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7 APPENDIX “402+ sTupENrs FOR A pEMOCRANIC socus’ A source has advised that the Students for 2 Democratic : | . Society (3N5), as itis known loday, came into heingat a founding “convention held at Port Muron, Michigan, in June, 1962. Prom an initial idcologic:) posture of "participatory democracy," the current . ling of the national leadership reveals an adherence to MarxisrasLeninism, Michael Kionsky, National Sceretary, in March, 1963, called for the building of a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist movement. ‘Lie progr of SDE has moved from involvement in civil rights sir Jes to an enti- Vietnam war position and finally to its present adv imperialist line, linking up Uie cpprcesed peoples of Asia, Africa a . Latin Amezica with the black Hberation movement jn the United * China, - Vicinara and Cuba are regarded ag countries which are lead the world-wide strugsics against United States impperialisin, On the * other hand, SDS regards the Soviet Upion ag an imperialist power nnd does not support the policies of that country, . SDS maintains a Netional Office in Room, 206, 160 Madison Sirect, Chicago, Mlinois.- Its official pape: "P reflects te line of tie national leadership and program adopted ai meetings of the National Council and National Interim Coiminitioe : . (NIC), Three nationgl officers and a NIC of eleven lInembers are elected each year during a June National Convention, - ~ - . . SDS Regional Offices and university and college chapters "elect delegates io National Council meetings wherein program and ideology are debated, but each Region and chapter is aulonomoas jn nature and is free to carry oul independent policy and programs reflective of local conditions. . ) ‘ - aa