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The New Alliance Party: A Study in Deception Introduction One of the most visible and vocal groups to emerge on the far left in recent years is the New Alliance Party. Part Marxist sect, part therapy cule, part entertainment enterprise (producer of “alent shows” and “Musicruises” in New York City featuring big name performers), the party is active across the country, running candidates in both national and local elections, and promoting its unique brand of radicalism. New Alliance Party politics is an amalgam of eccen- tric “therapy” theories, revolutionary rhetoric, black nationalism, and sexual refereaces. It is tainted with anti-Semitism and an intense anti-Israel bias. Although the party claims to be led by blacks and other minorities and by women, in fact its leadership is centered in one man: Fred Newman. ; Like the extremist politics of Lyndon LaRouche (with whom the party was once affiliated), the New Alliance Party has the trappings of a cult: a one-man leadership and authority figure in Fred Newman; a small, devoted following; a wide variety of “front groups” that spread its message; an ability to raise money successfully; and a private agenda not readily evident from the party’s public positions. This report will examine the history and background of the party, its mode of operation, its recurrent themes and doctrines, and the manipulative methods it uses to advance its goals. Early History The New Alliance Party (NAP) is in large measure the handiwork of Fred Newman, a one- time college teacher whose therapeutic theory and practice have inspired the formulation of several small, cult-like organizations over the past decade. Newman was 2 philosophy instructor in the City College of New York when he first came to notice in the radical political community. In 1968 he formed a collective called “IfT hen” which boasted that its pamphlets and brochures were the most obscene in New York. “IfThen” evolved into the Centers for Change, a commune that ran sensitivity groups; there, Newman also began a therapy clinic. In 1974 Newman and his small band of followers joined Lyndon LaRouche'’s National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC), a bizarre sect making a transition from the far left to the far right. The NCLC at that time had just completed a campaign of violence and intimidation against other left-wing groups and was concentrating on charges that the Rockefeller interests and the CIA were engaged in a massive brainwashing effort. After a brief stay in the NCLC, Newman and his followers resigned to form the International Workers Party (IWP). The IWP. formed in 1974, called for the formulation of united fronts with working class organiza- tions and movement groups to lead to “international socialist revolution.” It claimed to have disbanded in 1976, and its activists formed the New York City Unemployed and Welfare Coun- cil, whose president, Joyce Dattner, was a Newman follower. A host of other Party fronts soon appeared, including the Coalition of Grass Roots Women, New York Ciry Union of Lesbians and Gay Men, Federation of Independent Unions, New Black Alliance and Women’s Indepen- dent Democratic Organization. Finally, in 1979, the Newmanites organized the New Alliance Party.