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...conference participants included representatives of the SMC, the Young Socialists Alliance (YSA), the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus (RMC), the Workers' League (a Trotskyist group), and several women's, Third-World, and gay liberation groups...
...situation where being against the Vietnam war can mean anything from supporting Vietnamization to wanting victory for the National Liberation Front, the subtleties of political stances can be very confusing. To label one SDS-PL and the other SMC-YSA is on oversimplification...
...proposal by Jerry Gordon and Jim Lafferty, the SMC-YSA proposal, suggested four tactics the movement should use. They called...
...there was a rally in front of the Sheraton-Cleveland, and members of the SMC-YSA group, as well as a GI and a labor union leader, addressed the crowd. After awhile, a group broke off from the main demonstration of about 2000 people, and marched over to the city hall. About 300 people took part in this, the demonstration that SDS had been planning. The crowd gathered on the front steps of the city hall- which was closed- and listened to several speeches. About a dozen police cars filled with helmeted policemen lined the streets near the city hall...
...proposal presented a biting class analysis of the situation. It repudiated much of the union leadership and called for a worker-student alliance, especially a coalition among students and campus workers. Liberal politicians, SMC and YSA were attacked for having the same interests and underlying goals as the conservatives. They were seen as anti-labor and racist...