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e 7 i 1 APPENDIX eee: tie STUPEGITS FOR A _DEMOC “RATIC_ SOCIETY conto 8 A source has advised that the Students for a Democratic Society (S05), as presentiy regarded. came into being at a founding convention held June, 1362, at Pari Huron, Michigan. From an « initiul postuie of "participatory democracy" the line of the national leacership has revealed a grosing Marxist-Leainist adherence whieh currently calls for the building of a revolutionary youth rovement Concurrenily, the program of SDS has evolved from Civil rights struegles te on anti-Vieinam war siance to an advocacy of a militant anti-imperialist position. China, Vietnam, and Cuba. ‘ are regarded as the leaders of worldside struggles against United States imperialisnm whercas the Soviet Union is held. to be revisionist and 21so imperialist. - 5 é & " At the June, 1969, SDS National Convention, Progressive Labor Party (PLP) forces in the organization were expelled. As a result, tne Natéecnal Office (NO) group maintained its National Headquarters at 1608 West Madison Street, Chicaro, and the PLP faction set up headquarters in Cambradge, Massachusetts. This headquarters subsequestly moved to Boston. Each group elected its own national officers, which include three national secretaries and a National Interim Committee of eight. Both groups atso print their versions of "Kew Left Notes" which sets forth the Jine and the progrom of the particular faction. The HO vcroion of “Wew Lefe Nates"' vis recent}y printed under the tite "The Fire Nexi Time" to achireve a broader mass appeal. Txo major factions have developed internally within the NO group, nam@ly, the Weatherman or Revolutionary Youth Movenesnt CRYM) I faction. and the RYM TI faction. Weatherman is action- oriented upholding Castro's position that the duty of revolution- aries, adventuristic, elitist faction which denies the historical role of the working class as the base for revolution. RYM IJ main- tains that revolution, altbough desired, is not posnible under present conditicns, hence emphasizes organizing and raising the political consciousness of tre vorking class upon *hom they feel successiul revolution derends. Although disclaiming control and domination by the Cemmunist Party, USA, leaders in these two factions have in the past proclaimed themselves to be communists and to folJow the precepts of a Marxist-Leninist philosophy, along pro- Chinese communist Lines. A second source has advised that the PLP faction which is more comionty known as the Worker Stucgent Alliance is dominated and controlled by members of the PLP, who are requircd to identify . themseives with the Pro-Chinese Marxist-Leninist philoscphy of the PLP, They advocate that an alliance between vorkers aud students is vital to the bringing about of a revolution in the United States. 250