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History	Lyndon LaRouche Views of Lyndon LaRouche Lyndon LaRouche U.S. presidential campaigns California Proposition 64 (1986) LaRouche criminal trials
Active organizations	Australian Citizens Party Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität European Workers Party Executive Intelligence Review LaRouche movement National Caucus of Labor Committees Schiller Institute Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement
Defunct organizations	Curtin Labor Alliance Fusion Energy Foundation North American Labour Party Party for the Commonwealth of Canada U.S. Labor Party
Members	Robert Beltran Adrian Bennett James Bevel Michael Billington Amelia Boynton Robinson Norbert Brainin Anton Chaitkin Jacques Cheminade Billy Davis Sergey Glazyev Paul Goldstein Janice Hart Hulan Jack Kenneth Kronberg Stanislav Menshikov Theo Mitchell Robert James Moon Kesha Rogers Nataliya Vitrenko William Warfield Frederick Wills Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Members who separated from the movement	Nicholas F. Benton Robert Dreyfuss F. William Engdahl David P. Goldman Laurent Murawiec Webster Tarpley
Critics	Chip Berlet Daniel Patrick Moynihan John Rees
Related persons	Jeremiah Duggan Daniel Estulin Erik R. Fleming Roy Frankhouser Victor Gunnarsson Zbigniew Jaworowski Gordon M. Johnson Karen Kwiatkowski Eric Lerner Fred Newman Friedwardt Winterberg J. L. Chestnut
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The National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) is a political cadre organization in the United States founded and controlled by political activist Lyndon LaRouche, who has sometimes described it as a "philosophical association." It originated as the Labor Caucus of the radical student organization Students for a Democratic Society, and became the NCLC in January 1969 after the group was expelled from SDS. By 1972 the NCLC had approximately 1,000 members.

LaRouche is the NCLC's founder and, since the expulsion of oppositional factions in 1973-74, the political views of the NCLC are virtually indistinguishable from those of LaRouche. For more information on these views see the article "Political views of Lyndon LaRouche" as well as the main article titled "Lyndon LaRouche".

The NCLC was originally a New Left organization influenced by Trotskyist ideas as well as those of other Marxists such as Rosa Luxemburg. The NCLC became embroiled in conflicts with other leftist groups, culminating in "Operation Mop-Up" which, according to the Village Voice, the Washington Post and various former members of the NCLC, consisted of a series of physical attacks on members of rival left wing groups.

By the late 1970s, the NCLC had abandoned Marxism altogether, in favor of what its members described as an American System approach. Critics such as Chip Berlet, Russ Bellant and Dennis King accused it of adopting an essentially neo-fascist world view.

Some NCLC members, in addition to their fundraising and political duties, carry out research in areas such as science, history, classical music, etc. NCLC members who have produced research that is highly regarded by other NCLC members (and that is almost entirely published by LaRouche periodicals and publishing outfits rather than recognized scholarly journals or presses), include: The late Allen Salisbury, Anton Chaitkin, and Michael Billington.

Electoral politics

The NCLC launched the U.S. Labor Party (USLP), a registered political party, as its electoral arm and ran LaRouche for President of the United States on the Labor Party ticket in 1976. The USLP was described by its founders as "an independent political association committed to the tradition of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Henry C. Carey, and President Abraham Lincoln."

In 1979 LaRouche changed his political strategy to one of running in Democratic primaries rather than as a third party candidate. This resulted in the USLP being disbanded.

International work

The International Caucus of Labor Committees (ICLC) was founded as the philosophical nucleus for LaRouche movement operations worldwide.

For a number of years the ICLC operated in Canada as first the North American Labour Party and then the Party for the Commonwealth of Canada. The ICLC has affiliates in France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden, along with Mexico and several South American countries. In Australia LaRouche operatives took over an older extreme-right group, the Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), and regularly contest elections. The most recent significant addition to the network of active ICLC affiliates is in the Philippines. The LaRouche organisation publishes a weekly newspaper, The New Federalist and a weekly newsmagazine, Executive Intelligence Review. The real membership of LaRouche's organisation is not known.

External links

• The Moral Obligation to the Virginia Prisoners provides a statement of the philosophical principles of the NCLC
• Lyndon Larouche: Fascism wrapped in an American flag tracks the evolution of the NCLC in the 1970s.
• Archive of Dennis King's articles on the NCLC includes the 1979-80 Our Town series and later writings

• LaRouche movement