League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist–Leninist)
Early in 1980 it also merged with the Revolutionary Communist League (Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-tung Thought) led by Amiri Baraka.
"[2] Communism took hold of the United States' left wing politics primarily following the Russian Revolution of October 1917.
The parks seeks cooperation with other political groups in order to achieve effective change in the areas it trumpets.
LRS criticized CPUSA for failing to work towards revolution and for turning into a revisionist group that advocated for electoral politics and "promoted the interests of an imperialist Soviet Union.
[5] Unlike CPUSA, LRS made active effort towards creating an alliance between working-class people and oppressed nationalities.
This is evidenced by their participation in New Left activities such as the Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the Weatherman, and the Progressive Labor Party.
As they grappled with the hegemonic discourse of the model minority myth, Asian youth started to question American democracy.
With the Vietnam War raging, the AAM's anti-racist and anti-imperialist stance did not fit within the "Bring the Boys Home" chants.
I Wor Kuen (lit., "the points of justice and harmony"[citation needed]) was a Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States that had ties with the Asian national movement and the industrial working class.
[citation needed] I Wor Kuen became a national organization in 1971 when it merged with the San Francisco-based Red Guard Party.
IWK was an integral part of the US revolutionary movement as it applied Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong thought to the US revolution.
During its first two years of existence it jump-started campaigns against poor living conditions and initiated programs that served the community.
ATM regularly published a monthly political newspaper by the name of the Revolutionary Cause which reached people throughout the country.
ATM stems from the Brown Berets, a group formed from working class Chicano youth from across California and the Southwest.
The movement formed following the footsteps of the Black Panther Party and stood for building a revolutionary front against national oppression.
As a result, they initially began by spearheading school walkouts and mobilizing around freeing Chicano political prisoners such as Chavez Ortiz.
One notable achievement of ATM was the developed of Congreso Obrero in 1973, a program set up to help Mexicano and Chicano workers to fight national oppression and to study Marxism-Leninism while on the job.
Both being opposed to Trotskyite revisionists and dedicated to the working class and oppressed nationality movements, ATM and IWK shared many similarities.
A revolutionary vanguard party is needed to lead the working class in the violent overthrow of the capitalism.
In the Little Red Book, Chapter II directly supports Afro-Americans in their struggle against discrimination and US imperialism.
[15] "I call on the workers, peasants, revolutionary intellectuals, elements of bourgeoisie and other enlightened persons of all colors in the world, whether white, black, yellow, or brown, to unite to oppose the radical discrimination practiced by US imperialism and support the black people in their struggle against racial discrimination."
As the Chinese government started to move away from Maoist policies and grew closer with the US, LRS stated that it does not necessarily support everything China does.
[16] The League of Revolutionary Struggle saw itself as a single, unified Marxist-Leninist party fighting for the liberation of all oppressed people.
With chapters across the country, it supported minority struggles in the United States and opposed the "domination and bullying of the two superpowers: the US and the Soviet Union.
Baraka called for a focus on black voter registration and pushed the Rainbow Party in the direction of independent politics.
Minister Louis Farrakhan, the black-separatist leader of the Nation of Islam, was a supporter of Jesse Jackson.
They thought that methods used to reel them in were devious and employed in an effort to further the league's own political agenda.
Baraka also founded the Congress of African People (CAP), an organization that linked together the forces working towards the Black liberation movement.
In addition to CAP, he also spearheaded the Committed for a Unified Newark (CFUN), a community-based economic development program.
The Freedom Socialist Organization continued the League of Revolutionary Struggle's mission to advance the theory and practice of self-determination socialism.
