R. James retained the name the Correspondence Publishing Committee and continued to receive advice from James from Britain, while a significant number supported Raya Dunayevskaya and split to form a new group, News and Letters Committees, which publishes a monthly newspaper, News & Letters, that remains in print today.
The small number of members that continued to endorse the politics of James took the name Facing Reality, after the 1958 book by James co-written with Grace Lee Boggs and Pierre Chaulieu, a pseudonym for Cornelius Castoriadis, on the Hungarian working class revolt of 1956.
James, Martin Glaberman, William Gorman and George Rawick — of Facing Reality collaborated to write the pamphlet The Gathering Forces, a document some such as Kent Worcester have characterized as representing the influence of Maoism even in Facing Reality.
Facing Reality had a particular, if small, impact among African American political activists at Wayne State University in Detroit and in auto plants in the city.
It is important to note, however that the group had a broader international influence as well, including in Italy's burgeoning "autonomous" communist movement.