Sentence:  Among the adherents of the new radicalism, the Freedom Party of 1970 was viewed as more a vehicle for criticism of the Labor regime (which the town-based <WSD>Freedomites</WSD> saw as na assault by the formerly powerless rural poor upon their citadel of privilege) than a catalyst for systemic change. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A member of the (Dominica Freedom Party).