issued a call to "all signers of she FSP Nominating Petition at the 1964 Nominating Convention and all revolutionary socialists who wished to help build the FSP." : In October, 1964, a second source advised that the name Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) of the State of Washington was -used by the Seattle Branch, SWP, in its then current political campaign. fhe first source further advised that at the convention on July 9, 1956, the group adopted the name FSP. of Washington, and became a membershio organization. In August, 1966, the first source furnished the | August 5, 1966, issue of "Tne Freedom Socialist”, self-described as the "Voice of the FSP of Washington." This publication states, "Wo are a new revolutionary socialism organization," stating that 4t is comprised of tne former Seattle Branch, SUP, “individual independant radicals who were part of the 1954 united socialist electoral coalition which ergated the FSP," and "A new segment of radical youth whe nave receatly adopted Marxism as their political philosophy." DENTIAL a ae a a tate -