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. It was founded in November 1966 and split into three factions in December 1971. The party published the newspaper ''Toitsu'' between February 1967 and December 1971.Tōkyō Daigaku.
Annals of the Institute of Social Science
'. Tokyo, Japan: The Institute, University of Tōkyō, 1966. p. 109 The youth wing of the party was the Proletarian Youth League and its student branch was the Proletarian Student League.

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