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...sparsely attended "emergency demonstration" yesterday, members of Spartacus Youth League (SYL) carried placards and made speeches denouncing United States foreign policy in Nicaragua...
...Black Students Association (BSA) was also asked to participate in the rally, but refused. "We thought that appearing on the same platform with the SYL would be contradicting too many of our beliefs and political views," said BSA president Timothy A. Wilkins '86. "It would not have made for a strong alliance...
...Members of these groups could see the contradictions to what their leaders were doing," said SYL member Andre Weltman '86. "That's why members of the organization came to the rally anyway. No one could have been opposed to the slogans we proposed for the united front demonstration. The leaders of these groups were more afraid of appearing on the same platform with communists...
...IDEA OF PROVIDING alternatives seems to be the general focus of many politically active groups, particularly the SYL. Rather than working in electoral politics, this fall SYL held a forum on the 1934 Minneapolis strike and showed the film "Labor's Turning Point." Gene Herson, a member of a maritime union in New York, presented a lecture on class struggle and labor action SYL's Marxist class series meets every other Wednesday this term...
...feel that there is no fundamental difference between the candidates. Both represent certain class interests--those of the capitalist class," says SYL member Thomas Crean '86. "The alternative is to build a workers party, because a bipartisan anti-Soviet war drive can only be defeated through class struggle. We're for a workers' party to build a workers' government...