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Revolutionary Workers Headquarters (U.S.A.)
Documents and Publications Difficult to Find
The Revolutionary Workers Headquarters was a split-off from the Revolutionary Communist Party, U.S.A. in early 1978. This was the more Economist wing of the RCP, though it also was more dedicated to participating with the masses in their struggles. (These are not one-in-the-same thing!) The remainder of the RCP referred to the RWHq, with considerable justice, as “the Mensheviks”.
In 1985 the RWHq merged with the Proletarian Unity League and the Organization for Revolutionary Unity to form the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
If you know of other difficult to find documents and publications of the RWHq which should be made available here, contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
Documents
- "China Advances Along the Socialist Road: The Gang of Four Were Counter-Revolutionaries and Revolutionaries Cannot Support Them", apparently the first major statement by the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters, probably in late 1977, while it still formally existed as an organized rebellious faction within the RCP,USA, and before it officially split from that Party in early 1978. This document was first publicly published by the RCP in its book Revolution and Counter-Revolution: The Revisionist Coup in China and the Struggle in the Revolutionary Communist Party (Sept. 1978), pp. 139-264. Searchable PDF image format [923 KB]
- Red Papers 8, [1978] is a major statement by the RWHq which shows their strong support for the capitalist-roaders in China who staged a revisionist coup d’état after Mao’s death. It also presents their Economist line about how to participate in the workers movement in the U.S., and gives their reasons for their split from the RCP. Available in HTML format on EROL at: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-5/rp-8/index.htm
The Worker / Workers Voice
[The Worker newspaper began publishing in March 1978. In January 1979 its name was changed to Workers Voice. We only have the issues for 1978 and 1979.]
- 1978:
- Vol. 1, #1, March 1978, 20 pages (3 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [33,910 KB]
- Vol. 1, #2, April 15-May 15, 1978, 24 pages (4 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [40,876 KB]
- Special May Day Issue, May 1, 1978, 8.5" x 11", 8 pages (3 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [1,764 KB]
- Vol. 1, #3, May 15-June 15, 1978, 20 pages (3 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [33,060 KB]
- Vol. 1, #4, July 1978, 24 pages (4 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [38,950 KB]
- Vol. 1, #5, August 1978, 8 pages (no Spanish section). Searchable PDF Image Format [12,878 KB]
- Vol. 1, #6, September 20, 1978, 20 pages (3 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [33,049 KB]
- Vol. 1, #7, December 1978, 24 pages (4 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [39,184 KB]
- 1979:
- Vol. 2, #1, January 1979, 24 pages (4 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [38,469 KB]
- Vol. 2, #2, February 1979, 16 pages (3 1/2 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [25,552 KB]
- Vol. 2, #3, April 1979, 16 pages (3 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [26,999 KB]
- Vol. 2, #4, May 1979, 16 pages (4 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [25,767 KB]
- Vol. 2, #5, July 1979, 20 pages (4 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [32,099 KB]
- Vol. 2, #6, August 1979, 16 pages (4 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [26,328 KB]
- Vol. 2, #7, September 1979, 20 pages (4 pages in Spanish). Searchable PDF Image Format [32,398 KB]
- [Vol. 2] December 1979, [no explicit volume or issue numbers], 16 pages (Spanish section discontinued). We have also scanned the middle of the center pages 8 & 9 so that two articles which span both pages can be more easily read. Searchable PDF Image Format [26,849 KB]
- 1980:
- Vol. 3, #1, March 1980, 20 pages (all in English). Searchable PDF Image Format [12,156 KB]
The Young Communist (Formerly Fight Back)
- 1978:
- Vol. 5, #3, March 1978, 24 pages. Searchable PDF Image Format [38,856 KB]
- Vol. 5, #4, April 1978, 24 pages. We have also scanned the middle of the center pages 12 & 13 so that the article spanning those pages can be more easily read. Searchable PDF Image Format [38,315 KB]
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