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...SDS, under the aegis of PL, has grown more and more isolated, the few who remain in the group have made crude, meaningless attacks on other Leftist groups which disagree with them. Opponents of PL are frequently labeled "cops," "anti-communists," "enemies of the party," or, in the cases of a lucky few, "honest center forces who have been misled by enemies of the party." In a typical name-calling display, an editorial in the November 1969 issue of Progressive Labor magazine described the Black Panther-sponsored conference to form a "united front against fascism" as follows: "Except...
...addition, some SDS members have complained that PL misrepresents real situations in order to make them fit their own explanations of them. Members of Columbia-Barnard SDS mention the ghetto uprising in Asbury Park, NJ., last summer as an example. The blacks in Asbury Park pressed a list of 22 demands on the city government, encompassing such issues as jobs, education, housing, judicial prejudice and day-to-day police harassment of blacks. According to Goldman, who went to Asbury Park as a PL organizer, the party chose to portray the rebellion exclusively as one of blacks fighting for jobs...
Even with the gradual disappearance of contact between PL and rival radical groups, there are still instances of this sectarianism; at Harvard, for example, a member of the November Action Coalition who had collaborated with members of SDS on a pamphlet discussing the Center for International Affairs had his political affiliation stricken from the later printings of the pamphlet. Members of SDS had decided that, since they had started and paid for the pamphlet, it should not bear the name of an unfriendly political organization on it-"We were afraid it would buildNAC," one SDS member said later-especially since...
...changes-usually initiated by the national committees-may come and go, but otherwise, there is only one accepted approach. It is possible, however, that increasing disfavor has forced the party to reaffirm confidence in its own viewpoint. For this reason, there has been less and less internal discussion in SDS and greater emphasis on leafleting and demonstrating-all on the basis of PL's political beliefs. Pro-PL members of SDS often accuse their opponents in SDS of using discussion time as a delaying tactic to avoid taking action. For example, after the last national conference in December, the SDS...
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...