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COMMUNISM and YOU! ee
"Fronts are things of the past. We don't need them.
We've got the...DuBois Clubs, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, and Students for a Democratic Society going for us..."
Gus Hall. General Secretary,
Communist Party, USA
COMMUNIST ATTACK ON YOUTH - XVII
When the Democratic National Convention was being held in Atlantic City, continued attempts
to disrupt the convention were made by Negro demonstrators who kept up their demands, despite compromise
attempts, that the Mississippi Freedom Democrats be seated. The demonstrators were members of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC - pronounced SNICK), often described in the press as one of the
largest, most militant and radical organizations of the New Left.
In Selma, Alabama, in early March 1965, fiery SNCC leaders wanted to continue their march
to Montgomery despite a court order forbidding it. Only intervention by Federal Conciliator LeRoy Collins
prevented it. A few weeks later, despite a voting rights speech to Congress by President Lyndon B, Johnson,
SNCC continued to picket the White House and threatened further demonstrations. This induced the "Washington
Post" to say SNCC members appeared to be "driven by folly to demonstrate for the sheer, sterile sake of demon-
stration."
SNCC and its demonstrations go back to 1960 and the first lunch counter sit-ins, when the
organization was formed to foster the growth of civil rights agitation. According to the "New York Times,"
SNCC was born April 17, 1960, by about 300 people, almost all of them Negro youths, and has since become
the inspiration for all the organizations of the new student left.
"The Saturday Evening Post" of May 8, 1965, reported that SNCC "is a wonder, perfectly
designed to fit the anarchic student temper. It has a full-time staff of 230 but no membership. Its broad base
is a separate group called Friends of S,N.C.C., which has 150 chapters, two thirds of them on campus." The
article says SNCC leaders travel a far-left dinner circuit, "where they are sometimes lucid, sometimes totally
bewildering," and it quotes a government investigator as saying that SNCC has been "thoroughly infiltrated by
Communists."
A report by the Louisiana Joint Legislative Committee concurs, saying SNCC is “substantially
under the influence of the Communist Party." SNCC officials admit no effort has been made to purge Commu~
nists from the membership. “We have no political test for membership and we never will have," a SNCC
Washington official said. "Newsweek" quoted another official as admitting that Communist Party members
had gone to Alabama and Mississippi to work with SNCC.
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"The Washington Star" revealed that the organization hoped to establish "Friends of SNCC"
groups in "uncommitted" nations around the world. "Such foreign affiliates of SNCC," reporter Walter
Pincus wrote, "could present Communist parties around the world with a ready-made organizational weapon
for stirring up anti-American sentiments." Many troubled observers have pointed out that it makes little
difference whether or not SNCC radicals are Communists: "If they do the same things, it may not make much
difference what kind of cards they carry."
This emphasizes the interesting transition SNCC has made from the civil rights field, for which
it was organized, to its invasion of the field of foreign policy. It was one of the leaders in the Washington
demonstrations August 6-9, 1965, when sit-ins were staged at the Capital, the White House gates were blocked
and Communist publications, such as "The Worker," were distributed. A SNCC leader was among those arrested
by Washington police.
SNCC made its position clear in a statement in the March-April 1966 issue of "Insurgent"
published by the DuBois Clubs: "The Student Nonviolent Coordimting Committee has a right and a responsibility
to dissent with United States foreign policy on any issue when it sees fit...We maintain that our country's cry
of 'preserve freedom in the world' is a hypocritical mask behind which it squashes liberation movements which
are not bound, and refuse to be bound, by the expediencies of United States cold war policies."
SNCC on the draft: "We are in sympathy with, and support, the men in this country who are
unwilling to respond to a military draft which would compel them to contribute their lives to United States
aggression in Vietnam in the name of the "freedom' we find so false in this country." The National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People immediately disassociated itself from the SNCC position and pointed out
that some SNCC workers are becoming disinterested in civil rights and are turning to peace demonstrations,
But SNCC's radical approach evidently was not radical enough. United Press International
reported from Atlanta May 17, 1966: "Two of the nation's most militant civil rights leaders, John Lewis and
James Foreman, have been deposed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). One source
said they were considered 'too moderate." SNCC announced the changes. Stokeley Carmichael, a founder
of the all-Negro "Black Panther Political Party’ in Alabama, was named to succeed Lewis as SNCC chairman
and he promptly announced the organization would ‘intensify its efforts in the area of independent politics.
A "Miami Herald" story of July 1 quoted Carmichael as saying: "We intend to disrupt every piece of (political)
machinery in this country."
Later in May, Carmichael snubbed President Johnson's invitation to a White House conference
on civil rights, announced SNCC will continue to organize all-Negro political parties under the Black Panther
emblem and refused to bar Communists, saying: "We are requiring no loyalty oaths."
During the Meredith Mississippi March in June, he espoused a "black power" doctrine and
another SNCC spokesman threatened a deputy sheriff in one town that if he didn't behave, the marchers "will
burn that courthouse, baby." Ona television program, Carmichael stopped just short of advocating that Negroes
resort to any means to achieve equality: "I've never rejected violence as a means to obtain an end," he said.
Columnist Joseph Alsop summed up the situation: "In the person of Stokeley Carmichael extremism has actively
taken over SNCC..."
Communist Gus Hall, in summing up the records of the DuBois Clubs, Students for a Democratic
Society and SNCC, said: "They're just part of the ‘responsible left’ - that portion of American youth that realizes
society is sick,"" Responsible? Sick? Who?
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