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Second, it is misleading to separate support for the NLF and support for a radical workers' movement in the U.S. Such a distinction exists only for those who view the NLF as a reactionary, anti-popular force...
...characterizes the split in SDS in the spring of 1969 as between worker-student alliance proponents and the SDS national leadership, who believed "that students should demonstrate in support of the NLF." This is a pretty dishonest characterization of the people who became the Weathermen...
...making it clear who this "NLF support group" was might have made the issues clear. Support for the NLF was only one of several issues, and certainly was no more significant than support for working class struggles. SDS at present has no official position pro or con on the NLF leadership, but supports the struggle of the Vietnamese people concretely by leading militant fights against the war in this country (against ROTC, CFIA, military recruiters on campus...
Cynthia Frederick, a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, who was recently expelled from South Vietnam by the Saigon regime, said that the NLF is "trying to create a new society in the liberated areas of South Vietnam." The American response to the NLF effort to create new social relationships within the liberated areas has been to make living in those areas impossible, thus forcing the inhabitants into Saigon-controlled urban areas, Frederick said...
MUCH anti-PL tension in SDS surfaced at the national convention in Chicago last December, Opponents of PL grouped around a proposal by the Columbia-Barnard chapter of SDS which berated the national leadership on several scores: its attacks on the NLF, its almost complete silence on the repression of such groups as the Panthers and the Young Lords; and the narrow trade-union economist in which it conceived the old idea of worker-student alliance. The proposal did not assail the worker-student alliance concept, but rather modified it in the context of the student movement. It "must...