Communist Party USA (Marxist–Leninist)

Communist Party USA (Marxist-Leninist)
General SecretaryMichael Laski
FounderMichael Laski
Founded1965
Split fromProvisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute a Marxist–Leninist Party (POC)
Succeeded byProletarian Revolutionary Party
IdeologyMarxism-Leninism
Maoism
Not to be confused with Communist Party USA.

The Communist Party USA (Marxist–Leninist) was a small American Maoist group founded in 1965 by Los Angeles members of the Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute a Marxist–Leninist Party (POC) around Michael Laski. Laski stated in a 1968 interview that this split was motivated by dissatisfaction with the POC's response to the Watts riots.

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