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...current conflict around PL is easy to trace. Ever since its entry into SDS, in fact, PL has been a focus of heated controversy. A fledgling labor movement, PL decided in 1966 to have some of its younger members join SDS in order to link radical antiwar sentiment to trade unionism and, more important, to increase the membership of the party. But PL's Marxist orientation did not jibe well with the SDS of 1966, which was a loosely organized, free-wheeling coalition of anti-war and civil rights groups. A resolution to expel PL members from SDS was nearly...
...time SDS convened in Chicago in 1969, the lines of battle were nearly drawn. PL and its sympathizers maintained that the only way to end the Vietnam war was through a radical working-class movement in the United States; the national leadership of SDS believed instead that students should demonstrate in support of the NLF to strengthen the morale of the Vietnamese rebels. PL objected to this: the NLF leaders, they declared, were "revisionist"; after all, they had agreed to sit down with the Americans in Paris, and they were receiving the bulk of their foreign aid from the Soviet...
...free breakfast program (it bred illusions that Safeway and other supermarket chains could "serve the people"). But the focus of the conflict was the war. Finally, the national leadership and about two-fifths of the conference stormed out of the meeting room, effectively leaving PL in control of SDS...
...time, there seemed no clear-cut instigators or victims; the old leadership of SDS had behaved in as crudely factional a manner as had PL, and the national office had instituted a policy of screening PL's articles out of the nationwide SDS publication, New Left Notes. Further, even PL's worst enemies in SDS at the time had to admit that much of PL's influence on the organization had been refreshing and constructive in nature; with their emphasis on the working class, they had added perspective to the anti-war movement and cleansed it of some...
...minority tendencies often change color when they become majorities and leaders, and many in SDS now feel that PL has emerged as the most intolerant, vindictive faction in a movement which cannot stand the added burden of continuous infighting. Within SDS, PL and its sympathizers now control New Left Notes, dominate the debates at national meetings, and hold overwhelming majorities on the national committees. But if there is now only minimal opposition within SDS to PL's leadership, it is because hundreds of students have privately quit SDS-and whole chapters have bailed out-because they no longer have...