As I was looking for something peculiar and obscure to review (like you never done that), I run across this little pamphlet, "Important Struggles in Building the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA".
Published in 1978 and surprisingly not written by Bob Avakian, it's a tedious and completely uninteresting overview of various factional struggles within the Revolutionary Union, later known as the RCP.
Thus, we learn about RU's factional struggles with Venceremos, the Black Workers Congress and the Young Lords Party, and the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters, referred to in this text as "the Jarvis-Bergman clique" or "the Mensheviks". Good old CPML are featured as well, a.k.a. the guys who gave us Mobutu Sese Seko.
Those more seriously interested in the American far left should read "Trotskyism and Maoism" by A. Belden Field, reviewed by me elsewhere. (In fact, I'm the only reviewer so far.)
Today, the RCP have pretty much become Avakianists rather than Maoists, which may actually be more interesting, and I don't think they carry this pamphlet anymore.
I suppose it's not very important.
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