Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members, which means that they are largely members of the Worker-Student Alliance (WSA) causus of SDS, a caucus whose philosophy is based on that of the Progressive Labor Party. WSA claims to be the only true SDS, and does not recognize the split with the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM), who walked out of last summer's Chicago convention. (More of RYM later...
...Rather than create illusions about whom you ally with, you have to be very sharp," Sargent said. "When you issue statements that appeal to the lowest common denominator, you don't advance the struggle-groups such as these (the Moratorium and the SMC)-have killed the anti-war movement in the past; they see these demonstrations in themselves as solutions, and think it's enough to act only once every six months...
...struggle is a people's struggle," Sargent said. "A worker-student alliance is the clearest way to light racism and male chanyinism. This march will bring together people from all over the Boston area in a common eflort to build a movement which can help force the U. S. out of Vietnam...
...Moratorium is a moratorium on "all business as usual," designed to appeal to more than just students. "What's significant is getting people out in the community," Richard Zorza 72, coordinator at Harvard, explained. "This is a broad anti-war movement. We'll be asking shops to close, and people to wear black armbands, or turn on the headlights in their cars. We're building a manpower source for community organizing...
...deep psychological depression has hit the student movement this year. After the first round of rallies at the "red" department of sociology at Nanterre the past autumn, one marxistleninist who had never before talked in Freudian terms lamented to one old comrade, "you know what's wrong? Une maladie psychologique." A girl, an influential member of March 22. which fell apart over the summer, said simply, "I'm depressed." The result was political action by rote. Uninspired, the students mechanically applied the old tactics of May. They called the professors and cops dirty names, they occupied buildings and boycotted classes...