In the rest of this pamphlet we reproduce a speech delivered at an internal conference of the COUSML in the latter half of 1977. The speech dealt with the role of the RCP in the U.S. Marxist-Leninist movement. The speech has been edited for publication and the section on the fascist anti-busing movement has been added. The speech shows:
a) RCP’s role as a damper on and disorganizer of the struggle against social chauvinism,
b) How the RCP, for all the big theatrical show of fuss and squabble between the RCP and OL, ends up in basically the same position as the OL on a number of important issues. All the sound and fury of mock combat ended up signifying nothing. On one political issue after another the RCP and OL ended up hard-pressed to explain their differences.
c) How the RCP lays the ideological basis for social-chauvinism.
The speech predicts: “By vigorously advancing the struggle against social-chauvinism on an objective basis, the Marxist-Leninists will force the sham groups to find themselves sitting on the sharp edge of a razor blade”.
The pamphlet ends with a short excerpt from another comrade’s speech at the same conference that exposes the neo-revisionist method of organization: namely, action-groups and side-line pamphleteering. This excerpt too has been edited for pamphlet publication.