Michael Rotkin on his door to his faculty office at UCSC had a great cartoon from Radical America sometime in the 70's during the "new communist" party building days. (See, btw, for a serious article on same, Allen Hunter from RA around '79, "American Leninism in the 70's, " lotsa good stuff on October League, RCP...) "Build your own communist party! Names? Pick and choose from (Marxist-Leninist or M-L for short), Proletarian, Workers, Vanguard, Provisional, Revolutionary, Communist..."
John Trinkl who wrote for the Guardian was reputed to have been working on a book on on M-L in the 70's but, I've never seen any sign of it. This by, A. Belden Fields http://www.maoism.org/misc/usa/trotskyism_maoism/tm_toc.htm (Trotskyism and Maoism: Theory and Practice in France and the United States) www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/Vol3/No2/Fields.html , is o.k. but friends who were there say the treatment of some aspects is off-key.
And this from the larger of the FRSO's is a good geneology of the maoist branches. http://www.freedomroad.org/whoweare/familytree/familytree.html http://www.freedomroad.org/whoweare/familytree/megatree.html
Also see a new book, "Legacy to liberation : politics and culture of revolutionary Asian Pacific America, " ed. by Ho, Fred Wei-han. Antonio, Carolyn. San Francisco : AK Press ; Brooklyn, NY ; Big Red Media, 2000. Michael Pugliese P.S. To kelly and/or justin, send this to carrol, he has me in his "kill file"!