Word: syl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...double-take when they read Joseph Menn's "Platonic Dialogue?" (November 19). The piece was a "fictional" epistolary exchange between two Harvard students, one who heads the "Sisyphus Youth League," Thomas Careen, and the other who heads the Conservative Club, Sy Kahane. Menn was really referring to the SYL's Thomas N. Crean, and right-wing Iranian prince Saied Kashani. He attempted to hide his politics behind crude fiction. The central point was that communist defense of the Soviet Union against U.S. imperialism can be equated with fascism (represented by Israeli fascist Meir Kahane...
What makes Joe and the ISO so upset about the Trotskyist SYL? Is it that we Marxists who defend for the Soviet Union stand for the defense of the unions, for the defense of Blacks against race terror and for workers revolution to smash capitalism? Menn is very explicit: "Sisyphist slogans like: 'Defense of the Soviet Union Begins in Central America!' 'Vietnam Was a Victory!!' 'Defend the Deformed Workers State Against Jewish Dissidents!!!''' It should be made clear that we adamantly oppose state persecution of citizens for purely ideological "crimes." But Soviet traitors like the Sakharovs, who give concrete...
Protest organizers from the Committee on Central America (COCA), the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), and the Democratic Socialists of America said they expect "a lot" of students to attend the demonstration, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. in front of the K-School...
Although COCA and Democratic Socialists members said they plan a peaceful protest consisting of picketing and presenting written protests to the CIA representatives, SYL member Thomas N. Crean '86 said his group would like to "drive the CIA recruiters off campus...
More than some of its activist counterparts, the SYL has an antagonistic relationship with the University. "I think students have to understand who's on their side and who's not," says Carla D. Williams '86, referring to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and the administration at large...