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On-campus , YSA i s s tics c n 1.1 n r pas s "ins ti la tirr nali zed ra <: i 6 r n , 'I w a r rc la tcd rcscar ch , ROTC., minority dis cr inrina ticbn . cor po ratc "clonrination" of callegc administrations and ntcaningl css cducrtion. Its program embraces such non-campus issucs as support nf black powcr, black control of black cornmunitics and anti-draft and GI prvtcs t movemcnb. 0 . . National- reform is only bne aspcct of YSA. IntcrnaLionalIy it joins with dissident youth arganu from olhcr countrics likc lhc Frcnch Jruncssc Cammuniste Rcvolutionairc (-Revolutionary Caniniunist Yuutlr) led by Alain Krivine who p01lc.d 1.06 p c t t c n t in 1968 French prcsidcntial clcctions: the German Socialist Students Fedcrdtion; Dclgian Youth * . Guard; Japan's violcncc-prunc Zengakuren: and Canada's Ligiie des .lucrnc?s Socialistcs (Lcagiic of 'Young Socialists). Tlrrcc days .of wild dcwioirstratians crnptccl in ncrkclcy ,in 1968 IS YSA Icrl a coalitjon of youth groups pr.otcstin.g DcCaulle's treatment o f Fr<rnch studcnt rioters. wcrc injurcd and 132 arrcsts w c r e made. Dcspite a 7 p. ni. 6 a.m. curfcw, ovcr forty pcrsons .In this heniisplrcrc. \'SA'S hisbrica1 stiplwrt for Castro con- tinucs. Fnurtccn YSAcrs s p m t 6 wc*cks cclclrating tlrc pcvolution's 1 0th Ann i vc r s s r y in Jan 11.1 r y - F c b r ua r y th i s yc.a r . -S WP ha s a ppa r c n 1 y rv(.mvcrwi froni tlra traiinin inducccl wlicn 'Cui,n gave r r i t i c i l cnciorsc- SuLscqucnL S WP-Cuban' discussions resultcd in continued SWP support for Caslr'o but tlrc vnpucly worded coliimuniqae.. .which reserved Cor SWP its "oyn in-. dcpcndent and sonictimcs diffcring view on various 4ssucs". .'. con- vcycd SWP disappointnicnt. Aftcr all. Cuba was S W P ' s niodel of. socialisni,' "the Socialist example for the clcvslopnicnt o f the coionial revnlutian, 'I and any USSR .support must have bccn crushinji t6 Trot- skyiLcs. : riicmt to Russia's ,invasicin of Czechoslovakia. Thc Cuban conrpronrisc higlrliglits the' "flcxibility" o f SWP- . YSA palilics. o f ollicr radicals. as "rCforniist'8 howcvcr, it s u p p r t v d Dulcck's social rlcriiocracy against Rwl hrnry oc:cirpatic,n and csllcd for Warsaw pict troop with- rl i.;iwa 1. . En rl it: r i t s iippi rtotl 1 iiin pa rian and Pol ish wt i rkc r s til, r i s ing:R. I1 viciws I;otc thc USSR and Coinnrunist China as 1,iiri~n~icratic rirvision- ;RCS, inCii&ting on workar$ Qcir own s t y ~ c of oplrrcssion. 11s ability to conipromisc contrasts with thc absolutisni For exainplc, YSA usually 1abc:la "sncial clcnrocrats" . . . # A - - - So.. . YSA had ro&thing for cveryonc. Evc'n- so. its appeals resulted in only minor growth up to mi'd-1968. Thctr. a e National- e-. . . - . 3 . , . . . . __ I I I