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Abbott Howard Hoffman APPENDIX =a 2. STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (cont'd) » > disclaiming control and domination by the Communist Party, USA, = leaders in these two factions have in the past proclaimed themselves to be communists and to follow the precepts of a Marxist-Leninist philosophy, along pro-Chinese communist lines. \2 Wa... the PLP faction, 5? which is more y Known as the Worker Student Alliance, is dominated and controlled by members of the PLP, who are Lev Li mi required to identify themselves with the pro-Chinese Marxist- Leninist philosophy of the PLP. They advocate that an wlliance between workers and students is vital to the bringing about of &® 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 iF independent policy reflective of local conditions. Because of this autonomy internal struggles reflecting the major factional interests of SDS have occurred at the chapter level ot since the beginning of the 1969-70 school year. | ( A characterization of the PLP is attached.