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hal te +4 4 Y H } \ ae 0 Abbott Howard Hoffman APPLND in 1. STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCKATIC SUCILTY that the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), as presently reyzurded, ceme into being at a founding convention held June, 1962, at Port Nuron, Michigan. From an initial posture of "participatory democracy" the line of the national leadership has revealed a prowing Marxist-Leninist adherence which currently calls tor the building of a revolution- ary youth movement. Concurrently, the program of SDS has evolved trom civil rights strugpzles to an anti-Vietnam war stance to an advocacy of a militant anti-imperialist position, China, Vietnam and Cuba are regarded as the leaders of worldwide struggles against United States imperialism whereas the Soviet Union is held to be revisionist and also imperialist. At the June, 1969, SPS National Convention, Propressive Labor Party (PLP) torces in the organization were expelled. As a result, the National OjJtice (NO) group maintained its National Headquarters at 1608 West Madison Street, Chicazo, and the PLP faction set up headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This headquarters subsequently moved to Boston. Each proup elected its own national officers, which include three national secretaries and a National Interim Committee of eight. Both the NO forces and the PLP forces claim to be the true SDS. Both groups also print their versions of “New Left Notes" which sets forth the line and the program of the particular faction, The NO version of "New Left Notes" was recently printed under the title "The Fire Next Time" to achieve a broader mass appeal. Two major factions have developed internally within the NO group, namely, the Weatherman or Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) I faction, and the RYM JJ faction, Weatherman is action- oriented upholding CASTKO's position that the duty of revolu- tionaries is to make revolution. Weatherman is regarded by RYM II as an adventuristic, elitist faction which denies the historical role of the working class as the base for revolution. RYM IJ maintains that revolution, although desired, is not possible under present conditions, hence emphasizes organizing and raising the political consciousness of the working class upon whom they feel successful revolution depends, Although