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Politically, the RYM opposed what they considered to be PL's opposition to the right of , whom PL had accused of " Selling Out " to the U.S. during the Paris Peace Talks , as well as other criticisms. But most of all, the RYM opposed what it considered to be PL's totally unfounded attacks on the Black Panther Party . In the 1969 fragmentation of SDS, RYM departed the convention hall and declared itself the "real SDS" in a new space across the street. In splitting, the RYM itself also split. One section of the RYM, containing most of the SDS leadership including Bernardine Dohrn , David Gilbert and Mark Rudd , became Weatherman . Weatherman briefly retained control of the SDS National Office and membership lists before dissolving the organization and closing its headquarters in 1970, in favor of pursuing underground activities. The other, which took the name "Revolutionary Youth Movement II," concentrated on what it saw as the necessity of building a Vanguard Party , and focused on aboveground work in factories and communities. The largest of these groups, the Bay Area Revolutionary Union, soon absorbed some others to become the Revolutionary Communist Party USA led by Bob Avakian by 1975. Others in the RYM II camp generally competed against one another in the form of an array of small Maoist offshoot groups, each one calling themselves "party", through much of the 1980s . The Communist Party Marxist-Leninist led by Michael Klonsky was only one of many such parties. The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) also evolved out of these disputes. In 1985, faced with dangerously shrinking or collapsing organizations, most of the Maoist groups not affiliated with the RCP-USA or the MIM consolidated themselves into the Freedom Road Socialist Organization . SEE ALSO
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