League for the Revolutionary Party
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The League for the Revolutionary Party was founded by a faction of the now defunct Revolutionary Socialist League in 1973. The RSL had in turn split from the International Socialists in 1971.
The LRP took from the RSL a strong stress on the need for a Leninist party and coupled this with an emphasis on the general strike tactic. They also developed their own version of what is called "state capitalist theory" to explain the class nature of the USSR and similar states. In later years they abandoned use of the term "state capitalist" in favour of the term "statified capitalism."
It remains a tiny group based in New York with a branch in Chicago. It also organises a similarly tiny group of international co-thinkers called the Communist Organisation for a Fourth International. They publish a journal called Proletarian Revolution, formerly Socialist Voice, to which Sy Landy and Walter Daum are notable contributors.