Communist Party USA (Provisional)
The Communist Party, United States of America (Provisional) also known as the Communist Party, United States of America (Provisional Wing), Provisional Communist Party, Provisional Party, Provisional Party of Communists, Order of Lenin or simply the Formation is a Communist political party in the United States founded by Gino Perente, a controversial farm labor organizer who died in 1995. The party includes much of the leadership of the National Labor Federation (NATLFED), and may have no further substance at all. Outside estimates cap membership at between 100 and 300 core members. Those alleged to be members make no public use of the name, and virtually no identifiable offices or centers of operations.
The party, also referred to as the Formation, is clandestine and its exact origins and extent are obscure. There are no party publications, no conventions or leadership elections. During Perente’s lifetime he exercised full control over the party, communicating directly with members through long orations held at his Carroll Street office in Brooklyn, New York, through audiotapes of those speeches sent out to members running the various NATLFED entities, or through rare printed manuals, such as Perente's 1973 mimeographed The Essential Organizer.
Party members do not openly acknowledge its existence. Members of the party are full-time volunteers in NATLFED entities.
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