Harrington endorsed the Shachtmanite strategy of working as part of the Democratic Party rather than sponsoring candidates as Socialists.

The association sponsored several candidates at the 1918 UK general election, forming part of what was termed the "Silver Badge Party".

Guerrilla leaders said the coalition would not sponsor candidates or take part directly in the elections.

Western diplomats say he was not even the first choice of the Communists, who prefer to sponsor other candidates than field their own.

In 2001 the Labor Party endorsed labor sponsored independent candidates in San Francisco and Ohio local elections.

He still controls a militia of several thousand, but has been quiet in recent months after agreeing to sponsor candidates for Iraq's new national assembly.

Mr. Bowen said he and others were sponsoring nonwhite candidates for membership in the organization, but no application had been acted on yet.

The Europeans, the Americans and the Asians are all sponsoring different candidates, and no one wants to give in.

With my profits I have sponsored candidates pliant to my will for public office and bought and bribed others.

It also sponsored several candidates; John Nicholson accepted its support, but after winning the Westminster Abbey by-election, 1921, did not join the group.