Vietnam Veterans Against The War Anti-Imperialist

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Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist (VVAW-AI) is a relatively small anti-war group formed after a split from the similarly-named Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). The main VVAW web site describes VVAW-AI as "the creation of an obscure, ultra-left sect called the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) ... designed to pimp off of VVAW's history of struggle." In the mid-1970s, as VVAW membership severely dropped after the end of the war, members of Bob Avakian's militant RCP were able to gain influential positions in the VVAW, including the National Office. A rift in the remaining membership formed due to the opposed ideologies, and the RCP group formed a separate organization, VVAW-AI. The original VVAW filed and won a lawsuit prohibiting the RCP group from using the VVAW name, logos and materials.