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Al. el I IRE EE cooc1s144 amie . . ae . } it would logically follow, will most likely be professional radicals... those with “full-time positions in the movement...or come from self- . employed professional groups such as physicians, lawyers, dentists, ' journalists, ctc. Scholars able to obtain leave or on sabbaticals, are prime candidates as well as people at the other end of the economic —— spectrum...the unemployed or partially unemployed. Further refine - ment of categories would be pure guesswork, but even with this limited analysis, it's predictable that Brigade members will contain very few Vaverage" people. H's more likely to be filled with established radicals of the New Left-and Black Power movements, eager to hone their tech- niques... to develop revolutionary skills. . .and to return lo their native _ land determined to destroy that land "by whatever nicans necessary. 7 . The intransipent “Old Left" is still in trouble. Latest victiny in the continuing struggles inside socialist organizations. ..lo Fecon- cile differences between basic principles and today's brand of U. S. radicalism. ..is the Socialist Labor Party (SLP). Never a large or influential party, SLP is splitting...again! And for the same reason as before; its failure to adapt, to cope with and relate to the majn . currents of Amcrica's leftism. — In 1931 it was a similar story - SLP would not join with the then burgeoning trade union movement which was sweeping the cone . try. It was content to siton the sidelines, shouting Yrs’ at workers! gains, since in the view of SLP father-figure Danicl DeLeon, such gains were reformist...capitalist crumbs, dispensed to workers via corrupt labor leaders to still lepitiniate worker de- mands against capitalist management. Today's SLP rebels faced —_ the same problem. SLP Icadership refused to join with modern lc{tists and militants: it refused to join in "mass" actions, . c wwe ric: Hass, the most notable defector, served SLP for over forty years: since 1938 as the editor of the party organ, The Weekly People. He resigned in April. A portion of his resic. weed rationale, quoted below, is nateworthy in that it reveals just how decply the stimulation and potential of the New Lelt...of black power militancy... has stirred members of the old guard. es ° . "Lam personally convineed that there are SIP members who are secretly at odds with Ue National Office over its hostile tiie - ~ toward the Vietcong and toward anti-war protesters. - believe there “Til