When the New Communist Movement (NCM) first began to take shape and spread nationally in the early 1970s, hopes for a unified U.S. Maoism quickly disappeared. Even when the NCM divided into four distinct tendencies – pro-Deng Xiaoping, pro-Gang of Four, pro-Enver Hoxha and “anti-dogmatist” – each pool of forces expected to prevail as the recognized “true” Marxist-Leninists. But with a few exceptions, the remaining New Communists of the late 1970s saw all their efforts fall into deeper fragmentation and relative isolation.
Initially, the heart of every debate was China’s post-Cultural Revolution foreign policy, and the responsibility of U.S. communists in response to Beijing’s turn to an anti-Soviet alliance with Washington. The debate was sharpened in 1977 when China’s long-time ally, the Party of Labor of Albania (PLA), openly attacked the “Theory of Three Worlds” with its polemic “The Theory and Practice of the Revolution.” The Albanians argued that the “Three Worlds Theory” ignored the fundamental contradiction between capitalism and socialism and called on the working class to unite with capitalists in “third” and “second” world countries to stop “superpower hegemony.” The effect of “Theory and Practice…” was to split the world Marxist-Leninist movement into a pro-“three worlds theory” camp that continued to support the Communist Party of China (CPC) and an opposing camp that supported the PLA’s polemic. This was the largest split in world Maoism since its formation in 1963 and it would only deepen as China continued to turn its back on the Cultural Revolution and strengthen its policy of alliance with US imperialism.
In the U.S., the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) reaffirmed its support for the Communist Party of China, the overthrow of the “gang of four,” and the “three worlds theory”. The Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) maintained a silence on events in China until late 1977 when the organization fractured into two camps: a pro-Deng, pro-“three worlds” minority squaring off against the majority led by Chairman Bob Avakian, who argued that a pro-capitalist coup had taken place with the arrest of the “gang of four.” The result was a split that saw over a third of the Party leave to form the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters.
The RCP majority argued that the “Three Worlds Theory” promoted by Deng was a distortion of Mao’s thesis, and that favoring one superpower over another amounted to class collaboration. Even before Mao’s death, it had tried to distance itself from certain aspects of the Chinese line on the international situation, maintaining opposition to regimes that were finding favor with Beijing as anti-Soviet allies, such as the Shah’s Iran and Mobutu’s Zaire.
The forces outside the two largest NCM groups – RCP and CPML – diverged toward either pro-Deng or pro-Albania positions, without seeking unity with either Party. Years of bitter sectarian battles took their toll. Some groups converged in the pro-Deng camp, but rather than growing, the CPML began to implode for ideological more than political reasons. Its decline paralleled the rise of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (LRS), which brought together groups of mostly Asian (I Wor Kuen, et al) and Chicano (August 29th Movement) Marxist-Leninists. Rather than bolstering the pro-Deng camp, the rise of the LRS further polarized forces in and around the CPML. The LRS went on to merge with Revolutionary Communist League (MLM), led by the venerable black nationalist leader Amiri Baraka in 1979.
The PLA’s initial attack on the “three worlds theory” didn’t mention China or directly criticize Mao. And many of the groups that initially supported the Albanian position, still supported Mao and Cultural Revolution policies of the CPC. But by 1978, the PLA began to widen its attack: accusing the CPC of wavering in its struggle against modern revisionism and charging that Mao had never really been a Marxist-Leninist (pro-Albania groups in the U.S. quickly followed the PLA lead). The response of the CPC was to cut aid to Albania.
The newly pro-Albania groups circulated Hoxha’s brand-new polemics against “Maoism” as a deviation on a par with Trotskyism. For the PLA, the classical Soviet world outlook of two camps – capitalist and socialist – still held, even if the socialist camp was reduced to one country – Albania. But while their newfound hostility to Maoism was retroactive, their previous support for positions that Albania had defended when it was allied with China, were not reconsidered.
While some groups made direct contact with the Albanian Party of Labor to declare their solidarity, the PLA declined to grant “official” recognition to any of them. The two most prominent pro-Albania groups were the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee (MLOC) and the Central Organization of US Marxist-Leninists (COUSML). Both soon moved to declare themselves “the Party.” MLOC, a split-off from the Black Workers Congress, formed the Communist Party USA/Marxist-Leninist (CPUSA/ML, easily confused with CPML) in 1978, and shortly after, suffered a split. COUSML became the Marxist-Leninist Party in 1980.
Political differences on international line – big and small – are detailed in the polemics of the period, but the practical implications of these differences were less clear. The RCP’s previous orientation toward work in unions went with the RWH split-off; concentrating on low-income neighborhoods, the RCP later dropped the word ’Worker’ from the name of its paper. Its approach to street demos switched from ’mass’ to small but militant. Pro-Albania groups turned to Third Period Comintern-era ideology to replace Cultural Revolution-era Maoism. In 1979, the Communist Workers Party – formerly the Workers Viewpoint Organization – made headlines across the country and around the world when five of its members were gunned down in Greensboro, North Carolina during an anti-Klan rally by a combined KKK/Nazis death squad.
Numerous smaller Marxist-Leninist collectives around the country continued to maintain their independence, declining to join any of the larger national formations. And, while concern with “line development” and sectaria began to recede in importance for many, to be replaced by an emphasis on organizing and recruitment, the pattern of fragmentation had become the dominant feature of the movement, and proved irreversible.
Tirana Builds an Internationale Part One: The Struggle Against Modern Revisionism; Part Two: The Albanian Intervention; Part Three: Rally for Enver; Part Four: After Enver by woodsmokeblog
Mao in the Mines: An Anti-Systemic View of New Communist Movement Activity in the Appalachian Coalfields, 1962-1978 by Judson Abraham
On the Roots of Revisionism. A Political Analysis of the International Communist Movement and the CPUSA 1919-1945 by the Bay Area Study Group
The Present Party-Building Movement in the USA and the Materialist Conception of History by Ray O. Light
The New Attack on Socialist Revolution. A Critical Analysis of Charles Bettelheim’s Class Struggles in the U.S.S.R. by Charles Loren
Whither Maoism? by the Progressive Labor Party
More “Great Disorder Under Heaven” by the Communist Workers Group (Marxist-Leninist)
“These Are the Worst of Times, They Are the Best of Times” by Ray O. Light
Homosexuality: A Political and Historical Analysis by the San Diego Research Group
Rectification: For What and Against What? by the Proletarian Unity League
Split and Decayed – The Present State of the Opportunist Movement by the Committee of U.S. Bolsheviks
Moving On: Facts from the 70s, Lessons for the 80s by the Proletarian Unity League
In April 1974, the recently rehabilitated Chinese leader Teng Hsiao-Ping made a speech to a Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly in which he articulated a framework for analyzing international conflicts which would later come to be called “the theory of three worlds.” The framework divided the world into the “two superpowers” (US and USSR), the “third world” (the countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America), and the “second world” (the countries of Europe, Canada, and Japan).
At the time, this approach was relatively uncontroversial in the U.S. new communist movement. Only the Communist League openly questioned the framework, for which it was severely criticized by the October League and the Revolutionary Union, and in the pages of the Guardian. By 1977, however, the consequences of the theory for both Chinese foreign policy and its line on the strategy and tactics of the international communist movement were apparent: the “main blow” was to be directed against the USSR. Reactionary regimes in the third world which opposed “Soviet social imperialism” were to be supported and the “second world” was now viewed as a potential ally in the struggle against “hegemonism”.
While the Guardian newspaper began raising concerns about the policy implications of the theory of three worlds as early as late 1975, it was not until 1977 when the Albanian Party of Labor openly attacked the theory with its polemic, “The Theory and Practice of the Revolution.” As a result, Marxist-Leninist parties and groups throughout the world began lining up both in support or in opposition to the theory and issuing polemics explaining their positions. In the United States, organizations supporting the Chinese leadership strongly defended the theory and, following China’s lead, attributed it to Mao, while the RCP, defenders of the deposed Gang of Four, argued that the theory was a deviation from Mao’s strategic analysis. The Communist Workers Party, staked out its own unique position on the issue, holding that the “theory of three worlds” was indeed Mao's creation, but that it was being abandoned and betrayed by the post-Mao Deng-Hua leadership in China. Some increasingly vociferous opponents of the theory, accepting the attribution to Mao, soon expanded their critique from a rejection of the theory of three worlds to a rejection of Maoism itself, thereby deepening divisions in an already deeply fragmented new communist movement.
Chinese Foreign Policy during the Maoist Era and its Lessons for Today by the MLM Revolutionary Study Group in the U.S.
Speech By Chairman of the Delegation of the People’s Republic of China, Deng Xiaoping, At the Special Session of the U.N. General Assembly by Deng Xiaoping
Chairman Mao’s Theory of the Differentiation of the Three Worlds is a Major Contribution to Marxism-Leninism by the Editorial Department of Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily)
Open Letter of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Chile to the Communist Party of China
Theory and Practice of the Revolution by the Party of Labor of Albania
China’s Foreign Policy: Alliance with U.S. Imperialism by the Progressive Labor Party
Revolutionary Workers Collective Position on the International Situation
Flimsy Fraud, Desperate Gamble by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
People’s Daily Editorial on Theory of Three Worlds: ’A Major Contribution to Marxism’ by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
LPR’s Views on the International Situation by the League for Proletarian Revolution (Marxist-Leninist)
“Three Worlds” Theory: Anti-Leninist Deception of the Masses by the Communist Committee
Theory of Three Worlds: A Major Contribution to Marxism-Leninism by I Wor Kuen
A Great Strategic Concept: In Defense of Chairman Mao Tsetung’s Theory of the Differentiation of the Three Worlds by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
Study Theory of Three Worlds by The New Voice
In Defense of Marxism-Leninism on the International Situation by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
Theory of the “Three Worlds” Opposes Marxism-Leninism by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
Statement on the ’Third World’ by the Marxist-Leninist Collective
Statement on the ’Third World’, Part 2 by the Marxist-Leninist Collective
The Fight for the Marxist-Leninist Line on the International Situation Intensifies. Every Genuine Marxist-Leninist Party and Organization Must Take a Stand by The Leninist Core to Found the U.S. Bolshevik Party
The Albania Critique of the Theory of ’Three Worlds’ by the Theoretical Review
RCP Vacillates on Theory of the “Three Worlds” by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
The Theory of Three Worlds and the Middle East Situation Today by the Marxist-Leninist Collective
Close Encounters With the Three Worlds by Modern Times [Hawaii]
The International Situation: Concerning our Views by the Red Dawn Committee (Marxist-Leninist)
The Struggle Against Imperialism Requires Unyielding Struggle Against the New International Opportunist Trend Based on “Three Worlds” by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Attack on Mao quoted in Daily World: Silber Scores with Revisionists by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Repulse the Bankrupt Theory of the “Three” Worlds – Revolution on the Order of the Day! by the Leninist Core to Found the U.S. Bolshevik Party
Getting A Grasp on the Situation: A woman’s perspective on the USSR, China, Albania and the theory of ’three worlds’ by andrea gabriel
Bankruptcy of “Three Worlds Theory”: Where Does Revisionism Find Its Source of Strength? A Comment on the “CP(M-L)” “Three Worlders”, “C”PUSA Revisionists and the “New Militancy” of the Labor Traitors by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
“Three Worlds” Strategy: Apology for Capitulation by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Study Column on the Theory of the Three Worlds by the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)
World Imperialism and Marxist Theory: On the International Line of the Communist Movement by Paul Costello
Defend Mao’s Theory of the Differentiation of the Three Worlds Against Trotskyism and Revisionism by the C. W. Li [Communist Workers Party]
Chairman Mao’s (or Deng Xiaoping’s) Theory of the Three Worlds is a Major Deviation from Marxism-Leninism by Robert Seltzer and Irwin Silber
China and Its Supporters Were Wrong about USSR by Harry Haywood
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In 1977, Albania began to publicly if indirectly distance itself from Chinese foreign policy, as exemplified by the Zëri i Popullit editorial, “Theory and Practice of the Revolution”. By the following year, however, the break became an open one with the publication and translation into numerous foreign languages of Enver Hoxha’s book, Imperialism and the Revolution, which not only took issue with the “theory of three worlds” but criticized Mao Tse-Tung Thought as an “anti-Marxist theory”.
The Chinese reaction soon followed. In July 1978, the Chinese government notified the Albanian government that it was stopping its economic and military aid to Albania and recalling its economic and military experts. The Albanians replied with a letter accusing the Chinese leadership of using technical problems as a cover for the real reason – political disagreements over China’s foreign policy.
Many new communist movement groups quickly took sides in the dispute. A number of groups which had previously opposed the “theory of three worlds,” including the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninist, the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee, and the Leninist Core, quickly expanded their critique of Chinese foreign policy to open opposition to Maoism. Some of these groups, which had been among the most zealous proponents of “Mao Tse-Tung Thought,” now viewed with each other to prove who was the most critical of Maoism and the most vociferous opponent of Chinese “social imperialism”.
Despite the allegiance of these groups to the Enver Hoxha and Party of Labor of Albania (PLA), the PLA did not reciprocate. The Albanians maintained a policy of recognizing a single party in a foreign country (usually based on how well the party toed the Albanian line). However, the PLA distanced itself from the US groups over fears of “CIA infiltration.”
The Revolutionary Communist Party, on the other hand, rejected the Albanian attack on Mao, arguing that the “theory of three worlds” was not Mao’s, but that of Chinese revisionists. Many supporters of the “theory of three worlds” either ignored or played down the China-Albania break.
Imperialism and the Revolution by Enver Hoxha
Announcement of the Albanian News Agency
The Marxist-Leninist Movement and the World Crisis of Capitalism by Enver Hoxha
Reflections on China, Volume I by Enver Hoxha
Reflections on China, Volume II by Enver Hoxha
A Tactical Dispute Among Social-Chauvinists – The PLA’s 7th Congress and the CPC by the Communist Workers Group (Marxist-Leninist)
China Withdraws Aid to Socialist Albania Statement from the Central Committee of the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
In Support of the Struggle of the Party of Labor of Albania Against Revisionism by Ray O. Light
Statement of the National Executive Committee of the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninist Against the Betrayal of the Chinese Revisionists: Defense of the Glorious People’s Socialist Republic of Albania is the Sacred Duty of the International Proletariat by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Defend Socialist Albania! Editorial of The Workers’ Advocate by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Chinese RevisionistsTrail in Khrushchev’s Path – Aid to Albania Cut Off by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Editorial: Albania Party letter full of slanders and distortions by the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)
Two Articles: “On the Historical Merit of Mao Tsetung and Socialism in China” and “The PLA’s Treacherous Reversal: An Analysis of the PLA Letter“ by the Chicago Committee for a Communist Party and former members of the Committee for a Proletarian Party
Joint Statement in Opposition to the Cutting Off of Aid to Socialist Albania by the Government of China by Demarcation, Kansas City Revolutionary Workers Collective-Wichita Communist Cell, Marxist-Leninist Collective, Workers Revolutionary Organizing Committee, and Comrades in the Bay Area
Regarding China’s Withdrawl of Aid from Albania by The Leninist Core to Found the U.S. Bolshevik Party
“Mao Tse Tung Thought” A Counter-Revolutionary Concept by The U.S. Leninist Core
The Theory and Practice of Chinese Revisionism and Social Imperalism by The U.S. Leninist Core
The Anti-Leninist Theory of “three worlds” in Service to the Warmongering U.S.-China Alliance by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Enver Hoxha Exposes Opportunism–His Own by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Albania Slanders China: Left Opportunism vs. Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought!! by the Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M)
Down with the “RCP-USA’s” Shameful Anti-Communist Attack on the Glorious Party of Labor of Albania! by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Mao Tsetung and Mao Tsetung Thought are Anti-Marxist-Leninist and Revisionist by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
In Defense of Marxism-Leninism on the International Situation [Denver forum]
Enver Hoxha and the PLA: For Imperialism, Against Revolution by the League for Proletarian Revolution (Marxist-Leninist)
Beat Back the Dogmato-Revisionist Attack on Mao Tsetung Thought. Comments on Enver Hoxha’s Imperialism and the Revolution by J. Werner (Revolutionary Communist Party)
Hoxha book reminiscent of Trotsky’s ’leftism’ by The Call
Enver Hoxha and the Crisis of Anti-Revisionism by Neil Eriksen-Schmidt & Paul Costello
Hoxhaism or Leninism? A Review of Enver Hoxha’s ’Imperialism and the Revolution’ by A Chicago Study Group
The U.S.-China Alliance and the Question of the Main Enemy by Ray O. Light
Enver Hoxha’s Imperialism and Revolution – An “Error” from Beginning to End by the Revolutionary Communist Party [Revolution, Vol. 4, No. 9, September 1979]
Initial Views: On the Role of Mao Tsetung... in the Rise of Revisionism in the Communist Party of China by the Communist Party, USA (Marxist-Leninist)
Once Again in Support of the Struggle of the Party of Labor of Albania against Revisionism by Ray O. Light
On the Influence of Mao Tsetung Thought on the Revolution in the U.S. by the Communist Party, USA (Marxist-Leninist)
The Theory of Three Worlds by the Red Dawn Committee (Marxist-Leninist)
In Defense of Mao Tsetung’s Contributions to Materialist Dialectics by Former Members of the Committee for a Proletarian Party
Reports on the Dialectics Section of the National Joint Study (NJS) of the Hoxha-Mao Differences by ex-MLC and A. Green
Socialism Cannot Be Built in Alliance with the Bourgeoisie. The Experience of the Revolutions in Albania and China by Jim Washington
New Democracy and the Transition to Socialism in China: A Polemic Against Jim Washington by ex-members of the Marxist-Leninist Collective and A. Green
Against the Maoist critique of the PLA: How the Maoist RCP,USA defends the basic ideas of ’three worldism’ by the Marxist-Leninist Party
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During this period, one of the most controversial debates within the pro-China forces in the New Communist Movement concerned the issue of what role, if any, U.S. imperialism could play in the international struggle against “hegemonism”. In the late 1970s, I Wor Kuen warned the U.S. against “appeasing” Soviet social-imperialism and by 1980, CPML chair Mike Klonsky was stating that the U.S. has a role to play in the worldwide anti-hegemonic front, while The Call was writing about a Soviet “master plan for conquest.” The question was posed most starkly by the Communist Unity Organization, which published the pamphlet Sooner or Later in 1980. Sooner or Later called for an alliance with U.S. imperialism in the “world anti-hegemonist front,” and illustrated the consequences of its position by opposing “appeasement” and the withdrawal of U.S. bases from the Philippines or Puerto Rico, while expressing support for a strengthened U.S. military.
Lesson of strategy and tactics: The Direction of the Main Blow by the October League (Marxist-Leninist)
The Main Blow in the Present Historic Period [Two articles from The Communist] by the Workers Congress (M-L)
The Soviet Union: Is it the Nazi Germany of Today? by the Communist Committee
Strategy and Tactics: OL & RCP Revise Marxism on the International Situation by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
Int’l Conf. Provokes OL, Guardian by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Whitewashing Enemies and Slandering Friends: An exposure of the RCP’s revisionist line on the international situation by Eileen Klehr [October League (M-L)]
Once Again on the OL’s Social-Chauvinist Theory of “Directing the Main Blow at Soviet Social-Imperialism” by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
CP(ML) Cries Appeasement by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
OC Draft Program: Proletarian Internationalism Or Social-Chauvinism by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
Two Superpowers: Equally Enemies of the World’s Peoples by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Under a False Flag: How the OL Social-Chauvinists Present Support for U.S. Imperialist Aggression as “Internationalism” by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Commentary: Some perspectives on appeasement and the danger of world war by I Wor Kuen
International Situation: Opportunism of All Sorts Covers for Revisionism and Soviet Social-Imperialism by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
Questions on Our International Line: Class Struggle interview with CPML Chairman Michael Klonsky
Soviet Union – Central Problem of World Politics. Affects Struggle for Socialism in U.S. by The New Voice
WW Three: Questions & Answers by The New Voice
Sooner or Later. Questions & Answers on War, Peace & the United Front by the Communist Unity Organization
New book downplays struggle against U.S. superpower: A one-sided view of united front by C. E., Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Book Review: Sooner or Later? by The New Voice
A Debate: Should Johnny Get His Gun? [letters to The Call]
More debate on ’Sooner or Later’: How serious is the Soviet Threat? by the Communist Unity Organization
Social Chauvinists’ War Maneuvers: The Call’s ’Sooner or Later’ Debate by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Maoists Debate: All the Way With the USA? by Young Spartacus
Debate: Two Puerto Ricans say U.S. is no ally [letters to The Call]
Sooner or Later Debate: War, Revolutionary Defeatism by The Revolutionary Communist Party
Book Review: Sooner or Later [from MIM Theory, Nos. 9, 10, 9/20/87]
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Overturn the Bakke Decision! End National Oppression! by I Wor Kuen
Masses Demonstrate Against Bakke! A Communist View by the August Twenty-Ninth Movement
Bakke Decision Hits Gains of 60s by the Revolutionary Communist Party [The Worker for the Milwaukee Area and Wisconsin, Vol. 3, No. 1, October 1977]
Communist Analysis of Anti-Bakke Movement: All Out for Oct. 15! by the August 29th Movement
Overturn the Bakke Decision by Anna Gold [Philadelphia Workers Organzing Committee]
Smash the Bakke Decision by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 1, October 31, 1977]
Overturn Bakke Decision!! by the League for Proletarian Revolution (M-L) [Resistance, Vol. 8, No. 9, October 1977]
Bakke Case Under Heavy Fire by the Revolutionary Communist Party [Revolution, Vol. 3, No. 2, November 1977]
Thousands mobilize nationwide to smash Bakke Decision by I Wor Kuen
Editorial – Future direction of the anti-Bakke Decision struggle by I Wor Kuen
S.F. Oct. 15 Marxist-Leninist speech by I Wor Kuen
Equal Rights and the Anti-Bakke Movement: Stand Firm on Principle by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 2, November 17, 1977]
Professionals Meet On Bakke Case by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Which Road for the Anti-Bakke Movement? by the August Twenty-Ninth Movement
ABDC Lays Plans by the August Twenty-Ninth Movement
Bakke Case: Masses Struggle Against Decision by the Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M) [Unity and Struggle, Vol. VII, No. 1, January 1978]
National Anti-Bakke Conference – February 19th by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 7, January 30, 1978]
Anti-Bakke Decision Coalition Plans Nationwide Conference by the August Twenty-Ninth Movement
Smash the Bakke Decision! Down With Imperialism! End National Oppression! Selected Articles From Getting Together by I Wor Kuen
On Bakke by Seize the Time
Down With the Racist Bakke Decision! A selection of articles from The Call
National Conference Advances Anti-Bakke Struggle by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 9, March 8, 1978]
Strengthen the Principles Which Guide Our Work, Overturn the Bakke Decision! by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 9, March 8, 1978]
Smash the Bakke Decision! by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters [The Worker, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1978]
Smash the Bakke Decison! by the Revolutionary Student Brigade [The Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1978]
April 15 Anti-Bakke March by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 10, April 10, 1978]
Bakke Debate Billed as Prizefight, Y.S.A. Takes a Fall by the Revolutionary Student Brigade [The Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1978]
Stop the Cuts, Beat Back Bakke by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
Minorities and Whites, Unite to Smash the Bakke Decision! by the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade
1,000s Set to March vs Bakke case by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters [The Worker, Vol. 1, No. 2, April-May 1978]
Anti-Bakke March Rallies 15,000 by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 11, April 24, 1978]
15,000 Hit Bakke Decision by the Revolutionary Communist Party
15,000 March Against Bakke by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
Thousands protest Bakke Decision on April 15 in D.C. by I Wor Kuen
May 13 Anti-Bakke Rally by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 12, May 8, 1978]
Two Ways to Build a Movement by the August Twenty-Ninth Movement [Revolutionary Cause, Vol. 3, No. 5, Supplement, May 1978]
Where RSB Goes Wrong in Bakke Fight by Osborne Hart [The Militant, June 16, 1978]
Bakke Ruling: Legal Seal for Reactionary Onslaught by the Revolutionary Communist Party [Revolution, Vol. 3, No. 10, July 1978]
Bakke Decision Attacks Affirmative Action by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Communist, Vol. IV, No. 16, July 17, 1978]
Socialists urge unity in anti-Bakke fight by the Workers Congress (M-L) [The Militant, July 28, 1978]
Bakke: A Historical Reversal by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
Down With the Bakke Decision! Build the Struggle Against Discrimination by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
Bakke Decision must Be Fought by The New Voice
Continue the Anti-Bakke Struggle by The New Voice
Right Opportunism in Anti-Bakke Work: Response to ATM & IWK by the Workers Congress (M-L)
National Proposal to Build the Anti-Bakke Movement by the Workers Congress (M-L)
A Serious Mistake in Mass Work by the Workers Congress (M-L)
Smash Bakke by the Fruitvale Law Collective
Continue the Struggle for Affirmative Action! On WC (M-L) Proposal to Build the National Anti-Bakke Movement by the League for Proletarian Revolution (M-L) [Resistance, Vol. 9, No. 8, October 1978]
Unity in Words – Sectarianism in Deeds: ATM/IWK and CP(ML) ’Unite’ to Exclude WC(ML) from ABDC by the Workers Congress (M-L)
Bakke blasted at Cal State by the Communist Party (M-L) [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 46, November 27, 1978]
Unite to Build a Nationwide Campaign to Defend and Expand Affirmative Action by the Workers Congress (M-L)
LPR (M-L) Supports WC (M-L) National Proposal by the Workers Congress (M-L)
Commentary by Workers Congress (M-L): Learn from Past Errors of NCOBD-ABDC, Struggle Against Sectarianism by the Workers Congress (M-L) [includes a reprint of a Report: Sum-Up by Members of the National Lawyers Guild: The Struggle Against Left Opportunism and Towards Unity in the Anti-Bakke Movement]
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The Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) began 1978 on a note of optimism. The previous year had seen the Party's founding with much fanfare followed by its welcome in China as a recognized representative of the U.S. revollutionary movement. The period 1978-1980, however, would see steady progress from these seemingly promising achievements.
CPML efforts to unite with other major Marxist-Leninist groups, kicked off in December 1977 with the formation of a Committee to Unite Marxist-Leninists (CUML) to “serve as a unifying center for all U.S. Marxist-Leninists” [discussed below in the section Unification Efforts of Pro-China Groups] failed to bear fruit. Domestically, the Party energetically pursued campaigns in the labor movement, the Black liberation movement, and among the youth. However, policies which the CPML later acknowledged to be dogmatic, sectarian and ultra-left, prevented the Party from significantly increasing its influence in the working class, among national minorities, in the women’s movement, or in the mass organizations in which it was active..
Internationally, during this period, the CPML was vociferous in a number of causes. One was a defense of the Kampuchean Revolution under Pol Pot, most notably with The Call editor Daniel Burstein providing glowing reports in the paper on the situation in Kampuchea, where he and three other Call staffers were the first U.S. journalists to visit since the Khmer Rouge took power. The CPML also came out strongly in support of China’s 1979 invasion of Vietnam, and against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
However, by 1980, the CPML entered into a period of crisis. China appeared to have withdrawn its exclusive recognition of the Party, its unification efforts had failed to produce results, and a decline in membership and Call circulation combined to inaugurate a period of questioning and debate which was increasingly played out in the pages of The Call.
Reformism–Key Link in CP(ML) Campaign by the Revolutionary Communist Party
CP(M-L) Tells Masses “Let’s Go Backwards”: Hawaii Eviction Fight by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Communist Party M-L Sponsors Pep Rally: D.C. March Promotes Illusion of Job Concessions by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
CP(M-L) Builds New Unity Committee; Unity of Opportunists Built on Shifting Sand by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
CP-ML on Zaire – Spreading the Word for Brzezinski by Jennie Quinn [from the Philadelphia Workers Organizing Committee]
Against Opportunism in the Struggle to Free Gary Tyler [from the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee’s Class Against Class, #11, August 1978]
Who Supports Police Strikes? by The New Voice
The New Voice to CPML by The New Voice
CPML Caught in Dilemma: How to Attack Mao While Pretending to Uphold Him by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Wm. Z. Foster, A Kruschevite Revisionist; “C”P “ML”, Fosterite Revisionists by The U.S. Leninist Core [Bolshevik, Vol. 8, No. 4, n.d.]
Guilty By Omission: “C”P “ML”, Program 2: “We are fighting for the abolition of Class Society” or Chapter 2 in Lessons in Revisionism: “ We are fighting against the Establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” by The U.S. Leninist Core [Bolshevik, Vol. 8, No. 4, n.d.]
Ex-Member Exposes CPML: Blind Tagging Behind China Demanded by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Interview Provokes Foaming CP ML Response: Stuck Pigs Squeal by the Revolutionary Communist Party
One Step Behind Bourgeoisie: CPML Discovers Class Struggle in Iran by the Revolutionary Communist Party
A Letter to the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) on Trade Union Issues: Our Experience in One Workplace by W.C., Proletarian Unity League
RCP satirical issue of the CP(ML)’s The Call newspaper
CPML on Iran: Too Much Revolution is a Dangerous Thing by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Is the US Really a Toothless Tiger? by the Revolutionary Communist Party
CP-ML and PWOC on International Line by Ron Whitehorne
RCP Challenges CPML to Defend Their Line on China by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Debate with CPML Begins by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Red, White & Blue “Communists” on Afghanistan: Is It Time? Is It Newsweek? No–It’s The Call! by the Revolutionary Communist Party
“C”PML Works with Cops in Feb 2nd Demo by the Communist Workers Party
Revisionists Caw Over Murder of Communist by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Revisionists Attack Coalfield Communists
Why the CPUSA Praises I.A.M. Chief Winpisinger [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 6, February 13, 1978]
Revisionists Give New Life to Trotskyites in Louisville Election [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 6, February 13, 1978]
CPUSA: Traitors to miners’ movement
The CPUSA Is a Reactionary Force for War. An Exposure of Revisionism on ’Detente’ by Eileen Klehr
CPUSA switches on ERA to sabotage women’s fight
CPUSA hides Soviet role in Indochina conflict
The Call vs. Daily World: opposing views on Doug Fraser [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 31, August 7, 1978]
Daily World Covers It Up: Jonestown massacre: the Soviet connection
CPUSA named in Jim Jones’ will [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 7, February 19, 1979]
Reply to Gus Hall: An Open Letter
On Soviet-Jonestown connection: Tape exposes CP’s coverup
Hall promotes arms race and reformism: CP plan to derail anti-nuke struggle
CPUSA in Local 2: What side are they on?
’Asians keep out’ say revisionists at Vietnam talk [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 30, July 30, 1979]
CPUSA Convention Pushes ’Left-Center Coalition’
New ’Peace’ council defends war [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 45, November 26, 1979]
Self-determination: Where does the CPUSA Stand? by Harry Wells
CP lies on Afghanistan exposed: Oh what a tangled web they weave by Carl Davidson
Pro-Moscow candidates queried on Afghanistan [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 16, April 21, 1980]
Who’s upset by China Visitor? [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 24, June 16, 1980]
RCP’s racist attack on Harry Haywood by Sherman Miller
Behind RCP’s Attack on Our Unity Efforts
How RCP Defends Chauvinism and Anti-Party Blocs. A Reply to ’The Communist’ on the National Liaison Committee by An Observer
Avakian Holds 2nd Congress: Future is gloomy for RCP’s gang of China-haters
Latest Back-door Attack on China: RCP Mouths ’Gang of Four’ Distortions
RCP’s Plan to Wreck China Friendship Assoc.
People run RCP racists out of Crown Heights
RCP goons escalate attacks on China
RCP gang of China-haters hits new low
Response to Anti-China lies of RCP’s New Hero
Editorial: RCP’s puny anti-China provocation
RCP attacks Chinese community paper [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 7, February 19, 1979]
RCP Opens Fire on Tenants: ’Like the Klan without robes’
Bob Avakian: Dangerous, yes, but not to capitalism
RCP road show ends in tragedy [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 18, May 5, 1980]
Silber claims U.S. domination is eternal. Guardian Says World War ’not possible’
Attack on Mao quoted in Daily World: Silber Scores with Revisionists
Socialist Workers Party ’discovers’ the working class: no change in Trotskyite sabotage
Guardian wants anti-China books at China Books
Then and Now: Trotskyism Serves Fascism
Call Editorial: Looking at the New Year with Optimism
Training Backbone Party Members. CPML holds first cadre school
Ex-’Wing’ Member Supports Unity Call
Training New Writers: Call Workshop Criticizes Revisionism
Party Fundraising Drive Comes to a Close [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 6, February 13, 1978]
Learn from Organizing Committee’s Work
Review of Harry Haywood’s Black Bolshevik: Powerful Landmark of a Lifetime of Struggle by Carl Davidson
May Day Focus – Militant Actions, Marxist Unity [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 14, April 10, 1978]
’We Look Forward to Communist Unity’: Call Interviews Hawaii Communists
2nd anniversary of weekly Call–Support voice of people’s struggle
May Day celebrated across the country
May Day Speech by Carl Davidson of the CPML: ’A time to unite real friends to defeat real enemies’
Much to celebrate in CPML’s First Year
Joyous Celebration of the CPML’s First Anniversary
Excerpts from June 11 Addresses: Speakers Salute CPML’s First Year
Klonsky’s Speech to the First Anniversary Celebration
’Our Parties Are Bound Together’. Speech by Pal Steigan, Chairman of the AKP-ML
Solidarity Messages to CPML [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 25, June 25, 1978]
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Young Communist Now a Magazine [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 24, June 19, 1978]
Successful CPML conference on nationalities work
Communist work in the campaign to free Robert Smith
Keng Piao Greets CPML at Peking Banquet
Memorials to honor Mao Tsetung
Memorials Salute Mao’s Legacy and China Today
Unity statement from CLH: Hawaii Communists Join CPML
Speech by Michael Klonsky: Mao Tsetung’s Legacy for Our Struggle
A Call network grows inside Midwest steel mills [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 41, October 23, 1978]
Response of the League of Revolutionary Struggle to the CPML [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 42, October 30, 1978]
A self-criticism: Overcoming sectarian errors in Call coverage
Big Call day at the steel mills [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 44, November 13, 1978]
Build El Clarin, Fight National Oppression
Celebrating Call's 6th Year [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 46, November 27, 1978]
Building The Call at Chevy Forge
New Years Editorial: 1979 begins on victory note
CPML holds second cadre school – ’Three Worlds Theory’ focus of study
Fighting for Women’s Equality: A Communist Viewpoint
Step towards single communist party: Red Star Unity Collective Merges with the CPML
May Day events revive revolutionary holiday
Cadre school: training fighters for the U.S. revolution
Looking Back at 1977 – What Gains Did Labor Make?
L.A. Conference Discusses Tasks: Building Class Struggle Unions
Final Plans Set for Jobs March on Washington [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 3, January 23, 1978]
Jobs March on Washington [flyer]
All Out for the Jobs March on Feb. 18!
Fight for Jobs: A Communist View
2,200 March on Capital – Demand Jobs Now!
Guardian’s jobs march coverage worse than ABC network news [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 3, January 23, 1978]
Reformism–Key Link in CP(ML) Campaign by the Revolutionary Communist Party
D.C. Jobs March Promotes Illusion of Jobs Concessions by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
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Down With the Racist Bakke Decision! A selection of articles from The Call
Exposed Enemies, United Friends: Lessons of the Miners’ Strike
Future Dim for Capitalism [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 14, April 10, 1978]
Student Movement–Upsurge on the Horizon by Roy Smith, Chairman of the Communist Youth Organization
Labor movement needs revolutionary leadership
Big business launches new war against the people – Growing menace of fascism
After year of advances: 5th USCPFA convention set for San Francisco
State of the labor movement – part 1: Lower standard of living
State of the labor movement – part 2: Workers producing more but getting paid less
State of the labor movement – part 3: top union misleaders peddle program of defeat to rank and file
Hits Cuts and Bakke: CYO launches fall campaign on campus
USCPFA reaffirms support for People’s China
Criticism of Call’s steel coverage [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 43, November 6, 1978]
Call interviews Fight Back activist: Getting ready for the fightback in ’79
Labor in 1978 – Revolt of rank and file picked up steam
Communist organizing tactics in the labor movement. Part 1–Pay attention to concrete conditions
Black Power and the fight for socialism by Harry Haywood
Lessons from the Gary Tyler Campaign by Shedrach Harris
Kampuchea issue to be addressed at lawyers meeting
Lawyers meet amid sharp political struggle
Fightback meet targets Carter ’anti-inflation’ plan for ’79
Communist organizing tactics the labor movement. Part 2–How to expose the union misleaders
Nuclear power unsafe in hands of capitalists
Letter to The Call on nuclear energy coverage and Call Response
More letters to The Call on nuclear energy coverage
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Reader comments on ’Communist Tactics’: tactical blunders hurt rank and file [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 13, April 2, 1979]
CYO outlines program for Africa aid [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 13, April 2, 1979]
Steel vote upsets Sadlowski group
Taking another look at Steel elections By Charles Costigan, head of the CPML Trade Union Commission
Why unite with reformist union leaders? A debate on tactics
SALT II won’t end superpower race, part 1
Why SALT II won’t slow arms race
USSR eager to sign SALT II. Appeasement aids soviet war machine
Taking Up the Woman Question. Work Summary of CPML factory organizers
White Workers Speak Out: How to fight for unity on the national question
Steel delegates outline program [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 28, July 16, 1979]
Corrupt local kicked out at Stewart-Warner: Birth of a rank-and-file union
The Call asks CYO leader: How should we oppose the draft?
A Party that fights for women’s freedom: Interview with CPML Vice-Chairman Eileen Klehr
Why oppose the draft? (and how to go about it) by Carl Davidson
Letter to The Call: Wrong emphasis in draft coverage
Letter to The Call: USSR [and draft]
Wildcats target coalfield firings
Two letters to The Call on Coalfield Wildcat article and The Call’s Response
An alternative to two-party system? Citizens Party founding draws 500 by Carl Davidson
Carter Iran policy plays into Russian hands [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 17, April 28, 1980]
Does labor need its own party? by Carl Davidson
Desegregation: Another look. One activist thinks that school desegregation is not always desirable, and can even hurt minorities by John Martin
Debate on How to Fight Discrimination: Keep segregation under fire by Carl Davidson
CPML leader: ’We’re on the eve of a Black upsurge’
Chicano identity and revolution by J. Espinoza
Perspectives: Another View of Citizens Party by John Martin
What Reagan’s victory means by Carl Davidson
Call Journalists Return from China
Call Journalists Report: ’Second Liberation for China’
China’s Hua Kuo-feng gets rousing welcome in E. Europe
China’s Culture Coming Alive Again
’Now I can use my pen!’ says Novelist Pa Chin
Hua’s Trip Builds World United Front [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 37, September 18, 1978]
Great Democratic Debate Sweeps China
China’s call to ’free the mind’
Socialism is still the ’real thing’ [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 8, 1979]
Two Letters to The Call on Coke in China and The Call’s Response
Fang Yi on Coke in China [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 6, February 12, 1979]
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Deng’s visit: new era of friendship
Viets invade Chinese territory [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 5, February 5, 1979]
Chinese troops strike back at Vietnamese
Behind China’s counter-strike in Vietnam: Questions and Answers on the China-Vietnam Conflict
China tackles big issues at new People’s Congress
Hua on Class Struggle Under Socialism by Charles Elias
Report on Clash in Shanghai [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 31, August 20, 1979]
Editorial: Mao Zedong’s ideas are guiding China
To China, ’cold war’ seems rather hot [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 12, March 24, 1980]
A break from Cultural Revolution: China restores Liu Shaoqi’s name by Charles Elias
Commentary by CPML Chairman: Socialist modernization and the class struggle in China today by Michael Klonsky
CPML Chairman: Looking at China, Mao & the Cultural Revolution by Michael Klonsky
China takes new look at Mao and the past by Lynn Middleton
The Kampuchea-Vietnam Conflict: Fighting Erupts on Border
Slanders can’t halt revolution in Kampuchea
Why Moscow Slanders China: Lies Mask Soviet Designs in Kampuchea-Vietnam Conflict [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 6, February 13, 1978]
Teng Ying-Chao Visits Kampuchea [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 6, February 13, 1978]
Letter to The Call: Coverage of the Vietnam-Kampuchea Conflict [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 6, March 13, 1978]
Pol Pot Sums Up Kampuchean Struggle
250 Celebrate Kampuchean Victory [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 16, April 24, 1978]
CIA Front-Group Creates Kampuchea ’Atrocity’ Stories [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 17, May 1, 1978]
Call Delegation Visits Kampuchea [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 17, May 1, 1978]
Speech by Dan Burstein [at a banquet for Call reporters in Phnom Penh April 22]
Pol Pot on Conflict Between Kampuchea and Vietnam [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 18, May 8, 1978]
News Conference Refutes Press Lies: ’Kampuchea Doing Fine’ Say 1st U.S. Visitors
Call Editor Speaks on TV: Exposes Lies on Kampuchea
Communist Party of Kampuchea Greets CPML
Exclusive Eyewitness Report from Kampuchea [First of a series by Call editor Dan Burstein]
The Call’s eyewitness report: A visit to a Cooperative
The great battle to liberate Phnom Penh
Ancient symbol of masses’ creativity: Kampuchea’s Angkor Wat
Report from Kampuchea: Why Phnom Penh was evacuated
Young people are a vital force in the new Kampuchea
U.S. Bombed Cambodia Long After War
Interview with Deputy Prime Minister Ieng Sary, Part I: How Kampuchea Made its Revolution
Interview with Ieng Sary of Kampuchea, Part II: ’We Were Able to Inspire the People’
Conclusion of Call Interview with Kampuchea’s Ieng Sary: Socialist Construction Moving Forward
Kampuchea: ’People will know the truth’
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Kampuchea Takes the Socialist Road. An interview with Dan Burstein
Call Editorial: On Recent Actions by Vietnam [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 28, July 17, 1978]
Kampuchea Refutes Soviet Slander [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 36, September 18, 1978]
CPML Salutes 18th Year of Kampuchea CP
Kampuchean telegram to the CPML [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 45, November 20, 1978]
Call journalists speak in 17 cities. Tour educates thousands on Kampuchea
CPML statement to Kampuchean leaders: ’Soviet and Vietnamese aggressors will fail’
CPML statement to Kampuchean leaders: ’Soviet and Vietnamese aggressors will fail’
Editor Denies Cambodian Horrors by Billie Cheney Speed
Call Editorial: Urge UN Chief to visit Kampuchea
Kampuchea Today – Quotes from Secret US Reports
On Cambodia: But, Yet by Daniel Burstein
Vietnam Escalates War on Kampuchea [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 49, December 18, 1978]
Call Editorial: Kampuchea: A just cause will prevail
Malcolm Caldwell killed in Phnom Penh by Daniel Burstein
U.S. Reporters refute horror stories about Kampuchea
Call Editorial: Unite to defend Kampuchea
Kampuchea. A photo-record of the First American visit to Cambodia since April 1975
On eve of Vietnamese invasion: Canadian M-L delegation visits Kampuchea
CPML statement to Kampuchean leaders: ’Soviet and Vietnamese aggressors will fail’
Opportunists cheer invasion of Kampuchea
Kampuchea issue to be addressed at lawyers meeting
Form Kampuchea support group at NYC meeting [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 8, February 26, 1979]
Mounting criticism of Vietnam Actions
CPML hails Kampuchean April 17 holiday [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 16, April 23, 1979]
Kampuchea – Who Should We Support?
Burchett can’t be believed anymore [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 29, July 23, 1979]
Vietnam’s Vietnam. Background to the Invasion of Kampuchea by Daniel Burstein
Kampuchea’s Foreign Minister talks to The Call: Sary confident of victory as resistance regroups by Dan Burstein
Pol Pot gives first interview since Vietnamese invasion
Pol Pot replaced by Khieu Samphan [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1, 1980]
Call editor in Kampuchea: Report from a liberated zone [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 10, March 10, 1980]
Inside a secret Khmer Rouge base Special to The Call by Daniel Burstein
Setting the Record Straight on Kampuchea by Dan Burstein
25 Years Since Death of Stalin [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 10, March 13, 1978]
Soviets Move to Challenge Yankees in Latin America
Eurorevisionism: The New Face of Treachery in the Second World by Dan Burstein
U.S. business dollars appease Soviet fascists
Marx laid basis for 3 worlds theory
Lisbon Meeting Targets USSR, Warns Against Soviet Aggression [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 24, June 19, 1978]
Inside Report on Zaire: ’The True Situation’. A Marxist-Leninist View
Yugoslav congress targets both superpowers [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 27, July 10, 1978]
Is Cuba a non-aligned country?
Dissident trials pose question. Soviet Union today: socialist or fascist? Appeasement Hastens the Outbreak of War, part 1 Appeasement Hastens the Outbreak of War, part 2 Appeasement Hastens the Outbreak of War, part 3 Editorial: USSR-Vietnam to blame for Asia fighting Moscow Hatches anti-Maoist crusade Soviet role debated at confab [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 14, April 9, 1979] Hoxha book reminiscent of Trotsky’s ’leftism’ [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 21, May 28, 1979] Pope's visit stirs Polish struggle [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 23, June 11, 1979] Should we speak out on Hanoi’s atrocities? by Carl Davidson Exclusive: Afghan rebels on the march by David Kline CPML Central Committee gives support to Iranian people’s just struggle Stalin was key to growth of socialism U.S. actions undermine anti-Soviet unity by David Kline Our Stand on the Hostages: Questions and answers on Iran crisis Call Editorial: Moscow’s new invasion: A grim warning Call Editorial: New forces critical of Soviet aggression Tito: Fighter for National Independence by Charles Elias David Kline speaks on Afghanistan [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 5, February 4, 1980] Tito: Fighter for National Independence by Charles Elias Soviet Invasion Finds a ’Left’ Defender by Bill Owens Afghan resistance tackles big problems by David Kline Carter Iran Policy Plays into Russian hands by Lynn Middleton Letter to The Call on U.S.-Iran relations Yugoslavia’s Tito: Strong fighter for independence U.S. Actions Undermine Anti-Soviet Unity by David Kline Questions on Our International Line: Class Struggle interview with CPML Chairman Michael Klonsky Commentary: Reagan stumbling on China issue by Jim Hamilton Afghan rebels loosen Soviet grip by David Kline Mass Rally Honors Norwegian Party Canadian Communist League Holds Second Congress Unity around three worlds theory: Statement of CPML and Dominican Communists Norway’s Pal Steigan to speak June 11 [at CPML anniversary meeting] A Puerto Rican Communist Speaks Out CPML of Argentina and CPML of the U.S. Sign Joint Communique May Day in Europe: two special reports Hoxha book reminiscent of Trotsky’s ’leftism’ Hoxhaism or Leninism? A Review of Enver Hoxha’s ’Imperialism and the Revolution’ by A Chicago Study Group Two parties establish fraternal relations: ORT of Spain and CPML issue communiqué A look at Russian Leader 100 years after his birth: Stalin was key to growth of socialism Leadership analyzes two years of struggle. CPML sum-up: turn the Party into a major force Support the CPML in its third year of struggle [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 24, June 18, 1979] Dig Deep! CPML launches 6-month fund drive Response to the debate among the anti-’lefts’. Soviet Union: Friend or Enemy? by Carl Davidson Letter to The Call [on the Davidson article] by the Proletarian Unity League Fight on Two Fronts [response to PUL] by Carl Davidson An appeal by CPML Chairman Michael Klonsky–We’re asking you to make a commitment Letter to The Call: Why I joined the CPML It’s a question of survival: CPML needs your support Marcuse, ’New Left’ philosopher, dies by Carl Davidson A Party for revolution – A Party for religious freedom Third conference of the Communist Youth Organization: CYO charts new course for ’80s The National Question and Party Building. The historic fight between communism and white chauvinism by Michael Klonsky The Fight for a Single Party. Lessons for Today from the Struggle for Communist Unity after World War I by Barry Litt Fund drive: close but not enough [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 1, 1980] Looking back at an eventful decade by Carl Davidson Communist Movement in 1970’s: Strengths and Weaknesses by Daniel Burstein CPML leaders meet Li Xiannian [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 3, February 21, 1980] Summing up the CPML fund drive Debate: What Road for Communists in the ’80s? by Charles Loren Debate: What Road for Communists in the ’80s? by Daniel Burstein Two Letters on Burstein-Loren Debate May Day 1980 – Build the unity of the working class! A look at first Three Years of CPML by Michael Klonsky Chicano movement and the left by P. Mendez [The Call, Vol. 9, No. 24, June 16, 1980] Letter to The Call on [CPML] Self-criticism by the Proletarian Unity League Moving On: Facts from the 70s, Lessons for the 80s by the Proletarian Unity League Summing Up the CPML’s Experiences in Trade Union Work by Charles Costigan Report on the Readers’ Survey by The Call Staff A self-critical look at CPML work in the Lawyers Guild by Barry Litt Criticism of The Call’s Coverage: Looking at China Realistically Political Report (Workling Draft) [On the Crisis of the CPML and its Origins] by Dan Burstein Open Letter to CPML by The New Voice Klan verdict poses challenges to movement by Lynn Wells The Call goes monthly: Why and what now? by Anita Fecht Lessons from the Collapse of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) by Carl Davidson [Back to top]
International Marxist-Leninist Solidarity and Unity
Crisis in the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Periodical
In the 1978-1980 period, the larger pro-China New Communist Movement organizations made determined efforts both to absorb smaller groups and to unite with one another. If they were somewhat successful in the former regard, they were noticeably unsuccessful in the latter.
Unity efforts were kicked off in December 1977 when the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) proposed the formation of a Committee to Unite Marxist-Leninists (CUML) to “serve as a unifying center for all U.S. Marxist-Leninists.” In May 1978, the August Twenty-Ninth Movement (M-L) (ATM) and I Wor Kuen (IWK) announced that they would work jointly with the CPML in the formation of such a Committee. Other smaller groups also welcomed the initiative. At the same time, however, the ATM and IWK were also moving closer together, independently of the CPML. In September 1978 they merged to form the League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist) (LRS).
The LRS also absorbed a number of smaller groups, including East Wind Collective of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles and the Seize the Time Collective of Chicanos and African Americans in San Francisco in 1979. That same year, BACU joined the RWHq. Early in 1980 the LRS merged with the Revolutionary Communist League (Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-tung Thought) led by Amiri Baraka. Also in 1980, the predominantly Puerto Rican League for Proletarian Revolution (ML) united with the predominantly Chicano Colorado Organization of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought) to form the Marxist-Leninist League.
Another notable attempt to bring together pro-China forces involved a number of the pro-China groups, including the CPML, LRS, Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (RWHq), the Proletarian Unity League (PUL), and the Bay Area Communist Union (BACU), who undertook a joint trip to China in early 1979. The trip may have been an effort on the part of the participants to build unity among all those who supported the Communist Party of China and the “Three Worlds” Theory, but, if so, it was largely a failure. The Chinese did not press the groups to unite, although they effectively withdrew their former designation of the CP(ML) as “the” party in the U.S., a designation which appeared to have been granted when CPML Chairman Mike Klonsky visited China to much fanfare in July 1977.
In January 1980, the CP-ML, the LRS and the RWHg announced their decision to “hold a series of meetings to seek greater unity. ” Those meetings were in their words: “a step forward in the process forging a single, unified communist party.” In an interview in the LRS paper, Unity, simultaneous with this announcement, a League spokesperson, William Gallegos, justified this new unity effort by stating that the Committee to Unite Marxist-Leninists which had been touted as a joint party building effort of the CP-ML, the IWK, ATM and others “had never existed.” This acknowledgement (which was never publicly disputed by the CPML) generated a certain amount of outrage among other pro-China groups, including the Workers Congress and the League for Proletarian Revolution, which alleged that they had been mislead about the Committee’s status. Like the CUML (real or not) before it, these new tri-lateral meetings failed to unite the participants and this failure only served to deepen the growing crisis within this sector of the New Communist Movement.
Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought. Resolutions of our Fourth General Meeting (July, 1977) by the Bay Area Communist Union
Editorial: Practice Marxism Not Revisionism. ATM Cadre Reject Splitters by the August 29th Movement (Marxist-Leninist)
Editorial: Build the Unity of the Working Class and Oppressed Nationalities by the August 29th Movement (Marxist-Leninist)
Learning From Past Mistakes to Avoid Future Ones in the Struggle for Unity. An Urgent Letter to Comrades in the ATM, the CPML, IWK, and the MLOC, With a Word to Those Who Would not Touch Either Unity Plan With a Ten-Foot Pole by the Pacific Collective (Marxist-Leninist)
More Conspiracies, More Intrigue, Getting Together by The Leninist Core to Found the U.S. Bolshevik Party
U.S. Marxist-Leninists delegation returns from China by The Call
Editorial: The Road to Communist Unity by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Editorial: Repudiate the Call For Menshevik Unity! by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Behind RCP’s Attack on Our Unity Efforts by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Welcome Proposal for Unity Committee by The New Voice
On Party Building: Expose Sham Unity Trend of the O.L.-C.P. by the League for Proletarian Revolution
Learn from Organizing Committee’s Work by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Letter to a West Coast Collective by the Proletarian Unity League
May Day Focus – Militant Actions, Marxist Unity [The Call, Vol. 7, No. 14, April 10, 1978]
Reject the CPML Unity Call by the Workers Congress (M-L)
Joint Statement of ATM, CP (M-L) and IWK for Marxist-Leninist Unity
Editorial: Build the Committee to Unite Marxist-Leninists! by the August 29th Movement
Call Editorial: Important step to Marxist-Leninist unity by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Notice on Unity Committee by The New Voice
Unity Committee: Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil by the League for Proletarian Revolution (Marxist-Leninist)
Third Worldists in Disarray: THE DIRT COMES OUT! by The U.S. Leninist Core
Joint Statement by CPML LRSML and RWH
In the CUML: Party Building What is the Road? by the Marxist-Leninist League
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In the 1978-1980 period, while many New Communist Movement groups suffered crises and splits, one unification process proved a success. It began in 1978 when the ATM and IWK began moving closer together, hammering out their differences and exploring joint work. In September 1978 they merged to form the League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist) (LRS).
The success of this merger proved attractive to other smaller, pro-China organizations. As a result, LRS went on to absorb a number of smaller groups, including the East Wind Collective of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles and the Seize the Time Collective of Chicanos and African Americans in San Francisco in 1979. Finally, early in 1980 the LRS unification process scored another success, merging with the Revolutionary Communist League (Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-tung Thought) led by Amiri Baraka.
’Hard Facts’: Amiri Baraka and Marxism-Leninism in the 1970s by David Grundy
Fred Ho’s Tribute to the Black Arts Movement: Personal and Political Impact and Analysis
Remembering Fred Ho: The Legacy of Afro Asian Futurism by Zachary Price
Reflections on Amiri Baraka, Oct. 7, 1934–Jan. 9, 2014 by David Hungerford
More Conspiracies More Intrigue, Getting Together? [Bolshevik, Vol. 8, No. 3, August-September 1978]
A Letter to the League of Revolutionary Struggle by the Proletarian Unity League
A Letter to the Revolutionary Communist League by the Proletarian Unity League
ATM-IWK newspapers to merge by The Call
League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) Founded!
Statements on the Founding of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist)
Mao memorials held throughout the U.S.
Unity will build on the work of the Revolutionary Cause and Getting Together
AAFE can’t hide its anti-China role
Public mass meetings across the country greet League’s founding
Editorial: Another step for communist unity by The Call
Letter from League of Revolutionary Struggle [to the CPML]
Editorial: Past year presents important tasks for 1979
Statement by Seize the Time on Uniting with the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)
Developing Unity Alive magazine
Statement by the East Wind organization on its unity with the League
Editorial: Great advances in building Marxist-Leninist unity
UNITY meets $150,000 fund raising goal, triples subscriptions!
Unity expands to 28 pages! [Unity, Vol. 2, No. 11, June 1-14, 1979]
Attack by WVO thugs in New York
WVO continues gangster tactics
Statement by the New York Collective on uniting with the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)
Promoting Soviet imperialism and class collaboration: CPUSA holds convention
Statement by the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) on the Workers Viewpoint Organization
The Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M) and the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) Unite!
New York program celebrates merger of RCL (M-L-M) and LRS (M-L)
Series of Midwest programs marks merger of RCL and LRS
Atlanta program celebrates RCL-LRS merger
Is the RCP crazy? Or is there a method to their madness?
Announcing new Chinese-language UNITY MONTHLY magazine
Build UNITY as a weapon for revolution!
Self-determination for the Afro-American Nation in the Black-belt South [Unity, Vol. 1, No. 5, December 1-14, 1978]
League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) sums up: 1978 Postal Workers’ Contract Struggle, Part 1
League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) sums up: 1978 Postal Workers’ Contract Struggle, Part 2
Women’s Day Editorial: Improve our revolutionary work among women
“Independence, yes! Statehood, No!” [on Puerto Rico]
Build Support for Farmworkers’ Strike! [selected articles from Unity]
The fight for affirmative action in labor Part I: History of struggle against job discrimination
The fight for affirmative action in labor Part II: The struggle today
Barrios Unite! Chicano youth fighting national oppression [selected articles from Unity]
SALT II faces tough going in the U.S. Senate [Unity, Vol. 2, No. 14, July 13-26, 1979]
California MEChA’s hold summer state-wide conference
Sum up of 1979 cannery contract struggle
All out to commemorate the Chicano Moratorium! Self-determination for the Chicano nation!
The Struggle for Chicano Liberation
Guardian union-busting: What kind of “left” paper is this?
Asian American Artists – Arise and Dare to Struggle! [selected articles from Unity]
Asian/Pacific students Unite! [selected articles from Unity]
CPUSA Holds Convention [Unity, Vol. 2, No. 18, September 7-20, 1979]
Mass struggle in U.S. helped build movement that freed the four [Puerto Rican nationalist prisoners]
Black human rights begins with self-determination
Commentary on the Greensboro shooting. The Klan: henchmen of imperialism
Commentary: The Black Liberation Movement and the ruling class’ move to the right
State of the Union Message: “Carter Doctrine” reflects mounting superpower contention
The 1970’s – A decade of struggle for the Chicano Liberation Movement
Japanese Americans demand reparations
Chinese in U.S. enjoy cultural tradition
Build a broad movement to stop the draft
Unite everyone who can be united: Building the Chicano united front
Auto workers need a fighting Program! [selected articles from Unity]
Editorial: In defense of Black artists and the Black Liberation Movement: The case of Amiri Baraka
Revolution and Black Liberation in the 1980’s by Pili Michael L. Humphrey, Chairman of the Afro-American Commission Central Committee of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)
National Chicano student conference held in Southwest
UNITY interview with Network activists: Building rank and file forces in the UAW
Dynamic Atlanta forum on Black Liberation
What road to Chicano liberation? by Lucy Aguilar
Marxist-Leninists and the right of self-determination for the Chicano nation
The choice that isn’t: A communist view of the election
Opinion: Why I’m voting for Carter by Lorenzo Cañizares
Editorial. The presidential election: No support for any candidate
Opinion: Why I am not voting for the “lesser evil” by Jim Woods
The World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans and the struggle for reparations/redress
The Asian national minorities in the U.S.: A struggle for equality, power and socialism
The “Conservative Mandate”: From the people, or from big business? by Mae Ngai
New Right’s “mass organizing” strategy and tactics
The Black Liberation Movement: A struggle for Land and Power! by Amiri Baraka
Defending minority workers caucuses: Lessons from a Chicago steelworkers local
A Commentary: “Revolutionary Communist Party” launches open attacks on China
Editorial: Albania Party letter full of slanders and distortions
Study Column on the Theory of the Three Worlds
Expose Vietnam’s agressive ambitions [Unity, Vol. 1, No. 4, November 17-30, 1978]
China’s Modernization Serves Socialism
Condemn Viet Nam authorities’ efforts to overthrow Kampuchea [Unity, Vol. 1, No. 6, December 15-28, 1978]
China’s Poster Campaign is Socialist Democracy in Action
Normalization of U.S.-China Relations and Deng Xioping’s U.S. visit: A victory for socialism
Viet Nam, Backed by USSR, Seizes Phnom Penh
Soviet and Vietnamese, get out of Kampuchea!
Chinese Communist Party decides socialist modernization is China’s foremost task
Soviet moves in Asia designed to outflank Europe
Vietnamese invaders unble to crush Kampuchean resistance [Unity, Vol. 2, No. 3, February 9-22, 1979]
China’s Actions Against Vietnam are Just and Courageous
Masses Overthrow Shah’s Forces in Iran
China teaches Viet Nam a lesson [Unity, Vol. 2, No. 5, March 9-22, 1979]
China’s actions serve the international proletariat
Iranian people for national unity
What went wrong with Viet Nam?
How can the danger of war and the arms race be ended?
The Philippine Revolution [from Unity]
China’s Democracy is for the Masses and Socialism
Hanoi’s fascist persecution and expansionism responsible for one million refugees
Socialist modernization and class struggle in China
Hanoi’s refugee policy just like Nazis’
Kampucheans make steady progress in fighting Vietnamese invaders
Popular rebellion weakening Soviet-backed Afghani regime
People’s China: 30 years of building socialism
UNITY interviews Ieng Sary: On mass famine, Kampuchean united front, resistance and other questions
Soviet threat looms: U.S. missiles for W. Europe touch off security debate
Editorial: Condemn the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Support the Resistance of the Afghan People! [leaflet]
Editorial: Unite the countries and peoples of the world to oppose Soviet aggression in Afghanistan!
Afghani tells UNITY of Soviet takeover: Soviets face peoples’ war in Afghanistan
Islamic movement: blow to imperialism
How Afghanistan serves Soviet strategy for world domination
Who are the Afghan guerrillas?
Communist Party of China holds Central Committee meeting; Liu Shaoqi rehabilitated
Soviet penetration of Latin America
Commentary: On the Cultural Revolution in China
Letter to Unity on the Cultural Revolution in China and Unity’s response [Unity, Vol. 3, No. 11, May 22-June 5, 1980]
Josip Tito: Fighter for Yugoslavia’s independence and champion of Non-Aligned Movement
China makes efforts to strengthen national defense
Italian Communist Party visit to China sets back Soviets
UNITY interviews a member of Ranjbaran Party. Iran today: An Iranian Marxist-Leninist View
Cuba and the Latino movements in the U.S. by William Gallegos
Kampuchea: UNITY report from behind the lines by Richard Fleming and Elizabeth Erlich
Strike wave shakes Polish regime
Chile: The lesson of the overthrow of Salvador Allende
Building socialism according to Chinese conditions
New Polish showdown in the making
China’s “gang of 4” trial highlights crimes during Cultural Revolution
Although the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) attempted to build a unified national organization, significant regional differences in politics and loyalty remained. These differences were rooted in earlier conflicts over the nature of communist political work – with an East Coast faction heavily invested in trade union activity and concepts drawn from the 1930s years of the Communist Party. The Avakian faction, in contrast, argued for far more radical political approaches to the working class. By 1977, two years after the RCP’s September 1975 founding congress and one year after Mao’s death, the conflict reached a breaking point and erupted over the arrest of the “Gang of Four.”
In response to this event, Avakian presented a policy document to a meeting of the national central committee entitled “Revisionists Are Revisionists and Must Not Be Supported, Revolutionaries Are Revolutionaries and Must Be Supported.” It argued that the Gang’s defeat represented a "coup" by "capitalist roaders" against "Mao’s closest supporters." A significant group within the RCP’s leadership rejected this analysis, arguing that the organization should uphold the new Chinese leadership and the arrest of the Four. They included by Mickey Jarvis, the vice chairman of the RCP and Leibel Bergman, a veteran of the old CPUSA who had served as an important mentor to Avakian during the formation of the Revolutionary Union. This grouping had major support in the RCP’s East coast organization plus almost all of the leadership of the national youth organization. Avakian maintained strong support on the West Coast, the South and the Appalachian coalfields. The two factions divided the Midwest between them – particularly Chicago, the location of the national headquarters.
The meeting ultimately endorsed the Avakian position. In the aftermath of the vote, major structural and personnel changes were made in the national leadership – Jarvis (for example) was pushed into a defacto exile from his base in New York City, by being re-assigned to the organization's Denver district. As the pro-China members of the central committee returned to their areas, they decided to leave the RCP and declared a “revolt” against the central committee and its decision to uphold the Four. Between this “revolt” and the subsequent purge directed by the Avakian leadership, some 40% of the Party left the organization. These included one-half of the members of the standing bodies of the Central Committee and almost one-half of the Central Committee itself. Among them were the Vice-chair of the Central Committee and its standing bodies; the Chair of the East Coast Region; the Vice-chair of the Mid-west Region; Chairs of the Milwaukee-Minnesota, Chicago-Gary, NY-NJ, and Philadelphia-Baltimore Districts; the head of Party work in the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade (RCYB); the head of Party work in the National United Workers Organization (NUWO); and the head of Party work in the Unemployed Workers Organizing Committee (UWOC). The dissidents soon formed themselves into a new organization – the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (RWHq).
Each side of the split published collections of documents that contained the major arguments of both sides. The RCP maintained the national organ Revolution, while the RWH began issuing a new newspaper, The Worker, following in the tradition of the various regional Worker newspapers that had previously been published by the Revolutionary Union.
In the years that followed, the RWHq focused heavily on trade union activity – especially in the steel industry in the Midwest. Although it shrank in numbers rapidly, its remaining forces participated in unification efforts with other pro-China groups [see section below, “Unification Efforts of Pro-China Groups“ for primary RWHq materials]. In 1979, the RWHq effected a fusion with the Bay Area Communist Union. Then, in 1985, it merged with the Proletarian Unity League and the Organization for Revolutionary Unity to form the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
The post-split RCP took a sharp turn leftward – pulling most of its cadre out of basic industry and adopting a policy of what it called going “lower and deeper” into more oppressed sections of the working class. It also launched a series of campaigns – including a major memorial to Mao Zedung, a national campaign for a May First rally in Washington DC, and a violent demonstration in front of the White House in 1979 where 400-500 RCP members and supporters rioted to protest Deng Xiaoping’s visit to cement an alliance with the United States. As part of its continuing rivalry with the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), the RCP produced a satirical issue of The Call in early 1979, ridiculing the CPML’s ties to the post-Mao Chinese leadership and its objective alliance with U.S. imperialism against “Soviet hegemonism”.
The Revolutionary Communist Party and Flag Burning During Its Forgotten Years, 1974–1989 by Robert Justin Goldstein
Important Struggles in Building the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA by Bill Klingel and Joanne Psihountas
Maoísmo ascendente y repressíon del FBI en Estados Unidos: 1968-1978 by Aaron J. Leonard and Conor A. Gallagher
The Decline of the RCP: A Polemic by the Organization for Revolutionary Unity
Whitewashing Enemies and Slandering Friends: An exposure of the RCP’s revisionist line on the international situation by Eileen Klehr [October League (M-L)]
RCP’s Sectarian Policy: How Maoists Failed Test of Miner’s Strike by Dave Frankel
China Advances Along the Socialist Road: The Gang of Four Were Counter-Revolutionaries and Revolutionaries Cannot Support Them by the Jarvis-Bergman Headquarters
First Time Tragedy Second Time Farce by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Party Routs Revisionist Clique: The High Road vs. The Well-Worn Rut by the Revolutionary Communist Party
RCP Coalfield Work Advances in Struggle. Mensheviks Teach by Negative Example by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Sharpen Weapon of the Party’s Press. Two Line Struggle Deepens Understanding by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Revisionist Coup in China and the Struggle in The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA by The Revolutionary Communist Party
Red Papers 8: China Advances on the Socialist Road: The Gang of Four, Revolution in the US, and the Split in the Revolutionary Communist Party by the Revolutionary Workers’ Headquarters
“Center of Gravity” Repudiated: Economic Struggle & Revolutionary Tasks
The Struggle Over China in the RCP
On the Mensheviks’ Views of Crisis: “Capitalism Works After All” by R. Lotta
“Sure We’ll Fight the Capitalists–in Russia.” Mensheviks Wave Stars and Stripes at URPE Conference
Mensheviks Sow Confusion On Fusion
And Mao Makes 5: Mao Tsetung’s Last Great Battle edited by Raymond Lotta
Commemorating a Major Struggle in the RCP, USA: Upholding Mao’s Revolutionary Line: A Turning Point [Revolution, No. 56, Spring 1988]
Open Letter to Pipsqueak Avakian 1/24/78: What You Couldn’t Organize, You Can’t Steal! by the Revolutionary Student Brigade
RCYB Consolidates On Correct Line
R.C.Y.B. Conference a Big Success
Party Speech At RCYB Convention by William Klingel
Communism and Revolution Vs. Revisionism and Reformism in the Struggle to Build the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade by The Revolutionary Communist Party
Insect Report: Roaches Flee Light
Youth of America Dare to Say, Revolution is the Only Way!
The Real RSB Stands Up! [Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1978]
Long Live the People’s Republic! Long Live Working Class Rule! [on the Gang of Four] by the National Office of the Revolutionary Student Brigade [Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1978]
RCYB Attacks Youth for Being Youth [Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1978]
2nd Convention of RCYB: Firm Ground For New Advances
Wrong Line On “Carter” Offensive: Reject Revisionism in Unemployed Work
NUWO Steering Committee Meets: Workers Set High Goals for Struggle
Mensheviks in the Slag Heap: Forging Correct Line in Steel
Vets Struggle Against Imperialist War
RCP Splits! Gang of Four Purge Rips Apart Maoists by Workers Vanguard
Behind the Split in the RCP (Part 2) by Workers Vanguard
Attack on China Splits RCP by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Why did the “RCP,USA” Split? by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
On Party Building and the RCP Split. Line Struggle, or Squabble between Opportunists? by the League for Proletarian Revolution (Marxist-Leninist)
RCP Split Leaves Maoist Youth in Dark by Young Spartacus
Information on the Split in the RCP – Status of the Jarvis Faction (Milwaukee) by Bill Breihan (SWP)
Behind the Split in the RCP by David Frankel [The Militant]
Book Review: Red Papers 8 by The New Voice
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The Forgotten Foundations of Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Studies. El Plan de Santa Barbara and Damián García’s Revolutionary Communist Synthesis, 1967–1980 by B. V. Olguín and Edward Giardello
How RCP Defends Chauvinism and Anti-Party Blocs. A Reply to ’The Communist’ on the National Liaison Committee by An Observer
Latest Back-door Attack on China: RCP Mouths ’Gang of Four’ Distortions by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
People run RCP racists out of Crown Heights by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
RCP goons escalate attacks on China by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
A Commentary: “Revolutionary Communist Party” launches open attacks on China by the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)
RCP Makes Anti-China Stand Public by The New Voice
Response to Anti-China lies of RCP’s New Hero by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
RCP’s racist attack on Harry Haywood by Sherman Miller
Editorial: RCP’s puny anti-China provocation by The Call
RCP Sinks Deeper in the Swamp by the Communist Party, USA (Marxist-Leninist)
Does the “RCP-USA” Oppose the Theory of “Three Worlds”? (Part 1) by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Does the “RCP-USA” Oppose the Theory of “Three Worlds”? (Part 2) by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
RCP Goes Nuts from Young Spartacus
RCP Opens Fire on Tenants: ’Like the Klan without robes’ by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Questions on the Revolutionary Communist Party by S. Wallis [Modern Times, Hawaii]
Bob Avakian: Dangerous, yes, but not to capitalism by The Call
A Reply to the RCP: “Mao Defenders” Sow Ideological Confusion and Provoke Reaction by the Communist Party, USA (Marxist-Leninist)
Criticism of the RCP’s draft programme by In Struggle! [Canada]
Who the “Friends”of the Zimbabwean People Are and How They Fight the Zimbabwe Revolution. “RC”P: Turn the Guns Against Mugabe and ZANU by the Communist Workers Party
RCP’s antics earn them fistfights and garbage by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Modern Times Editorial: Adventurism on the March? Reflections on the RCP’s May Day
The Counter-Revolutionary Activity of the RCP by the Communist Party, USA (Marxist-Leninist)
Bob Avakian: ’The Jerk’ Is Loose! by the Bolshevik League of the United States
Avakian clamping down on more realistic RCPers by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
RCP Deep-Ended by the Spartacist League
Ultra-left antics leave one dead. RCP road show ends in tragedy by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Is the RCP crazy? Or is there a method to their madness? by the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)
Observing the RCP’s May Day by the Modern Times [Hawaii] staff and editors
RCP’s May Day: Not Revolutionary But Revolting! by the Bolshevik League of the United States
How to unite communists: The RCP-USA sidesteps the key issue by In Struggle! [Canada]
RCP: On Farragos, May Day 1980 and the Echoes Today by Mike Ely
CPUSA Pushes Reformist Dead-End: Nat’l Demos Target Weber Case [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 6, June 8, 1979]
Ohio CPUSA Joins Chorus – “Kill the Commies”
CPUSA Convention Dilemma: How to Serve 2 Masters Headed for War?
“Communist” Party Convention Theme: We’ll Make Capitalism Work!
CP(M-L) Tells Masses “Let’s Go Backwards”: Hawaii Eviction Fight
Reformism–Key Link in CP(ML) Campaign
Call Attacks Dictatorship of Proletariat: Mao’s Line Offends CP(ML)
CPML Takes Side of Houston Police
Ex-Member Exposes CPML: Blind Tagging Behind China Demanded
Interview Provokes Foaming CP ML Response: Stuck Pigs Squeal
“Let Bourgeois Art Do Its Thing” [Revolution, Vol. 3, No. 14, November 1978]
One Step Behind Bourgeoisie: CPML Discovers Class Struggle in Iran
Harry Haywood – “My Life as a Bundist”
CPML’s Foaming Fantasy on Atlanta: Will the Real Police Agents Please Stand Up [The Worker for the San Francisco Bay Area and Salinas Valley, Vol. 4, No. 14, April 21, 1979]
CPML Loves Cops from Coast to Coast [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 3, May 18, 1979]
CPML on Iran: Revolution? How Disruptive!
CPML Speculates on China: Which Thieves Will Win Out? [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 12, June 20, 1979]
Is the U.S. Really a Toothless Tiger?
Red, White & Blue “Communists” on Afghanistan: Is It Time? Is It Newsweek? No–It’s The Call!
A Letter to The Call: Don’t Miss the Mammoth Threat
Syncophant Gets Sindicated [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 38, January 25, 1980]
Social Chauvinists Do the Splits: How to Support/Oppose the Draft [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 50, April 15, 1980]
Revisionists Caw Over Murder of Communist [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 53b, May 5, 1980]
King Legacy: Reformism and Capitulation
Opportunists Flaunt Reformism in ALD Actions
Struggle Over “Gang of 5” Hits USCPFA
Opportunists: “Vote Your Troubles Away”
Phony Marxists Display Pro-Imperialist Wares
Mensheviks Waive Stars and Stripes at URPE Conference [Revolution, Vol. 4, No. 4, April 1979]
San Jose Spiritual March: Attempt to Love Enemy Flops [The Worker for the San Francisco Bay Area and Salinas Valley, Vol. 4, No. 13, April 7, 1979]
“New ” WVO China Line Covers Reformism. Old Dog-matists Turn New Tricks
Pro-Albania Parties’ Summer Camp: Spanish Inquisition No. 2
Guardian’s Contribution to Attack on Bob Avakian
German Social Chauvinist Party Dissolves
Opportunist May Day Follies [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 58, June 6, 1980]
Upholding Spontaneity and Denouncing Revolution
What the CWP is Copying and What It Is Not
You Can’t Beat the Enemy While Raising His Flag: MLPUSA Tries It
Communism – Road Forward for Youth
Major Victory Against Opportunists: Revolutionary Communist Party Holds Second Congress
Communiqué on the Second Congress of the RCP
Opening Remarks at Congress by Bob Avakian
Avakian Holds 2nd Congress: Future is gloomy for RCP’s gang of China-haters by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
2nd Congress Drives CPML to Frenzy [Revolution, Vol. 3, No. 9, June 1978]
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The Paris Commune: First Proletarian Dictatorship
THE WORKER: Coming Out Twice a Month
May Day Rallies Chart Revolutionary Course
Local [Hawaii] RCP Speech: High Road to Revolution – Our Only Future!
On the Role of Agitation and Propaganda
Chicago Worker Conference: Mobilizing for Bi-Weekly Worker
New Revolution Magazine! Party Press Moves Forward
Announcing the Revolutionary Worker
New National Weekly Revolutionary Worker: “Create Public Opinion. . . Seize Power!”
Traitor Teng Given Fitting Welcome
“I Waved the Red Book Teng Hsiao-Ping’s Face”
Communist youths angered by Teng
RCP satirical issue of the CP(ML)’s The Call newspaper
RCP Calls CPML’s Number from Young Spartacus
How Can We Apologize for Taking History into Our Hands? by Bob Avakian
Forward to Revolutionary May Day, 1980!
Bob Avakian: Revolutionary Communist Leader
4th Anniversary of the Founding of the R.C.P.: We Are the Party of the Future
The Prospects for Revolution and the Urgent Tasks in the Decade Ahead: Documents from the Third Plenary Session of the Second Central Committee of the RCP,USA [from Revolution, Vol. 4, #10-11, Oct.-Nov. 1979]
Lenin’s Struggle Against International Opportunism: 1914-1917 [from Revolution, Vol. 4, #10-11, Oct.-Nov. 1979]
The U.S. Government Maneuvers: Secret Service Plots to Frame Bob Avakian! [flyer]
The Stakes Are Up – For Them and Us by Bob Avakian
1980 A year, a Decade of Historic Importance by Bob Avakian
RCP Issues Call: Enlist In Revolutionary May Day Brigades
What is Economism and Why is it NO DAMN GOOD?
New Programme and New Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (Drafts for Discussion)
Why Was There Was No Revolution in the ’60s and Why There May Be in the ’80s by Bob Avakian
Summing Up the Black Panther Party by Bob Avakian
Coming from Behind to Make Revolution. A Talk by Bob Avakian
Class Struggle Rages over Button Day
Comrade Danian Garcia [special supplement to the Revolutionary Worker]
The international unity of the proletariat: What it is and how to fight for it
International Workers Day May 1st, 1980–The Welding of a Class-Conscious Force
On the Question of So-Called “National Nihilism”: You Can’t Beat the Enemy While Raising His Flag
Revolutionary March Puts Houston Pigs Against Wall
RCP Blasts U.S.-China Flag Wavers
Avenge the Murder of Melvin Black [flyer]
The Chicano Struggle and the Struggle for Socialism
Busing and the Fight Against National Oppression and for Revolution [from Revolution, Vol. 4, #6, June 1979]
Break the Chains! Unleash the Fury of Women as a Mighty Force for Revolution
Lawyers Guild Meeting: Mao Defendants Case Spurs Dispute [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 16, August 17, 1979]
Opportunists Run Amuck at MECha Convention
Anger of Black Community Explodes in Oakland City Council
Goon Squad Responds to NUWO Debate Challenge
Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions Part 1: Revolution in Colonial Countries
Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions Part 2: Revolutionary War and Military Line
Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions Part 3: Political Economy, Economic Policy and Socialist Construction
Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions Part 4: Philosophy
Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions Part 5: Culture and the Superstructure
Mao Tsetung’s Immortal Contributions [book] by Bob Avakian
Mao Memorial Meetings Appeal Letter
Historic Mao Memorials Combat Revisionism
Building for the Mao Memorials: Unprecedented Campaign Sweeps Country
The Loss in China and the Revolutionary Legacy of Mao Tsetung by Bob Avakian
Mao Tsetung Memorial by J. W. [Modern Times, Hawaii]
RCP gang of China-haters hits new low by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
CPML Caught in Dilemma: How to Attack Mao While Pretending to Uphold Him
Letter to the Editor [Bolshevik, Vol. 8, No. 4, n.d.]
Party Calls for Mao Tsetung Enrollment
Mao Memorial Month Final Events
Hawaii: Mao Tsetung Enrollment Hits Nerve
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Hua’s Trip: All-Round Capitulation To Imperialism
“Three Worlds” Strategy: Apology for Capitulation
China Says: Iran Stability Key Link [Revolution, Vol. 3, No. 14, November 1978]
Normalization: China Joins U.S. War Bloc [flyer]
Reactionary Mantle of Chou En-lai
Normalization: China Joins U.S. War Bloc [Revolution, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1979]
Can You Really Swallow All This? Reversal in China More Blatant
Storms Are Gathering – Carry the Red Flag Forward! by Bob Avakian
Revisionist Pipe Dream Goes Up in Smoke. The Destruction of China’s Socialist Economy
When Will China Play the ’China Card’?
China’s Rulers Begin Open Attack on Mao [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 22, October 5, 1979]
Chinese Revisionists to Revise Verdict on Soviets? [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 28, November 16, 1979]
Hua Waves Flag for U.S.-NATO Bloc [Revolutionary Worker, Vol. 1, No. 28, November 16, 1979]
January Storm Decreed Criminal by Revisionists
Tachai: Another Red Banner Pulled Down In the Dung
Revisionists Bring Back China’s Khrushchev
Chinese Revisionists Rehab Mao’s Greatest Foe: Rotting Corpse from Capitalist Boneyard
Pro-Soviet Wind Blows in Peking
Chinese Bourgeoisie Honors Its Big Hero
Revisionist Infighting: How Best To Attack Mao?
Deng Xiao-ping’s Modern Industrial Boondoggles
Chinese Rulers Slug It Out: Crude Capitalist Roader vs. Wishy-Washy Revisionist
USSR Pulls Strings – Vietnamese Revisionists Occupy Cambodia
Bitter Fruit of Revisionism: Indochina Armed Clashes
China-Vietnam: Superpowers Accelerate Moves to World War III
Superpowers Tally Score in Asia Battles
USSR Behind Occupation of Kampuchea. Vietnamese Treachery Reaches New Depths
Vietnam: Miscarriage of the Revolution
Why We Call It Social Imperialism
Imperialists Offer Deadly “Ceasefire” in Zimbabwe
Soviets March into Afghanistan Quicksand
New Zimbabwe government: Opportunists Throw Holy Water on Capitulation
Revolution [newspaper] 1975-1978
Revolution [magazine] 1979-1994
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The Communist Workers Party (CWP) was founded in October 1979. It had its origins in the Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO). WVO had been briefly involved in the Revolutionary Wing in 1975-76, and as the Wing disintegrated, WVO was able to increase its membership and influence from the break-up and purges in other groups, primarily the Revolutionary Workers League (RWL). In North Carolina, for example, former members of the RWL formed the Bolshevik Organizing Collective (M-L) (BOC) which later merged with another local collective, the Communist Workers Committee (M-L) (CWC), before joining WVO.
Almost immediately after its founding, the CWP made national headlines when five of its members (former members of the BOC and CWC) were killed by Nazis in Greensboro, North Carolina. While the rhetoric and behavior of the CWP following the killings could be extreme (for example, its attack on the 1980 Democratic National Convention), by 1980 it began a process of abandoning its former leftism. This process started with a reassessment of its positions on the international situation.
Having previously championed Mao Zedong Thought and Chinese foreign policy, the CWP was silent for a long time about events in China following Mao’s death and the fall of the Gang of Four, before coming out with a position that argued that these developments represented a counter-revolutionary coup. The evolution of the CWP’s thinking continued with its abandonment of the position that capitalism had been restored in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and its open endorsement of détente, stands which were elaborated on in General Secretary Jerry Tung’s 1981 book, The Socialist Road.
WVO Proclaims Itself General Staff by the August 29th Movement (Marxist-Leninist)
W.V.O. Kicked Out Of Chicago Forum: National Movements – Main Allies of the Working Class by the August 29th Movement (Marxist-Leninist)
The Treachery of the May Fourth Coalition Spells Defeat for the Struggles of the Masses! (An Exposure of Workers Viewpoint Organization’s Work at Brooklyn College) by the Revolutionary Collective
N.Y. May Day: 1000 Strong, Workers March Led by WVO. Major Speech from Central Committee of WVO
May Day Speech, 1978 by Jerry Tung
WVO Esposes Itself – Again – at Women’s Conference by the League for Proletarian Revolution (M-L) [Resistance, Vol. 9, No. 6, August 1978]
Former Member Denounces WVO by the Revolutionary Communist Party
WVO’s Peculiar Position on China: Closet “Maoists” Expose Themselves by the Revolutionary Communist Party [Revolution, Vol. 4, No. 6, June 1979]
WVO’s political gangsterism is despised by N.Y.’s Chinese community by Lee Chen, The Call
Statement by the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) on the Workers Viewpoint Organization
CWP: Opportunism “Beyond the Point of No Return” by the Revolutionary Communist Party
There Will Be Revolution. But Wishing Won’t Make It So. Voluntarism, Metaphysics and the Communist Workers Party by the Revolutionary Communist Party [Revolution, Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 1980)]
Revolution in 2, 3, 5 Years Says Frenzied Mao Cult: CWP Careens into the ’80s by the Spartacist League
Long Live the Communist Workers Party, U.S.A.!
On the Founding of the Communist Workers Party, U.S.A.
Forged In 5-Years Of Glorious Struggle, CWP Charges Forward To Break The Bourgeoisie
Build the Communist Workers Party! Prepare for the D. of P.!
Communist Workers Party 5 Enrollment
Editorial: Smash Attempts to Redbait Communist Workers Party
Study Notes on “Letter to a Comrade On Our Organizational Tasks”
Spector of Communism Haunts the Bourgeoisie: The Issue Behind All Issues
Why WV Did Not Go To Press Last Week
Two Significant Victories in Beating Back Red Baiting
On the Importance of Communist Propaganda
Nelson Johnson Uses Gubernatorial Election Platform To Broadly Propagate Party’s Line
Party’s Fundraising Drive Victorious! Goal of $150,000 Surpassed
NYC Forum: CWP General Secretary Launches Great Debate of the 80’s
Trotskyites Chase Klan/Nazi Scum, Lets Bourgeosie Off Hook [Workers Viewpoint, Vol. 5, No. 21, June 16, 1980]
80’s Economic Crisis Will Make the 30’s Great Depression Look Like a Picnic. Prepare for Dictatorship of the Proletariat by Jack Shirai [The 80’s, Vol. I, No. 1, n.d.)]
Join The Revolutionary Youth League, Fight For Workers Rule
Study Marxist Philosophy: Penetrate the Appearance to Grasp the Essence
“But how do I know you Communists won’t sell out after the revolution?”
Oakland Forum: We Can Win and We Will Win! – Jerry Tung, General Secretary, CWP
Presentation to the Central Committee, November 1980 by Jerry Tung
A Year Since the Greensboro Massacre. Speech by the Communist Workers Party
The Role of Practice in the Marxist Theory of Knowledge by Cynthia Lai
Presentation to the Party Leadership, December 1980 by Jerry Tung
Celebrate International Working Women’s Day 1979!
30’s Depression Haunts Bourgeoisie, But Fear of 80’s Freaks Them Out!
Boston: Party/Masses Punch Out FBI
Self-Criticism for Boston Article
Editorial: U.S. People Must Prepare Against World War III and Fascism
Victory for Right to Armed Self-Defense
Greensboro Backs Down, Grants Permit from The Call
CWP Press Release [on the Feb. 2nd Anti-Klan demonstration]
“C”PML Works with Cops in Feb 2nd Demo
CWP: Communism is the only road for Afro-Americans
1980 Elections: The Real Choice is Fascism/World War or Revolutionary Socialism
“Miami Foreshadows Revolutionary Situation To Come” Jerry Tung, CWP General Secretary
Miami Conference: U.S. People Demand New Leadership For The 80’s
No Presidential Candidates Can Resurrect U.S. Economy
Serve Notice to the Politicians at the Democratic Convention
Just One Cop Is Not Enough, We Have To Kill The Whole System
Chattanooga! 9 Pigs Fall to People’s Armed Defense
American Dream, American Nightmare by Jack Shirai
Black Politics in the 80’s by Warren Kelly [The 80’s, Vol. 1, No. 2, September 1980]
Elections 1980: The Battle for Moral Authority by Nathan Goldstein
Extreme Times Require Extreme Measures To Save The Country
Payback: “The Communist Workers Party Stormed the Democratic Convention”
21 Officers Hurt Battling Communist Worker Groups
CWP Shuts Down Democratic Convention For Two Hours
Capitalism Destablized – How Do We Prepare To Overthrow the U.S. Government by Irene Blankenship
Mass Meeting: To Continue Our Fight to Smash the Klan! [flyer]
Smash the Klan with the Correct Understanding and Armed Self-Defense flyer by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
An Open Letter to Joe Grady, Gorrell Pierce, and All KKK Members and Sympathizers by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
“Death to the Klan” flyer by the Communist Workers Party
“Greensboro Massacre” – video
“1979: Gov’t & KKK Murder Five Communists” – video
“Turn Grief Into Strength! Avenge the CWP 5!” flyer by the Communist Workers Party
Seize the Time! Take Take Up the Posts of the CWP 5 Martyrs Wave Upon Wave! by Jerry Tung
Worker Viewpoint newspaper issue on the murder of the CWP Five
Greensboro Massacre: Premeditated Gov’t Assassination of Communist Workers Party Leaders
Revisionists Cry Crocodile Tears Over CWP 5
The Lessons of Greensboro by the National Anti-Racist Organizing Committee
Commentary on the Greensboro shooting. The Klan: henchmen of imperialism by the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)
Opportunists’ Response to Greensboro Massacre: Let the Murderers Investigate Their Crimes by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Dirty Politicians Watch Out! CWP is Out for Vengeance
Mike Nathan’s Co-workers Walk Out, Carrying On His Communist Spirit
Self-criticism of Mike Nathan Article
The Lessons of the Greensboro Massacre by Ray O. Light
“Communist Workers Party 5 Died Fighting the KKK/Nazis Rather than Live as Slaves” flyer by the Communist Workers Party
CWP letter to supporters and friends
Spirit of the CWP 5 Lives on: CWP Rejects Sham Capitalist Judicial System
The Greensboro Massacre: Critical Lessons for the 1980’s by the Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson Collective and the Greensboro Collective
Greensboro: Political Suicide With No Condolences by the Bolshevik League of the United States
Open Letter Regarding the CWP-Led Greensboro Conference by the Bolshevik League of the United States
One Year Since the Greensboro Massacre Speech by the Communist Workers Party
Exchange on the CWP and Greensboro in Line of March’s Frontline newspaper
The Lessons of Greensboro by the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee [Death to the Klan!, #4, Fall 1984]
Stories of the Greensboro Massacre by Tiffany George Butler Quaye
CWP’s Call: Defend and Build Independent Union
Don’t Drown In The Waterfall of Grievances, Prepare To Cut Off The Source – Capitalism
1980 Strikes–The Giant Can’t Awaken Without Breaking Labor Aristocrats Stranglehold
Decertify the Sellout ACTWU – Gardena Shoeworkers Will Be the Model!
Steward Systems: Build a Network of Leaders, Not Grievance Processors
War Preparation Delayed Todd Shipyard Strike
Symbol of Masses’ Unprecedented Openness to Party Leadership: 900 Shipyard Workers Sick Out!
Nassco Wildcat Shuts Down Shipyard: “Defend Our Leaders!”
NASSCO Shipyard Workers Taking the “War” Inside
How CWP isolated the left and hurt the NASSCO strike by the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Defend NASSCO Frame-Up Victims! [from Workers Vanguard, #269, November 28, 1980]
The NASSCO Workers Struggle: For a Fighting Union–A Communist Perspective by the Committee for a Proletarian Party
Bombing Plot Trial Nears End on Coast By Robert Lindsey [New York Times]
Justice Demands Free the NASSCO 3!
NASSCO Three Railroaded [from Workers Vanguard, #283, June 19, 1981]
NASSCO 3: In Trial’s Wake, Resolve Stronger Than Ever By Erin White
NASSCO 3 Sentenced to 2 Years By Erin White
NASSCO Conviction – A Dangerous Precedent by David Armstrong
Mark Loo: From the Streets of Chinatown to the Shipyards of San Diego by Eliot Chun
United Shipyard Workers – The New Challenge By Greg Elwood
USWU Loses Bid for Indep. Union: Organizers Poised To Renew Battle for Leadership by Tony To
Iron Workers Recast Image as Union Celebrates Its 50th Year: Though Local 627 has always had a raucous reputation, the union’s attitude toward management at the Nassco shipyard has tempered. By H. G. Reza [Los Angeles Times]
Afghanistan: Soviet Union’s Vietnam
3rd World Demands Soviets Out of Afghanistan
Zimbabwe: Landslide Election Victory, New Challenges for ZANU
Congratulations Comrade Mugabe: Letter from the Central Committee of the CWP
What’s at Stake? Tug of War Between Militants and Iranian Government
The Third World and U.S. Proletarian Revolution in the 80’s by C. W. Li
CIA’s Dirty Tricks Against Pol Pot Leak Out
U.S.-2nd World Summit: Band of Thieves Falling Apart
Scab Rulers in China Moan over Corruption
Workers Viewpoint [newspaper]
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WVO’s Hegemonism Wrecks and Splits ALSC
Editorial: RCL’s Position on the Gang of Four (Part 1)
ATM & IWK Unite to Form LRS = Take Important Step Toward Party!!!
Albania Slanders China: Left Opportunism vs. Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought!!
Subjectivism Runs Amuck with RCP
The Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M) and the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L) Unite!
New York program celebrates merger of RCL (M-L-M) and LRS (M-L)
Series of Midwest programs marks merger of RCL and LRS
Atlanta program celebrates RCL-LRS merger
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RWH on the Black Liberation Movement: Wrong Again! by Amiri Baraka (Including “Notes on Baraka's ’RWH on the BLM: Wrong Again’ From a White Communist“ By Jim Woods)
China Advances Along the Socialist Road: The Gang of Four Were Counter-Revolutionaries and Revolutionaries Cannot Support Them by the Jarvis-Bergman Headquarters
Open Letter to Pipsqueak Avakian 1/24/78: What You Couldn’t Organize, You Can’t Steal! by the Revolutionary Student Brigade
The Real RSB Stands Up! [Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1978]
Long Live the People’s Republic! Long Live Working Class Rule! [on the Gang of Four] by the National Office of the Revolutionary Student Brigade [Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1978]
China Making Big Plans Transforming the Country by the year 2000
China – Socialism on the March [Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1978]
RCYB Attacks Youth for Being Youth [Young Communist, Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1978]
Why Union Bigshots are Talking “Class War”
Vietnam Out to Overthrow Cambodian Gov’t.
Down with Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia! [Workers Voice, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1979]
Soviets lead assault on Eritrea
Rumanians nix Soviet arms push [Workers Voice, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1979]
China leader blazes trail in U.S. [Workers Voice, Vol. 2, No. 2, February 1979]
Cambodians rises up against Viet invaders
The Soviet drive for world domination
Vietnam blitzkrieg bogs down in Cambodia (Kampuchea)
What's behind the China-Vietnam Clash? [Workers Voice, Vol. 2, No. 3, April 1979]
An Exchange on May Day... Unity at What Price? between the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters and the Philadelphia Workers Organizing Committee
Afghanistan rebels target Soviets [Workers Voice, Vol. 2, No. 5, July 1979]
S.E. revolutions face Vietnam backstabbing [Workers Voice, Vol. 2, No. 5, July 1979]
A step toward revolutionary unity [joint statement of RWH, CPML, and LRS]
Statement on the Merger of the Bay Area Communist Union into the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
Anti-Klan marchers hit Greensboro murders
Soviet puppets, not rebels, are Afghan reactionaries [Workers Voice, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 1980]
Build the Black Liberation Movement
The Organizer [paper of the United Workers Organization in Milwaukee, Wisconsin]
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Viets invade Chinese territory by the Communist Party (M-L) [The Call, Vol. 8, No. 5, February 5, 1979]
Chinese troops strike back at Vietnamese by the Communist Party (M-L)
China Counters Viet Nam’s Aggression by the League of Revolutionary Stuggle (M-L)
China’s Actions Against Vietnam are Just and Courageous by the League of Revolutionary Stuggle (M-L)
China-Vietnam: Superpowers Accelerate Moves to World War III by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Call Editorial: USSR-Vietnam to blame for Asia fighting by the Communist Party (M-L)
China Counter-Attacks Viet Nam Aggression by the Workers Congress (M-L)
China teaches Viet Nam a lesson by the League of Revolutionary Stuggle (M-L) [Unity, Vol. 2, No. 5, March 9-22, 1979]
China’s actions serve the international proletariat by the League of Revolutionary Stuggle (M-L)
China and Vietnam and the Question of War by the Philadelphia Workers Organizing Committee Political Committee
Behind China’s Counter-strike in Vietnam: Questions and Answers on the China-Vietnam Conflict by the Communist Party (M-L)
Stand by People’s China and Democratic Kampuchea by the League for Proletarian Revolution (M-L)
[Resistance, Vol. 10, No. 3, March 1979]Down With Chinese Social-Imperialism’s Savage Aggression Against Viet Nam! Statement by the National Executive Committee of the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
The “CP(M-L)” Social-Chauvinists are Brazen Lackeys of Imperialism by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
What went wrong with Viet Nam? by the League of Revolutionary Stuggle (M-L)
Support expressed for China’s Vietnam action by the Communist Party (M-L)
Superpowers Tally Score in Asia Battles by the Revolutionary Communist Party
What’s Behind the China-Vietnam Clash? by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters [Workers’ Voice, Vol. II, No. 3, April 1979]
Phony Marxists Display Pro-Imperialist Wares by the Revolutionary Communist Party
Hanoi’s fascist persecution and expansionism responsible for one million refugees by the League of Revolutionary Stuggle (M-L)
Hanoi’s refugee policy just like Nazis’ by the League of Revolutionary Stuggle (M-L)
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East Wind Collective Criticism
WC(M-L) Response to Criticism by East Wind Collective
Memo to newspaper staff (L.A. Distrct) on developing The Communist into an Iskra-type newspaper
OC Draft Program: Proletarian Internationalism Or Social-Chauvinism
Revolutionary Training [series introduction]
The Chief Means of Revolutionary Training
The Path from Fragmentation to Party Unity
Revolutionary Training and the Iskra Tactic
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RWC Strike Sum-Up: Party Building Tasks by the Revolutionary Workers’ Collective
Develop Party Type Units and Nuclear Style of Work. Comments on Part 1 of the RWC’s Sum-Up by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
RWC Strike Sum-Up: Trade Union Tasks by the Revolutionary Workers’ Collective
Develop Leadership in Mass Work. Comments on Part 2 of the RWC’s Sum-Up by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
Comments on RWC Strike Sum-Up by the Pacific Collective
WC Commentary on Pacific Collective Views: Take Marxism-Leninism to the Working Class by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
Open Letter on Criticism-Self-Criticism by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist) and Friends from the East Coast
Pacific Collective Criticizes WC(M-L). Strike Sum-Up Series To Continue by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
WC(M-L) to Deepen Rectification Campaign by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
Pacific Collective Polemic with WC (ML). Part 1 – Views on the Advanced by the Pacific Collective
ML Collective Struggle: Leadership selection summed up by Friends on the East Coast
Pacific Collective Polemic with WC (ML). Part 2 – Building Communist Cores by the Pacific Collective
An Opportunist Policy: CPUSA’s “Left-Center” Coalition
Right Opportunism in Anti-Bakke Work: Response to ATM & IWK
National Proposal to Build the Anti-Bakke Movement
A Serious Mistake in Mass Work
Unity in Words – Sectarianism in Deeds: ATM/IWK and CP(ML) ’Unite’ to Exclude WC(ML) from ABDC
Unite to Build a Nationwide Campaign to Defend and Expand Affirmative Action
LPR (M-L) Supports WC (M-L) National Proposal
Commentary by Workers Congress (M-L): Learn from Past Errors of NCOBD-ABDC, Struggle Against Sectarianism [includes a reprint of a Report: Sum-Up by Members of the National Lawyers Guild: The Struggle Against Left Opportunism and Towards Unity in the Anti-Bakke Movement]
Women’s Liberation – A Revolutionary Struggle
The Example of Panama: Revolutionary Use of Reforms In International Struggle
Defend the Dictatorship of the Proletariat in China
Defend Kampuchean Communist Party
Modernization Necessary for Socialist Construction
Deng Xiaoping Cleared of False Charges
China Counter-Attacks Viet Nam Aggression
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What Do “Left” and Right Mean?
World Proletarian Strategy... Study Theory of Three Worlds
CP M-L, RCP, Guardian All Have... Opportunist Strategy for the U.S.
On Our Work: Using the Second Key Point
New Possibilities for Unity Among Marxist-Leninists: Make the Proletarian Line Central
Guidelines for Caucus-building
Struggle Is At a High Level, Defines the Tasks of Revolutionaries
RCP Makes Anti-China Stand Public
Debate: What Road for Communists in the ’80s? by Charles Loren
Debate: What Road for Communists in the ’80s? by Daniel Burstein
Two Letters on Burstein-Loren Debate
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TNV’s 200th Issue: The 1970’s: A Decade Reviewed
Resist Separation Trend from the Masses
Views Changing: Does Busing Fight Racism?
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LPR(M-L) Launches Rectification Campaign
Rectify Our Style of Work! Combat Spontaneity
Rectify Our Style of Work! Combat Amateurishness!
Affirmative Action, the Woman Question and the Rectification Campaign
[Resistance, Vol. 10, No. 3, March 1979]A Repulsive Editorial: Albania Praises Vietnamese Invasion of Kampuchea and Attacks China
Stand by People’s China and Democratic Kampuchea [Resistance, Vol. 10, No. 3, March 1979]
The Struggle to Rectify Continues
COReS (mlm) and LPR (m-l) On Road to Higher Unity
Rectification Campaign – COReS (mlm)
USSR Shed “Socialist” Cover [on the invasion of Afghanistan]
War Getting Closer, What Must Revolutionaries do?
Kampuchea Support Work Must Contine!
IWD or IWWD? [the positions of LPR and COReS]
Progress Report: Forward COReS-LPR merger!
COReS-LPR Joint Statement: Our work within the working class movement
We Won’t Be Cannon Fodder in Imperialist Wars! A Marxist-Leninist View
LPR-ML and COReS-MLM Complete Meger – Marxist-Leninist League Founded
Greetings to the Marxist-Leninist League
Joint Statement on the Woman Question
Joint Statement on Party Building
Carry Out Open and Above Board Struggle
Exchange with PUL on the Trade Union Question
M-L League to Celebrate 1st Congress
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The distinct Pro-Albania trend in the New Communist Movement emerged in 1978 in response to the open polemics between the Party of Labor of Albania (PLA) and the Communist Party of China. The main organizations in this trend were:
* the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee (MLOC), one of the groups which had its origins in the Black Workers Congress;
* the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists (COUSML);
* the U.S. Leninist Core, which derived from remnants of the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization-Revolutionary Workers League alliance that formerly called itself the Revolutionary Wing;
* Demarcation, which came out of the Red Dawn Committee (M-L), which itself had come out of the New York section of the Workers Congress (M-L);
* a number of smaller collectives, primarily in the Midwest and on the West Coast.
Given their shared agreement with the line of the Party of Labor of Albania, efforts were undertaken in 1978-1980 to unify these groups in a single organization and/or party building process. In the end, however, all of these ended in failure.
Initially, the MLOC sought to bring together pro-Albanian forces in support of a joint statement in support of the PLA, but in the end, only two California-based groups, the Committee for a Proletarian Party and the Sunrise Collective, united with the MLOC in its final document. A similar effort, initiated by a group of collectives in the mid-west to issue a joint statement in support Albania after China cut off aid to it, likewise united only a handful of groups.
The MLOC made further attempts to unite pro-Albanian forces around its party building work, but the only significant independent group to join in this process was the San Diego-based Committee for a Proletarian Party. In December 1978, the MLOC became the Communist Party, USA (Marxist-Leninist) (CPUSA,ML). However, within less than a year, it underwent a number of damaging splits. Chapters in New Orleans and Birmingham broke away to form the Revolutionary Political Organization (M-L) while the former Committee for a Proletarian Party and a group in Chicago also departed.
In 1979, a number of groups in the Midwest and the San Francisco Bay Area that had attempted to unify pro-PLA forces after China’s aid cut-off, proposed a multilateral conference (MULC) to advance the party-building efforts of this trend.
The Conference took place in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1979. About a dozen independent M-L groups (and a few individuals) from across the nation came together in agreement that party building was the chief task, that they would not join any of the recently created sectarian parties (CLP, CP(ML), RCP, CWP), and that theoretical work was a prime component at that time in party building. The groups also shared an opposition to the theory of three worlds, and had a favorable view of the Party of Labor of Albania as perhaps the leading international party at the time.
The Wichita Communist Cell (WCC) offered to coordinate the conference and undertook the extensive work of doing so. Considerable written discussion took place in advance about points of unity for the conference and the purpose and structure of the MULC.
The following groups took part in the Conference: Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson Collective (AC/PRC), ex-Committee for a Proletarian Party (XCPP), ex-Marxist Leninist Collective (XMLC), Kansas City Revolutionary Workers Collective (KCWCC), Marxist Leninist Collective (MLC), Marxist-Leninist League (MLL), Pacific Collective (M-L) (PC), Red Dawn Committee, Revolutionary Workers Collective (RWC), Revolutionary Workers Press (RWP), Some Comrades in the Bay Area (SC) (aka B.R. Johnson), and the WCC. Involved in the pre-conference discussions, but not taking part in the conference itself were the Communist Committee, Sunrise Collective, and Workers Revolutionary Organizing Committee (WROC).
Two viewpoints emerged in the planning process and at the conference itself. One was that the “Focus of struggle” at the MULC should be on party building line, by which was meant questions like the key link, fusion, advanced workers, the possibility of a joint journal, etc. The other viewpoint was that the main focus should be on identifying (and struggling over) the existing views of the circles on international and domestic line to see whether we constituted a single tendency or more than one tendency. That is, two different views on “party building line” were expressed.
In the end, the chief result of the MULC was agreement by some of the participating groups to undertake a National Joint Study (NJS), which took place in 1980.
A similar initiative to the MULC was proposed by the California-based Pacific Collective (M-L) in their lengthy book, From Circles to the Party.
During this same period, the U.S. Leninist Core and Demarcation drew closer together, uniting in 1979 in the Committee of U.S. Bolsheviks which later that year renamed itself the Bolshevik League of the United States (BL). The Bolshevik League drew close to the Bolshevik Union in Canada and the two organizations soon broke with the PLA, denouncing it with the same vehemence with which they had previously criticized the Communist Party of China.
The final pro-Albania group to declare itself a Party was COUSML which, in 1980 became the Marxist-Leninist Party (MLP). At the time of its founding, the MLP was in the process of breaking with its long-time mentor in Canada, the Communist Party of Canada (M-L) (CPCML). As a result of this break, it too, underwent a split, with forces loyal to the CPCML reforming themselves as the U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization.
“COUSML”-“MLOC”: Cheap Tricks and Demagogy Can’t Hide Treachery – Centrism Means Unity with Social-Chauvinism by the U.S. Leninist Core
Two Articles: “On the Historical Merit of Mao Tsetung and Socialism in China” and “The PLA’s Treacherous Reversal: An Analysis of the PLA Letter“ by the Chicago Committee for a Communist Party and former members of the Committee for a Proletarian Party
The New Centrism by Demarcation
Announcement of a Multilateral Conference (MULC) on Party Building by the Witchita Communist Cell
Initial Responses to the “Announcement of a Multilateral Conference (MULC) on Party Building”
Initial Sum-up of Responses to the “Announcement of a Multilateral Conference (MULC) on Party Building” with WCC’s Suggestions to Move the MULC Forward by the Wichita Communist Cell
A Joint Counter-proposal to the Multi-lateral Conference Proposal on Party Building by Demarcation and the U.S. Leninist Core
Cheap Slanders Will Never Build a Vanguard Party. A Reply to Wichita Communist Cell and Kansas City Revolutionary Workers Collective by the Committee of U.S. Bolsheviks
The Building of the Vanguard Party of the U.S. Proletariat by the Kansas City Revolutionary Workers Collective and Witchita Communist Cell
Notes from Multilateral Conference (MULC) on Party Building
From Circles to the Party. The Tasks of Communists Outside the Existing Parties by the Pacific Collective (Marxist-Leninist)
Characteristic Features of “Left” and Right Opportunism by the Pacific Collective (Marxist-Leninist)
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The Party of the Working Class and the Small Circles of the Petit-Bourgeoisie by the Committee for a Proletarian Party
Reply to the Open Letter of the MLOC by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Party-Formation and the Circle Spirit: A Reply to the MLOC by the Pacific Collective (Marxist-Leninist)
“ML”OC vs. Leninism by Demarcation
Letter to the “CPUSA (ML)” by Demarcation
Against Social-Democratic Infiltration of the Marxist-Leninist Movement. A study of the origin, history and present role of the social-democrat Barry Weisberg and his MLOC/“CPUSA(M-L)”, Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Glaring Social-Chauvinism of the Social-Democrats by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists [Workers Advocate, Vol. 9, No. 7, August 15, 1979]
Party-Building Statement of the Committee For a Proletarian Party
Call for Joint Work on the Party Program by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
Documents of the First Congress of the MLOC
Welcome the Bimonthly Unite! [Unite!, Vol. 4, No. 1, February 1, 1978]
CPUSA Steel Program: A Call for State Monopoly Capitalism
UNITE! for Still Greater Victories!
RCP Vacillates on Theory of the “Three Worlds”
Welcome the Draft Party Program
Tito, Errand Boy of Imperialism, to Visit U.S.
Draft Party Program by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
An Open Letter – Requesting Discussions of the Draft Party Program and the Reconstitution of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the United States by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
Communist Party M-L Sponsors Pep Rally: D.C. March Promotes Illusion of Job Concessions
Sadlowski Campaign: The Lessons Learned
Open Letter to White Workers on the Ku Klux Klan
CP(M-L) Builds New Unity Committee; Unity of Opportunists Built on Shifting Sand
CP(M-L) Praises the Revisionist Tito
The Red Cab, Vol. 1, No. 4, July 10, 1978 [MLOC shop paper]
Commentary #7 on the Draft Party Program: The National Question in Our Program
China Withdraws Aid to Socialist Albania Statement from the Central Committee of the MLOC
European Parties Advance Class Struggle, Battle Modern Revisionism
Summing Up the Coal Strike: The Lessons to Be Learned [from Class Against Class, #11, August 1978]
Against Opportunism in the Struggle to Free Gary Tyler [from Class Against Class, #11, August 1978]
Reply to the COUSML Pamphlet: “Reply to the Open Letter of the MLOC”
Opportunists Liquidate Chicano National Question: How is the Position of the MLOC Different?
Constitution of the Communist Party U.S.A./Marxist-Leninist
Teng Comes Calling: Official Seal of Approval on U.S.-China Alliance
Our Party’s Stand Toward Youth [Unite!, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 15, 1979]
COUSML Gets in Step: In Case You Didn’t Notice
Agit/Prop Department Holds Seminar: Building the Party Press
The New Unionism and the Trade Union Action League (TUAL)
A Reply to the RCP: “Mao Defenders” Sow Ideological Confusion and Provoke Reaction
Letter from the CPUSA/ML to Enver Hoxha [Unite!, Vol. 5, No. 19, November 1, 1979]
Hua in Europe: Able Emissary of Imperialism [Unite!, Vol. 5, No. 19, November 1, 1979]
On the Influence of Mao Tsetung Thought on the Revolution in the U.S.
Defeat the Lies! Defend Comrade Stalin!
Afghanistan: Latest Victim of Superpower Rivalry by Emily Keppler
Rapid Capitalist Development in China
TUAL Holds Successful Conference
The 1980 Elections and the Fascist Menace
Report from the 5th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party U.S.A. (Marxist-Leninist)
Tito is Dead, Leaving a Legacy of Reaction by Emily Keppler
Fight for Full Democratic Rights
The United Front of Labor: To Defeat Reformism and Unite Against Capital by Dave Brand
The Unions and the Company Shake Hands: Report from the Steel Convention
Polish Strike Scores Advance for Working Class by Dave Brand
No to the CPUSA Revisionist Ticket by Barry Weisberg
Building Solidarity in Common Struggle: Interview with TUAL Organizer Matt Fusco
Counter-Revolution is Official Policy of Chinese State by Emily Keppler
Summing Up CPUSA/ML Work in the Anti-fascist Movement
Workers’ Only Choice: No Vote November 4! Statement from the Central Committee of the CPUSA/ML
The November Elections and the Future of U.S. Imperialism Excerpts from a Speech by Barry Weisberg to the Party School
Elections and the Capitalist State Excerpts from a Speech to the Party School
Interview with a Veteran Communist
The Principles of Revolutionary Trade Unionism by Dave Brand
Principles, Structure, Movement: The Building Blocks of Revolutionary Unionism
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COUSML Gets in Step: In Case You Didn’t Notice from Unite!
A Wrong Phrase by the Revolutionary Communist Party [Revolution, Vol. 4, Nos. 7-8, July-August 1979]
“Democratic” Carter Regime Bares Its Fascist Fangs
Defend Socialist Albania! Editorial of The Workers’ Advocate
Down with the Warmongering U.S.-China Alliance!
There Is Nothing Good in the Alliance Between U.S. Imperialism and Chinese Revisionism!
Does the “RCP-USA” Oppose the Theory of “Three Worlds”? (Part 1)
Does the “RCP-USA” Oppose the Theory of “Three Worlds”? (Part 2)
Mao Tsetung and Mao Tsetung Thought are Anti-Marxist-Leninist and Revisionist
The “CP(M-L)” Social-Chauvinists are Brazen Lackeys of Imperialism
Against Social-Democratic Infiltration of the Marxist-Leninist Movement. A study of the origin, history and present role of the social-democrat Barry Weisberg and his MLOC/“CPUSA(M-L)”, Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five
Glaring Social-Chauvinism of the Social-Democrats [Workers Advocate, Vol. 9, No. 7, August 15, 1979]
Build the Marxist-Leninist Party Without the Social-Chauvinists and Against the Social-Chauvinists
For Marxism-Leninism, Against the “Three Worlds” Theorists
We Accept the Challenge! [response to the RCP]
“CP(M-L)” Toots Their Bugles in Praise of V.P. Mondale, Bob Hope and the U.S.-China Alliance [Workers Advocate, Vol. 9, No. 8, October 15, 1979]
“Three worlders” are on the path of merger with social-democracy [Workers Advocate, Vol. 9, No. 11, December 5, 1979]
Song: “The Marxist-Leninist Party is Our Leader” [Workers Advocate, Vol. 9, No. 11, December 5, 1979]
Hail the Founding of the Marxist-Leninist Party!
Against Mao Zedong Thought!
Parts Two and Three; Part FourChronology of Events: 1975-1981
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The Fight for the Marxist-Leninist Line on the International Situation Intensifies. Every Genuine Marxist-Leninist Party and Organization Must Take a Stand by The Leninist Core to Found the U.S. Bolshevik Party
Wm. Z. Foster, A Kruschevite Revisionist; “C”P “ML”, Fosterite Revisionists by The U.S. Leninist Core [Bolshevik, Vol. 8, No. 4, n.d.]
Guilty By Omission: C”P “ML”, Program 2: “We are fighting for the abolition of Class Society” or Chapter 2 in Lessons in Revisionism: “ We are fighting against the Establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” by The U.S. Leninist Core [Bolshevik, Vol. 8, No. 4, n.d.]
“Mao Tse Tung Thought” A Counter-Revolutionary Concept by The U.S. Leninist Core
The Theory and Practice of Chinese Revisionism and Social Imperalism by The U.S. Leninist Core
“COUSML”-“MLOC”: Cheap Tricks and Demagogy Can’t Hide Treachery – Centrism Means Unity with Social-Chauvinism by the U.S. Leninist Core
Repulse the Bankrupt Theory of the “Three” Worlds – Revolution on the Order of the Day! by the Leninist Core to Found the U.S. Bolshevik Party
Regarding China’s Withdrawl of Aid from Albania by The Leninist Core to Found the U.S. Bolshevik Party
A Joint Counter-proposal to the Multi-lateral Conference Proposal on Party Building by Demarcation and the U.S. Leninist Core
Third Worldists in Disarray: THE DIRT COMES OUT! by The U.S. Leninist Core
How “CPML” Assists The Bourgeoisie In Oppressing The Black Belt Nation by The U.S. Leninist Core [Bolshevik, Vol. 9, No. 1, n.d. [1979]]
Celebrate The 60th Anniversary Of The Founding Of The Third Communist International! by The U.S. Leninist Core [Bolshevik, Vol. 9, No. 1, n.d. [1979]]
Announcement of the Formation of the Committee of U.S. Bolsheviks
In Commemoration of May Day and the 161st Anniversary of the Birth of Karl Marx. Speech Given on May 5, 1979 [from the book Imperialism, Superprofits and the Bribery of the U.S. “Anti-Revisionist Communist Movement”]
Cheap Slanders Will Never Build a Vanguard Party. A Reply to Wichita Communist Cell and Kansas City Revolutionary Workers Collective by the Committee of U.S. Bolsheviks
Imperialism, Superprofits and the Bribery of the U.S. “Anti-Revisionist Communist Movement”
On the Founding of the Bolshevik League and the Establishment of Bolshevik Revolution by the Bolshevik League of the United States
Report to the Founding Conference of the Bolshevik League of the United States
Oops! China Says Russia is “Socialist”!! [Bolshevik Revolution, No. 1, December 1979]
Bob Avakian: ’The Jerk’ Is Loose!
CPUSA(ML): What so proudly they hail... at their twilight’s last gleaming... [Bolshevik Revolution, No. 1, December 1979]
Political Report on the International Situation Presented to the Founding Conference of the Bolshevik League of the United States [International Correspondence, #1, Spring-Summer 1980]
Regarding the Question of the Party of Labor of Albania
The Collapse of the Opportunist International [International Correspondence, #1, Spring-Summer 1980]
A Fool’s Paradise [International Correspondence, #1, Spring-Summer 1980]
Faction Purged From B.L. On The Road To a Bolshevik Party by the Bolshevik League of the United States
Black Liberation and Proletarian Revolution
Fascists Acquitted in Greensboro [Bolshevik Revolution, No. 7, December 1980]
Speech at the November 8th Forum
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