(1970) In Detroit, at Wayne State University, the Socialist Workers Party argued that forcing ROTC off campus was not a revolutionary enough demand; they said it would be better to take control over the whole university and turn it into an anti-war university, a center from which anti-war students could organize the whole city.
It sounded very revolutionary, but see how it worked out. The university bosses agreed to give the SWP gang office space, use of printing facilities, and paper. The SWP then said that the university was now "theirs" and there was no need to keep the strike going. Members of SDS and PLP said that as long as ROTC continued on that campus, students should keep the strike going, and keep the picket lines up. SWP supporters opposed the strike and some even joined with pro-fascist students in breaking the picket lines to reopen the school. Eventually the school reopened, and ROTC remained on campus to help the U.S. government carry out the war. The SWP got bought real cheap -- a little bit of paper and some ink. >From https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/Vietnam/riseandfall.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33485): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33485 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109506998/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
