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. Most of the national leadership of SDS joined the RYM in order to oppose what they alleged to be PLP's attempted takeover of the SDS leadership structure, particularly at the 1969 SDS convention in Chicago. SDS Button Logo The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student activist movement in the United States founded in 1959. ... The Worker Student Alliance (WSA) in the United States was the section of Students for a Democratic Society led by the Progressive Labor Party. ... The Progressive Labor Party (originally the Progressive Labor Movement, sometimes still referred to simply as PL) is a communist political party based in the United States. ... Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Official website: http://egov. ...

Politically, the RYM opposed what they considered to be PL's opposition to the right of self-determination for oppressed nations and ethnic groups. The publication in 1969 of PL's seminal anti-nationalism document was RYM's pivotal evidence of this. The RYM also criticized PL's attacks on the Vietnamese National Liberation Front, whom PL had accused of "selling out" to the U.S. during the Paris Peace Talks, as well as other criticisms. But most of all, the RYM opposed what it considered to be PL's totally unfounded attacks on the Black Panther Party. Self-determination is a principle in international law that a people ought to be able to determine their own governmental forms and structure free from outside influence. ... Viet Cong (NLF) flag The Viet Cong, also known as the National Front for the Liberation of Southern Vietnam (Vietnamese Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng Miền Nam), (VC), or the National Liberation Front (NLF), was an insurgent (partisan) organization fighting the Republic... Selling out is a common slang phrase. ... Signing the peace accords. ... Logo of the Black Panther Party. ...

In the 1969 fragmentation of SDS, RYM departed the convention hall and declared itself the "real SDS" in a new space across the street.

In splitting, the RYM itself also split. One section of the RYM, containing most of the SDS leadership including Bernardine Dohrn, David Gilbert and Mark Rudd, became Weatherman. Weatherman briefly retained control of the SDS National Office and membership lists before dissolving the organization and closing its headquarters in 1970, in favor of pursuing underground activities. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... American radical organizer, author and prisoner David Gilbert (b. ... Mark Rudd (born June 2, 1947 in Irvington, New Jersey) was the leader of the Columbia University chapter (branch) of Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s during the 1968 Columbia Student Revolt. ... John Jacobs and Terry Robbins at the Days of Rage, Chicago, October 1969 (Photo credit: David Fenton; publicity photo for film Weather Underground) Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left organization consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of...

The other, which took the name "Revolutionary Youth Movement II," concentrated on what it saw as the necessity of building a vanguard party, and focused on aboveground work in factories and communities. The largest of these groups, the Bay Area Revolutionary Union, soon absorbed some others to become the Revolutionary Communist Party USA led by Bob Avakian by 1975. Others in the RYM II camp generally competed against one another in the form of an array of small Maoist offshoot groups, each one calling themselves "party", through much of the 1980s. The Communist Party Marxist-Leninist led by Michael Klonsky was only one of many such parties. The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) also evolved out of these disputes. In 1985, faced with dangerously shrinking or collapsing organizations, most of the Maoist groups not affiliated with the RCP-USA or the MIM consolidated themselves into the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. A vanguard party is a political party at the forefront, or that wants to be at the forefront, of a mass action or movement. ... The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP, USA), known originally as the Revolutionary Union, is a revolutionary Maoist organization that was formed in 1975. ... Robert Bruce Bob Avakian (Born Washington, D.C., March 7, 1943) is most known as the Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, a Maoist group in the United States. ... Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛澤東思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), also called Marxism-Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), is a variant of communism derived from the teachings of Mao Zedong (1893–1976). ... The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) was a Maoist political party in the United States. ... Michael Klonsky, Ph. ... The Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) is a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist group based primarily in the United States. ... FRSO(ML) As many of the Maoist-oriented groups formed in the United States New Communist Movement of the 1970s were shrinking or collapsing, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization was formed in 1985 to try to consolidate these forces into a single political organization that would have some longevity. ...

Politics, sometimes defined as the art and science of government[1], is a process by which collective decisions are made within groups. ...

See also

• Worker Student Alliance
• New Communist Movement
• "Shut It Down!" Includes "SDS: The Last Hurrah", an account of Chicago 1969 written by an undercover federal agent, and the Revolutionary Youth Movement mission statement.