The Trend

The Trend was a Marxist-Leninist political movement of the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s in the United States. It consisted of a loose collection of small communist organizations, newspapers, and theoretical groups that staked out a line that was intermediate between the Soviet-aligned Communist Party, USA and the Third-worldist-oriented, Maoist New [Communist Movement]. Groups that were part of The Trend include The Guardian newspaper and the associated Guardian Clubs, Line of March, Crossroads, Organizing Committee for an Ideological Center, El Comite-MINP, and other groups.