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...Harvard-Radeliffe chapter of the Sparticist Youth League (SYL) met last night to organize a committee to protest a University-sponsored conference on South Africa scheduled for April...
...Richman '78, a spokesman for the SYL asked other campus organizations to help plan a demonstration against the conference of prominent businessmen, political analysts and government officials...
Last December, the SYL organized a demonstration "CIA Killer Spies Off Campus!" to protest William Colby's appearance at the Harvard Law School Forum. At UCLA, in 1975 the SYL as part of the Committee to End University Complicity with the CIA, organized a demonstration demanding that all complicity with the CIA be terminated and that all UCLA-CIA correspondence be published. An SYL-initiated committee at U Cal. Berkeley organized a picket and demonstration drawing over 250 participants around the slogans "CIA/NSA Recruiters off campus!" and "Abolish the CIA/NSA!" At Yale, an SYL propaganda campaign protesting the upcoming appearance...
...SYL have no illusions in the "ivory tower" university--Harvard and all other universities are tied to the capitalist class and its state by a million threads. The Board of Overseers is infested with corporate heads and financial bigwigs. We do not call only for protesting CIA/NSA presence or military research on campus, but for the abolition of the Administration and the Board of Overseers, and nationalization of Harvard under worker-student-faculty control. We stand for open admissions with a full stipend for all students to enable all who wish to attend, and remedial and tutorial programs for those...
...Spartacus Youth League is the only leftist organization at Harvard with the correct understanding of how to mobilize class conscious protest against right-wing dictatorships such as the Park regime. At a planning meeting for the demonstration last October against Kissinger, only the SYL argued for drawing the class line and inserting the word "right-wing" before "dictatorships" in the slogan "End U.S. Aid to Dictatorships!" There is a class distinction between the South Korean imperialist puppet regime and the Stalinist deformed workers state in the North...