 It is signed with the pseudonym “The Republic of New Afrika.” The MBGC Assata Shakur poster influenced the design of Micah Bazant's 2017 poster "Refugees Are Welcome Here".The MBGC were named after Madame Nguyễn Thị Bình, a signer of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 on behalf of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam.Historian Lien-Hang Nguyen has argued that the MBGC was one of many US radical left groups who looked to the Vietnamese Revolution as a source of inspiration and solidarity—as an exemplar of a functioning communist politic.