Revolutionary Youth Movement

Revolutionary Youth Movement
Founded1968; 56 years ago (1968)
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Maoism
Political positionFar-left[1]

In the United States, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) is the section of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) that opposed the Worker Student Alliance of the Progressive Labor Party (PLP).[1] Most of the national leadership of SDS joined the RYM in order to oppose PLP's party line and what they alleged to be its attempted takeover of the SDS leadership structure, particularly at the 1969 SDS convention in Chicago.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b c Norwood, Stephen H. (2013). "Shaping the Next Generations: The Persistence of Far Left Antisemitism, 1973–2012". Antisemitism and the American Far Left. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 209–210. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139565806.008. ISBN 9781107657007. S2CID 153120694.
  2. ^ Elbaum, Max (2002). Revolution in the Air: How Sixties Radicals were Inspired by Lenin, Mao and Che. New York: Verso. pp. 72–77. ISBN 1-85984-617-3.
  3. ^ Leonard, Aaron J.; Gallagher, Conor R. (2018). Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists, The Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980. New York City: Zero Books. pp. 51–53. ISBN 978-1-78279-534-6.