The struggle to build a new, anti-revisionist communist party continued to guide the efforts of many groups in the New Communist Movement in the years 1975-1977. In 1975, two years after the National Liaison Committee (NLC) which it had initiated collapsed amid mutual recriminations, the Revolutionary Union, together with a few allied organizations, formed the Revolutionary Communist Party.
In November of the same year, the October League (OL) launched its own party building initiative with the goal of holding a founding convention within the year (in fact, the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) would not become a reality until 1977). As part of this effort, the OL creates a youth group, the Communist Youth Organization, and a mass organization, the National Fight Back Organization, to further broaden its base. Later, in 1976, OL converts is monthly newspaper, The Call, into a weekly.
The fall of 1975 also saw the birth of a short-lived party building initiative which called itself the “Revolutionary Wing,” or the “wing,” for short. The “wing” consisted of four groups: the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization; the Revolutionary Workers League (RWL), a predominantly Black communist group that arose from the Youth Organization for Black Unity and the African Liberation Support Committee; the Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO), a predominantly East Coast Asian organization; and the August 29th Movement (ATM), a predominantly Chicano organization based in California, New Mexico and Colorado. The “wing” did not hold together long – by March 1976 it had split apart, with WVO and ATM departing and PRRWO and the RWL undergoing a number of splits and purges, before announcing their intention to form a “U.S. Bolshevik Party.”
This inability to unite plagued other elements of the new communist movement in these years. Earlier in 1975, the Black Workers Congress split into four groups: the Revolutionary Workers Congress, the Revolutionary Bloc, the Workers Congress, and the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee (MLOC).
More significant for the future of the New Communist Movement, however, was the breach within its ranks opened up by changes in Chinese foreign policy. The practical consequences of China’s “theory of three worlds” became apparent in 1975 as China openly backs the FNLA and UNITA against the MPLA in the Angolan civil war. China’s stand dismayed many on the left who saw the MPLA as the legitimate leader of the Angolan liberation struggle rather than the South African and CIA-backed groups of UNITA and the FNLA. In 1976, sparked by the Angola controversy, the Guardian inaugurated a debate on China’s foreign policy and its line that the “Soviet Union was the more dangerous of the two superpowers” which opened a space within the New Communist Movement for voices openly critical of China’s line to be heard.
The death of Mao Zedong in September 1976 and the subsequent defeat of the “Gang of Four” marked the end of an era in China and raised new questions about the meaning of “Mao Zedong thought” and its relevance to the U.S. left. Increasingly, the resulting debates and polemics began to speak to a wider set of questions and problems which would call into question many of the assumptions upon which the New Communist Movement had been built.
| Index of organizations and subjects in this section (by alphabetical order) |
| Black Workers Congress Splits |
| Congress of Afrikan People – Revolutionary Communist League |
| The Guardian and Chinese Foreign Policy |
| October League (M-L) – Communist Party (M-L) |
| Revolutionary Union – Revolutionary Communist Party |
| Revolutionary Wing |
Family Tree Chart of U.S. Anti-Revisionism, 1956-1977 by the Communist Workers Group (Marxist-Leninist)
Restoration of Capitalism in the USSR by Martin Nicolaus
’...fan the flames’ by Irwin Silber
October League replies to Women’s Day criticisms
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The Guardian: Rushing Headlong into the Swamp by the Revolutionary Union
Carl Davidson: Creature from the “White Skin Privilege” Lagoon by the Revolutionary Union
Phony Internationalism is Real Class Collaboration by the Revolutionary Union
’Revolution’ Polemic Deceives No One by Irwin Silber
Guardian Viewpoint: Sectarianism
Toward A Scientific Analysis of the Gay Question [A response to the RU] by the Los Angeles Research Group
Party Building and Anti-revisionist Premises by Workers Viewpoint
On the National Question by Irwin Silber
In Defense of the Right to Self-Determination by Carl Davidson
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Criticism of ultra-’leftism’ by the Trade Union Educational Alliance
IWK Position on Party Building
Right Opportunism Main Danger! CAP Summation of International Women’s Day by the Congress of Afrikan People
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On Building the Party among the Masses by the League for Marxist-Leninist Unity
Gaining Clarity on our Communist Tasks. A self-criticism by the League for Marxist-Leninist Unity
’Revolutionary Wing’ or Anti-Party Bloc? by Sherman Miller
RWL and OL: Two Wings of Same Bird by the Committee for Scientific Socialism (Marxist-Leninist)
October League, Right Opportunist Feint to the ’Left’ by the August 29th Movement
Nationalist Reformism Disguised as Marxism. A polemic against the political line of the August 29th Movement by Barry Litt
Strategy and Tactics: OL & RCP Revise Marxism on the International Situation by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
The October League (OL) took its party-building efforts into high gear in November 1975, after the formation of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), led by its political rival, the Revolutionary Union. The polemical battle between RU and OL played a big role in setting the terms for the New Communist Movement’s understanding of party building. Both groups used the arguments of Lenin’s “What Is To Be Done?” on the need to draw “lines of demarcation” among communists to shape the future party’s political line and orientation – each side presented itself as the latter-day Bolsheviks.
In the period preceding the formation of the RCP, the OL initially had set its stance toward party building as one such demarcation. OL was the first to declare party building as the “central task,” while RU argued that such a position was premature until a revolutionary workers movement could be developed. Both RU and OL grew rapidly in the early 1970s, and in 1974 the RU concluded that the time to form a party had finally come. This led to sharper polemics against the OL, which now sought to distinguish itself from RU as both less sectarian and more consistently in line with China and anti-revisionist orthodoxy.
As many independent activists with an anti-revisionist orientation, including both individuals and multi-city and local groups, had become estranged from the RCP, the OL focused on bringing them into its party-formation campaign. To a certain extent, OL won adherents because of the manner in which it differed ideologically with the RCP: its more open stance toward reform movements, its support for the Boston school integration struggle, etc.
However, OL made a sharp turn in late 1975, its contention with RU having moved to the background with the formation of the RCP. Political differences with one of the OL’s leaders, the noted theoretician Martin Nicolaus, led to a full-fledged “anti-rightist” ideological campaign aimed at the members. Internal discussion was reined in.
Meanwhile, in the field, the OL became hostile to campaigns and coalitions that included the CPUSA, targeted liberals and reformists as the “main danger” in mass movements, and began to shift its international line to opposing the USSR over the US. This came as the US-China anti-Soviet alliance became a major factor in world affairs.
In July 1976, the OL announced the formation of an Organizing Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party to further its party-building campaign, but this only further estranged other groups. After a fierce effort to build the Committee’s membership and promote discussion with some independent groups, the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) was formed in 1977, but no other national formations in the New Communist Movement chose to join. The following year, I Wor Kuen and the August 29th Movement, formerly of the “Revolutionary Wing,” merged to form the League of Revolutionary Struggle, essentially in opposition to the CPML’s claim to vanguard status.
Lessons from the Collapse of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) by Carl Davidson
Summing Up the CPML’s Experiences in Trade Union Work by Charles Costigan
The October League: A Most Dangerous Revisionist Trend in U.S. Communist Movement by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
On the Alliance of the October League (M-L) with the Shah of Iran by the Iran Report
On the Declaration by OL on Party Building by I Wor Kuen
Comment on OL’s Call for a Party by the Bay Area Communist Union
On the October League’s Call for a New Communist Party – A Response by the Proletarian Unity League
’...fan the flames’ [On the OL’s “No united action with revisionists,”] by Irwin Silber
Expose OL’s All-Unity, Bourgeois Stand; Build Proletarian Unity Through Intensified Struggle by the Committee for Scientific Socialism (M-L)
Polemics: RCP flails OL by William Gurley
Mao Tsetung Thought or Social-Chauvinism. A Comment on the October League’s Call for “Unity of Marxist-Leninists” by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Response to OL’s Call for the Immediate Formation of the Anti-Revisionist Communist Party by the Detroit Marxist-Leninist Organization
Against OL’s Party Congress: Prepare the Conditions by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
Marxism or Klonskyism? by Martin Nicolaus
Nicholaus vs OL: A Menshevik’s Criticism of Menshevism by the Workers Viewpoint Organization
Maoist OL Somersaults Over Sadlowski by Workers Vanguard
OC Draft Program: Proletarian Internationalism Or Social-Chauvinism by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
Speech by Dan Burstein [Against Nicolaus] by Daniel Burstein
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
A Big U.S. League Error by Alive Magazine
Editorial: Repudiate the Call For Menshevik Unity! by the Revolutionary Communist Party
December 27-28 in Chicago: Plans Laid for National Fight-Back Organization
Rely on the Workers to Build the Fight-Back
List of National Fight-Back Conference Endorsers
Workers meet in Chicago: National Fightback formed by Rusty Conroy
’An Historic Event’: 1,300 at Fight-Back Conference
Marxist-Leninists Unite to Build the New Party
The Tasks of Communists: How Can Unity be Built?
Sharp struggle ahead, but Communist Unity is Growing
“On to the Party, Build the Weekly Call” by Mike Klonsky
Central Committee Report: O.L. Calls for Party Congress, Warns of Growing War Danger
Statement of Former BWC/RWC Leader Calls for Marxist-Leninist Unity by W. Jean Pierre
O.L. Chairman Speaks on May Day: ’The Basis for a New Communist Party Now Exists...’
Statement by Harry Haywood: ’Unite to Build the New Party’
’Forge Unity Around a Program.’ Statement of League for Marxist-Leninist Unity
’Unity is the Main Trend’ by the Bridgeport Workers Organization (M-L)
Unity Statement of the Philadelphia Party-Building Collective
Unity Statement of Marxist-Leninist Student Collective
Breaking with ’Local-Circle Mentality’ in the Fight against Revisionism by Clay Claiborne
Marxist-Leninists Unite! Declaration of the Organizing Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party
Unity Statement of the Buffalo Unity Collective
Report from Organizing Committee
MLOC’s Tactics of Splittism: ’Plan For a Joint Program’
Party-building Speaking Tour Opens
Speaking Tour Calls for Communist Unity
M-L Fighting Union Joins Unity Trend
Unity Statement of Boston Unity Collective
Organizing Committee Intensifies Unity Efforts
Unity Statement of New York City Party Building Collective
Statement of the Organizing Committee. Rising Trend of Marxist-Leninist Unity
Build the Communist Press by Fighting Revisionism by Michael Klonsky
OC Calls Second Unity Conference
Welcome the Founding of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
Harry Haywood’s Speech at Congress: ’We Have Taken First Step on a Long March’
Documents from the Founding Congress of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)
CP(M-L) Delegation Meets with Chairman Hua
Editorial: The Road to Communist Unity
Behind RCP’s Attack on Our Unity Efforts
Revolutionaries and the ’76 Elections
Conclusion of interview with OL Chairman
Communist View of Trade Unions: Smash Revisionists in Trade Union Movement
Communist View of Trade Unions: Summary of October League Work
RCP Drifts Rightward, Covers Up for Revisionists
Lesson of strategy and tactics: The Direction of the Main Blow
Martin Nicolaus Expelled from OL
Joint Communiqué Issued by the October League and the Canadian Communist League
Joint Communiqué of CP (ML) and WCP (ML)
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Important Struggles in Building the Revolutionary Communist Party,USA by Bill Klingel and Joanne Psihountas
The Founding Congress of the RCP by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
RCP draws 3500 to rally by the Guardian staff correspondent
Polemics: RCP flails OL by William Gurley
July 4, 1976 – “Battle Of The Bicentennial” by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
RCP: Hit for antigay-rights line by the Guardian
RCP Drifts Rightward, Covers Up for Revisionists by the October League (Marxist-Leninist)
RCP/RWC Attempt to Con Black Masses by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
NUWO: Dual-Unionism and Betrayal of the Party by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
Avakian & Co. on PL’s Road to Oblivion: Set Up Workerist-Economist Front Group at Chicago Meeting [on the NUWO] by the Spartacist League
The Role of the “RCP,USA” in the U.S. Marxist-Leninist Movement by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
The Decline of the RCP: A Polemic by the Organization for Revolutionary Unity
Forward to the Party! Struggle for the Party! Introduction
Build the Revolutionary Workers Movement!
Summing Up South African Coal Struggle
Class Stand Key In Boston Busing Struggle
Stand For and With the Workers – In Their Day to Day Struggles And In Making Revolution
On War and the International United Front
On Other Aspects of Building the Workers’ Movement
[Six articles] On Propaganda and Culture
Hawaii Revolutionary Organization: “Dump Baggage, Move to Party!”
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Revolutionary Communist Party Founded!
The Working Class Movement and the Tasks of the Party by Bob Avakian
Across the Country Celebrations Mark Formation of Party
Statement from The RCP Central Committee
Our Class Will Free Itself and All Mankind by Bob Avakian
Programme and Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA
Mass Line Is Key To Lead Masses In Making Revolution
Mass Line Is Key To Methods of Leading Struggle
The Day to Day Struggle and the Revolutionary Goal By Bob Avakian
Editorial: Repudiate the Call For Menshevik Unity!
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In May 1976, the Guardian newspaper opened its pages to a discussion on China’s foreign policy (although Executive Editor Irwin Silber had been writing critical columns on the subjects since at least December 1975). This decision was primarily sparked by China’s stand on the Angola civil war. Here China and almost all the main anti-revisionist groups in the U.S. and around the world backed the FNLA and UNITA, which were also supported by the U.S., South Africa and Zaire, against the MPLA which had the support of the USSR and Cuba.
Prior to this point, the Guardian had generally approved of the positions taken by the Chinese government on international affairs. In this regard, it was part of a broader Pro-China current on the US left, which included the editors of the journal Monthly Review editors, Wilfred Burchett, Felix Greene, Annette Rubinstein, Shirley Graham DuBois, Han Suyin, and Anna Louise Strong. The Guardian had made a special effort to bring to the attention of the broad U.S. left events in China and favorable coverage of Chinese foreign policy.
Now, however, the Guardian argued that China’s Angola stand as an error: wrong on the nature of the national liberation struggle in Angola, a reflection a miss-assessment of the international situation, and the beginning of a Chinese de facto alliance with the United States against the Soviet Union, now perceived as the “more dangerous” of the two super-powers. But the Guardian did more than just criticize the Chinese; it also criticized New Communist Movement supporters of the Chinese position for “flunkeyism” and “class collaboration.”
Not content to simply present the paper’s position in print, Silber also went on a national speaking tour focusing on the issue of the international line of the U.S. left. The Guardian’s ability to take an openly critical stand on this issue was facilitated by the break, earlier in the year, between the Guardian and the October League (Marxist-Leninist) which resulted in the resignations of OL members – Renee Blakkan, Martin Nicolaus, Nancy Nikcevich and Rod Such – and the subsequent departure of Carl Davidson, who was also close to the October League at the time.
The Guardian’s new stand was severely criticized by much of the New Communist Movement which charged that it represented a “centrist” position that conciliated with modern revisionism and Soviet social imperialism. However, the willingness of the Guardian to openly criticize Chinese policy and the relationship between leading New Communist Movement groups and China, freed a number of smaller anti-revisionist organizations to begin to rethink other elements of anti-revisionist orthodoxy as well.
Angola: National Liberation and the U.S. Left, 1974-76 by the Milwaukee Alliance
’...fan the flames’ by Irwin Silber
Guardian Viewpoint: The Shah of Iran
Guardian Covers Up Real Character of Social-Imperialism by the October League (Marxist-Leninist)
Long Live the Angolan People by the Communist Labor Party, USNA
Angola Fighting Fueled by U.S., USSR Control Bids by the Revolutionary Communist Party
’...fan the flames’ by Irwin Silber
Silber speaks on liberation fights
’...fan the flames’ by Irwin Silber
Presentation on the Angolan Civil War by the August 29th Movement
Angola: Neo-Colonialism vs. National Liberation Anti-Imperialists Must Take A Stand! by the Philadelphia Workers’ Organizing Committee
’...fan the flames’ by Irwin Silber
Angola: For True Independence Superpowers Must Be Thrown Out!! by the Congress of Afrikan People
Victory to the Second Anti-Colonial War of the Angolan People! by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Oppose Soviet Aggression In Angola by I Wor Kuen
Guardian Viewpoint: China’s foreign policy
China’s foreign policy: A friend of China raises some questions by Wilfred Burchett
China’s World View by William Hinton
Hinton’s Folly: A ’Neutral’ U.S. Imperialism? by the October League (Marxist-Leninist)
Chinese Foreign Policy – A Critical Analysis by by the Philadelphia Workers’ Organizing Committee
Guardian’s Break with Marxism by the October League (Marxist-Leninist)
Angola: The Guardian’s Treachery by Carl Davidson
’...fan the flames’ [reply to Carl Davidson] by Irwin Silber
Soviet Social Imperialism and the International Situation Today by I Wor Kuen
The Guardian’s “Russian Exceptionalism” and “socialism of a new type” by the J-Town Collective
Against the Revisionist Yellow Journalism of the “Guardian” (Part 1) by the Central Organization of U.S. Marxist-Leninists
Guardian Viewpoint: Aim the main blow at U.S. Imperialism
The Soviet Union: Is it the Nazi Germany of Today? by the Communist Committee
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The Congress of Afrikan People (CAP) had its roots in the Black Arts movement in Newark, New Jersey in the mid-1960s, largely through the efforts of Amiri Baraka. By the late-1960s, under the influence of Malcolm X, Ron Karenga’s US organization and the example of the Black Panthers, the CAP became an explicitly political, Black nationalist organization, with a focus of community organizing and cultural politics. In 1970, at its Atlanta Convention, CAP became a national organization dedicated to building a Black Political Party, including involvement in electoral politics.
In the early 1970s, a growing struggle developed within the CAP between the Black nationalists and the emerging Marxist-Leninist forces, headed by Baraka. With the departure of Haki Madhubuti and Jitu Weusi, the Marxist-Leninist tendency in the organization was strengthened and in 1974-75, CAP took up the study of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung Thought and, for a brief period, worked closely with the October League (Marxist-Leninist).
In February, 1976 the organization changed its name to the Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M). Three years later, the group merged with the League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist), which had been formed in 1978 through a merger between I Wor Kuen and the August 29th Movement.
History of the Congress of Afrikan People
Baraka Abandons ’Racism’ as Ineffective And Shifts to ’Scientific Socialism’ of Marx
“Unity and Struggle” – History of the Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M)
Black Liberation is a Struggle for Socialism!!! by Amiri Baraka
Angola: For True Independence Superpowers Must Be Thrown Out!!
Report From CAP’s Central Committee Meeting
Right Opportunism Main Danger! CAP Summation of International Women’s Day
Revolutionary Communist League (Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse Tung Thought)
RCL’s Position on Party Building (Part 1)
WVO’s Hegemonism Wrecks and Splits ALSC
Editorial: RCL’s Position on the Gang of Four (Part 1)
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The Revolutionary Wing was a short-lived party building initiative which began in the fall of 1975 as a result of a series of joint forums around the country on the issue of party building conducted by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization (PRRWO), the August 29th Movement (ATM) and the Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO).
The name, Revolutionary Wing, evolved from a characterization made at these forums by PRRWO, which claimed there were two “wings” of the U.S. communist movement. One, an “opportunist” wing, was said to consist of the Revolutionary Communist Party, October League, the Guardian, I Wor Kuen, and several groups deriving their origins from the Black Workers Congress (BWC), namely, the Workers Congress and the Revolutionary Workers Congress. The other, the “genuine” (later to be called “revolutionary”) wing, was said to consist of PRRWO, ATM, WVO, and another somewhat mysterious group which claimed origins in the BWC – the Revolutionary Bloc (Resistencia Puertorriqueña questioned its existence). PRRWO further asserted that there were also other “honest” elements close to the “genuine” wing. These were listed as Resistencia Puertorriqueña, El Comité, and the Revolutionary Workers League.
The Revolutionary Wing was not held together by clear political lines or positions; its members differed on a variety of issues, including the national question and how best to build a new communist party. What united it was a rejection of the lines and the party building efforts of the larger groups, the Revolutionary Communist Party and the October League.
The Revolutionary Wing did not hold together long. By March 1976 it had fallen apart: WVO and ATM departed amid bitter recriminations, and Resistencia Puertorriqueña and El Comité refused to join. The Revolutionary Bloc, if it ever in fact existed, disappeared. Meanwhile PRRWO and the RWL drew closer together while, at the same time, undergoing a series of violent internal splits and purges, before officially merging as the Leninist Core of the Revolutionary Wing and announcing its intention of forming a “U.S. Bolshevik Party.”
The Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization and the Revolutionary Wing by Former PRRWO Cadres
Our Disagreements with the PRRWO–a preliminary statement by former PRRWO members and supporters
The Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization, Workers Viewpoint Organization and the Revolutionary Wing by I Wor Kuen
Some Criticisms of Workers Viewpoint Organization on Party Building by I Wor Kuen
Splits and Purges as ’Wing’ Grows More Isolated by the October League (Marxist-Leninist)
The “Wing”: ’Stuck in a Hole’ by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist)
WVO: Undaunted Dogma from Puffed-Up Charlatans by Owen Natha [RCP]
WVO’s Opportunism in Theory and Practice by John B. Tyler [RCP]
Party Building in the Heat of the Class Struggle – a Theoretical Presentation
Party Building Forums Reflect Rising Party Spirit across the U.S.
PRRWO Presentation in Boston: Expose the Anti-theoretical Revisionist Premises of WVO
Forward to the U.S. Bolshevik Party
Steeled in Struggle – History of the Two Line Struggle in the RWL
Our Central Task: Building a New Communist Party
Struggle for Party is Struggle for Revolution – Current state of our movement
Our Views on the Communist Movement in the United States
Defeat the “Left” Opportunist, Menshevik Line of PRRWO-RWL
Auto workers on the move against capitalism! [WVO’s Auto Bulletin #5]
Philistinism of the PRRWO & RWL Exposed!
RWL: Building the Party on Bourgeois Ideology. A call to struggle against ’left’ opportunism by the Communist Workers Committee (M-L)
Dying Screams of the PRRWO/RWL Clique and Responding Echoes from Assorted Opportunists
An Open Letter to a District and all Revolutionary Workers League Comrades by the Bolshevik Organizing Collective
Two Roads to Party Building by the Bolshevik Organizing Collective/Communist Workers Committee (M-L)
Presentation on Party Building: Expose the Anarcho-Socialism of PRRWO/RWL! by the Union for Working Class Emancipation
Harriet Tubman-Nat Turner Collective (ML) Liquidating itself to the WVO
The Organization for Bolshevik Unity (OBU-ML) Defeats Centrism and Prepares to Liquidate to the WVO!
Statement of Principles of Revolutionary Wing
Leninist Core of the Revolutionary Wing Holds 1st Plenum
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Early in 1975 the Black Workers Congress underwent a serious split, resulting in the demise of that organization. Out of the collapse, four groups seem to have emerged: the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist), the Revolutionary Workers Congress, the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee and the Revolutionary Bloc.
The Revolutionary Workers Congress, which was the name the former leadership of the BWC adopted for their group after the split, briefly issuing a newspaper called Movin’ On! In late 1977, the organization dissolved, with some of its members joining the Revolutionary Communist Party.
The Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist), centered in Detroit, played an active part in national party-building debates, putting forward the Iskra principle as its party-building program through its newspaper The Communist. A number of smaller groups and collectives around the country participated in this effort, submitting articles for publication in the paper.
The Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee, based in San Francisco also threw itself into the party building process. Initially, it distinguished itself from other groups by declaring that “the theoretical form of class struggle” was “the chief form of class struggle in this period,” calling for joint theoretical work with other communist organizations and as well as collaboration maintaining, deepening and broadening work within the spontaneous mass movements. It published a theoretical journal Communist Line and a newspaper Unite! In 1978, the MLOC became the Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist).
The Revolutionary Bloc was another former faction in the BWC. While briefly touted by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization and the Revolutionary Workers League as a component of the Revolutionary Wing, its post-BWC existence is somewhat mysterious. It never appears to have issued any post-split written materials and Resistencia Puertorriqueña even questioned its existence, post-BWC.
Two-Line Struggle in the B.W.C. by the Black Workers Congress
Public Letter on Don Williams by the Black Workers Congress
Two Line Struggle in the B.W.C., part 3
RCP/RWC Attempt to Con Black Masses by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
“More Than Enough Material...” A Letter to the Proletarian Unity League by the Workers Congress (M-L)
On the “Effectiveness” of the Capitalist Restoration Thesis: A Reply to the Workers Congress by the Proletarian Unity League
The Split in the BWC. Leninism or Petty Bourgeois Democracy
Name Change – Workers Congress
Economism and the Attack on “Leftism”
Unite to Build an Iskra-Type Organ
Announcement [Expulsion of Don Williams]
OC Draft Program: Proletarian Internationalism or Social-Chauvinism
RCP Rewrites History of National Liaison Committee
Open Letter on Criticism-Self-Criticism by the Workers Congress (Marxist-Leninist) and Friends from the East Coast
MLOC’s Tactics of Splittism: ’Plan For a Joint Program’ by the October League (Marxist-Leninist)
MLOC’S “CREDO” PROGRAM: Concentrate a Superior Force to Destroy Genuine Marxist-Leninists One by One
Open Letter to the October League by the Marxist-Leninist Organizing Committee
Report from the Central Committee
The Struggle for Marxist-Leninist Unity
Report from the Central Committee: Trotskyism Exposed!
Revolution Will Surely Triumph! On the International Situation
Documents of the First Congress of the MLOC
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