Word: syl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once Hoppenstein arrived, Conservative Club members locked him into the Lowell JCR, keeping other students out, in yet another act of provocation. Following the lead of the SYL, student protesters decided that Hoppenstein should gain the experience of thousands of Black and white South Africans jailed in hell-hole prisons. Linking arms in silent protest, the students formed a blockade, planning to make Hoppenstein sweat until at least midnight...
...fight against racist terror must go beyond the narrow, self interested and illusionary goal of keeping the University "pure." What's needed is for students to link their struggle with the power of labor to make fundamental social change. For Labor Black Mobilizations to smash racist terror! The SYL calls for labor action, such as hot-cargoing to all military goods going to South Africa...
...agreement, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, settled a lawsuit begun a year ago by the SL and the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), its youth group. The organizations challenged the FBI on the grounds that it falsely recast the organizations as terrorist groups. The suit forced the FBI to redefine the organization exactly as it is--a Marxist political organization--instead of attributing to the group a conspiratorial commitment to violent overthrow of the government...
...SYL's legal victory is an important win for everyone who values democratic rights. In the absence of open social struggle, it is highly admirable that at least one organization continues to launch successful opposition on both political and legal fronts. Our willingness to fight ensures that everyone--not only Marxists--has the right to organize political opposition...
...SYL members said they would attend the November 20 rally where Bllss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack Jr. is scheduled to speak. The demonstration's organizers also plan to invite Melvin H. King, 1983 Boston mayoral candidate Garlos Fuentes, nobel laureate and visiting professor of comparative languages and literatures; and Howard Zinn, history professor at Boston University, to speak at the rally...