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...NOVEMBER 30 of last year the Spartacist League successfully challenged for the first time the 1983 Attorney General Guidelines for Domestic Security/Terrorism Investigations. The plaintiffs called the suit "an important victory for everyone who fights to defend democratic rights." Indeed it was, and one such triumph is not enough to protect the right of free speech from attacks by the Reagan Administration...
...unlikely a simple change in definitions will initiate any change in FBI motives and, of course, no one could pretend to know what importance or interpretation the FBI attaches to its agreement. Said Spartacist League General Counsel Rachel Wolkenstein, "we have no illusions that the government's secret police have stopped or will stop their harassment, infiltration or disruption of Marxist political organizations and other political opponents of the government." Nevertheless, Wolkenstein added, the "settlement strikes a modest but genuine blow against that deadly equation of opposition with conspiracy...
...agreeing to change its definition of the Spartacist League," Wolkenstein said, "the FBI conceded the central claim of our lawsuit--that Marxist political principles and advocacy cannot be equated with violence, terrorism or a criminal enterprise...
...February 4 issue, four individuals (Ms. Satz, et. al.) write a letter protesting the threat of disciplinary action against two students, members of the Spartacist Youth League, for their actions in disrupting the Caspar Weinberger talk at the Harvard Law School Forum. A number of different issues are confused in their letter and it is important to disentangle these...
...undergraduate students who were two among six hundred students who vocally protested during Caspar Weinberger's November speech (two weeks after the U.S. invasion of Grenada) at the Harvard Law School Forum. We ask: why has the administration chosen to single out two students who are members of the Spartacist Youth League (SYL), a small campus group? Do they seriously believe that these two students orchestrated and led this mass protest? We doubt it; in fact, it may be the very smallness and unpopularity of the SYL, as well as the controversial nature of their communist politics, which...