Word: cp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist Party Boston Youth Club (CP) sent the CRIMSON a letter on January 27 presenting its views on the draft. We have strong disgareements with the CP's program, indeed with its approach to building a movement. We will try, in this answer, to rebut the most important arguments the CP uses and put forward some ideas...
Instead of discussing how people can fight against the war, the CP presents lists of nice-sounding wishes. People should not be drafted for unjust wars, the CP says, just as the unemployed should have jobs. If they are drafted, they should not have to fight. Apprentices ought to be exempt, VISTA workers ought to be exempt. Peace Corpsmen shouldn't have to go. The CP program sounds like an appeal for special interest groups...
...York, the CP, USA, has been coming out with more and more campus spokesmen. Phyllis Kalb, a student at Brooklyn College, recently ran for student-body president as a member of the Communist Party and, out of 3500 votes lost by a piddling 27. Although Brooklyn College has long had a record as New York's most radical college, the statistics are still significant: many traditionally non-radical students voted for Miss Kalb because she had worked hard on campus activities, and because her program to solve student problems was well thought and attractive. "Most students were not really disturbed...
Michael Zagarelle, chairman of the National Youth Committee of CP, USA emphasized that if Communists identified themselves publicly, it would take a great deal of pressure off other radical (but non-Communist) groups which are presently being Red-baited. How could anyone say that SDS is a Communist front if the handful of Communists involved make their Party affiliation a matter of record, he asked...
Members of the Harvard Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, however, argue that the CP, USA is to the right of their position. Harvard members of Progressive Labor also deny that the Communists are the most radical group around and claim the extreme Left for themselves--but then this is the proverbial geography game of the New Left...