Background and Ideas
From 1974 to 1979, Newman had acquired some experience in politics in managing the International Workers Party. The New Alliance Party was founded as an electoral party that was independent of Democrats and Republicans and that could create "new alliances" of groups marginalized by the American electoral process, namely people of color, the lesbian and gay community, progressives, and women. The New Alliance Party described itself as "pro-socialist."
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