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re oy ; so APPENDIX “STUDENTS FOR 4 DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY . / _ 7 PSE PRS ES Sk or A source has advised that the Students for a Yemecratic Society (SDE), as it is khewn today, came into “being at a founding convention held at Hort Huren, Michigan, in June, 1962. From an initial ideolegical pesture of “participatory democracy, the curcent line cf the national leadership reveals an adherence te Marxism-Leninism, wichael Klonsky, National secretary, in March, 1969, called ‘for. the building of a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist movement. _ The progran of SD3 has moved from involvement in civil rights Steveches to an antieVielaam war position and finally to its present advccacy of an anti-imperialist line, linking up the “uppréssed peoples cf Asia, Africa, and iztin America with the 1 black liberation movement in the United States, China, Vietnam and Cuba are regarded as countries which are leading the worldwide struggles against United States imperialism. On the other hand, SDS reg?rds the Soviet Union as an imperialist power and does net support the policies of that country. SDS 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 leader- ship 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 year during a June National Convention. SDS regional offices and university and-college chapters elect delegates to Sational Council meetings wherein peogram and ideology are debated, hut each region and chapter is autonomous in nature and is [ree to carry out independent policy and programs reflective of local conditions. APPENDIX . : ‘ -10- oa