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There is a misquote in the article reporting the debate between the Spartacus Youth League and the Communist Workers Party held on 4/15. The SYL spokesman did not say that "you cannot separate the problem of Black liberation from the problem of Black revolution." The SYL has always stressed that the key to Black liberation--and indeed to the liberation of humanity--is through socialist revolution. The Spartacus Youth League
Once again, the Spartacus Youth League (SYL), a socialist youth group, is the target of administrative harassment at Harvard. Last spring the administration forcibly evicted the SYL from its campus office. According to the Official Rules Handbook, authorized student organizations are allowed office space. Yet the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League was locked out of its office and had its literature seized. We were replaced by none other than the infamous Harvard Delivery News Service (one of whose directors has allegedly absconded with thousands of dollars in funds). Then last semester, after having been evicted for this alleged thief...
...reactionary hypocrisy of the Harvard administration: Marxists are "outside agitators" and "security risks" while real criminals like Brzezinski and Harold Brown--nuclear-armed cold-warriors who are genuine "security risks"--are welcome guests and paid to mouth their imperialist propaganda at Harvard. The Harvard administration may well despise the SYL for being communists, but the SYL will not tolerate harassment for the slanderous allegation that we are "criminals," "terrorists" or "security risks...
...harassment of the Spartacus Youth League is in this context. This is not a question of agreement with the political perspective of the SYL but a question of democratic rights. If the administration's harassment of the Marxist SYL is not protested, a dangerous precedent will be set to witchhunt every leftist, every union member, every Black, every minority on this campus. An injury to one is an injury...
...Harvard administration may think it operates in South Africa where the hated "pass law" system exists, but in fact, Bok, Epps, et. al. are privileged members of a bourgeois democracy where certain political freedoms are ostensibly tolerated--by law. The SYL fought and won a similar case of administration harassment at the University of Chicago, Circle Campus in 1977. The case against an "outside agitator" went to court and Federal Judge James B. Moran ruled that "the present regulations contain the implicit notion that university students must be nurtured in a controlled and protected environment if they are to blossom...