The remaining 150 or so IWP cadre are also subjected to the same techniques employed through Social Therapy, but are more often recruited by the top tier of Newman’s circle through various scams which are marketed toward gays, lesbians, blacks, Latinos and women by various front groups. Although most NAP (IWP, etc.) victims are “developed” (brainwashed) without Newman’s personal attention, the
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The following is a copy of a letter submitted to the New York Amsterdam News on September 12, 1993 in response to the newspaper’s publication of a New Alliance Party press release describing the group’s “support” for, and role in, the African American and lesbian and gay communities (see enclosed copies). As a former member/victim of the NAP (a/k/a the International Workers Party), I have writte
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I then joined the party’s newspaper staff as an editorial assistant. I had, by then, become quite disillusioned with the mainstream media. I had analyzed their sophisticated manipulation of facts and exploitation of distorted racial and sexual imagery well enough to know what their bottom line really was. If everything was “propaganda,” I reasoned, why not do it from a progressive standpoint?
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Statement delivered at (original) Cult Awareness Network Forum New York City, June 16, 1993 I am a former member of the New Alliance Party and its internal cult apparatus, the International Workers Party. As a five-year member of this cult, I believed my actions to be an individual, as well as a “collective,” choice, as they, in many cases, coincided with my personal and political beliefs.
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INSIDE THE NEW ALLIANCE PARTY (INTERNATIONAL WORKERS PARTY) Statement made at (original) Cult Awareness Network Forum New York City, June 16, 1993 I am a former member of the NAP and its internal cult apparatus, the International Workers Party. As a five-year member of this cult, I believed my actions to be an individual, as well as a “collective,” choice, as they, in many cases, coincide
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