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Radical Resistance in Conservative Times: New Asian American Organizations in the 1990s
By Diane C. Fujino and Kye Leung
Part 15 of 16
Otherwise, activists will need to develop a new formation that has ideological clarity, revolutionary politics, and clear goals and organizational structure. It will likely take the combined efforts of newer and veteran activists, the latter of whom will need to let go of old interpersonal conflicts and even outdated ideological disputes to achieve a principled unity. And it will be important for any new formations to replicate the models of organizing that promote women's leadership, as happened in the League of Revolutionary Struggle and is occurring in many of the new radical groups. But this new formation win also need to incorporate a wider range of the community than the students, professionals, and heterosexuals now dominating the radical Asian American Movement. If Asian revolutionaries can accomplish this, they will push forward not only the Asian American Movement, but also the entire US Left. And the committed youth and women of these new radical organizations are in a prime position to facilitate this motion.