Resistance & Youth Movement

DSP Greetings to 1992 Resistance Conference
By John Percy

Comrades, this Resistance Conference will prove to be a vital gathering. It comes at a crucial turning point in world politics. The contradictions of capitalism are deepening, yet the old misleaders of the movements of the workers and oppressed have been defeated and discredited, while the new generation has not yet forged the weapons it needs – its leadership, its organisation.

Intercontinental Press – October 20, 1975
By Peter Green (John Percy)

BOSTON – More than 1,300 activists in the fight against racism from across the United States gathered here October 10-12 for the second conference of the National Student Coalition Against Racism (NSCAR).

Intercontinental Press – January 13, 1975
By Peter Green (John Percy)

Assembled in St. Louis for the fourteenth national Young Socialist Alliance convention December 28-January 1 were some 1,000 YSA members, friends, activists in social struggles across the United States, reporters, international guests, and... agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, their presence sanctioned by court order. (See article elsewhere in this issue.)

Intercontinental Press – January 13, 1975
By Peter Green (John Percy)

Preparations for the fourteenth national convention of the Young Socialist Alliance included an important legal battle to protect the civil rights of participants at the gathering.

On December 13, fifteen days before the convention was due to open. New York District Judge Thomas Criesa granted a motion of the YSA for an injunction against Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to spy on the gathering. The injunction prohibited FBI agents or confidential informers from “attending, surveilling, listening to, watching, or otherwise monitoring” the convention.