Communist Party of Aotearoa
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The Communist Party of Aotearoa is a Maoist
political party
which formed in 1993 as a split from the Communist Party of New Zealand
, which had formerly been Maoist, but was then drifting towards Trotskyism
.
Since the mid-90s the CPA has been in merger negotiations with another Maoist
split from the old CPNZ, the Organisation for Marxist Unity
(OMU). No merger has yet taken place, however since 2002 the CPA appears to have suspended production of its paper Red Flag in favour of the OMU journal Struggle.
Maoism
Maoism, also known as the Mao Zedong Thought , is claimed by Maoists as an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory, derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong . Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding...
political party
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
which formed in 1993 as a split from the Communist Party of New Zealand
Communist Party of New Zealand
The Communist Party of New Zealand was a Communist political party in New Zealand from the 1920s to the early 1990s. It never achieved significant political success, and no longer exists as an independent group, although the Socialist Worker organisation is considered organisationally continuous...
, which had formerly been Maoist, but was then drifting towards Trotskyism
Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky considered himself an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party of the working-class...
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Since the mid-90s the CPA has been in merger negotiations with another Maoist
Maoism
Maoism, also known as the Mao Zedong Thought , is claimed by Maoists as an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory, derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong . Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding...
split from the old CPNZ, the Organisation for Marxist Unity
Organisation for Marxist Unity - New Zealand
The Organisation for Marxist Unity was founded in the 1975 as the Preparatory Committee for the Formation of the Communist Party of New Zealand , by former members of the CPNZ including Don Ross, Alec Ostler and Peter Manson...
(OMU). No merger has yet taken place, however since 2002 the CPA appears to have suspended production of its paper Red Flag in favour of the OMU journal Struggle.