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- . -*. SITUATIO~ INFORMATION REPORT . Three months into tho sthool year university administrators, Government leaders, and privatc citizcns arc breathing a bit casicr. Campus revolt kerns bb be on the decline. Tlrc- splintering trC oncc- powcrfal Students for a. Dcmocratic Society (SDS), many obscrvcrs feel, reduces it to. isolated, scctarian.struggles, a far cry from its former mad8 movement capabilities'. Militant'black campus groups arc under attack by students who disfike their rcliancc on terrorist .tactics and rcvctsc racism. Despitc such favorable c)iric*ns, stutlcnt radicalism is not dead. . .and it 18 wo'rtlrwhilc to take a look a t &hc orga'nization which.cxpccts to bcrncfit mwt'ironr Ncw Lcft discnclrarrt- . . nicnt, an organitatiow which appears to be enrcrging as the ncw IGadcr oC radical youth - the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA). . There's plcnty 'laf cvidcncc to support this contention.. . Illst ,* the YSA, youth arm of the Trotskyite Socialist Whrkcrs P a r t y (SWP), has thc! inside linc with campns rcbels today. .And that1$ csactl y what SWP had in nrind when it formcd a loose anialgmrration o f yt.)uI.h,of I3y April I?OO YSA had raachcd the point,wlrerc ofli'cial unified direction was nccclr.4. Thc resulting founding' convention formcd a Nat.ional Exccutivc.Com - niittce (totally SWP composed) which alligncd YSA 4 t h t-hc "tradilions nf Marxian socialism as dcycloped by Lcrnin, Trotsky,. Luscmhurg and Liebknccht. (Rosa Luxcnibrrrg and Karl Licbknccht. Gcrnian socidl- ists, wcrc. lcadcrs in thc 1919 Spartacist upris'inp.) YSA, i n tiirn, r c - cognized S W P as tlrc "only cxisting lcaclership on class strirgplc prin- ciples. 'I Thus, the Alliance bocamc SWP's liopc for radical youth lcarlcrship and recruiting base Cor future SWPcrs. i . various left 'socialist trndcncics,in Octnbcr 1957. . . . . . YSA's "enrct.gcncC1' hingcd o n sevcral factors. Frcc o f tlic taint of foreign direction (such as USSR-dominatctl CPUSA o r Pcking- . l i i i i n ~ PL'P), .it appc:nlcd tot radical youth with its ttAnirricniiisni, " its .cc)ii(:c.rn with nntii):inl iss'ucs and its sccnring willingness lo pcacx*Cully wcBrk for vhihjic? within tlrc systcnr, i. c . , vi;^ ballot 1 ~ 1 ~ s (YSA supports . . - . , .- --.. . . .... . . _. . . ...- .- -.-.