During this period the RU became a popular faction within the VVAW eventually reaching its peak in 1975, when the RU controlled national office voted to remove members, expel chapters and place the organization into ideological uniformity, following the integration RU reconstituted itself as the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). In 1973 the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) entered into reforms following the end of the Vietnam War, these included adopting an explicitly Anti-imperialist stance and the opening of its membership to civilians. In 1974 RU started publication of their newspaper Revolution (renamed Revolutionary Worker, and adopting a weekly format in 1979) The RCP claims that of the various groups coming out of SDS, it was the first to seriously attempt to develop itself at the theoretical level, with the publication of Red Papers 1. Avakian was elected to the central committee of the RU shortly thereafter. The new nationwide structure induced BARU to change its name to simply the Revolutionary Union (RU). The RU continued to expand nationally uniting collectives, across the country, becoming a national organization-with the long-term goal of forming a new communist party. In 1971, Franklin led a more militant faction of BARU out the organization to join Venceremos. The resulting split led to PL controlling the SDS name, while RYM itself split into two different factions.
The early RU joined with the Revolutionary Youth Movement faction in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in opposing PLP's role in SDS at their national convention in Chicago in 1969.
Among the first tasks of the BARU was to challenge the Maoist Progressive Labor Party (PLP) over their positions on the Black Panther Party, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the direction of Maoism. Bruce Franklin, Bob Avakian, Stephen Charles Hamilton and a score or so others-consisting of both veterans of the Communist Party USA, and Bay Area radicals based in Palo Alto, Berkeley, and San Francisco, formed the Bay Area Revolutionary Union (BARU).
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