Published: The Workers’ Advocate, Vol. 3, No. 1, November 13, 1972.
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The following is the DRAFT PROGRAM of the AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH and the AMERICAN STUDENT MOVEMENT adopted October 7, 1972.
American youth and students, the pride of the American working class and people, have contributed tremendously to the defeat of U.S. imperialism and American fascism in the U.S. and the world.
In the early I960’s the contradiction between the U.S. monopoly capitalist class and the American working class and people developed sharply on the cultural front and American youth and students were amongst the first to rise. Hundreds of thousands of revolutionary youth and students were brought into the struggle against U.S. imperialism and American fascism. The main targets of the youth and student movement were imperialist aggression and war against the Indo-Chinese peoples and other peoples of the world; the fascist suppression by the U.S. monopoly capitalist ruling class of the American working class and people, particularly the Afro-American and other national minority peoples; the repression of youth and students organizing against imperialism and fascism, the decadent bourgeois educational system and all aspects of fascist culture. Youth and students have played an invaluable role as instruments of propaganda for progressive ideas among the whole American people and in particular have widely disseminated MARXISM-LENINISM-MAO TSETUNG THOUGHT. Upholding in practise the revolutionary directive, IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL AGAINST REACTIONARIES!, youth and students have persevered in resistance to the attacks of the fascist state machine of the monopoly capitalists, thus participating heroically in the RESISTANCE MOVEMENT.
The youth and student movement has greatly inspired the whole people’s movement and is part of it. Through the course of their struggles youth and students learned many lessons and saw the necessity to come under the conscious and disciplined leadership of the working class on all fronts. Since 1969 with the formation of the AMERICAN COMMUNIST WORKERS MOVEMENT (MARXIST-LENINIST), many youth and students have come forward to participate in the great historic task of building anew the revolutionary COMMUNIST PARTY on the basis of MAO TSETUNG THOUGHT which leads the American working class and people to complete victory over fascism and to the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Led by the ACWM (M-L), youth and students are building the AMERICAN STUDENT MOVEMENT and the AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH as organizations to inspire and lead the whole youth and student movement. During the last three years the American Student Movement and American Revolutionary Youth have waged many struggles in the universities, communities and at the places of work and developed their revolutionary program. Various national and local conferences have been held and units established in various cities across the United States.
1. To act as an instrument of propaganda for the AMERICAN COMMUNIST WORKERS MOVEMENT (MARXIST-LENINIST) and participate in building the Party.
2. Participate in the DIVIDE THE FORCES TO AROUSE THE MASSES CAMPAIGN or any other campaign launched by the AMERICAN COMMUNIST WORKERS MOVEMENT (MARXIST-LENINIST). Integrate with the American working class, and ADVANCE THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT FORWARD!
1. To act as an instrument of propaganda for the AMERICAN COMMUNIST WORKERS MOVEMENT (MARXIST-LENINIST) and participate in building the Party.
2. Participate in DIVIDE THE FORCES TO AROUSE THE MASSES CAMPAIGN or any other campaign launched by AMERICAN COMMUNIST WORKERS MOVEMENT (MARX1ST-LENIN1ST) . Encourage students to actually join the American working class, and ADVANCE THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT FORWARD!
The over-all program of the AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH and the AMERICAN STUDENT MOVEMENT is to participate in the mass democratic anti-fascist revolution, work for the building of the Party, and concretely follow the revolutionary principles: UNITE WITH THE PEOPLE TO STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ENEMY! and STRUGGLE AGAINST THE ENEMY TO UNITE THE PEOPLE!
1. Act as an instrument of propaganda for the ACWM (ML):
A. Disseminate Marxism-Leninism Mao Tsetung Thought in the communities and at the place of
work.
B. Distribute widely the Red Book, Five Articles by Chairman Mao, and Peking Review
C. Propagate the WORKERS’ ADVOCATE, MASS LINE, NORTH AMERICA NEWS and other progressive publications, and
D. Invite speakers from the ACWM (ML) to discussion groups, mass democracy meetings, study groups, etc. in the communities and at the place of work.
2. DIVIDE THE FORCES TO AROUSE THE MASSES CAMPAIGN:
A. Join the AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH PROPAGANDA TEAMS and carry out tasks assigned in various cities and areas, and
B. Join investigation teams responsible for summing-up of revolutionary work and of the historical experience of the masses in cities, regions and areas.
3. Integrate with the American working class and people:
A. Live in the highly working class areas,
B. Participate in the manifold workers’ and people’s struggles,
C. Provide proletarian analysis, expose bourgeois lines and win the support of the people for the proletarian line, and
4. ADVANCE THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT FORWARD!
A. Openly advocate that the American monopoly capitalist class is a fascist class and that it is just to rebel against reactionaries,
B. Vigorously resist the attacks of the bourgeois state machine, persist in exposing the criminal nature of the ruling courts, and adopt the policy of complete non-cooperation with the ruling class state machine,
C. Organize to boldly mobilize the masses against the assaults of the ruling class against the people and wage tit-for-tat struggle against these assaults, and
D. Openly propagate the proletarian line that only a violent revolution can overthrow the yoke of monopoly capitalism and fascism.
1. Act as an instrument of propaganda for the AMERICAN COMMUNIST WORKERS MOVEMENT (MARXIST-LENINIST):
A. Disseminate Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought,
B. Distribute widely the Red Book, Five Articles by Chairman Mao, and Peking Review,
C. Propagate the WORKERS’ ADVOCATE, MASS LINE, NORTH AMERICA NEWS, and other progressive publications, and
D. Invite speakers from the AMERICAN COMMUNIST WORKERS MOVEMENT (MARXIST-LENINIST) to discussion groups, mass democracy meetings, study groups, etc. on various questions facing the people.
2. WAGE A WAR OF ANNIHILATION ON THE CULTURAL FRONT!
A. Launch struggles under the heading CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE CLASSROOM,
B. Oppose all aspects of fascist ideology,
C. Organize denunciation of fascist lackey personalities in the universities, and
D. Create public opinion in support of the mass democratic anti-fascist revolution.
3. Encourage students to actually join the American working class:
A. All the politically conscious and advanced sections of the students who come forward to dedicate their lives in the cause of the working class are encouraged to leave the universities and colleges and take up jobs in the working class,
B. Those who have taken up professions, are politically conscious and advanced, are called upon to spend maximum time in living amongst the workers and actively supporting their struggles.
C. Work as revolutionary intellectuals for the revolutionary movement and revolutionary organizations in various areas.
4. ADVANCE THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT FORWARD!
A. Resolutely struggle against fascist rules, and regulations,
B. Influence the Student Councils to take political action on various international, national and local questions, and
C. Mobilize students and faculty to support the just struggles of the broad masses and of the anti-fascist fighters against repression by the state machine.