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The October League came out of the Revolutionary Youth Movement II grouping in the SDS split. In 1977 , the October League transformed itself from an organization into a party, declaring itself the Vanguard Party of the U.S. proletariat. This is when it changed its name to the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). The CP(M-L) had a very multi-racial membership compared to other organizations that were part of the New Communist Movement of the 1970s. Longtime Black communist Harry Haywood became a CP(M-L) member near the end of his life, and the CP(M-L)'s press, Liberator Press, published Haywood's book ''Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist'' in 1978. After the death of Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong in 1976, the CP(M-L) became the main U.S. group that the post-Mao Chinese leadership recognized as a U.S. fraternal party. As the Chinese Communist Party moved away from Maoism, this moved the CP(M-L) away from other Maoist groups, who opposed the post-Mao Chinese leaders. The CP(M-L) published ''Class Struggle'' and ''The Call'' before disbanding in 1981 soon after Klonsky resigned from the leadership and amidst the beginnings of soon to be massive Free-market reforms in China. FURTHER READING
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