[Originally published in Marxist-Leninist Newswire. Revised and edited, February 25, 2004] Friday, October 05, 2001 On April 22, 1980 members of the Revolutionary Communist Party [RCP-USA] went to the Pico Gardens housing project in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles in order to distribute party information and recruit people to join their planned May Day march coming up the following week. According to Los Angeles Times reports, the RCP was distributing leaflets which said "No Work, No School for May Day" when a crowd of approximately 50 youth confronted them. The shouting match that ensued quickly escalated to violence when alleged youth gang members turned fire hoses on RCP members and demanded party members leave the project. At first they turned project fire hoses on the RCP; and then attacked them with fists and knives. Two party members were stabbed, Damian Garcia and Hayden Fisher. Garcia died at the scene from multiple stab wounds to the abdomen, chest and neck. Fisher was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition with a stab wound to the back and later recovered.