Throughout the late 1970s, Newman and his core of organizers founded or assumed control of a number of small grassroots organizations, including a local branch of the People's Party, known as the New York Working People's Party; the New York City Unemployed and Welfare Council; and the Labor Community Alliance for Change.Harvey Kahn, "NCLC: America's Largest Political Intelligence Army", Public Eye, Vol 1., No. 1, Fall 1977, pp. 6-37; see section on "NCLC and Its Extended Political 'Community'"Chip Berlet, 1987, Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of the New Alliance Party, Cambridge, MA: Political Research Associates
