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Origins
Jerry Tung founded a Maoist group called the Asian Study Group. The ASG later merged with other radical groups to form a new organization, also headed by Tung: Workers Viewpoint Organization (WVO). On the eve of the Greensboro shootings in November 1979, the WVO changed its name to the Communist Workers Party . The CWP was one of several groups established as part of a Maoist revival within the radical community. To the Maoists, the pro-Soviet Communist Party USA was deemed soft on capitalism and lacking in militancy.[1]
WVO leaders
In the 1970s, Michio Kaku was a leader, with Jerry Tung, of the Workers Viewpoint Organization, forerunner to the Communist Workers Party.[2]
- ↑ North Carolina History Project, Greensboro Shootings
- ↑ [Legacy to Liberation: Politics & Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America, By Carolyn Antonio, page 248]