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...Month. The party split has ideological overtones: the Cleaver wing denounces the Newtonites as insufficiently revolutionary. Among other things, Newton has worked to disassociate the Panthers from Weatherman, a move the Cleaver faction views with dismay. But behind the argument is a personality clash and a power struggle between Newton and Cleaver. Newton has a middle-class background and a preference for working within the System; Cleaver came to the Panthers from years of brutalizing experience in prison. Newton's approach is much more theoretical and intellectual than Cleaver's petulant activism. It was after Newton...
...most bitter feuding is between the Marxist Communist Party of India, abbreviated as the CPI (M), and a breakaway pro-Peking faction, the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party, or Naxalites. Their quarrel began in 1967 over land reform. The government had imposed a limit of 25 acres per person on rural land holdings, but many feudal aristocrats had got around the measure by parceling out land to armies of relatives. After court attempts to untangle the land-reform problem failed. Charu Mazumdar, a member of the Marxist group, instigated a peasant revolt in the Naxalbari region of West Bengal. The leaders...
...conversation among a cross-section of Harvard freshmen who supposedly typified the entire freshman class. An informal conversation with a small number of freshmen cannot be used to represent the entire opinion of the class with verity. Mr. Frazier's investigation might have clarified the ideas of a diminutive faction of the freshman class; it did nothing more than that...
...minority tendencies often change color when they become majorities and leaders, and many in SDS now feel that PL has emerged as the most intolerant, vindictive faction in a movement which cannot stand the added burden of continuous infighting. Within SDS, PL and its sympathizers now control New Left Notes, dominate the debates at national meetings, and hold overwhelming majorities on the national committees. But if there is now only minimal opposition within SDS to PL's leadership, it is because hundreds of students have privately quit SDS-and whole chapters have bailed out-because they no longer have...
Intercommunalism. The split was further complicated when Newton read nine of the remaining defendants out of the party. Their offense, apparently, was an open letter to the Weatherman faction last month, critical of Moore and Tabor. The party and other supporters had arranged their bail ($150,000) because of the pair's leadership qualities. Both Tabor, 24, and Moore, 28, had been counted on to attract support-and money-for those still in jail. Their performance failed to live up to expectations. But no one thought that Moore and Tabor would run out. It had seemed that they were...