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a tm os ( AFPENDixX STUDENTS FOR A_DLUQCRATIC SOCIETY Paes oa ~~ ER Parag R ee he . ’ source has advised that the Students for a Democratic Soci- ety (SD3), as presently regarded. cane into being at a founding conven- tion held June, 1952, at Port Huron, Michigan. From an initial posture of "particapatery democracy" the line of the national leadership has revealed a growing Virxist-Leninist adherence which currently calls for the building of a revolutionary youth movement. Concurrently, the pro- gram of SDS has evolved from civil rights struggles to an anti-Vietnam Wai stance to an advocucy of a militant anti-imperialist position. China, Vietnem, ard Cuoa are regarded as the leaders of worldwide strug- gles against United States imperialism whereas the Soviet Union is held to be revisionist and also imperialist. At the June, 1969, SDS National Convention, Progressive Labor Party (PLP) forces in the organization were expelled, As a result, the National Office {(NO% group miintAined its National Headquarters at 16CB West Madison Street, Chicago, and the PLP faction set up head- querters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This headquarters subsequently moved to Boston. Fach group elected its own national officers, which irlude three nation:] secretaries and a National Interim Committee of eight. Both groups 2lso print their versions of "New Left Notes" which sets forth the line and the program of the particular faction. The NO version of "New Left Notes" was recently printed under the title "The Fire Next Time"' to achieve a broader mass appeal. Two major factions have developed internally within the NO group, namely, the Weatherman or Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) I faction, and the RhYM II faction. Weatherman is action-oriented up- holding Castro's position that the duty of revolutionaries, adventur- istic, elitist faction which denies the histerical role of the working ceeutias eee YT em tn aoe ¢hat xwavanlutian cirss as the base for revolution. RYM II maintains that revolution, although desired, 1s not pessible under present conditions, hence emphasizes organizing and raising the political consciousness of the working class upon whom they feel successful revolution depends. Although disclaimang control and domination by the Communist Party, USA, lesders in these two factions have in the past proclaimed themselves to be communists an@ to follow the precepts of a Marxist-Leninist philos- opiy, along pro-Chinese communist lines. A s@cond source has advised that the PLP faction which is morc comonly known as the Worker Student Alliance is dominated and control- le? by members of the PLP, who are required to identify themselves with the Pro-Chinese Maraist-Leninist philosophy of the PLP, They advocate tha! an alliance between werkers and students is vital to the bringing ab.ut of a revolution in the United States. SDS regions and university and college chapters, although Operating under the outlines of the SDS National Constitution, are autonomous in nature and free to carry out independent policy reflectiv: of local conditions Because of this autonomy internal struggles reflecting the major ‘actional interests of SDS have occurred at the chapter level since the beginning of the 1969-70 school year. 'A characterization of PLP is attached, SET Ea Se eee ee - sree —- F . ‘. ~~ Pa a soa +, oan * t =e a ee ~ - > ‘ wn me so OTR Fae ret, OE pe et Ne eet Wace ot RF a ame et Ot ee NE 2: _ . x a. Paran ” ad wos “. a oun aww we < ar Ralingen