DENNIS KING

For further information on LaRouche, go to:

www.justiceforjeremiah.com This website is run by the family of Jeremiah Duggan, a Jewish university student from the U.K. who died under mysterious circumstances while fleeing in apparent terror from a LaRouche indoctrination program in Wiesbaden, Germany. This site has material on the history, ideology and indoctrination methods of the LaRouchians, as well as on the death of Mr. Duggan and the probable cover-up by the German police (who instantly declared the death a suicide based on lies provided by LaRouche aides, destroyed key forensic evidence, and refused to reopen the investigation in spite of important information suggesting the LaRouche organization was criminally liable)

www.publiceye.org/larouche/index.html A collection of articles and reports on LaRouche, mostly by Chip Berlet, the dean of LaRouche watchers.

For further information on the Newmanites and Lenora Fulani, go to:

www.ex-iwp.org A large collection of investigative pieces and other news articles about the International Workers Party and its network of electoral, charitable, psychotherapeutic and cultural entities. Also includes an open chat page for former members of the IWP as well as articles from IWP publications dating back to the 1970s.

www.publiceye.org/newman/napmain.html Articles and reports on the Newmanites, mostly by Chip Berlet who has been tracking them since the mid-1970s.

For information on NATLFED and Gino Perente, go to:

The Web Archive Archived site includes most of the significant news articles about the Communist Party Provisional Wing (aka NATLFED), its numerous "entities" (front groups), and its founder (see note below).

For information on neo-Nazi, neo-fascist and white supremacist groups, go to:

www.splcenter.org This is the web site of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has the largest web-searchable database in the United States on hate groups. The New York Times and other major media turn first to the SPLC’s Intelligence Center for reliable analysis of trends as well as background information on hundreds of hate groups both well-known and obscure.

www.searchlightmagazine.com This journal covers in detail the various neo-fascist groups in Europe; you can search its online archives dating back to year 2000.

For wide-ranging information on religious and political cults and sects, including new religious movements, go to:

www.rickross.com Thousands of news articles covering hundreds of cults and sects.

www.freedomofmind.com Another large database of articles on cults.

www.csj.org Web site of the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), formerly the American Family Foundation.

On NATLFED and Other Political Cults

This pseudo-Stalinist cadre organization (founded by the late Gerald Doeden, who used the pseudonym "Gino Perente" (also spelled "Parente")) allied itself with the LaRouchians and the Newmanites in the 1970s. The leaders of all three fledgling cults appear to have borrowed recruitment and cadre-control methods from one another. Today, they are what one might call the "Big Three" among U.S. political cults, although what ranks as "big" among such entities is quite tiny (in terms of membership figures) compared to the major religious cults. A fourth political cult, the Bay Area-based Democratic Workers Party, disbanded in the late 1980s.

Several extant Maoist and Trotskyist groups in the United States have been accused of cultism (sometimes by each other), but the accusations have not been backed by reports of ex-members seeking counseling from the anti-cult mental health community, the formation of ex-member support groups or web pages, studies by watchdog organizations, or probes by investigative journalists. Thus it is probably wisest to put such groups (which shall remain nameless here) in the category of high-commitment sects manifesting varying degrees of authoritarianism (a category that includes many religious groups as well) unless or until strong evidence of real cultism emerges.

Political as opposed to religious cultism on the U.S. far right seems to be a rare phenomenon (one example is the LaRouchians--although they moved to the right only after congealing into a cult while still on the left). The far right has its own set of secular-ideological pathologies, but that is another story.