Aaron Leonard: Heavy Radicals-The FBI’s Secret War On America’s Maoists

San Francisco Launch for "Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists".

A history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party — the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US — from its origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a national organization in the early seventies, its extension into major industry throughout early part of that decade, the devastating schism in the aftermath of the death of Mao Tse-tung, and its ultimate decline as the 1970s turned into the 1980s.