The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism

List of Abbreviations: North American Leftist Organizations in the 1970's

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: NORTH AMERICAN LEFTIST ORGANIZATIONS IN THE 1970S This list of organizations is meant to help the reader navigate the plethora of acronyms that appear in the text and which scattered the political landscape at the time. While making no claims at being exhaustive, this directory provides a provisional map of groups active in the 1970s North American Left. Some of these groups started before 1970; others stopped and started at various points throughout the decade, and others still exist today. AFSC American Friends Service Committee AIM American Indian Movement AQAG A Quaker Action Group BHA Black Hills Alliance BLA Black Liberation Army BPP Black Panther Party CAMP Chicago Area Military Project CBE Center for Black Education CISA South American Indian Council FALN Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional / Armed Forces of National Liberation GJB George Jackson Brigade GLF Gay Liberation Front HRUM Health Revolutionary Movement IITC International Indian Treaty Council IWK I Wor Kuen LSP Liga Socialista Puertorriqueña / Puerto Rican Socialist League LRBW League of Revolutionary Black Workers LULAC League of United Latin American Citizens MAYO Mexican American Youth Organization MIRA Movimiento Independentista Revolucionario Armado / Armed Revolutionary Independence Movement xi MLN Movimiento de Liberación Nacional / National Liberation Movement MNS Movement for a New Society NAPO New Afrikan Prisoners Organization NIYC National Indian Youth Council NRG Nonviolent Revolutionary Group O4O October 4th Organization OL October League [later, the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist, CPM-L] OWS Ojibway Warriors Society PFOC Prairie Fire Organizing Committee PRRWO Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization PRSC Puerto Rican Solidarity Committe PSP Partido Socialista Puertorriqueño / Puerto Rican Socialist Party RNA Republic of New Afrika [later the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, PG-RNA] RUA Rising Up Angry RUP La Raza Unida Party RU Revolutionary Union [later, the Revolutionary Communist Party, RCP] SAIS Survival of American Indians Sixth PAC Sixth Pan-African Congress SOL Spirit of Logos STO Sojourner Truth Organization UNA United Native Americans VVAW Vietnam Veterans Against the War WARN Women of All Red Nations WFHC Women’s Feminist Health Collective WKLD/OC Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee WL White Lightning WRL War Resisters League WUO Weather Underground Organization WWRSS We Will Remember Survival School LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xii The Hidden 1970s America has got the blues and the blues is in the street looking for three principles— justice, liberty, equality. We would do well to join the blues looking for justice, liberty, and equality. The blues is in the street. America has got the blues but don’t let it get by us. —Gil Scott-Heron, “Bicentennial Blues” (1976) ...