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Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA was founded in late 1975 from a reorganization of the Revolutionary Union.
In a Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) faction fight, the majority supported the so-called Gang of Four while the minority favored Hua Kuofeng. The minority also felt the RCP was withdrawing from mass work and was becoming too ultra-left. This minority split in January 1978 and formed the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters.
In January 1979, 17 RCP members were arrested on felony charges in Washington, D.C. where they were protesting the visit of Deng Xiaoping. Among those arrested were RCP chairman Bob Avakian who went underground following this.
The RCP still exists today. It has bookstores in several US cities, and publishes the newspaper Revolutionary Worker.
