Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply false to imply-as this letter does-that all those who walked out of the 1069 SDS convention became Weathermen. Members of NAC and other radical groups were also among those who left. [It is unfair and opportunist-though not altogether surprising-that these people are all branded Weathermen-"crazies...
...silly to suggest that I view any criticism of the Panthers as racist. My point is that PL's "criticism" of the Panthers has been un-comradely and factional in tone. It is also disingenuous to portray SDS as "active participants" in a struggle where unarmed Panthers are arbitrarily rounded up, jailed, or killed in cold blood...
Last, it is untrue that I am anti-radical. Where the SDS of 1966 was not radical-that is, in its virtual ignorance of workers as a potential agent of social change-PL's ideological influence on that organization was constructive, as I said in my article. What I object to in PL is an obsession with its own organizational "purity" which results in non-cooperation with liberals and callous attacks on radicals...
...what else can we do than "give peace a chance?" Terrorism? The few crazies who put that forward can be forgotten about (except, of course, by the bourgeois press, which loves to smear the movement with them). The outlook of SDS is that a student movement must reach out to the majority of American people (and that means working people); people who are among the most sharply oppressed, and the most consistent fighters against oppression. A student movement which fails to do that will always be whipsawed between liberalism and terrorism...
During the day, the Harvard Liberation Alliance will discuss forms of antiwar activity at 2 p.m. in Longfellow Hall. The Alliance, whose ranks include former members of the November Action Committee, a handful of SDS members and some radical graduate students, is stressing its opposition to all forms of U.S. imperialism...