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Sad au Th ee at ae aN ee a A es ee et GE Se ca ce Shan ee ki ce ead ad, Neaet € ae Sa nT ta en Ga : fe ee . a ma 4 ‘ : i . = A-P-P-E-N-D-I-x VY STUDENTS FOR A DEMCORATIC SCOIETY (SDS) es hat the Students fer a Democratic Soe tety ; rors, LOodcy, Came into being at a fourding cenvention held at Port Hwron, Michigan, in June, 1662, Fron an initial ideological posture of “participztory cenocracy,*® the current line of the national leadership reveals an adherence to Marxism-Leninism, Michael Klonsky, National Secretary, in March, 1969, called for the building of a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist movement, The vrogram of SDS has moved from invcivement in civil rights struggles to an anti-Vietnam war position and finally to its present advocacy of an anti-inmrerizlist line, Linking up the oppressed peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin Amorica with the black liberation — hovensnt in the Unived States, China, Vietnam and Cuba are vegouded as ccuntries which eve leading the world-wids struggles against United States inperiasisn. On the other hand, SDS wo rows n es the Saeri ne That ae rnandatiadg aanaw a; A am & 2 & Bove ew woo WY EO eid Ode as an inper £Gh 40 Pee mats doe no support the policies of that country. SDS maintains a National Office in Room 206, .:.2 Vest iadisen Street, Chiczgo, Illinois. Its offic# 1 vaper "lew Lert Notes” shows the line of the national les rdexship zna program adopted at meetings of the Nationz1 Council and Natiorcl interim Committee (NIC). Three national officers and 2 NIC of eleven members are elected each year during a June National Convention ~~ wake Os ee DS ve EDS Regional Offices and university and college chapters elect delegates to National Council meetings wherein peegran and ideolozy ere debited, but each Region and chapter ah Autonomous in rature and is freo to carry out independent policy and programs reflective of local conditions. . Oo