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More recently, RCP members were the forefront in establishing the of all four of these organizations. Historically, one of the group's most notable actions was raising the , burned a United States Flag at the Republican National Convention in 1984, leading to the Supreme Court case known as Texas V. Johnson . As a result of criminal indictments stemming from a protest against Deng Xiaoping at the White House in 1981 , Bob Avakian and other RCP leaders fled the United States and have been living in France and England ever since. Mostly as a result of this development, the RCP is active in both the United States and Western Europe . The RCP helped found the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and is the main voice of support in the United States for fellow RIM participants the Communist Party Of Peru (Shining Path) and the Communist Party Of Nepal (Maoist) . ORIGINS Robert Avakian was one of many activists in The Sixties who turned to Maoist (referred to by adherents as Marxist-Leninist ) ideas and began organizing in the Bay Area of California . H. Bruce Franklin , Stephen Charles Hamilton, and Bob Avakian together formed the ''Bay Area Revolutionary Union'', or BARU, which was subsquently able to absorb a series of similar local Collective s which had developed out of Students For A Democratic Society . The new nationwide structure allowed BARU to change its name to simply the ''Revolutionary Union''. The RCP claims that of the various groups coming out of SDS, it was the first to seriously attempt to develop itself both at the theoretical level, with the publication of "Red Papers 1", and at the practical level, by sinking roots into Working Class communities and struggles. Such rapid expansion was not without its problems, however, and in 1971 H. Bruce Franklin led a section of the RU to fuse with the Venceremos Brigade . In 1975, the Revolutionary Union renamed itself the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA; that same year, Franklin and Vice Chairman Mickey Jarvis formally left the RCP to form the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters . RCP TODAY In 2001, the RCP published its "New Draft Programme" in which it states its ideas and goals for a new generation. This document contains a reformed position on Homosexuality -- up until 2001, the RCP followed the line of the original communist movement in believing that homosexuality was "something to be struggled against." Now the RCP is fully accepting of homosexuals and the associated struggles. Following the re-election of George W. Bush , the RCP released a statement called "The Battle for the Future". It calls Bush a Christian Fascist and calls on the masses to resist. The document also puts forward Bob Avakian as a great leader. In issue of RW newspaper signaled "the end of 25 years of Revolutionary Worker/Obrero Revolucionario — and the beginning of Revolution/Revolución. {Link without Title} e believe that the new name more fully reflects our revolutionary communist ideology and politics, and the enriched vision of a tribune of the people that has been pioneered by RCP Chairman Bob Avakian." In late ; Clyde Young, a "writer for the revolutionary press"; Akil Bomani, a Revolution Newspaper correspondent; and Joe Veale, Los Angeles RCP branch spokesperson. CRITICISM OF RCP The RCP is obviously subject to general criticisms made against campaign. Alleged Cult of Personality Competing Communist and Socialist groups often describe the RCP as a Cult Of Personality around the "Great Leader" Bob Avakian . Those opposing such a cult of personality question whether it is necessary or desirable to build one up at all, and particularly whether it is justified to build one up around a leader that may or may not eventually gain the credibility and respect to have one. Such critics say that it is terribly presumptuous of the RCP to put forward Bob Avakian as a Great Leader when he is nowhere near the status of Marx , Lenin or Mao Zedong (from whom their "Marxist-Leninst-Maoist" ideology takes its name). Others also allege that personality cults were a weakness, not a strength, of the old communist movement, and that as such, these mistakes do not need to be repeated in a new revolutionary communist society. This debate has taken on renewed life since the leaders of the Nepalese Maoists have disassociated themselves from this method of promoting leaders. Anarchist and competing-Maoist criticism , characterize the RCP as being fake Maoists. EXTERNAL LINKS Archives
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