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Progressive Labor Party | |
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| Abbreviation | PLP |
| Founded | January 1962 |
| Newspaper | Challenge |
| Political orientation | Maoism |
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| www.plp.org | |
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The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) is an ultra-left communist party in the United States. It is hostile to all other communist parties and socialist states.[1]
History[edit | edit source]
The PLP was founded by leftists expelled from the CPUSA around 1960. It identified with China and initially supported the Vietnamese and Cuban revolutions. It was a leading force in the progressive student movement of the 1960s.[1]
The PLP became increasingly dogmatic and sectarian throughout the 1960s. It sided with the ultra-left of the Cultural Revolution in China and attacked the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Cuban and Vietnamese revolutions. In 1969, it took over the SDS. It eventually isolated itself from all other foreign and domestic progressive groups.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 1.2 Albert Szymanski (1977). Critique of Ultra-Leftism, Dogmatism and Sectarianism. https://archive.org/details/critiqueszymanski/mode/1up.