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...fact, PL has been a focus of heated controversy. A fledgling labor movement, PL decided in 1966 to have some of its younger members join SDS in order to link radical antiwar sentiment to trade unionism and, more important, to increase the membership of the party. But PL's Marxist orientation did not jibe well with the SDS of 1966, which was a loosely organized, free-wheeling coalition of anti-war and civil rights groups. A resolution to expel PL members from SDS was nearly approved...
...very glib, all true to widely varying extents, all very "now" things to say. All offensive, especially in their slick matrix, but not particularly pernicious. Unfortunately, Harkness shares other insights that are far more insidious. For instance, he criticizes "a fervent Marxist-Leninist" acquaintance: "We figured that any changes that were really going to happen were going to happen in people's heads . . . . So we blew our dope and stayed in our heads . . . . " Yet, describing the transformation of his friends and himself from straight to freak, Harkness includes the stage when "your parents [see] a picture...
Anarchic Slum. With the I.R.A. Provisionals bent on escalating warfare -against Protestants, the British troops and even the Marxist-oriented members of the "official" I.R.A.-London faced some difficult decisions. The British could round up terrorist leaders and intern them under the Special Powers Act, but this might swing the Catholic moderates to the militant cause. The British could withdraw their troops, but then there would be no buffer between Protestants and Catholics. Or London could impose direct rule from Westminster, but this, too, would unite the Catholics and lead to greater violence...
...Comrade President" is Chile's Salvador Allende Gossens, who recently completed his first 100 days as the only Marxist chief of state ever elected by free vote. So far, he has realized neither the businessman's worst fears nor the handyman's impossible dream. He has been more reformist than revolutionary, more populist than Marxist. "He is a better President," concedes an opposition politician, "than he was a candidate." Still, Allende has moved more quickly and forcefully than expected by U.S. officials to direct Chile toward full socialization, and his Communist allies have begun to speak...
...conference participants included representatives of the SMC, the Young Socialists Alliance (YSA), the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus (RMC), the Workers' League (a Trotskyist group), and several women's, Third-World, and gay liberation groups...