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lit ~ aoe meng radical youth necessitated x new approach. The continuing debate in top CP councils regarding its relationship with New ett and Black Power groups has spurred the hard liners to compromise. the new organization is the method, for while it ostensibly will be “organizationally independent, developing its awn programs and tac- Lics, "it will also fight for “the closest fraternal relations with older Communists based on similarity of outlouk. " The new organization will allow €PUSA to maintain its histori- cal, doctrinaire posture, while at the same time, its control of the new organization will permit flexibility, expe citnentation and accom. meodation of other Marxist oriented youth without loss of face. The CPUSA, in other words, would retain its purily while attempting to LAIN MASS support and converts at the coalition level. Politically, failure of the "independent" coalition, could be disavowed by L2PUSA, | while successes would accrue fu its bene fil, This tactic is crucial in the realm of white-black relations. CPUSA has long championed civil rights, anti-racism, efe., bat the recent growth of Black Power militancy. its popularity among the youth (workers and students) and the Party's reloctanee to ene brace it whole heartedly (for fear of alienating Negro node rates) probably did more to dictate founding of a new organication thon amy other single factor. The alter failure of the Dulbois Clubs (about 190 members in carly 1969) pointed up CPUSA's Lack of success in paining any influence in New Left and Black Power.cir- cles. Seme students of the CPUSA indicate the debfite aver Mack Power threatened to split the Party. The new Marsist-Leninisi youth organization is the result.