Red Guard Party

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The Red Guard Party was a radical Asian American political organization active in the late 1960s and 1970s that drew inspiration from the Black Panther Party to fight racism, police brutality, and social injustice in Chinese American communities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Asian American organization
political organization
radical organization
activeInPeriod 1970s
late 1960s
advocatedFor community control of institutions
multiracial solidarity
self-determination for Asian Americans
countryOfOperation United States of America
surface form: United States
demographicBase working-class Chinese Americans
young Asian Americans
focusesOnIssue anti-imperialism
community self-defense
employment discrimination
housing rights
police accountability
racial equality
formedAs Asian American counterpart to the Black Panther Party
hasEthnicFocus Asian American
Chinese American
historicalContext Vietnam War
surface form: Vietnam War era

civil rights era
ideology revolutionary socialism
inspiredBy Black Panther Party
Maoism
mainGoal fight police brutality
fight racism
fight social injustice
movement Asian American movement
surface form: Asian American Movement
notableFor militant rhetoric
solidarity with Black liberation movements
solidarity with Third World liberation movements
operatedInCommunity Chinese American communities
opposed U.S. imperialism
U.S. racism
organized community programs
political education
protests against police brutality
partOf Third World liberation movements in the United States
politicalPosition far-left
radical left
regionOfActivity San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Chinatown
status defunct organization
typeOfActivism community-based organizing
street-level protest
usedSymbolismFrom Cultural Revolution
surface form: Chinese Cultural Revolution
usedTacticsSimilarTo Black Panther Party

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