I Wor Kuen

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I Wor Kuen was a radical Asian American Marxist-Leninist organization active in the late 1960s and 1970s that played a key role in community organizing, anti-imperialist activism, and the broader Asian American liberation movement.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Asian American organization
Marxist-Leninist organization
radical political organization
activeInDecade 1960s
1970s
advocated mass line organizing
socialist revolution in the United States
basedIn New York City
San Francisco Bay Area
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolvedInDecade 1980s
ethnicFocus Asian American
fieldOfWork anti-imperialist activism
anti-racist activism
community organizing
education organizing
health care organizing
tenant organizing
youth organizing
ideology Maoism
Marxism–Leninism
surface form: Marxism-Leninism
inspiredBy Black Panther Party
Third World liberation movements
language Chinese
English
mergedInto Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
surface form: League of Revolutionary Struggle
movement Asian American movement
surface form: Asian American Movement

Asian American liberation movement
notableFor anti-imperialist work in Asian American communities
role in Asian American community organizing
role in Asian American radical politics
opposedTo U.S. imperialism
capitalism
racism
organizationalStructure cadre-based organization
partOf Third World Left in the United States
politicalPosition far-left
revolutionary
produced community newsletters
political pamphlets
revolutionary newspapers
recruitedFrom Asian American students
Asian American working-class communities
regionServed Asian American urban neighborhoods
Chinatown communities
supported Third World solidarity
community control of institutions
self-determination for Asian Americans

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