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- . ’ * . . - + : . - ' : - " y « . OO . - . re; . . . . . a ., # oO : *. Bo . APPENDIX : ” " - STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (SEEi LID ere a SS ene! that the Students for 4 Democratic Socicty (SpS}, as it is known today, came into ' being at a founding convention held at Port Huron, Michigan, in Jones, 1962, From an initial ideological posture of . ,“participatery democracy," the current line of the national oo - leadarship reveals an adherence to Marxism-Leninism. Michaei - Klonsky, National Secretary, in March, 1969, called for the ' peilding of a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist movement. “The program of SDS has meved from involvement in civil rights Btruggles to an anti-Vietnam war position and finally to ite present advocacy of an anti-ijmperialist line, linking up the ‘Oppressed peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America with the black liberxation movement in tho United States, China, — Vietnam and Cube are regarded eas countries which are leading _ the world-wide etruggles agzinst United States imparialisn, | -- -+On the other hand, SDS regards the Sdvict Union as an -- coast imperizlist power and does not support the policies of that country. ’ 4 ‘ . ; mo, _&8DS maintains a National Office in Room 206, 1608 . West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois, Its official paper “New Left Notes" reflects the line of the national leadersinip -. aoe MB cet ete ee A 2s. q 4. : and program adopted at meetings of the National Council and -- National Interim Committee (NIC). Three national officers and a NIC of eleven members are elected each yexr during & June National Convention. =~ «= |. ° ce a ; _ * -gpS Regional Offices and university and college _chepters elect delegates to National Council meetings wherein progrem and ideology are debated, but each Region and chapte: fe autonemous in nature and is free to carry out indepenéent oat Po a eo ee - policy and programs reflective of local Conditions.