First Published: Unity, Vol. 1, No. 2, October 1978.
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Dear Comrades:
On behalf of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of the United States, we express our warm congratulations and fraternal greetings on the merger of August Twenty-Ninth Movement (Marxist-Leninist) and I Wor Kuen, and on the formation of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist).
This event is a welcome step forward on the road to a single, unified communist party in the United States, the goal for which our two organizations have joined efforts in initiating the Committee to Unite Marxist-Leninists.
Both ATM(M-L) and IWK have had a long history of revolutionary struggle and both have made important contributions to the cause of the working class. Both have played a major role in the fight against modern revisionism and in the present-day party-building efforts.
The League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) has declared its firm commitment to continue waging the struggle for socialism and to fight against the U.S. imperialists and their exploitation and oppression of the masses; against the aggression and war preparations of the two superpowers; and in resolute defense of the principles of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought against revisionism and opportunism in the U.S. In particular, both former organizations have contributed to the defense of the scientific theory of three worlds, and to the defense of socialist China. Our two organizations are already united on many major points of principle and are committed to broadening and deepening our unity in the months ahead.
At this time, when the crisis is sharpening, the war preparations of the two superpowers becoming more rapid, and the struggles of the masses demanding clear and unified revolutionary leadership, the urgency of communist unity is greater than' ever; It is at this time, when the revisionists and reactionaries of all stripes have accelerated their attacks on Marxism-Leninism, on the international communist movement, and on socialist China, that all Marxist-Leninists must intensify our efforts to close ranks, and repel and crush these counter-revolutionary attacks. Through this struggle, all Marxist-Leninists are being tempered and becoming more firmly unified.
It is our hope, and our belief, that the day will not be far off, when the Marxist-Leninists of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist) and of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) will be celebrating together on the unification of our forces into the single, unified vanguard party of the U.S. working class!
Welcome the formation of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)!
Long live communist unity!
Long live Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought!
Signed,
Central Committee of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)