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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communist Spartacus Youth League (SYL) stands out on the left, because it has adopted the slogan. "You can't beat Reagan with Democrats" and instead focuses on working class organizing. SYL seeks to form a workers party to raise class struggle to the heights of socialist revolution. Accordingly, their Harvard component, Friends of SYL, works to persuade students to become working-class partisans...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Action Across the Spectrum | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

Chanting "Bury Apartheid" and toning placards, members of the Spartans Youth League (SYL) led a sparsely attended rally on the steps of Memorial Church last night protesting the white South African government...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Group Leads Demonstration Amidst Political Feuding | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

...were two among six hundred students who vocally protested during Caspar Weinberger's November speech (two weeks after the U.S. invasion of Grenada) at the Harvard Law School Forum. We ask: why has the administration chosen to single out two students who are members of the Spartacist Youth League (SYL), a small campus group? Do they seriously believe that these two students orchestrated and led this mass protest? We doubt it; in fact, it may be the very smallness and unpopularity of the SYL, as well as the controversial nature of their communist politics, which has led the administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Why Single Out the Spartacists? | 2/4/1984 | See Source »

...which preceded the Weinberger protest. Weinberger and his underlings in the Harvard administration would no doubt like to treat their opposition in the U.S. the way they do in EI Salvador where anyone who breathes a word of protest would be summarily seized, interrogated, imprisoned or "disappeared." The SYL will not, nor should anyone else be intimidated by Epps attempts to crush dissent, political protest and free speech on this campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enemy of Free Speech | 12/16/1983 | See Source »

...appetites from the Middle East to the Caribbean. Ultimately, fake leftists like the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and Unity, side with Reagan and Weinberger in their war on Russia. When Weinberger railed against the Russians in Afghanistan, these anti-communists "leftists" kept their mouths shut while the SYL chanted "Defend the Soviet Union! The Main Enemy is at Home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enemy of Free Speech | 12/16/1983 | See Source »

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