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&.'4 . .-e? ' - Y '. . . - 0 SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT - Demonstrations platmed by antiwar and anti-establishment radicals for the fall season' have now been scheduled and t h e r e r e m a i n s 0th; the m a t t e r of tactics before the country is again f a i e d with disrup- tions aimed at protesting not only the w a r but a wide variety of allegcd national shortcomings. T h e r e has been in recent weeks some d r i f t away f r o m the single-issue s t r a t e g y which h a s traditionally been e m b r a c e d by the Trotskyite Socialist Workers P a r t y family of drganizations. the National P e a c e Action Coalition still maintains a superficial single- i s s u e posture, other issues a r e creeping into the protest dialogue. National P e a c e Action Coalition spokesmen and s u p p o r t e r s a r e beginning to attack the President's economic policy and a t a recent Washington news CopRrence, C h a r l e s Cheng, number two m a n in Washington. D . C . ' s Teachers" Union, was promoting militant s t r e e t action by labor if thc eco- Although no niic freeze continucs past its designated terminatio-n-date. A O [ ~ A dv /-fiLov L/ As €or the Communist P a r t y USA influenced People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, i t a p p e a r s now that they have dropped plans that w e r e originally proposed to follow the fall mass demonstrations of the NPAC. protest movement and.PCPJ spokesmen undoubtedly feel that by preceding scheduled plans by the NPAC, they m a y b e able to p r e e m p t the l e a d e r - s h i p in the anti-establishment struggle. It will be r e m e m b e r e d that l a s t spring PCPJ activities followed the mass m a r c h on Washington and a s a result,'observers feel the Trotskyites s c o r e d a m a j o r victory in the battle to dominate theeAmerican left-wing dissident movement. The battle continues between the two m a j o r ideologies in the . I T h e May Day Collective movement has m a d e a number of militant recon2mendations for civil disobedience that will probably, a t Icast in part, bc adoptcd by the PCPJ. May Day as a n organization, however, seenis definitely on $e way out. They w e r e forced out of Washinglotl. offices l a s t week b e c a u s e they w e r e unable to pay the rent. Probably m o s t May Day-actcvists will be welcomed into the ranks of the P C P J , b u t . it is a l s o possible t h a t s t i l l another dissident radical p o l i t i c d entity will e m e r g e from fall activitie's. Such prominent Leaders as Rennie Davis, John F r o i n e s , and o t h e r s are Leaders and not follgwers and iZ they-fail - e - 6. .'.q . I I .