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I HI EE | . ! cooo1e2 ee * Xo ! a: ; SO, - 4 November 1969 SITUATION. INFORMATION REPORT | The Cormmunist Party'S (CPUSA) latest éffort to appropriate _a bigger slice of America's radical scene wil) be launched in Chicagy on 26-28 December. | Acc cording to the rgcent call lo Party faithful, ‘the founding convention of a "working class Marxist-Leninist youth organization” will be convened in the Windy City on those dates and . work towards formation of an alliance of blacks, whites, Chicanos, — Puerto Ricans and Indians which "will take up every struggle of the working class" militantly "fighting on every front against oppression." Why a new organization? | Mike Zagarel), Party secretary for , -youth affairs, and Jarvis Tyner, Chairman of the W. EE, B, DuBois Clubs of America. provided the answer. Even though the past nine years of New Leftism in America is viewed by the Party as "very . important" and experiences of New Left groups, such as Students for. — a Democratic Society (SDS), a "positive development." the Old Left spokesmen maintain there is a "crisis in the New Left because they are unable to deal with the radicalization of young people." Primar- ily. CPUSA objects to the New Left habit of re levating working class youth lo a position subordinate to that of students. The New Lett fails to comprehend true Marxist-Leninism, i. c., “the realigation that the wurking class will play the decisive role infany revolutionary changes in the country," and Zagarell says the new organization will — reaffirm the primacy of workers in the leadership of the struggle. Tyner told a People's Werld reporter that the new orpianiza- lion will stress the strengthening of black and white unity, a necessity he said “which the New Left has not understood," It will reject the New Left theory that "black liberation is a parallel movement to white movements, " he clabned.” That such “unity” will be a keystone of the new Organization is reaffirmed by a review of the founding princi- ples, a major pertion of which deals specifically with black. while ane nniina rity group solidarity. The founding prineiples of the new youth organization seem to contain nothing startling. What doc $ become appare nt, When refiew- ing these guidelines, is thatthe ‘CPUSA's failure to inake inroads