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I suppose an ant could work. What about a bear, though? Given that it's a Russian symbol, I could see how cartoonists would have used it to portray the SPA as unamerican and pro-Soviet. Even though the SPA was anti-Soviet, I could see how they could adopt the bear as its own symbol.

I suppose if you are going to go with an animal, then a falcon would make the most sense given the SPA's German support base: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Youth_of_Germany_–_Falcons

Why should that matter? The Green Party has a sunflower as its symbol and the Libertarians have the Statue of Liberty. The Liberal Party of NY has the Liberty Bell while the Conservatives have a torch.

Socialist Symbol The Socialist's symbol should be a red rose in reference to the labor anthem "bread and roses." Plus, it has a long history as a protest symbol in the U.S. http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/aboutlogo.html

Only One Way The only way Humphrey could've avoided or postponed much of the economic malaise of the 70s would be if he succeeded in getting Israel to accept Anwar Sadat's peace offer in February 1971 and thereby prevent the Yom Kippur War from occurring. Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo...

Mexico Assuming Mexico's on the side of the anti-Fascists, he can also ship supplies to them overland.

Progressive Party of Canada What about a more successful Progressive Party of Canada, Canadian Labour Party, or both? Given the popularity of Olson in the U.S., it's not hard to imagine Progressives in Canada capitalizing on it. Plus, they were both around for a while before 1935, so it's...

Canada, Mexico, and Cuba? What's going on with Canada, Mexico, and Cuba ITTL? Regarding Mexico and Cuba, I'd imagine that La Guardia, Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas, and Cuban President Federico Laredo Brú (or possibly even Miguel Mariano Gómez depending whether or not La Guardia does...

China and Japan What's going on with China and Japan ITTL? Are China and the Soviet Union still as close with one another as they were under Sun Yat-Sen?

Socialists and Progressives? First, fantastic TL! Second, what exactly are the policy differences between the Socialists and the Progressives? It seems as if the Socialists and the radical-wing of the Progressive Party are pretty similar. In fact, I could see the following scenario happening...

North Dakota Given that North Dakota is at this point dominated by the left-leaning Non-Partisan League, wouldn't it choose to side with the Constituent Assembly? Also, what's going on with Smedley Butler in this TL? If the Constituent Assembly can recruit him to lead their military, his...

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Given that the Washington Commonwealth Federation was more or less a communist front (e.g. its Executive Secretary, Howard Costigan, was a secret member of the CPUSA), is Washington now under communist control ITL?

There's also "The Watchword of Labour" by James Connolly: http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1918/xx/wtchword.htm Here's a sample...

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Given that political tensions in Iran had been escalating many years before 1979, it's likely that the Iranian Revolution would have taken place no matter who won in 1976. However, had Carter been elected, Iran probably would have had an Islamist rather than a Communist revolution. The reason is...

Great TL! Keep it up :)

Given that organized labor's influence over the Democratic Party appears to be growing in TTL, I can also definitely see the two forming some sort of institutional arrangement similar to the NDP in Canada or the British Labour Party. In which case, the Democratic Party could turn into Democratic...

Great TL so far! Though out of curiosity, is the political orientation of the American labor movement going to change at all in TTL? From what I've read, one of the reasons why the American labor movement has traditionally followed a model of "business unionism" is that most of its leftist...

A more plausible scenario for a Fascist America would be having Henry Ford, D.C. Stephenson, Edward L. Jackson, or Father Coughlin elected President (even if the last one is a little ASB).