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Revolutionary Communist Youth
NEWSLETTER


Note on Issue Numbering for

Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter
Young Spartacus

The youth group of the SL began as the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus within SDS in 1970, around the time the Maoist Progressive Labor Party took over SDS after the walkout of the New Left at the Chicago Convention.

They published (stapled memiographed legal 8 1/2 X 14 size sheets, 8 to 12 printed pages per issue, red ink for the banner) issues 1 thru 8 of Revolutionary Marxist Caucus (RMC) Newsletter. 8 issues total.

Then the RMC became the SL's national youth group, the Revolutionary Communist Youth (RCY). This published RCY Newsletter.

BUT, because it was a group in continuity with the RMC, they started numbering their newsletter with issue 9, the first 8 issues being RMC newsletter 1 thru 8. RCY Newsletter was in professional printed tabloid form.

Later, after publication of issue number 18 (nine issues total), the Revolutionary Communist Youth changed their name to Young Spartacus, and changed the name of its publication to Young Spartacus, too. But again, because this was in continuity with the previous organizations, the first issue of Young Spartacus was numbered 19, reflecting its previous "incarnations" as RMC Newsletter and RCY Newsletter.

Young Spartacus was published as a stand alone tabloid for issues 19 through 134 (March 1984). At that point, it was folded into Workers Vanguard, where it became an occasionally appearing section of the paper.

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“The RCY Newsletter is published by the Revolutionary Communist Youth, youth section of the Spartacist League. We seek to build a revolutionary socialist youth organization which can intervene in all social struggles armed with a working-class program, based on the politics of Marx, Lenin and Trotsky”


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Contents by Issue

Issue 9 October-December 1971
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 10 January-February 1972
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 11 March-April 1972
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 12 May-June 1972
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 13 August-September 1972
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 14 October-December 1972
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 15 December 1972-Juanuary 1973
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 16 April 1973
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 17 May-June 1973
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Issue 18 July-August 1973
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

Special Supplemnt-August 1973
Revolutionary Communist Youth NEWSLETTER

 


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