Patriot Party (1970s)

Patriot Party
Founded	1970; 54 years ago (1970)
Dissolved	Mid-1970s
Preceded by	Young Patriots Organization
Headquarters	Chicago
Ideology	Revolutionary socialism Left-wing nationalism Anti-racism Anti-capitalism
Political position	Far-left
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The Patriot Party was a socialist organization of the early 1970s in the United States that organized poor, rural whites in the Appalachian South and Pacific Northwest. The party was formed after a split with the Young Patriots Organization. The YPO's membership was drawn from street gangs of Appalachian whites in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois; it became politicized after working with the Young Lords, an ethnic Puerto Rican gang, and the African-American Black Panther Party.