original product of the New Left. The Revolutionary Workers Headquarters and Proletarian Unity League joined forces to form the Freedom Road Socialist Organization in 1985, and various other new communist movement collectives and organizations later merged into FRSO. Subsequently, in 1999, FRSO split into two organizations, both of which until 2019 continued to use the name Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Homophobia The groups and individuals representing the movement were persistently hostile towards homosexuality and homosexuals, reflecting both the homophobia within the United States, as well as homophobic tendencies within the larger international Marxist–Leninist movement, although gay rights activism was an early component of the New Left. The Revolutionary Union considered homosexuality as "an individual response to male supremacy and male chauvinism." Attitude towards the Khmer Rouge Anarcho-communist Libcom.org contributor Loren Goldner sharply criticized the legacy of the NCM in a review of Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air, accusing both Elbaum and the wider NCM movement of supporting the Khmer Rouge regime that held control over Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, before being deposed by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. In a 1978 issue of The Call editor Dan Burstein called for solidarity between American activists and the Khmer Rouge regime. Attitude towards the Shining Path The Revolutionary Communist Party endorsed Shining Path, a Maoist revolutionary group that formed from the Peruvian Communist Party (PCP). In 1980 Shining Path launched a “People’s War” against the Peruvian state that has since resulted in around 70,000 deaths. It has been widely condemned for its human rights abuses. Influences Frantz Fanon, anti-colonialist writer and existentialist philosopher. Mao Zedong, military leader of the Chinese Revolution, General Secretary of the CCP. Huey Newton, leader and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, deeply influenced by Maoism and Black Nationalism Amílcar Cabral Kwame Nkrumah Stokely Carmichael Fidel Castro, leader of the July 25th Movement and the Cuban Revolution Harry Haywood, CPUSA member, anti-racist activist, anti-revisionist William Z. Foster, anti-revisionist member of the CPUSA Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Party during the October Revolution Joseph Stalin, paramount leader of Soviet Union Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietnamese revolution and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Ernesto "Che" Guevara, prominent member of the 26 July Movement Thomas Sankara, Maxist-Leninist, Panafricanist, leader of Burkina Faso Herbert Marcuse, Frankfurt school philosopher, writer, and cultural critic. Elaine Brown, leader of