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...invited the predictable, totalitarian wrath of this "workers" vanguard" of spoiled children. In their May 10 offensive, they call Anderson a "cold war liberal," a "take-leftist," a "self-proclaimed Marxist," a "plain hard," an "apologist for the real Stalinists," and most damning of all, a "Friend of the SYL...
...were somehow different, "have chosen not to wear every radical-sounding button on our chest (sic)..." But just sentences before, he accuses Anderson of hiding his politics to keep "his radical-chic image intact." Which is it. Tom-of-the-non-radical-chic-image? Alden Cavanagh, displaying the SYL's talent for historical discrimination, subtly equates Anderson's original letter with Hitler's Big Lie, and then oddly smears Anderson for having defended the SYL's right to be on campus. Believe me. Alden, he would much rather not have you here, but unlike your gang of would-be tyrants...
...SYL slogans like "Harvard Loves Walesa. Hates Local 26" frustrate cold war liberals like Mike Anderson, but any class conscious worker knows something's fishy when Harvard honors Lech Walesa while busting Local 26. Solidarnosc is the only "union" loved by Ronald Reagan. Harvard, Wall Street, and the Apartheid regime of South Africa because it is a movement to bring Poland back to the "free world" of capitalist exploitation...
Mike Anderson used to be a Friend of the SYL and was a co-signer of a letter to The Crimson (never printed) protesting an attempt by Moonies. Dean Epps and the Conservative Club to break up an SYL forum "Stop Solidarity's Counterrevolution" back in November 1981. It appears that it is Mr. Anderson who has bolted toward the right wing...
...SYL has a proud history of strike support work at Harvard. When Mike Anderson was still wearing short pants the SYL was mobilizing student support for Local 26. From a defense campaign for Sherman Holcombe, a black union activist victimized by Harvard in 1976 to bringing students out to rally with Local 26 today, we actively take a side with campus workers against the racist, union-busting Harvard administration...