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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7
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1.
PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY (PLP
. The "New York Times’ city edition Tuesday, April 20, |
1965, Page 27, reported that a nei party of "revolutionary
socialism” was formally founded on April 18, 1965, under the
name of the PLP, which had been known as the Progressive
Labor Movement. :
According to the article, “The Progressive Labor
Movement was founded in 1962, by MILTON ROSEN and MORTIMER
SCHEER after they were expelled from the Communist Party of
the United States for assertedly following the Chinese
Communist line."
Dror ALS rT, crm Ae the FLP
held its Second National Conven n New york City, May 31 to
June 2, 1968, at which time the PLP reasserted its objective
of the establishment of a militant .orking class movement
based on Marxism-Leninism. This is to be accomplished through
the Party's overall revolutionary strategy of raising. the
consciousness of the poople and helping to provide iceolcegical
leadership in the working class struggle for state power.
wa erie wesesropeactSETTEE that at the Second National
Convention, M MAS wnanimously re-elected National
Chairman of the PLP and LEVI LAUB, FRED JEROME, JARED ISRAEL,
WILLIAM EPTON, JACOB ROSEN, JEFFREY GORDON and WALTER LINDER
were elected as the National Committee to lead the PLP until
the next convention.
The PLP publishes “Progressive Labor”, a bimonthly
magazine; '\orld Revolution", a quarterly periodical; and
“challengs-Desafio"’, a monthly newspaper.
The August, 1968, issue of “Challenge-Desafio" sets
forth that "above all, this paper is dedicated to the fight
for a new way of life-where the working men and women own and
control their homes, factories, the police, courts, and the
entire Government on every level".
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