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RCP members and supporters have been active in the groups

It is one of the few surviving direct descendants of the New Left of the 1960s and 70s.

History

After a series of unsuccessful unity meetings with nationality-based communist organizations called the National Liaison Committee, including the

Subsequent to the overthrow of the Gang of Four, the Chinese Communist Party acted to purge defenders of the Cultural Revolution and other percieved left-win critics. [5] ^[6] Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited the United States in November 1979, signaling a further reproachment with the West, after Nixon's visit to China in 1971. The RCP organized demonstrations against the Chinese premier's vist to the White House. ^{[7] [8]} As a result of criminal indictments stemming from the protest against Xiaoping, Bob Avakian and other RCP leaders fled the United States and lived in France and England for many years. Mostly as a result of this development, the RCP is active in both the United States and Western Europe. The protest signaled a change in the thinking of the RCP, which now regarded socialism as defeated in China, and that a capitalist-oriented leadership had seized power. ^[9] To demonstrate against U.S. expansionist policies they briefly occupied the Alamo. ^{[10] [11]}

Historically, one of the group's most notable actions was raising the

Another notable action was when a member of the RCP's youth organization, the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, burned a

Theory

The RCP states that

• October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation

Refuse and Resist World Can't Wait

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