The League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist) was a communist organization in the United States. It was formed in 1978 and was dissolved by the organization's leadership in 1990. The LRS was part of the New Communist Movement

New Communist Movement

The New Communist Movement ' was a Marxist-Leninist political movement of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. The term refers to a specific trend in the U.S. New Left which sought inspiration in the experience of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Chinese Revolution, and the Cuban...

 that considered itself anti-revisionist

Anti-Revisionist

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 and took political inspiration from the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

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 and Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

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.

The LRS(M-L) was formed from a merger of the Asian American

Asian American

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 communist organization I Wor Kuen

I Wor Kuen

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 and the Chicano

Chicano

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-Latino

Latino

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 communist organization August 29th Movement (M-L)

August 29th Movement (M-L)

The August 29th Movement , was a Chicano communist organization that lasted from 1974 to 1978. It formed out of the Labor Committee of La Raza Unida Party in Los Angeles, and other collectives, officially forming at a Unity Conference in May 1974...

 in September 1978. By 1979 they absorbed a number a number of other ethnic based radical groups including the East Wind Collective of Japanese Americans in the Los Angeles  and the Seize the Time Collective of Chicanos and African Americans in San Francisco. Early in 1980 it merged with the Revolutionary Communist League (Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-tung Thought) led by Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

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. This organization, formerly known as the Congress of Afrikan People, was composed mostly of African-Americans and had stressed Black cultural nationalism

Cultural nationalism

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. When this merger occurred they issued a joint statement declaring ""Our unity signals a big advance in this strugle for Marxist-Leninist unity and for a single, unified, vanguard communist party."

The LRS(M-L) published a newspaper called Unity and a journal called Forward: Journal of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought.

The LRS(M-L) was active in electoral work, including playing important roles in the Rainbow Coalition

Rainbow Coalition

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 and the campaigns to elect Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson

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 for U.S. president in 1984 and 1988.

When the LRS dissolved, part of the organization regrouped as the Socialist Organizing Network

Socialist Organizing Network

The Socialist Organizing Network was a socialist group in the U.S. that formed in the early 1990s out of the dissolution of the League of Revolutionary Struggle . When the LRS dissolved, the Socialist Organizing Network grouped together ex-LRS members who still wanted to build a socialist...

, which merged into Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization — known in Spanish as Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad — was formed in 1985 as many of the Maoist-oriented groups formed in the United States New Communist Movement of the 1970s were shrinking or collapsing...

in 1994.

Publications

• Statements on the Founding of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist), San Francisco: Getting Together Publications, 1978
• A Study Guide for Mao Zedong's Theory of the Three Worlds Oakland: Unity Publications, 1978.
• Normalization of U.S.-China relations and Deng Xiaoping's U.S. visit: a victory for socialism : an analysis, San Francisco: Getting Together Publications, 1979
• Repression, Reaganomics, war and revolution: the present situation and the tasks of U.S. Marxist-Leninists. [Oakland? Calif.] : U.S. League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L), 1981
• Speech given by Amriri Baraka, June 27, 1980: League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L)., by Amiri Baraka, 1980.
• RWH on the Black Liberation Movement: Wrong Again!, by Amiri Baraka, 1981.
• Peace, justice, equality and socialism: from the Second Congress of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (M-L). , Oakland: Getting Together Publications, 1984
• 'A future to win: the student movement and the 1980's. [Oakland, CA] : U.S. League of Revolutionary Struggle (Marxist-Leninist), 1984
• Education is a right, not a privilege: a program for the Chicano student struggle, and other articles. Oakland: Unity Publications, 1985
• Chicano students and community fighting for educational rights Oakland: Unity Publications, 1986
• Black students in struggle. Oakland: Unity Publications, 1987