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@ & CY 44-703 i CAI: cmv ogw . ; (15) 3 A sonree has advised that the Students for a ‘pemocratic Socicty (SDS), as presently regarded, cane into being «et a founding convention held dune, 1952, at port luron, Michipan. Foxom an initial posture of "participntory democracy" the line of the national leadership has revealed a growing Marxist-Leninist adherence which currently calis for the building of a revolutionery youth movenent. Concurrently, the program of SYS has evolved from civil rights struggles to an anti-Vietnam war stance to an advocacy of a militant antiv-imperialist position. China; Vietuam and Cuba are regarded 2s the leaders of worldwide strucgles apainst Ynited States imperidalism whereas the Soviet Unian is held to be revisionist and also imperialist. At the dune, 1969, SUS National Convention, Progressive Labor Party (P)P) forces in the orpanization vere expelled. AS a result, the National Office GIO) group maintained its National Herdquarters at 1608 West Madison Street, Chicero, and the PLP faction set up heradqvertors in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This headquarters subsequently moved to Boston. bach proup elected its own national officers, which ineclywde three national secretarics and a Rational Interim Committee of cight.. Poth the NO forces and the PLP forces claim to be the true SDS. Both proups also print their versions of "New Left Notes" which seis forth the line and the progran of the particular faction. The NO version of "New Left Notes" was recently printed under the title "The First Keat Time" to achieve .a broader mass appeal. Tvo major factions have developed internally within the NO group, pamely, the Weatherman or Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) I faction, and the RYM JI faction. Weatherman js action-oriented upholding Castrol's position that the duty of revolutionaries is to make revolution. Weatherman is regarded by RYM JJ as an adventuristic, elitist faction - which denies the historical role of the working class as the base for revolution. RYM IJ] maintains that revolution,