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The LaRouche movement is a political and cultural network promoting Lyndon LaRouche and his views. It has included many of organizations and companies around the world. Activities include campaigning, intelligence gathering, and publishing. It calls itself a Platonist Whig movement, favoring re-industrialization and classical culture, and opposing the genocidal conspiracies of Aristotelian oligarchies such as the British Empire. It has been called a "fringe movement" by others.

The movement originated in radical leftist student politics of the 1960s, but is currently not readily classified. The views are considered unusual, and the behavior of the groups have been called confrontational by some. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of candidates ran as Democrats on the LaRouche platform. None were elected to significant public office.

In 1988, LaRouche and 25 associates were convicted on fraud charges related to fund-raising, prosecutions which the movement alleged were politically motivated and which were followed by a decline in the group's influence which lasted for several years. The movement was rejuvenated in the 2000s by the creation of a youth group, the LaRouche Youth Movement, and by their prominent opposition to the Bush/Cheney administration and the Obama health care reform plan.

LaRouche's wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, heads political and cultural groups in Germany connected with her husband's movement. There are also parties in France, Sweden, and other European countries, and branches or affiliates in Australia, Canada, the Philippines, and several Latin American countries. It has been categorized as a political cult by some journalists. According to reporters, members believe they are responsible for the protection of civilization and some work long hours to further their mission. The LaRouche movement has been accused of harassing critics.

Political organizations

In 1986, LaRouche testified there is "no such thing as a LaRouche organization". A spokesman said LaRouche was like the "guiding light" of a variety of "separate organizations".

LaRouche-affiliated political parties have nominated hundreds of candidates for national and regional offices in the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Australia and France. In countries outside the U.S., the LaRouche movement maintains minor parties, and has had no significant electoral success to date. In the U.S., they are active in the Democratic Party, and individuals associated with the movement have successfully sought party office in some elections, particularly Democratic County Central Committee posts.

United States

Political activities

LaRouche himself has been a candidate for U.S. president eight times, running in every presidential election from 1976 to 2004. The first was with his own party, the U.S. Labor Party. In the next seven campaigns he campaigned for the Democratic Party nomination. He received federal matching funds only in 2004. See Lyndon LaRouche U.S. Presidential campaigns.

In 1986 the LaRouche movement placed the AIDS initiative, Proposition 64, on the California ballot, which lost by a 4-1 margin. It was re-introduced in 1988 and lost again. Federal and state officials raided movement offices in 1986. In the ensuing trials, leaders of the movement received prison terms for conspiracy to commit fraud, mail fraud, and tax evasion. See LaRouche criminal trials.

In 1986, LaRouche movement members Janice Hart and Mark J. Fairchild won the Democratic Primary elections for the offices of Illinois Secretary of State and Illinois Lieutenant Governor respectively. Up until the day following the election, major media outlets were reporting that George Sangmeister, Fairchild's primary opponent, was running unopposed. 21 years later Fairchild asked, “how is it possible that the major media, with all of their access to information, could possibly be mistaken in that way?” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adlai Stevenson III was favored to win this election, having lost the previous election by a narrow margin. He refused to run on the same slate with Hart and Fairchild. Stevenson formed the Solidarity Party and ran with Jane Spirgel as the Secretary of State nominee. Hart and Spirgel's opponent, Republican incumbent Jim Edgar, won the election by the largest margin in any state-wide election in Illinois history, with 1.574 million votes.

After the Illinois primary, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) berated the "infiltration by the neo-Nazi elements of Lyndon H. LaRouche," and worried that too often, especially in the media, "the LaRouchites" are "dismissed as kooks."

In 1988, Claude Jones won the chairmanship of the Harris County Democratic Party in Houston, only to be stripped of his authority by the county executive committee before he could take office. He was removed from office by the state party chairman a few months later, in February 1989, because of Jones's alleged opposition to the Democratic presidential candidate, Michael Dukakis, in favor of LaRouche.

The LaRouche movement was claimed by Jason Berry and George Johnson, to have had close ties to the Iraqi Ba'ath Party of Saddam Hussein. It was opposed the UN sanctions against Iraq in 1991 and the Gulf War in 1991. Supporters formed the "Committee to Save the Children in Iraq".

In 2000, the Democratic nominee in Wyoming for the Senate, Mel Logan, was a LaRouche follower; the Republican incumbent, Craig Thomas, won in a 76%-23% landslide.

In 2006, LaRouche Youth Movement activist and Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee member Cody Jones was honored as "Democrat of the Year" for the 43rd Assembly District of California, by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. At the April 2007 California State Democratic Convention, LYM activist Quincy O'Neal was elected vice-chairman of the California State Democratic Black Caucus, and Wynneal Innocentes was elected corresponding secretary of the Filipino Caucus.

In November 2007, Mark Fairchild returned to Illinois to promote legislation authored by LaRouche, called the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007, that would establish a moratorium on home foreclosures and establish a new federal agency to oversee all federal and state banks. He also promoted LaRouche's plan to build a high-speed railroad to connect Russia and the United States, including a tunnel under the Bering Strait.

Controversy

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The LaRouche movement has been accused of violence, harassment, and heckling since the 1970s.

The USLP vs. the FBI

In November 1973, the FBI issued an internal memorandum that was later released under the Freedom of Information Act. Jeffrey Steinberg, the NCLC "director of counterintelligence", described it as the "COINTELPRO memo", which he says showed "that the FBI was considering supporting an assassination attempt against LaRouche by the Communist Party USA." LaRouche wrote in 1998:

The U.S. Communist Party was committed to putting the Labor Committees out of existence physically... Local law enforcement was curiously uncooperative, as they had been during prior physical attacks on myself and my friends. We knew that a 'fix' was in somewhere, probably from the FBI... We were left to our own resources. Tired of the beatings, we decided we had better prepare to defend ourselves if necessary.

The LaRouche movement is reported to have harassed federal agents from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s. Two young followers, Abi Steinberg and Andrea Konviser, told of calling FBI agents in the middle of the night to tell them dirty jokes in 1974, and such calls were reported again in 1978.

Labor unions

In 1974 and 1975, the NCLC was accused of targeting the United Auto Workers (UAW), United Farm Workers (UFW), and other trade unionists. The movement issued pamphlets attacking the leadership as corrupt and perverted.

Leesburg, Virginia

In the mid-1980s LaRouche moved his headquarters from New York City to Leesburg, Virginia. The movement invested in real estate, opened offices, started a newspaper, bought a radio station, and opened a bookstore. Hundreds of followers settled in the area. The newspaper, The Loudoun County News, ran advertisements for local merchants without their authorization to give the impression of community support.

Conflict with journalists

Journalists including Joe Klein and Chuck Fager from Boston's alternative weekly, The Real Paper, and Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko have written of harassment and intimidation by LaRouche groups. After Royko wrote about a LaRouche organization, leaflets appeared, alleging he had had a sex-change operation. His assistant, Royko wrote, found a note with a bullseye and a threat to kill her cat on her door; LaRouche supporters picketing his own offices called him a "degenerate drug pusher" and demanded he take an AIDS test. LaRouche supporters denied such charges, saying they were part of a campaign against them by the "drug lobby."

Dennis King began covering LaRouche in the 1970s, publishing a twelve-part series in a weekly Manhattan newspaper, Our Town, and later writing or cowriting articles about LaRouche in New Republic, High Times, Columbia Journalism Review, and other periodicals, culminating in a full length biography published in 1989. King describes numerous instances of anonymous harassment and threats. Leaflets appeared from the NCLC accusing King, a news paper publisher, and Roy Cohn, the newspaper's lawyer, of being criminals, homosexuals, or drug pushers. One leaflet included King's home address and phone number. He says that in 1980 he received a phone call threatening him with rape and murder, one of an estimated 500 abusive or hang-up calls he received by 1985. In 1984 a LaRouche newspaper, New Solidarity, published an article titled "Will Dennis King Come out of the Closet?", copies of which were distributed in his apartment building. His family also received calls that included threats to murder King. Jeffrey Steinberg denied the movement had harassed King. LaRouche said that King had been "monitored" since 1979, "We have watched this little scoundrel because he is a major security threat to my life."

In 1984, Patricia Lynch co-produced an NBC news piece and a TV documentary on LaRouche. She was then impersonated by LaRouche followers who interfered with her reporting. LaRouche sued Lynch and NBC for libel, and NBC countersued. During the trial followers picketed the NBC's offices with signs that said "Lynch Pat Lynch", and the NBC switchboard received a death threat. A LaRouche spokesman said they had no knowledge of the death threat. In later years LaRouche accused NBC or its reporters of various charges. At a press conference in 1986 he refused to take questions from the NBC reporter, saying "How could I talk to a drug pusher like you." In addition to charge of drug dealing, LaRouche publications also accused NBC of plotting his assassination.

The state editor of the Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania reported that a LaRouche TV crew led by Stanley Ezrol talked their way into his house in 1985 implying they were with NBC, then accused him of harassing LaRouche and interrogated him about why he had written what they alleged were negative stories about LaRouche. At the end of the interview" Ezrol asked "Have you ever feared for your personal safety?", which the editor found to be "chilling". Another LaRouche group, including Janice Hart, forced their way into the office of The Des Moines Register's editor in 1987, then harangued him over his papers's coverage of LaRouche and demanded that certain editorials be retracted because the paper's "economic policies stink".

Public altercations

From the 1970s to the 2000s, LaRouche followers have staffed card tables in airports and in front of post offices, state offices, college quads, and grocery stores. The tables have typically carried posters with topical slogans. LaRouche followers have been noted for using a confrontational style of interactions. In 1986, the New York state elections board received dozens of complaints about people collecting signatures on nomination petitions, including allegations of misrepresentation and abusive language used towards those who would not sign.

In the mid-80s, the Secretary of State of California, March Fong Eu, received numerous complaints from the public about harassment by people gathering signatures to qualify the "LaRouche AIDS Initiative" for the state ballot. She warned initiative sponsors that permission to circulate the petitions could be revoked unless the "offensive activities" stopped. An altercation in 1987 between a LaRouche activist and an AIDS worker resulted in battery charges filed against the latter, who was outraged by the content of some of the material on display; she was found not guilty.

In California in 2009, several grocery chains sought restraining orders, damages and injunctions against LaRouche PAC activists displaying materials related to Obama's health care plan in front of their stores, citing customer complaints. In Edmonds, Washington, a 70-year old man from Armenia grew irate at the comparisons of Obama and Hitler. He grabbed fliers and tussled with LaRouche supporters, resulting in assault charges against him.

Canada

The North American Labour Party (NALP) nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. Its candidates only had 297 votes nationwide in 1979. LaRouche himself offered a draft constitution for the commonwealth of Canada in 1981. The NALP later became the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada and that ran candidates in the 1984, 1988 and 1993 elections. Those were more successful, gaining as many as 7,502 votes in 1993, but no seats. The Parti pour la république du Canada (Québec) nominated candidates for provincial elections in the 1980s under various party titles. The LaRouche affiliate now operates as the Committee for the Republic of Canada.

Latin America

Brazil's Party for Rebuilding of National Order (PRONA) is described as a "LaRouche friend" and one of its members has been quoted in the Executive Intelligence Review as saying "We associate ourselves with the wave of ideas which flow from Mr. LaRouche's prodigious mind". PRONA gained six seats in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002. However there is no independent evidence that the PRONA or its leaders recognize LaRouche as an influence on their policies, and it has been described as being part of the right-wing Catholic integralist political tradition.

The Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA) has been described as an offshoot of LaRouche's Labor Party in Mexico. During peace talks to resolve the Chiapas conflict, the Mexican Labor Party and the Ibero-American Solidarity Movement (MSIA) attacked the peace process and one of the leading negotiators, Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, who it accused of formenting the violence and of being controlled by foreigners. Posters caricaturing Ruiz as a rattlesnake appeared across the country.

The movement strongly opposes perceived manifestations of neo-colonialism, including the International Monetary Fund, the Falklands/Malvinas War, etc., and are advocates of the Monroe Doctrine.

Australia

LaRouche supporters gained control of the formerly far-right Citizens Electoral Council (CEC) in the mid-1990s. The CEC publishes an irregular newspaper, The New Citizen. Craig Isherwood and his spouse Noelene Isherwood are the leaders of the party. The CEC has opposed politician Michael Danby and the 2004 Australian anti-terrorism legislation. For the 2004 federal election, it nominated people for ninety-five seats, collected millions of dollars in contributions, and earned 34,177 votes.

The CEC is particularly concerned with Hamiltonian economics and development ideas for Australia. It has been critical of Queen Elizabeth II's ownership of an Australian zinc mine and believes that she exerts control over Australian politics through the use of prerogative power. It has been in an antagonistic relationship with the B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation Commission, which has been critical of the CEC for perceived anti-semitism. It has asserted that the Liberal Party is a descendant of the New Guard and other purported fascists such as Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes and Sir Robert Menzies. The CEC also claims to be fighting for "real" Labor policies (from the 1930-40s republican leanings of the Australian Labor Party).

Europe

The LaRouche Movement has a major center in Germany. The Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (BüSo) (Civil Rights Movement Solidarity) political party is headed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, LaRouche's wife. It has nominated candidates for elective office and publishes the Neue Solidarität newspaper. Zepp-LaRouche is also the head of the German-based Schiller Institute. In 1986 Zepp-LaRouche formed the "Patriots for Germany" party, and reportedly ran a full slate of 100 candidates. The party received 0.2 percent of the 4 million votes. In Germany, the leader of the Green Party, Petra Kelly, reported receiving harassing phone calls that she attributed to BüSo supporters. Her speeches were picketed and disrupted by LaRouche followers for years.

Jeremiah Duggan, a Jewish student from the UK attending a conference organized by the Schiller Institute and LaRouche Youth Movement in 2003, died in Wiesbaden, Germany, after he ran down a busy road and was hit by several cars. The German police said it appeared to be suicide. A British court ruled out suicide and decided that Duggan had died while "in a state of terror." Duggan's mother believes he died in connection with an attempt to recruit him; a spokesman for the German public prosecution service said the mother simply cannot accept that her son committed suicide. The High Court in London ordered a second inquest in May 2010, which was opened and adjourned.

Solidarité et Progrès, headed by Jacques Cheminade, is the LaRouche party in France. Its newspaper is Nouvelle Solidarité. The French LaRouche Youth Movement is headed by Élodie Viennot. Viennot supported the candidacy of Daniel Buchmann for the position of mayor of Berlin.

Sweden has an office of the Schiller Institute: Schillerinstitutet/EAP in Sweden, and the political party European Worker's Party (EAP). The former leader of the EAP, Ulf Sandmark (replaced by Hussein Askary in 2007) started out as a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU), and was assigned to investigate (some would say infiltrate) the EAP and the left-posturing ELC. During this time, he was recruited to EAP and had his membership in SSU revoked. Following the Olof Palme assassination on February 28, 1986, the Swedish branch of the EAP came under scrutiny as literature published by the party was found in the apartment of the initial suspect, Victor Gunnarsson. Also, the attacks against Olof Palme run by the LaRouche movement since the beginning of the 1970s made the party a target for investigation. Within weeks of the assassination, NBC television in the U.S. broadcast a story alleging that LaRouche was somehow responsible. Later, the suspect was released.

In Denmark, four candidates for parliament on the LaRouche platform (Tom Gillesberg, Feride Istogu Gillesberg, Hans Schultz and Janus Kramer Møller) won 197 votes in the 2007 election (at least 32,000 votes are needed for a local mandate). The Danish LaRouche Movement (Schiller Instituttet) have recently published their first newspaper, distributing 50,000 around Copenhagen and Aarhus.

The Movimento Solidarietà - Associazione di LaRouche in Italia (MSA) is an Italian political party headed by Paolo Raimondi that supports the LaRouche platform.

Ortrun Cramer of the Schiller Institute became a delegate of the Austrian International Progress Organization in the 1990s, but there is no sign of ongoing relationship.

Polish newspapers have reported that Andrzej Lepper, who leads the populist Samoobrona party, was trained at the Schiller Institute and has received funding from LaRouche, though both Lepper and LaRouche deny the connection.

In February 2008, the LaRouche movement throughout Europe began a campaign to prevent the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon, which according to the U.S.-based LaRouche Political Action Committee "empowers a supranational financial elite to take over the right of taxation and war making, and even restore the death penalty, abolished in most nations of Western Europe." LaRouche press releases suggest that the treaty has an underlying fascist agenda, based on the ideas of Sir Oswald Mosley.

Asia, Middle East, and Africa

The Philippines LaRouche Society calls for fixed exchange rates, US/Philippine withdrawal from Iraq, denunciation of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, and withdrawal of U.S. military advisors from Mindanao. In 2008 it also issued calls for the freezing of foreign debt payments, the operation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, and the immediate implementation of a national food production program. It has an office in Manila, operates a radio show and says on its website, "Lyndon LaRouche is our civilization's last chance at world peace and development. May God help us." On the matter of internal politics, LaRouche operative Mike Billington wrote in 2004, "The Philippines Catholic Church, too, is divided at the top over the crisis. The Church under Jaime Cardinal Sin, who is now retired, had given its full support to the 'people's power' charade for the overthrow of Marcos and Estrada, but other voices are heard today." Later that year, he wrote that

The U.S.-orchestrated coup which overthrew the government of Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 was a classic case study of what John Perkins describes in his recent book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, as the post-World War II preferred method of imposing colonial control under another name. In the Philippines case, George Shultz performed the roles of both the economic hit man, destroying and taking full control of the Philippine economy, and the coup-master, deposing the Philippine President in favor of an IMF puppet—while calling the operation 'people power.'

According to Billington, representatives of LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review and Schiller Institute had met with Marcos in 1985, at which time LaRouche was warning that Marcos would be the target of a coup, inspired by George Shultz and neoconservatives in the Reagan administration, because of Marcos' opposition to the policies of the International Monetary Fund. In 1986, LaRouche asserted that Marcos was ousted because he hadn't listened to LaRouche's advice: "he was opposed to me and he fell as a result."

The LaRouche movement is reported to have had close ties to the Ba'ath Party of Iraq.

The LaRouche movement, and the Schiller Institute in particular, were reported in 1997 to have campaigned aggressively in support of the National Islamic Front government in Sudan. They organized trips to Sudan for state legislators, which according to the Christian Science Monitor was part of a campaign directed at African Americans.

Periodicals and news agencies

The LaRouche organization has an extensive network of print and online publications for research and advocacy purposes.

Executive Intelligence Review

The LaRouche movement maintains its own press service, Executive Intelligence Review. According to its masthead, EIR maintains international bureaus in Bogotá, Berlin, Copenhagen, Lima, Melbourne, Mexico City, New Delhi, Paris, and Wiesbaden, in addition to various cities in the U.S.

Broadcast

In 1986, the LaRouche movement took control over WTRI, a low-powered AM radio station that covered western Maryland, northern Virginia, and parts of West Virginia. It was sold in 1991.

In 1991, the LaRouche movement began producing The LaRouche Connection, a Public-access television cable TV program. Within ten months it was being carried in six states. Dana Scanlon, the producer, said that "We've done shows on the JFK assassination, the 'October Surprise' and shows on economic and cultural affairs".

Internet

In January 2001, LaRouche began holding regular webcasts every 1–2 months. These were public meetings, broadcast in video, where LaRouche gave a speech, followed by 1–2 hours of Q and A over the internet.

Other

• The New Federalist, (U.S.), weekly newspaper
  • New Solidarity International Press Service (NSIPS)
  • NSIPS Speakers Bureau
  • Nouvelle Solidarité, French news agency
  • Neue Solidarität, published by Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität in German
• Fidelio, a "Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft", published quarterly by Schiller Institute
• 21st Century Science and Technology is a quarterly magazine covering scientific topics.
• ΔΥΝΑΜΙΣ (Dynamis), the "Journal of the LaRouche Riemann method of physical economics"

Books and pamphlets

• LaRouche, Lyndon, The Power of Reason (1980) (autobiography)
• LaRouche, Lyndon, There Are No Limits to Growth (1983)
• LaRouche, Lyndon, So, You Wish To Learn All About Economics, (1984)
• LaRouche, Lyndon, The Power of Reason 1988. (1988)
• LaRouche, Lyndon, The Science of Christian Economy (1991)

Defunct periodicals

• New Solidarity
• Fusion
• International Journal of Fusion Energy
• The Loudon County News
• Investigative Leads
• War on Drugs
• The Young Scientist
• Campaigner Magazine
• American Labor Beacon
• Middle East Insider

Cultural, economic, and scientific initiatives

• New Bretton Woods. Advocates the abandonment of floating exchange rates and the return to Bretton Woods-style fixed rates, with gold, or an equivalent, used as under the gold-reserve system. This is not to be confused with the gold standard, which LaRouche does not support.
• American System. Espouses a new "American System" of federalized infrastructure projects and national banks and regulation. Named for the historical American System of Henry Clay, but owing more to the ideas of the expansive American School.
• Eurasian Land Bridge. Lectures and writes on behalf of a "Eurasian land-bridge", a massive high-speed maglev railway project to span continents and re-invigorate industry and commerce.
• Verdi tuning. Argues in favor of the "Verdi tuning" in classical music, in which A=432 Hz, as opposed to the common practice today of tuning to A=440 Hz.
• Mars colonization. Recommends colonization of the planet Mars, on similar basis as many others in the field, that human survivability depends on territorial diversification.
• AIDS epidemic. Demands identification and isolation of HIV carriers, in light of the virus's swift adaptability, which he argues could mutate into a lethal, possibly airborne pandemic, and proposes use of directed energy beams for cure.
• Strategic Defense Initiative. Supported directed beam weapons for use against ICBMs, and claims credit as the first to propose this to Ronald Reagan. LaRouche does not support rocket-based defensive systems such as anti-ballistic missiles.

Lawsuits

In 1979, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was sued by the U.S. Labor Party, the National Caucus of Labor Committees, and several individuals including Konstandinos Kalimtgis, Jeffrey Steinberg, and David Goldman, who claimed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, and assault on account of the ADL's accusations of anti-Semitism. A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled that it was "fair comment" to describe them as anti-Semites.

United States v. Kokinda was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990. The case concerned the First Amendment rights of LaRouche movement members on Post Office property. The Deputy Solicitor General arguing the government's case was future Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts. The Court confirmed the convictions of Marsha Kokinda and Kevin Pearl, volunteers for the National Democratic Policy Committee, finding that the Postal Service's regulation of solicitors was reasonable.

Characterizations

According to a biography produced by the LaRouche-affiliated Schiller Institute, the movement is based on a commitment to "a just new world economic order," specifically "the urgency of affording what have been sometimes termed 'Third World nations,' their full rights to perfect national sovereignty, and to access to the improvement of their educational systems and economies through employment of the most advanced science and technology."

The LaRouche movement has attracted devoted followers and developed some specific and elaborate policy initiatives, but has also been referred to variously as Marxist, fascist, anti-Semitic, a political cult, a personality cult, and a criminal enterprise. In 1984, LaRouche's research staff was described by Norman Bailey, a former senior staffer of the United States National Security Council, as "one of the best private intelligence services in the world". The Heritage Foundation calls it "one of the strangest political groups in American history", and The Washington Monthly calls it a "vast and bizarre vanity press".

The LaRouche movement is seen as a fringe political cult.

Journalist and John Birch Society activist John Rees wrote in his Information Digest that the movement has "taken on the characteristics more of a political cult than a political party", and that LaRouche is given "blind obedience" by his followers. He has also called the movement a "cult of personality". In rebuttal, LaRouche called the accusations of being a cult figure "garbage", and denied having control over any of the groups affiliated with him.

According to longtime critics Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons:

Though often dismissed as a bizarre political cult, the LaRouche organization and its various front groups are a fascist movement whose pronouncements echo elements of Nazi ideology. Beginning in the 1970s, the LaRouchites combined populist antielitism with attacks on leftists, environmentalists, feminists, gay men and lesbians, and organized labor. They advocated a dictatorship in which a 'humanist' elite would rule on behalf of industrial capitalists. They developed an idiosyncratic, coded variation on the Illuminati Freemason and Jewish banker conspiracy theories. Their views, though exotic, were internally consistent and rooted in right-wing populist traditions.

In the summer of 2009, LaRouche followers came under criticism from both Democrats and Republicans for comparing President Barack Obama to Hitler. Media figures as politically diverse as Rush Limbaugh and Jon Stewart criticized the comparison.

Organizations

Current organizations

• Executive Intelligence Review Press Service, (U.S.) a hub of the LaRouche movement
• National Caucus of Labor Committees, (U.S.)
• Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement, (international)
• LaRouche Political Action Committee, (U.S.)
• Schiller Institute, (international, based in Germany and U.S.)
• Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität (Germany)
• International Caucus of Labor Committees, (international, especially Canada, Australia, and others)
• Citizens Electoral Council, (Australia)
• Philippine LaRouche Society
• European Workers Party, (Sweden)
• Comités Laborales de Nuevo León (Mexico)

U.S. businesses

• PMR Printing, Virginia
• World Composition Services, Inc. (a.k.a. WorldComp) (Ken Kronberg, former president)
• New Benjamin Franklin House Publishing Company, Inc., Leesburg, Virginia
• American System Publications Inc., Los Angeles, California (Maureen Calney, president)
• Eastern States Distributors Incorporated, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Starr Valenti, president)
• South East Literature, (South East Political Literature Sales & Distribution, Inc.) Halethorpe, Maryland
• Southwest Literature Distribution, Houston, Texas (Daniel Leach, president)
• Midwest Circulation Corp., Chicago, Illinois
• Hamilton System Distributors, Inc., Ridgefield Park, New Jersey

Defunct organizations

People

Members

Members of the LaRouche movement are variously known as "LaRouchies", "LaRouchians", "LaRouchites", or "LaRouchers". The LaRouche Political Action Committee website refers to "members" and "volunteers".

According to the Washington Post, LaRouche has told his followers that they are "golden souls", a term from The Republic of Plato. In his 1979 autobiography he contrasted the "golden souls" to "the poor donkeys, the poor sheep, whose consciousness is dominated by the infantile world-outlook of individual sensuous life". According to Dennis King, LaRouche believed that cadres "must be intellectually of a superior breed—a philosophical elite as well as a political vanguard". In 1986, LaRouche said during an interview, "What I represent is a growing movement. The movement is becoming stronger all the time..."

During the criminal trials of the late 1980s, LaRouche called upon his followers to be martyrs, saying that their "honorable deeds shall be legendary in the tales told to future generations". Senior members refused plea agreements that involved guilty pleas as those would have been black marks on the movement.

Former members report that life within the LaRouche movement is highly regulated. A former member of the security staff wrote in 1979 that members could be expelled for masturbating or using marijuana. Members who failed to achieve their fundraising quotas or otherwise showed signs as disloyal behavior were subjected to "ego stripping" sessions. Members, even spouses, were encouraged to inform on each other, according to an ex-member. Although LaRouche was officially opposed to abortion, a former member testified that women were encouraged to have abortions because "you can't have children during a revolution." Another source said some group leaders coerced members into having abortions. John Judis, writing in The New Republic, stated that LaRouche followers worked 16-hour days for little wages.

Former members have reported receiving harassing calls or indirect death threats. They say they have been called traitors. New Solidarity ran obituaries for three living former members. Internal memos have reportedly contained a variety of dismissive terms for ex-followers. One former member said that becoming a follower of LaRouche is "like entering the Bizarro World of the Superman comic books" which makes sense so long as one remains inside the movement.

In 1992, the father of Lewis du Pont Smith, an adult member of the Du Pont family who had joined the LaRouche movement, was indicted along with four associates for planning to have his son and daughter-in-law abducted and "deprogrammed". The incident resulted in serious legal repercussions but no criminal convictions for those indicted, including private investigator Galen Kelly. The father also successfully had his son declared "incompetent" to manage his financial affairs in order to block him from possibly turning over his inheritance to the LaRouche organization.

Kenneth Kronberg, who had been a leading member of the movement, committed suicide in 2007, reportedly because of financial issues concerning the movement. His widow, Marielle (Molly) Kronberg, had also been a longtime member. She gave an interview to Chip Berlet in 2007 in which she made critical comments about the LaRouche movement. She was quoted as saying, "I'm worried that the organization may be in danger of becoming a killing machine." In 2004 and 2005, Kronberg made contributions of $1,501 to the Republican National Committee and the election campaign of George W. Bush, despite the LaRouche movement's opposition to the Bush administration. According to journalist Avi Klein, LaRouche felt that this "foreshadowed her treachery to the movement." Kronberg had been a member of the movement's governing National Committee since 1982 and was convicted of fraud during the LaRouche criminal trials.

Associates and managers

• Helga Zepp-LaRouche, wife, head of Schiller Institute and Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität
• Amelia Boynton Robinson, SI vice chairwoman
• Michael Billington, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
• William Wertz, chief fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
• Edward W. Spannaus, legal adviser (convicted of mail fraud)
• Dennis Small, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
• Paul Greenberg, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
• Joyce Rubinstein, fundraiser (convicted of mail fraud)
• Paul Gallagher,
• Anita Gallagher, born Anita Gretz,
• Laurence Hecht
• Donald Phau
• Robert Primack (deceased)
• Ulf Sandmark, leader of European Workers Party, the Swedish section of the LaRouche Movement.
• Debra Freeman, national spokeswoman for the East Coast, chairwoman of the LaRouche campaign (1988)
• Kenneth Kronberg, editor and cofounder of Fidelio (deceased; suicide).

Political candidates

• Mel Logan - Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate in Wyoming in 2000.
• Janice Hart - ran for Illinois Secretary of State in 1986, won Democratic Party nomination
• Mark J. Fairchild - ran for Illinois lieutenant governor in 1986, won Democratic Party nomination
• James Bevel - Vice presidential running mate 1992
• Craig Isherwood - head of Australian CEC
• Jacques Cheminade - French politician
• Nancy Spannaus - ran for U.S. Senate in Virginia, 2002
• Eliott Greenspan - ran for Governor of New Jersey in 2001
• Ron Bettag - ran for mayor of Chicago, Illinois (announced his candidacy with press release datelined "Germany". Most local issue: "Washington D.C. General Hospital now under KKK-Katie Graham siege")
• William Ferguson - ran for U.S. Congress in Massachusetts in 2001

Researchers, writers, spokespersons

• Jeffrey Steinberg, Director of Counterintelligence, EIR
• Allen Salisbury, author of The Civil War and the American System
• Anton Chaitkin, co-author of The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush
• Jonathan Tennenbaum
• Harley Schlanger, U.S. West Coast Spokesman
• Marsha Freeman, writer
• Richard Freeman, senior economics staff, EIR
• John Hoefle, banking columnist, EIR
• Marcia Merry-Baker
• Tony Papert
• Kathy Wolfe, economist, EIR (former member)

Former associates

• Nicholas F. Benton, aide to LaRouche, Washington D.C. bureau chief, and White House Correspondent for Executive Intelligence Review.
• Ortrum Cramer, a member of the management of the Schiller Institute
• Robert Dreyfuss, co-author of Hostage to Khomeini
• F. William Engdahl, author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
• Roy Frankhouser, security consultant (deceased)
• David P. Goldman, a.k.a. Spengler, co-author of The Ugly Truth About Milton Friedman and Dope, Inc.: Britain's Opium War against the U.S.
• Laurent Murawiec, former contributor and editor of Executive Information Review (deceased)
• Alejandro Peña Esclusa, Venezuelan politician
• Webster Tarpley, co-author of The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush, former president of the Schiller Institute in the U.S.

Notes

1. King 1989, pp. 132–133.
2. Toner, Robin (April 4, 1986). "LaRouche savors fame that may ruin him". The New York Times. p. A1.
3. Bennett, David Harry (1988). The party of fear: from nativist movements to the New Right in American history. UNC Press Books. p. 362. ISBN 9780807817728.
4. Estill, Robert (March 23, 1986). "3-time fringe presidential hopeful LaRouche remains an enigma". The San Diego Union. p. A.15.
5. ^ "SaukValley.com - Serving Dixon, Sterling & Rock Falls". Saukvalley.com. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
6. "THOMPSON WINS BACK RESPECT" Steve Neal and Daniel Egler. Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Ill.: November 6, 1986. pg. 1
7. Chip Berlet and Joel Bellman, Fascism Wrapped in an American Flag, Political Research Associates. See also, Dennis King, Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism, p. 373-375.
8. Rangel, Jesus. "Democratic Party News - The New York Times - Narrowed by 'LAROUCHE, LYNDON HERMYLE JR'". Topics.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2008-11-23.
9. ROBISON, CLAY (February 4, 1989). "LaRouchite loses slot over anti-Dukakis stance". Houston Chronicle. p. 21.
10. BERRY, JASON (February 24, 1991). "Right-wingers inject themselves into anti-war movement". St. Petersburg Times. p. 8.D.
11. ^ Johnson, George (1983). Architects of fear: conspiracy theories and paranoia in American politics. Los Angeles; Boston: J.P. Tarcher; Distributed by Houghton Mifflin. p. 208. ISBN 0874772753 : 9780874772753. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
12. Donegan, Craig (March 3, 1991). "Cacophony rises from anti-war protests". San Antonio Express-News. San Antonio, Tex. p. 03.M.
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14. "THE 2000 ELECTIONS: WEST". New York Times. 2000-11-08. Retrieved 2008-10-23.
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18. LaRouche follower returns to Capitol The State Journal-Register, November 02 2007, archived on January 25, 2008 from the original
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22. SCOTT KRAFT, LARRY GREEN. Two LaRouche Illinois Victories Stun Democrats. Los Angeles Times March 20, 1986:1.
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24. Steinberg, Jeffrey; The Washington Post's and KKK-Katie Graham's 25-Year War Against LaRouche
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81. Parital Listing of Lyndon LaRouche's Personal Interventions 2002, 2003
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