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Bee Le PE re a, s> , Met es OT Re A i? ot / if ta Soman ode 1 Pt eer oe Bcc wt "a othe ely tee) onal cme pene AA Be ne ah od An Penn Re a ee eM Ge be er a RE: YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PAR (YIP) SD& was founded during June, 1962, at Port Huron, Michigan, and in the 1960s functioned as the leading New Left campus~based student organization in the United States. From a stance of “Participatory democracy", the SDS moved to a radical-revolutionary posi- tion. It maintained a national office at 1608 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois, until February, 1970. Internal factionalism during 1969 produced three main factions: Weatherman, Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), and Worker Student Alliance (WSA). The Weatherman and RYM no longer consider themselves associated with the SDS. The WSA faction continues to use the name SDS. WSA, a faction of SDS, was expelled from SDS in June, 1969, by the then dominant Weatherman faction, but continued to use the name SDS and opened an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. WSA aligned ideologically with the Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and, in February, 1971, moved to Chicago, Illinois, where it opened the SDS National Office at 1225 South Wabash Street. The PLP was founded in 1962 by individuals expelled from the Communist Party, USA, for following the Chinese communist line. Its objective is the establishment of a militant workingclass movement based on Marxism-Leninism and Mao Tsge-tung thought.