| has gloss | eng: The Red Guards were a Chinese American civil rights group active from 1967 to 1971. The movement drew inspiration from a variety of sources including the Boxer Rebellion, the Red Guards in China, and the Black Panthers. The I Wor Kuen were a similar group originally based in New York City named after the Boxers and influenced by the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords Party. In 1972 the two organizations merged to form a single national revolutionary organization under the name I Work Kuen. The newly formed national party was affiliated with the New Communist Movement and was ideologically aligned with Marxist-Leninist-Mao Zedong Thought. |