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The WSA ia at odds with SWP thinking. First at the risk of
isolating the antiwar movement, they regard liberal politicians as
just the other side of the conservative coin.
confrontation with violence strategy, scuttling the mass demonstra-
. tion tactic becauoe they believe as do most antiwar activists outside
the echelons of SWP that past protestorsare tiring of parading and
are more interested in festival than political indoctrination and
finally, past massing of bodies has accomplished little. The WSA
watchword is impatience and they embrace a "multi-issue tactic.
and military research) but also, racism, repression, male chauvinism,
imperialism, ecological pollution, etc. , etc.
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They lean toward a
.Not only should America'8 Vietnam shin be kicked (including ROTC
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This major rplit in the antiwar .left was underlined the following
week at Milwaukee. - At a Strategy Action Conference staged there by
the New Mobe (who the Student Mobe calls "a bunch of generals without
an army") several events occurred among hectic debate and auto-
disruption (like the Cleveland meeting and all others in recent months,
.when petty chiefs are brought together no ?ne wants to be an Indian)
that were not widely noted in the straight press.
inhuence of Rennie Davis, Ron Young:'and numerous other violence-
prone activists, the conference (1ike)he WSA p o s t u p at Cleveland)
turned away from the now tradition2 mass demonstratign technique.
Among the future antiwar activities that will b&'con$idered'at forth-
coming plarining sessions are deliberate blockage of transportation,
electrical and communication systems and-othbr acts of "civil diso-
bedience'# (translated probably as police co'nfrontation).
is also at odds with the totally unrelated Student Mobe and plans to
follow a multi-issue offensive.
quo deal in order to build a bigger total force for disruption. For the
first time, and this is the major significant point to emerge from
Milwaukee, a large and generally respectable group among American
Negroes has joined the frey, Ralph Abernathy has apparently committed
Martin King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference to the field of
antiwarism and has extracfed in return New Mobe support and probably
a promise of activism in SCLC pet programs. Among theissues now
under attack by New Mobesters are racism, repression, equality, etc.
New Mobe leaders have further adulterated pure antiwarism by their
pledge to the National Welfare Rights Organization that they will sup-
port their demand for a minimum income for a family of four to
something in excess of $5,000 a year.
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First, under the
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The New Mobe
This philosophy is certainly a quid pro
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