Communist Labor Party of the United States of North America | |
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| Abbreviation | CLP |
| Leader | Nelson Peery |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Dissolved | 1993 |
| Preceded by | California Communist League (CL) League of Revolutionary Black Workers |
| Succeeded by | National Organizing Committee |
| Newspaper | Peoples Tribune/Tribuno del Pueblo, |
| Ideology | New Communist Movement[1] Marxism-Leninism Anti-revisionism |
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The Communist Labor Party of the United States of North America (CLP or CLP(USNA)) was an anti-revisionist communist party that was part of the New Communist movement in the United States.
The CLP was founded in 1974 and disbanded in 1993. The League of Revolutionaries for a New America was then founded by CLP members.
During its lifetime, the CLP was frequently critical of the US Communist Party and the Soviet Union and refused to become closely aligned with other foreign communist parties. Established as a traditional industrial union party, the CLP began to reexamine its focus as the industrial workforce in the United States started declining in the 1980s. By 1993, CLP members had decided that the party could no longer grow in its present form and decided to disband it.
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