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Blacks are "fundamentally a part of the proletariat," and their economic liberation can only be achieved by working with whites toward a socialist revolution. Edward Jarvis, a representative from the Spartacus Youth League said, adding "you cannot separate the problem of Black liberation from the problem of Black revolution...
Once again, the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), a socialist youth group, is the target of administrative harassment at Harvard. Last spring the administration forcibly evicted the SYL from its campus office. According to the Official Rules Handbook, authorized student organizations are allowed office space. Yet the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League was locked out of its office and had its literature seized. We were replaced by none other than the infamous Harvard Delivery News Service (one of whose directors has allegedly absconded with thousands of dollars in funds). Then last semester, after having been evicted for this alleged thief...
...harassment of the Spartacus Youth League is in this context. This is not a question of agreement with the political perspective of the SYL but a question of democratic rights. If the administration's harassment of the Marxist SYL is not protested, a dangerous precedent will be set to witchhunt every leftist, every union member, every Black, every minority on this campus. An injury to one is an injury...
...Marxist politics and dedicate themselves to the fight for socialism. This is not a privilege but a right which the SYL intends to keep. Everyone who is interested in free and open political discussion must join in combatting the administration's incipient witchhunt. Tom Gordon '83 Friends of the Spartacus Youth League
Walesa did not personally launch this revolution like some latter-day Spartacus. The strikes themselves made him a leader, just as the country's catastrophic economic condition had engendered the protest. Standing only 5 ft. 7 in., with a drooping reddish-brown mustache and an impish twinkle in his eye, Walesa, 37, speaks the simple, sometimes ungrammatical language of the Polish worker. His education was limited to high school level vocational training; his leadership abilities were honed during years of underground labor organizing-activities that eventually cost him three jobs and landed him in jail on several occasions...