Socialist Party of the United States of America

LC control no.	n 85290175
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Socialist Party of the United States of America *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Socialist Party U.S.A. Socialist Party of the U.S.A. SP-USA SPUSA Socialist Party USA Socialist Party (U.S. : 1973- ) Socialist Party of America
See also	Social Democrats, U.S.A. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	1973
Associated country	United States
Found in	NUCMC data from Rutgers Univ. Lib. for Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation. Records, 1953-1970 (name not given) Encycl. assoc., 1986 (Socialist Party of the United States of America; SP-USA; f. 1973; stems from Debs Caucus of the SP-DSF (Socialist Party-Democratic Socialist Federation) which opposed Vietnam war) Schapsmeier, E. Political parties ... 1981: p. 418, etc. (Socialist Party U.S.A.; Socialist Party of the U.S.A.) NUCMC files (Reorganization of Social Democrats, U.S.A. not accepted by two splinter groups: in 1973 group headed by F. Zeidler formed new Socialist Party of the United States of America; other group formed Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (headed by M. Harrington)) New socialist (Denver, Colo.), July 1974, surrogate: caption (Socialist Party USA) p. 2 (SPUSA) Socialist tribune (Milwaukee, Wis.), June/July 1979: p. 1 (in caption: Socialist Party, U.S.A.; in text: official name changed at National Convention in May from Socialist Party, U.S.A., to Socialist Party of the United States of America; both "SPUSA" and traditional name Socialist Party of America can be used to apply to the Party)