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  Revolutionary Youth Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) was the section of Students for a Democratic Society that opposed the Worker Student Alliance of the Progressive Labor Party.
The other major section of the RYM, referred to as Revolutioanry Youth Movement II, were Maoist-oriented and rejected the Weathermen's line of immediate armed struggle in the U.S., advocating building a new revolutionary vanguard party instead.
The largest of the RYM II groups was the Bay Area Revolutionary Union, which soon absorbed some other groups and became the Revolutionary Communist Party USA in 1975.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revolutionary_Youth_Movement   (456 words)

  
 Revolutionary Youth
The youth do not make up a class of their own, but the young people of the working class and other oppressed groups are among the most exploited under capitalism.
The Revolutionary Youth bases its methods and activities on the living and developing revolutionary theory of scientific socialism originally developed by Marx and Engels, and on the lessons learned from the successes and failures of the struggles of the oppressed through history.
The Revolutionary Youth struggles for the rights of the youth and other oppressed people and the destruction of capitalism as a part of the historical mission of the working to take control of society and rid it of class separation and create a society based on freedom, justice, and equality.
www.freepeoplesmovement.org /ry/program.html   (2422 words)

  
 Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (RIM)
It is important that the revolutionary elements in both kinds of countries be educated to understand the nature of the strategic alliance between the revolutionary proletarian movement in the advanced countries and the national-democratic revolutions in the oppressed nations.
The social-chauvinist position that would deny the importance of the revolutionary struggle of the oppressed peoples or their ability, under the leadership of the proletariat and a genuine Marxist-Leninist party, to lead to the establishment of socialism is still a dangerous deviation to be combated.
The desire to spread the revolutionary movement of the 1960s to the proletariat and to merge with the workers, inspired to no small degree by the experience of the revolutionary youth in the Cultural Revolution, was a powerful and correct revolutionary sentiment which, however, became stifled and distorted under the influence of economism.
www.csrp.org /rim/rimdec.htm   (13034 words)

  
 New Communist Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Communist Movement (NCM) was a communist political movement of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States.
Maoism was then highly regarded as being more actively revolutionary than the brand of communism supported by the post-Stalin Soviet Union (see the definition of the American version of the New Left for more on this).
These organizations addressed problems of sexism and racism, partly by voicing adamant support for self-determination and identity politics, and felt that they were dealing with problems they were of the opinion had not been addressed in the groups of the 1960s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Communist_Movement   (988 words)

  
 Youth Movement In California
In 1993 primarily Latino youth were training and demonstrating all over northern California against racist policies and programs in schools, demanding La Raza Studies at the high school level, and other educational rights.
Third Eye Movement in San Francisco was not unique in having its liaison with the police conducted by a 15-year old (mentored by a young Chicana) and media relations handled by a 17-year old.
In the last big pre-election action in northern California, youth and supporters-newly angered by news that Amadou Diallo's police killers had been acquitted in New York-marched to a dilapidated building in the Mission District where youth were often transferred from juvenile detention.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Children/NewYouthMovement_Calif.html   (3518 words)

  
 Critique of the New Left Movement
Up until now, almost all the commentaries on the movement have represented a fundamental unity, masked by the apparent incompatibility of their versions: politicians, sociologists, newsmen, and leftists have all begun from the proposition that the movement is what it claims to be — the opposition to this society.
These youth — mainly students — developed tactics that were fairly effective in furthering the predominantly reformist aims which they set for themselves — strengthening bourgeois civil liberties, integration of fls into the dominant society, and elimination of other admittedly archaic excesses on the fringes of that society.
The revolutionary activity of the “masses” is defined only negatively against the hierarchy of the masters and deceivers; it becomes a series of battles connected only by the spirit and heroism of the oppressed.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /bps/PH/newleft.htm   (5703 words)

  
 World Mizrachi Movement - Ideas and Opinions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Are the Religious Zionist youth cognizant enough of Rav Reines as a role model, particularly in light of the strong and praiseworthy cognizance of the persona of Rav Kook that exists?
The struggle for "Greater Israel" that was conducted by the Gush Emunim movement and its supporters brought the national religious youth to a broad analysis of Biblical and Talmudic texts.
It is incumbent upon us to return and to clarify the immediate urgency of familiarity with the history of the Religious Zionist movement in its various frameworks, and to substantiate the revolutionary nature of the movement based on knowledge of its history.
www.mizrachi.org /ideas/view.asp?id=208   (1199 words)

  
 Youth-Party Relations in the Communist Youth International
The youth groups formed in Austria (1894) and northern Germany (1904-05) were concerned, primarily with improving the economic position of young workers and with raising their living standards.
The questions of "political subordination" and "the revolutionary offensive" were linked, since acceptance of the political supremacy of the CI meant disciplined acceptance of the tactics of regroupment and the united front, the laborious "winning of the masses" demanded by the CI leadership around Lenin and Trotsky.
The political subordination of the youth to the party flows from the principle of discipline towards the revolutionary movement, and in the concrete instance the recognition that the CI was the bearer of revolutionary continuity and the revolutionary program.
www.bolshevik.org /history/youth/Youth01CYI.html   (3000 words)

  
 Alternative-Online
Having made this observation, I expect that the new movement will suffer from schisms (even if small or marginal) as it advances in practicing this leftist responsibility in formulating a national political democratic thought that is rational, open-minded and diversified and adopting a proper organizational structure for this attempt.
The revolutionary ability to try and capture reality as it is and describe it without deforming it or expressing nostalgia about the past or belittling the achievements made possible by the sacrifices of average people in Lebanon and the Arab world (i.e.
The movement did not claim to be the exclusive voice of all prominent intellectuals who would release statements of condemnations or support and hold infinite seminars.
www.alternative-online.org /200503SaudMawla.htm   (792 words)

  
 articles : Power Leaks in Youth Ministry : Youth Specialties
Philosophy in youth ministry is widely debated and there’s always a drive to hook onto a certain ministry philosophy already packaged for you.
In the early church one of the leaks that needed to be taken care of was the infusion of the philosophy of Judaism with the new movement of the church.
Leadership can’t be compromised in the church or in the youth ministry.
www.youthspecialties.com /articles/topics/power/leaks.php   (1920 words)

  
 MIM on Settlers
Sakai's political economy is derived from the Revolutionary Youth Movement I (RYM I).
RYM I was a faction of SDS that took the strongest pro-nationalist line and favored immediate urban guerrilla warfare.
RYM II, which is where MIM has greater sympathies for the most part, was more cautious about armed struggle, opposed Trotskyism without cheerleading for every nationalist struggle and generally had a more analytical approach compared with the feel-good armed struggle crowd.
www.kersplebedeb.com /mystuff/books/reviews/settlersmim.html   (1101 words)

  
 I Wor Kuen and Getting Together Newspaper: A Revolutionary Nationalist Organization
I Wor Kuen (IWK) began as a revolutionary Asian nationalist organization in the '70s.
Revolutionary youth from New York Chinatown and from local colleges saw the conditions that people of color faced and the oppression of Asian American workers in U.S. history.
They decided to dedicate their lives to creating revolutionary change, pooled resources, and opened a store front on Market St. in Chinatown.
www.aamovement.net /history/gt/gt.html   (265 words)

  
 Youth for Socialist Action
Taking into the SP though their revolutionary politics, the Trotskyists were attacked by the conservative leadership of the SP, who now worried they may loose control of the SP and the YPSL.
The remainder of the SWP continued to defend revolutionary politics throughout the war, as well as the McCarthyite 1950s, but it was unable to maintain a youth group.
Armed with the experience it had gained in the anti-war movement, the YSA was able to play a significant role in the struggles around racism and continued segregation in the schools that unfolded in the late 1970s.
www.socialistaction.org /ysahistory.htm   (2085 words)

  
 Bhagat Singh and the Revolutionary Movement
Bhagat Singh was an outstanding revolutionary and martyr of the Indian anti-colonial movement.
The Babbar Akali movement was an attempt by Sikhs to liberate the country from the British and to free their Gurudwaras from the corrupt Mahants by an armed insurrection.
Bhagat Singh became a revolutionary after he came to Kanpur and it is no coincidence that Kanpur was an important industrial city (created by the British to manufacture the cloth and leather articles needed by the army) with a large urban proletariat.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv3n1/bsingh.htm   (7338 words)

  
 The Way the Wind Blew
Recognizing this, groups like the Revolutionary Union and the October League romanticized the caricature of the workers represented by Archie Bunker while, on the other hand, Weather, the Yippies, women's groups, and other New Left organizations, maintained their anti-racist, anti-sexist (and, ultimately, anti-worker) platform developed in the sixties and seventies.
Although youthful discontent with the products of the increasingly centralized political and economic system in the United States and other capitalist nations motivated much of the New Left in the sixties and seventies, the majority of the discontented youth maintained a belief that their society was capable of remedying the problems.
In SDS, these positions took two main forms by the summer of 1969 (Weatherman and RYM II), both deriving from the SDS statement 'Towards a Revolutionary Youth Movement.' Although both agreed on the particular exploitation of youth, the perception of youth's role in the revolutionary struggle differed.
www.neravt.com /left/books/windblew.htm   (1933 words)

  
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Without passing on the propriety of such acts, the Free Speech Movement insists that the question whether their advocacy is legal or illegal must be left to the courts, which are institutionally independent of the shifting pressures of the community.
The only third path is to build a white movement which will support the fls in moving as fast as they have to and are able to, and still itself keep up with that fl movement enough so that white revolutionaries share the cost and the fls don't have to do the whole thing alone.
As people in one section of the movement fight beside and identify closer with other sections, the mutual catalytic effect of their struggles will be greater.
martinrealm.org /documents/radical/sixties1.html   (7534 words)

  
 I am Prepared to Die
Haganah was the political authority of the Jewish National Movement in Palestine.
At that stage I was a member of the African National Congress Youth League, and was one of a group which moved for the expulsion of communists from the ANC.
I must add that, whilst abroad, I had discussions with leaders of political movements in Africa and discovered that almost every single one of them, in areas which had still not attained independence, had received all forms of assistance from the socialist countries, as well as from the West, including that of financial support.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/rivonia.html   (10147 words)

  
 Opponents of the Revolutionary Internationalist Workers Movement
Part of our task in winning a new generation to revolutionary Marxism, the communism which animated Lenin and Trotsky’s Bolsheviks, is to bring home the essential lessons of the international workers movement throughout the 20th century.
Again lacking a proletarian revolutionary perspective, the reformist left veers between backing the idea of liberal integrationism—the illusion that fl equality can be realized within the framework of racist American capitalist society—or capitulating to fl nationalism which also accepts the enduring rule of the American bourgeoisie.
Political combat to expose the fake left’s socialist pretensions is vital to winning the advanced layers of the proletariat as well as among youth and intellectuals to the cause of building a Leninist vanguard party as the necessary instrumentality to the fight for proletarian state power.
www.icl-fi.org /english/pamph/slusdop/oroappend.html   (2532 words)

  
 Revolutionary Youth
The Russian revolutionary Vladamir Lenin once pointed out the tendency of the ruling class to “co-opt” revolutionaries after their deaths, turning them into mere “logos” which they attempt to render meaningless by separating the individual from what it is they stood for.
His book Guerrilla Warfare became highly influential, and was used as a guide by guerrilla movements throughout Latin America (unfortunately, many of the fighters, though very courageous, oversimplified the theories put forth in the book, eventually leading to their defeat).
The death was considered a severe blow to the revolutionary movement and deeply saddened oppressed people around the world.
www.freepeoplesmovement.org /ry/rya5a.html   (3656 words)

  
 End of current "clean living" movement
The “third turning” or “unraveling” is when health-reform and other crusades come to a peak and there is a feeling of hopelessness, the “crisis," or "fourth turning,” is a period of profound social crisis such as war or deep economic depression that dramatically shakes the pillars of society.
Simultaneously with these awakening, out-groups such immigrants and/or youth were seen to exhibit behaviors that contributed to the undermining of society.
The neo-purity movement will continue to surge and reach a peak about 2015, youthful chastity will be an accepted norm among the middle class, and increasing numbers of middle-class women will work out of their homes in order to care for their children.
www.indiana.edu /~engs/book/endclean1.html   (1388 words)

  
 Orientation of the Party Minority in Youth Work
The present youth leadership not only apes and even exaggerates the centrist politics of the party, but is consciously cooperating in the destruction of the organizational independence of the youth out of motives of personal opportunism.
Rather our orientation should be to expose the rottenness and inability of the present youth leadership to the greatest extent we can without jeopardizing ourselves, and to offer for consideration of youth members, either through local debate or by statements and countermotions in NEC minutes, a revolutionary alternative on issues under discussion.
We do not seek to be ‘responsible’ members of the youth in the sense given above, but rather to be responsible, loyal, and disciplined members of the Marxist tendency working in the youth for the purpose of building that tendency.
www.bolshevik.org /history/MarxistBulletin/MB2_04.html   (866 words)

  
 [ The Power of Youth ]
Youth movements played a critical role in the recent wave of revolutions in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine and -- to a lesser extent -- in Kyrgyzstan.
New youth groups are appearing in Russia and Central Asia, much to the dismay of leaders there.
"The Power of Youth" is an ongoing RFE/RL project that will look at how youth movements are born, mature, and make the transition to the postrevolutionary setting or endure under repression...
www.rferl.org /specials/youth   (272 words)

  
 Black youth: repression and resistance
The blame is always placed on the shoulders of those youth—and their parents—for the plethora of problems that they face, as opposed to governmental policies and institutionalized racism that began during slavery and continue to this day.
I’m remind ed of the Somerville 5 in Massa chu setts as a case in point—five young Black men who have had to become activists around their own lives after they were brutally assaulted by police officers in an unprovoked attack, and then expelled from school before their cases were even heard.
And each time I was pleasantly surprised by the number of Black youth that were on these delegations—not because I thought that youth of color wouldn’t be in solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela, or revolutionary youth from around the world.
www.workers.org /2006/us/black-youth-0302   (1428 words)

  
 Jericho Movement | Home
The House Committee on the Judiciary jurisdiction includes the following areas: (1) the judiciary and judicial proceedings, civil and criminal; (2) civil liberties; (3) claims against the United States; (4) national penitentiaries and (5) Revision and codification of the Statutes of the United States.
It is our hope that these hearings, if held, will not only further expose the FBI and local law enforcement crimes against the Black Liberation Movement and many of those involved it, but also result in legislation addressing some of these injustices.
Of particular concern to the Jericho Movement is the release and treatment of our political prisoners.
www.thejerichomovement.com /index.html   (978 words)

  
 LifeWay: True Love Waits®
The vision for “Takes the Town” is to help communities find solutions to reclaiming sexual purity among their youth.
True Love Waits is also expanding its reach in countries such as Africa, where honoring a commitment to remain abstinent until marriage is literally a matter of life and death.
Revolutionary Purity, a study that challenges young people to a life of personal and “revolutionary” purity that includes influencing peers in other countries, is one tool True Love Waits is using to enhance the international scope of the abstinence movement.
www.lifeway.com /tlw   (291 words)

  
 Youth for International Socialism
Police in Muzaffarabad baton charged a rally organised by the Jammu Kashmir Revolutionary Alliance and the United People’s Front against the Earthquake Rehabilitation Agency.
Taking their inspiration from these historic and unexpected turnouts, millions of undocumented workers and their supporters turned out in droves for another wave of mobilizations on April 9th and 10th.
As the revolt of the French youth in and around major cities throughout the country continues we, the revolutionary Marxist youth of the United States, look on with great anticipation.
www.newyouth.com   (693 words)

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