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Provisional Communist PartyThe Provisional Communist Party was a Communist political party in the United States. It was founded by Gerry Doeden in about 1970 as the Liberation Army Revolutionary Group Organizations and attracted some former members of Students for a Democratic Society. Inspired by the Symbionese Liberation Army, the group symbolically declared war on California, but Doeden then moved to New York, where he tried a new tack. Members of LARGO founded the National Labor Federation as a front organization for the Provisional Communist Party, which was intended to continue their immediate revolutionary aims. With an ever-increasing number of fronts, many people came to see the group as a cult. Doeden, who had changed his name to Gino Perente, claimed the party was part of a secret International including the Communist Party of Cuba, the Sandinistas and revolutionaries in Chile and El Salvador, and that as a result a revolution in the US was imminent. Although the party's aims attracted little support, the extreme loyalty it demanded enabled it to attract up to 200 members. It began to disintegrate after Perente died in 1995 and Margaret Ribar became leader. The following year, police raided the PCP's headquarters in Brooklyn and discovered weapons in a network of underground tunnels. The party dispersed and do not appear to have worked together since.
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