Revolutionary Workers Headquarters of the RCP

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The Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (RWH) was a U.S. Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization that formed out of a split from the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1977. Two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the majority of the Revolutionary Communist Party, led by Bob Avakian, felt that the Chinese government had adopted revisionist policies, while the minority, which supported the then current regime of the Community Party of China (CCP), established the RWH. Subsequently, RWH merged with the Bay Area Communist Union, the League of Revolutionary Struggle, and other organizations to from the Committee to Unite Marxist-Leninists. The RWH was active in the labor movement, struggles of oppressed nationalities, the women's movement, the student movement, and the struggle for divestiture from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. It was directly involved with founding of the Progressive Student Network.

From the guide to the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters Records, 1976-1980, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)

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creatorOf Revolutionary Workers Headquarters Records, 1976-1980 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn David Sullivan U.S. Maoism Collection, Bulk, 1970-1982, 1918-2006, bulk 1970-1982 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Revolutionary Communist Party Records, 1975-1979 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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associatedWith Avakian, Bob person
associatedWith Bay Area Communist Union (Calif.). corporateBody
associatedWith Bernstien, B. person
associatedWith Committee to Unite Marist-Leninists (U.S.). corporateBody
associatedWith Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 person
associatedWith Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. corporateBody
associatedWith Sullivan, David person
associatedWith Zhongguo gong chan dang. corporateBody
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