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APPENDIX (he REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST MRTY, USA . On October 1, 1975, the Revolutionary Union (RU) publicly announced the formation of the Revolutionary Communist Party of USA (RCP). The RU, a militant semi- covert Marxist-Leninist revolutionary organization _ ideologically oriented towards the People's Republic of China and the teachings of Chairman MAO Tse-tung, had as one of its main objectives, the founding of the RCP, and with the announcement of the formation of the RCP, the RU, aS_an organization, dissolved. The RCP has published a booklet entitled "Programme and Constitution of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA." This booklet states "The Programme is both a declaration of war on the ruling class and a battle plan for the working — class of this country. The central task of the Revolutionary Communist Party today, as the Party of the U.S. working class, is to build the struggle, class conscieousness and revolutionary unity of the working class, and develop its leadership on a broad united front against the U.S. imperialists . . .,This means .the masses of workers must rise in arms, forcibly smash and dismantle the armed forces and political apparatus of the bourgeoisie and create in their place the organs of power of the armed working class." The Constitution of the RCP states "The Revolutionary Communist Party takes Marxism-Leninism, MAO Tse-tung thought as the theoretical basis guiding its thinking. The basic programme of the Revolutionary Communist Party is the complete overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the establishment of the | dictatorship of the proletariat in place of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and the triumph of socialism over capitalism. The ultimate aim of the Party is the realization of communism." - 6* -