The Trend was a Marxist-Leninist political movement of the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s in the United States

United States

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. It consisted of a loose collection of small communist organizations, newspapers, and theoretical groups that staked out a line that was intermediate between the Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

-aligned Communist Party, USA and the Third-worldist-oriented, Maoist 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...

. Groups that were part of The Trend include the Guardian (US) newspaper and the associated Guardian Clubs, Line of March (later Frontline Political Organization), Crossroads, Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center, El Comite-MINP

El Comite-MINP

El Comite, or MINP, was a 1960s militant organization that sought independence for Puerto Rico from the United States. Together with several other organizations, it formed the nucleus of the Movimiento Pro-Independencia that formed at a time when the United States was coming under increasing...

, and other groups.

External links

• "The Trend", Freedomroad.org, December 13, 2000.