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ee ee Om STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC S0Cb CY a Ry dee ed APVINTTX A source hag advised that the Students for a . Demecratic Society (S22), ag it is knewn roday,- came into being at a founding convention held at furt Huren, Michigan, an June, 1962, Freon an initial ideclegical presture of “paa ticipatory demotrany, the curcent Tine ct the national leadtrenip reveals on adherence ty Marxism-Leninism. Wichael Kionsky, Naticnal secretary, in Mareh, 1969, called fcr the building «f a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist movement. She program of SDS nas moved from involvement in civil rights Stfuegies to an ancaeVielsam war positica and finally to its present advocacy of an anti=imperialist line, linking up the cppressed peoples of Asia, Africa, and Létin America with the black liberation moverent in the United States, ‘China, Vietnaum and Cuba are regierded as countries which are leading the worldwide struggles acsinst UJnited States imperialism. On the other hand, StS reegerds the Seviet Union as an imperialist pewer and dous net support the policies of that “country. SDS maintains @ national office in Room 206, 1608 | West Madison Street, Chicago, illinois. [ts official paper, “Xew Left Notes,” reflects the line of the national leader- Ship and program adopted at meetings ef the National Council and National Interim Committee (NIC), Three national officers and a NIC uf eleven members are elected each year during a June National Convention. SDS regicnal cf fices and university and callege chapters elect delegates to Sational Gouncii meetings wherein -eogram and ideolesy are dvbated, but each region and chapter 1s 4utenomous in nature cond is free to carry cut independent policy and progrars reflective of local conditiens. APPENDIX: Se