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I- {& I . . . . . . r . . SPECIAL I&FORMATION REPORT . 7 Decekber 1971 Radical Left-wing Direction for 1972 -: . Left-wing activists undoubtedly prompted by recent failures in - the technique of mars protest demonetrations have launched a'new approach to radicaliem which appears a transition toward political orthodoxy, After the collapse of SDS in Chicago in the-summer of 1969, many radicals - remaining feuding factions of SDS. A number of added factors have played ,-, a role in what now appears to be the radical etrategy for 1972 and perhapr .<A. beyond. *$! nation!'a pierent economk crunch are all factors in the new left shift to -- an action stratkgy more acceptable to the sympathetic masse8 believed to be abroad crying out for rational leadership. - became direnchanted with the violence and militancy propounded by the L . a The changing &nor of campures across the nation, tha winding - down of the war, the changes in the selective service rry~drn, and the - .%.j - 4%: Although the strategy of the 60's of maor and militant demonstro tionr experienced some ruccess bar 6 a13 well as the perennial f elemenb of American rociety have been largely unsuccessfu propaganda, and the ple8d@g - America's vast working claEs. @S, , Shortly after the May Day demonstratione which attempted to * shutdown Washington, a group of left-wing activirts, principally forme SDS'ers, began the spade work for the formation of a radical political %- party that would provide le8der8hip to what left-wing spokeemen belie . to be 20 percent of the American papulation. It-should be noted that ia her critique of May Day activities in Warhington, Mm. Binh, the V b t c negotiator in Paris, encouraged the formation of such 8 political party in the United S@ter. Under the principal leadership of Staughton Lynd the former Ivy League history profeeeor who has been-involved in leftism for a generation and Michael Lerner of the Seattle Liberat Front who har been much in t New American Movement began organizing lart June. There men - , - ..;.A c . w -