Organization for Revolutionary Unity
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The Organization for Revolutionary Unity (ORU) was an anti-revisionist
Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States. ORU was formed in 1983 from a merger of the Committee for a Proletarian Party (CPP) and the Communist Organization, Bay Area (COBA). These groups, and the ORU itself, were part of the U.S. New Communist Movement
that emerged and developed in the late 1960s and 1970s.
The ORU merged into Freedom Road Socialist Organization
in 1986.
Anti-Revisionist
In the Marxist–Leninist movement, anti-revisionism refers to a doctrine which upholds the line of theory and practice associated with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, and usually either Mao Zedong or Enver Hoxha as well...
Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States. ORU was formed in 1983 from a merger of the Committee for a Proletarian Party (CPP) and the Communist Organization, Bay Area (COBA). These groups, and the ORU itself, were part of the U.S. New Communist Movement
New Communist Movement
The New Communist Movement ' was a Marxist-Leninist political movement of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States. The term refers to a specific trend in the U.S. New Left which sought inspiration in the experience of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Chinese Revolution, and the Cuban...
that emerged and developed in the late 1960s and 1970s.
The ORU merged into Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization — known in Spanish as Organización Socialista del Camino para la Libertad — was formed in 1985 as many of the Maoist-oriented groups formed in the United States New Communist Movement of the 1970s were shrinking or collapsing...
in 1986.