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Several members of the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League came before the Undergraduate Council last March, complaining that they had been unfairly disciplined for interrupting a speech by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger...
...acknowledge that the council has some way to go in gaining credibility with students, they say it is at least a start that student groups are going to the council with their problems. "The fact that students showed an interest in discussing the Pi or the Friends of the Spartacus Youth league before the council is a sign that we are being accepted by students," says Bennett...
...fellow members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee noted earlier this year, Damon Silvers of the DSA cannot bring himself to support the heroic struggle of the African National Congress (ANC) and instead focuses on the U.S. and South African white ruling class as the vehicle for change. The Spartacus Youth League does not share the illusion that if Harvard divests from companies doing business in South Africa, the rest of the world will follow suit, causing as economic collapse and the subsequent reform of apartheid. This is a pipe dream, designed to soothe the guilty consciences of liberal Harvard...
...flag incident will help the Spartacus League in their attempt to represent a political alternative. They do not support Republicans or Democrats or the Progressive Labor Party or any other practitioner of "bourgeois politics." The difference between the Sparts and other political organizations is that while others work for reform within the existing political framework, the Sparts wish to overthrow that existing system...
Communism may not be the answer. But the existence of the Spartacus League and its derivatives magnifies the realization that the spectrum of conceivable political options should be expanded...