Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR:Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER Numbers 9 – 18 + one supplement

Number 9 October-November 1971 In Wake of Economic Crisis: REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST YOUTH FORMED! The Growth if the RMC Nixon’s War on the Working Class And World War III YOUTH, CLASS, AND PARTY Youth and the Working Class Youth Radicalism—What Direction? Youth and the Revolutionary Party The Spartacist League Internationalism The Crisis of Leadership RCY Conference Greetings New Zealand SL: Anti-Stalinism Study Group: Marcus and the Labor Committee: CRACKPOT SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY Marcus-Self-Proclaimed Guru The Marcusite “United Front” “Socialist Reconstruction” Marcus on Economics [cartoon] The Strike Support Coalition Blacks and Women: “Dog Liberation”? CLASS STRUGGLE SHARPENS—PL-SDS PARADES Program for the Economic Crisis For a Revolutionary Socialist SDS!

Number 10 January- February 1972 MYTH OF NEW-CAPITALISM Post-War Capitalist Boom? Military Spending - Salvation or Burden? The “Permanent Arms Economy” Unproductive Labor in Marxist Economics State Expenditures and the Rate of Profit Workers League Youth Vangardism: FAKE YOUTH CONFERENCE Youth Manipulation WL Youth “Program” Some Questions for the WL Don’t Be Fooled! Sellout to Class Collaboration: PL’S RIGHT TURN PL Sunk in its Theoretical Swamp PL’s Turn to the Peasantry Fascism—Aid to Revolution? PL Repudiates Lenin Number 11 March - April 1972 DEFEND ANGELA DAVIS! Fight Racial Oppression! Who Will Be Next? Jewish DefenseLeague: JEWS AND AMERICAN FASCISM The JDL—Part of the “Worldwide Radicalization of Youth” Right-Wing Zionism and Left-Wing Ethnic Militancy The Social Basis of Jewish Reaction Jews and American Fascism Fascism from the Back of the Bus? International Socialists: Middle of the Swamp Is the IS a Bureaucratic Collective? Building the Pop Front Throw Out the Bourgeoisie! Into the Swamp Again Hiding from the Vietnamese Revolution Reconstruct the Fourth International!

Number 12 May – June 1972 VICTORY TO THE VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION! The WAR and the CLASS STRUGGLE All Indochina Must Go Communist! SDS National Convention: SDS DESTROYED BY LIBERALISM Workshops and More Workshops PL Conciliates Black Nationalists SDS Reformism “Students Could Have Stopped Hitler” SDS Chooses Liberalism Down With Liberalism! Why We Left PL “Leads” SDS ROAD TO REFORMISM SDS: Social-Democratic Roots Worker-Student Alliance The Short but Dull Life of the CWSA Anti-War Upsurge Bypasses SDS We Both Get Thrown Out of NPAC JDL and CCNY Administration Unite Against Divided Left

Number 13 August – September 1972 STUDENT STRIKES AND THE WORKING CLASS France 1968 “PROLETARIAN MILITARY POLICY” Cannon “Telescopes” the Tasks “Reformism Cannot Live Today” Trotsky on the PMP Workers Control of the Army? For the Independent Arming of the Working Class! PL/SDS SEEKS BOURGEOIS ALLIES STUDENT STRIKES: Opportunists in Liberal Bloc PROGRAM OF BETRAYAL: YWLL CONFERENCE Number 14 October – November 1972 McGovern and the New Left Bloc of 5! Classes “Small and Vacillating” Rifts Left Moves Right No Steps Forward, Another Back Miami, McGovern and Mindless Activism “Political Working Class” for McGovern No Middle Road Young Socialist Alliance: Reformism on the Rocks “Mass Actions” Leninist Youth-Party Relations Workers’ Democracy Impressionism and “Consistency” Is There a Way Forward fpr the YSA? SWP Resignation Letter and Intention to Fuse with the SL Trouble for the Bureaucracy: Student Opposition in Yugoslavia The Yugoslav Left and the Fourth International Nationalist Opposition Political Revolution BMC/RCY Fusion Projected

Number 15 December 1972 -- January 1973 RCY National Conference --- Revolutionary Regroupment Continues From Maoism and the New Left to Trotskyism Marx, Not Marcus BMC Rejects IS and WL Building a Communist Youth Movement RCY Victory in Bay Area CCSF Administration Backs Down Letters: Correspondence between J.-P.M. (France) and James Robertson, SL/USA SWP/YSA Educational Conference: Reform, No Revolution Parliamentary “Socialists” Norman Thomas Lives – In the SWP WL/YS Labor Party-Youth Conferences: EMPTY FRAUD Wohlforth Learns from the Bureaucracy NCLC Flops in South Enter the Maoists …Exit NAM Maoists Fail to Exclude SL/RCY NCLC Adjourns Conference Early

Number 16 April 1973 Cease Fire Settles Nothing: For A Communist Indochina! The War Must Go On Soviet Desires—Soviet Role Chinese Role No Better North Vietnam: Pawn Captured By Its Past Betrayals History Catches U.S. Opportunists IS Can’t See the Class Line WL: Stalinophobia and Opportunism SWP Flip-Flop and Flop Again Two Duties for U.S. Revolutionaries Number 16 (continued) April 1973 RCY Defends Israeli Left: Repulses Zionist Attack Fake Internationalism of U.S. Left Zionist Hooligans Repulsed RCY Continues Defense of Israeli Left An Open Letter to the SWP/YSA “Lame Duck in Turbulent Waters” CP’s “LEFT TURN” The Left Turn and “Political Independence” Lenin on “Two –Class Parties” YWLL Pressures the CP for Greater Union Militancy Class Line Drawn Except… For a Materialist Approach to Racial Oppression “Socialism in One Country” and Class Collaboration World Economy and World Revolution Stalin, Browder, Foster, Hall and Their “Differences” Trotskyism and the Transitional Program The Usurpers of the Trotskyist Banner PL Can’t See the Class Line Communists vs. “Socialist/Feminists” Buffalo Feminists Attack Communists Chicago Conference Pushes “New” Feminist Strategy “Apolitical” Feminists Attack Communists Hyde Park Conference Attempts to Bolster Feminist “Theory” The Leninist Vanguard Party Old Skeleton Dressed in “New” Clothing—Once Again! Transitional Program Needed RCY Fights Ban at LSUNO Panthers, Others Aid RCY “Red” M-L (Maoist-Liberal) Collective

Number 17 May – June 1973 Budget Cuts Hit Campuses – Only Workers Can Smash Phase III! Campuses Part of Capitalist System New Leftism Revived WL/YS Youth Vanguardism What Defense Policy for Revolutionaries? The International Red Aid The Policy of Social Fascism The “Social-Fascists” Become the Great Defenders of Democracy The “Anti-Revisionist” Left Editorial Notes: YSL, PL/SDS Revive Student Power Defend Raoul Rizik! Lettuce Boycott: SDS Tail-Ends UFWOC Reforminsm Chavez’s Racism SL/RCY Picket for Workers Democracy:WL Charges “Anti-Communism” NCLC Frenzy Correction Number 17 (continued) May – June 1973 Stalinists, Nationalists Seek to Exclude Communists Gangsterism and Use of Cops Against the Left Maoists, YSA Join with Cops and Liberals Maoists Propose to Police Communists Themselves Lessons from History: Founding Conference of the 4th International: Resolution on the Youth Rise of Pabloism Youth Vanguardism From SWP to the WL The Capitalist Impasse Give Youth a Future—Give the World A Future The Struggle for a Future—The Struggle for Bread We Demand a Right to Work! Equality for Youth in Social Legislation—All Together for the Struggle! We Want A Trade! We Demand Our Right to Live! For our Brothers On the Farms! For Our Countryside Open the Schools and Universities Bread, Books, and Civil Rights for Coolies! We Demand Our Right to Happiness! The Revolutionary Program YSA Resignation RCY Events

Number 18 July-- August 1973 Lessons of the French Student Struggles—DOWN WITH THE BOURGEOIS ARMY! Student Deferments and the Debre Law Must Go Beyond Simple Repeal Role of French Stalinism OCI Pursues Tailist Policy USec Youth Vanguardism Condemn CP-Cop Alliance and Labor Committee Hooliganism SWP Joins CP-- Calls Cops Editorial Notes: Revolutionary Campaign at Niles East High School Maoists Continue Exclusions Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Conference Gives Lesson in Workers Democracy Defend Carlos Feliciano! WORKERS LEAGUE’S YOUNG SOCIALISTS: Youth Vanguardism Against Leninism What is a Leninist Youth Group? What are the Young Socialists? RCY: Born in the Struggle Against the New Left YS: Youth Vanguardism RCY Events Educational-Recreational SL/RCY SUMMER CAMP Maoists Betray Filipino Struggles Permanent Revolution and the Philippines Marcos Bids for U.S. Support Filipino Stalinists Abandon Class-Struggle Program The Reality of “People’s War” Maoism and Menshevism The Way Forward Special Supplement RCY Newsletter: August 1973

Trouble in U.Sec. Rotten Bloc --- SWP SPOUTS “ORTHODOXY”, YSA EXPELS TROTSKYISTS 1953, 1963, 1973 – Splits and “Unity” “Reunification” and Expulsion of the RT Only One Road To Proletarian Power Statement Presented to the Executive Committee of the Upper West Side, New York local chapter of the YSA 15 July 1973 and to the Local Chapter on 18 July 1973. Imperialist War Female and Black Oppression The Class Struggle Divisions in the U.Sec. Pabloism, Majority and Minority Style “The Majority is the Party” The SWP Alternative to Bourgeois Democracy YSA: Mao, McGovern OK, But Not SL/RCY