The I Wor Kuen were a radical Asian American

Asian American

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...

 group originally based in New York City

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 named after the Boxers and influenced by the Black Panther Party

Black Panther Party

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 and the Young Lords

Young Lords

The Young Lords, later Young Lords Organization and in New York , Young Lords Party, was a Puerto Rican nationalist group in several United States cities, notably New York City and Chicago.-Founding:...

 Party. In 1972 IWK and the Red Guard Party  organizations merged to form a single national revolutionary organization under the name I Wor Kuen.

In 1978 I Work Kuen and the Chicano Marxist-Leninist organization August 29th Movement were both dissolved and a new organization, the League of Revolutionary Struggle

League of Revolutionary Struggle

The League of Revolutionary Struggle was a communist organization in the United States. It was formed in 1978 and was dissolved by the organization's leadership in 1990...

was founded.