Word: syl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kudos for Joseph, but for those of you who really want to get rid of this racist, capitalist system--Join the SYL! Thomas N. Crean '86 Spartacus Youth League
Students who want to fight racism and U.S. imperialism must look to the SYL. It is we Marxists who defend the Soviet Union who organized a 5000-strong labor/Black mobilization that stopped the Ku Klux Klan from marching in Washington, D.C., November, 1982. We will continue to struggle to build a revolutionary party to lead such actions and fight to win students to the side of the working class...
...stand by the other slogans. The heroic victory of Vietnamese workers and peasants was an important defeat for U.S. imperialism. And today, the U.S. bourgeoisie sees Central America as its starting point for a war ultimately aimed at destroying the Soviet Union. We in the SYL believe that he Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is the single greatest victory of the international working class to date, and the greatest defeat for world imperialism. In spite of the parasitic Stalinist bureaucracy which has usurped political power from the proletariat, the central gains of a planned collectivized economy still remain...
...SYL happen to be quite familiar with the sordid, little history of Joseph Menn and the somewhat bigger more sordid story of the ISO. So at the risk of making you nauseous, gentle reader, we wish to relate to some of the choicest parts of this tale in the interests of public sanitation...
When Caspar Weinberger came to Harvard in November 1983, he received the welcome he so richly deserved: hundreds of student protesters, including members of the SYL, shouted him down. Joe didn't show, although at the time he claimed to be a militant socialist and had even told some of his friends that he had joined the SYL! In the spring of 1984, trade union militants in Boston formed mass picket lines to defend Greyhound workers. It was one of the most critical labor battles following Reagan's crushing of PATCO, and the SYL brought students down to stand...