Word: moles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the last spring's strike, the Mole came close to the concept of a revolutionary newspaper. It reported facts which it felt would clarify the issues, and by the nature of the information, move the populace toward militant action. Its publication of the stolen documents from University Hall sharpened the struggle. Although it did not report about the split within the Strike Committee between WSA and the New Left Caucus, the Mole successfully avoided becoming solely a propaganda tool. It provided news which could be obtained from no other source. Its factual accuracy helped to maintain its credibility...
...photography and writing have steadily improved. The Mole does a good job educating the community it covers culturally as well as politically. "Zans", "Happenings", and the film and book reviews make the paper worth reading in themselves. The Mole has gradually moved away from its original Harvard emphasis. It is much more the radical community newspaper now than at its inception...
...early July Issue on the SDS split, the Mole provided some of the best coverage in the nation. Although the stories were biased slightly to the right in SDS and the history of the Progressive Labor Party contained inaccuracies, on the whole no other news source covered the June SDS convention and the ideological battle behind, it as well as the Mole...
...split however has placed the newspaper in an awkward position. The Mole has been financed and directed in the past by right-wing members of SDS. With the right of SDS now in-fighting, the Mole will have to spend more space explaining factional positions to maintain any use as an in-movement news source in disputes. The Mole's credibility among other factions of the Boston Movement was also seriously challenged last spring by the revelation by PL Magazine and the Boston Globe that the Mole was partly financed by a front corporation, Cambridge Iron and Steel, underwritten...
...Mole has served as a catalyst to radical consciousness and action at Harvard, with high school students, and in the women's liberation movement, as a revolutionary newspaper, a limited success...