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...such former PL strongholds as the New York City and San Francisco regions. In Boston, PL still holds a huge majority, but the proposal nevertheless has become the organizing focus for the Anti-Imperialist Caucus, which stated at the last regional meeting here that "we intend to stay in SDS to argue our views and make them the leading views in that organization...
...group-from New Orleans-has already made its peace with SDS by walking out of it. According to Ed Clark, a former member of PL and a leading organizer of the New Orleans group, the reason for the walkout was the defeat at the conference of two of its proposals calling for increased internal discussion in SDS. The first was a motion to devote part of New Left Notes "to ongoing political and strategic debates within SDS." This proposal was defeated in favor of one by staff members of New Left Notes which denied that the publication should...
This outcome would have been more plausible if the second resolution of the Clark group-to expand the number of yearly national meetings from one to four-had not also been defeated. Before the split in 1969, SDS regularly held four national meetings a year, even though only one had final decision-making authority. Clark's proposal called for the restoration of the older schedule. The motion was defeated on the grounds that SDS should spend its time and resources on planning actions and confine discussion of tactics to regional meetings. These actions would presumably follow PL's recommendations...
...difficult to speculate how long SDS will survive as even a visible organization as long as PL is the dominant influence in it. As SDS continues to dwindle in size, it also faces increasingly difficult decisions on how it should restructure its political line and re-emerge as viable nationwide radical student organization. With the growth of a viewpoint that opposes extreme sectarianism and favors greater emphasis on internal discussion and debate, there is some hope that SDS may yet be saved...
Whether radicals work with liberals or not, it is vitally important to remember one concept-and that is the notion of struggle. We, as social revolutionaries (whether we be Jesuit priests, Puerto Rican nationalists, radical women, or SDS organizers), are not primarily peaceful or legal or cooperative. We are primarily trying to get the U. S. out of Southeast Asia, and beyond that we are trying to build a socialist society in this country. Legality towards a criminal government is a matter of tactics, not philosophy. Relying on liberal politicians to dismantle America's imperial dominance will only result...