Proletarian Unity League
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The Proletarian Unity League was formed in Boston
in 1975 by Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS) members who had been associated with the Revolutionary Youth Movement II
grouping that emerged out of the split in SDS at its summer 1969 convention. The Proletarian Unity League (PUL) was critical of what it saw as ultraleftism among American anti-revisionist
groups. In 1985 it merged with the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
and formed the Freedom Road Socialist Organization
(which Organization for Revolutionary Unity
joined in 1986).
Publications by The Proletarian Unity League include:
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
in 1975 by Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)
Students for a Democratic Society was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969...
(SDS) members who had been associated with the Revolutionary Youth Movement II
Revolutionary Youth Movement
The Revolutionary Youth Movement was the section of Students for a Democratic Society that opposed the Worker Student Alliance of the Progressive Labor Party...
grouping that emerged out of the split in SDS at its summer 1969 convention. The Proletarian Unity League (PUL) was critical of what it saw as ultraleftism among American anti-revisionist
Anti-Revisionist
In the Marxist–Leninist movement, anti-revisionism refers to a doctrine which upholds the line of theory and practice associated with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and usually either Mao Zedong or Enver Hoxha as well...
groups. In 1985 it merged with the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
Revolutionary Workers Headquarters was a U.S. Marxist-Leninist organization that formed out of a split from the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1977...
and formed the 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...
(which Organization for Revolutionary Unity
Organization for Revolutionary Unity
The Organization for Revolutionary Unity was an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States. ORU was formed in 1983 from a merger of the Committee for a Proletarian Party and the Communist Organization, Bay Area . These groups, and the ORU itself, were part of the U.S...
joined in 1986).
Publications by The Proletarian Unity League include:
- Mitchell, Roxanne and Frank Weiss. Two, Three, Many Parties of a New Type? Against the Ultra-Left Line. Publisher: United Labor Press (1977).
- Proletarian Unity League. On the October League's call for a new communist party. A response. United Labor Press. New York. 1976.
- Forward Motion magazine.