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"The movement on the left has
expanJed during the past few years," says
NUC Member Ben Blakewood, "but the
real work for the movement lies in the
future."
A new party, continued Blakewood,
based on a mass movement and commited
to fundamental change of the America!,
system, is essential.
Bob Korstad, one of the spokesmen of
the NUC, said people must read wide'y
"about the nature of corporate capitalism
in America and the power vested therein"
if they are to participate in this new party
and help bring about the necessary
changes to make life ?n America more
acceptable to the socialist movement.
To do this, Korstad related, students
must understand "merican foreign
policy and its corporate underpinnings
and icad about socialist alternatives."
But reading isn't enough, say te n?ir;
it must be coupled with actio.;.
This action, they explained, means
primarily relating to those "powerless
groups in society which potentially can
unite into a large-scale movement."
Students should continue to organize
around issues such as ROTC, admission
policies of universities and workers'
conditions, said Blakewood, but
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particular emphasis needs to be placed on
labor organizing.
If students can organize white-collar
and blue-collar labor by making them
realize "they are inadequately paid, their
social worth is defined by their ability to
sell labor and they have no worker
control over the decisions affecting their
jobs," he continued, this new party
movement would be greatly strengthened.
The organization of low-income
communities, anti-war G.I.'s and minority
groups such as blacks, chicanos, Puerto
Ricans and Indians must be done, said
Korstad, to enable the new party to
contain broad-based social-reform
support.
Numerous groups must be brought
together, Korstad related, groups which
exist to provide "basic human rights to
the disenfranchised."
Among these groups are the Student
Health Organization, the Medical
Com mi tee on Human Rights, the
Southern Legal Action Movement, Law
Student Civil Rights Research Committee
and the Social Welfare Workers
Movement.
All of these groups, said Korstad,
"have the potential to become important
segments of a mass movement because
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inhumanity of the present system."
Gains can be made by political
organizations which band together, said
Blakewood, and when these gains are
made, activity must continue to bring
about larger gains.
Organizations are "transitional
agencies" wtach should be used to
substantially push the system toward the
goals of the leftist movement, he
explained.
"Major politic?1 change derives from
the strength of political organizations,"
said Korstad, "especially if the forces
which push these organizations can
become the base for a broad thinking
socialist party."
Blakewood said students must also
support radical groups such as the Black
Student Movement, Female Liberation,
Students for a Democratic Society,
Young Socialist Alliance, International
Socialists and the Radical Coalition.
If students are willing to read the
history of American "imperialistic"
involvement, say the pair, and if students
are willing to learn of the "capitalistic"
structure which helped provide the basis
for this involvement, then the movement
is halfway there.
But students must also actively involve
themselves, said the two, in organizations
which protect human liberties, and, if not
join, at least support radical, socialist
organizations which are attempting to
change the system.
Only then, they concurred, "can a new
party be formed which will bring about
changes in the social structure of
America changes toward a socialist
environment, with more freedom and
opportunity for all people."
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Sure, you got through Shakespeare in class.
You can even quote lines from his plays.
But have you ever walked down the
streets where he walked? Like Henley Street
where he was born. Or visited Hall's Croft,
the home of his daughter Susanna? Or some
of the other homes he held dear? Because
only then can you truly understand the man
and his times.
There's so much more you can learn about
history simply by being where it happened.
(Editor's note: DTH News Editor
Mike Pjrncll tjlked ihis week with
Ben Bbkewood and Bob Korstad.
members of the New University
Conference. Blakewood and
Korstad discussed the electoral
system of the United States and
what changes they feel need to be
made through the socialist
movement.
The New University Conference at
Chapel Hill is composed of
members of the University
community who share a "socialist
critique of American society')
4 T h e N e w University
Conference (NUC) is committed to
political education and to direct
political action," says Ben
Blakewood, head of the UNC
Moratorium Committee last year
and presently a spokesman for the
NUC, "when and where such
involvement is congruent with the
transformation of America into a
socialist society."
Bob Korstad, also a spokesman
for the NUC, said last spring's strike
by students protesting the
Cambodian invasion by U.S. troops
and the deaths of students at Kent
State University and Jackson State
College brought calls from many
students for support of "liberal
candidates" for the November
elections last week.
But, said Korstad, the NUC, as a
socialist organization, does not view
the support of "peace candidates"
and liberals as being a feasible
alternative to the young people and
others in this country who are
pushing for social change.
"While some of us will vote for
the 'lesser of two evils,'" says a
booklet recently released by the
NUC, "we all agree that the bulk of
our political energies, time and
resources will not go toward
electoral politics and the choice
now before Americans."
"Liberal politicians who fulfill
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into the concrete buviness of
legislation and administration
cannot take und which challenge
the underlving corporate interests
they serve, without cutting
themselves off from major bases of
their political, financial and
ideological support." says the
booklet, discussing why the NUC
feels support of libera! candidates is
worthless.
"They respond to discontent
through minor adjustments within
the system. the booklet charges,
"which channel antagonism into
'legitimate political tonus, thus
diffusing any basic opposition to
the system as a whole."
Thus, because liberals as well as
conservatives "share a basic
commitment to American
capitalism, said Blakewood,
neither group questions the "intent
of the U.S. to dominate the Third
World (the peoples of Asia, Africa
and Latin America) for its own
economic needs."
Neither do these political groups
challenge "the corporate interests
who determine the allocation of
resources within our country." he
said. "They differ only in their
strategy for maintaining a
capitalistic, imperialistic system."
"We do not oppose elections,"
said Korstad, -"we just don't think
present elections are
representative."
He related that other processes
are just as valid as elections
processes which are more likely to
"make America the kind of place
we want it to be."
One of the other methods which
the two spokesman said has been
used was nonviolent protest - a la
the anti-war movement.
But anti-war sentiment in
Congress was aroused only through
the pressure of the moratoriums in
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October and Vucmrvr of fast year,
said Blakew ood. ami dove
candidates quickly sprang up. These
candidates quieted down during the
winter, however, he continued, and
didn't reappear until tfte campuses
w ere closed dow n in Mav .
Blakewood said people must
guard against the thought that these
doves were "mereh opportunistic
and did not want to end the war.
They did not argue against the
war "as much out o! principled
objection as they did because it was
becoming too costlv in economical
and political terms. he explained.
The war springs from
capitalism. Blakewood argues,
"the past three administrations
have argued protection of Vietnam
was important, not for its
resources, but because the strategic
defense of Southeast Asia to
protect our 'national interest
would best be served by ensuring
the population and resources of the
country remain under control
favorable to the U.S."
"This is untrue." he advised.
"Underlying this conception of
"national interest is a concern that
the large, multi-national
corporations which form the core
of our economy be able to do
business on the best possible
terms."
Korstad backed this statement,
and further said the anti-war
movement must "expand to an
attack upon the capitalist system
which brought about the war."
Students have yet to understand
the implications of the capitalist
system and its relationship with the
war, he continued, and they must
be enlightened to these implications
or they will "continue to support
these practically worthless peace or
liberal candidates without realizing
there are other viable, more realistic
alternatives to change the system
than the present ' ectoral process."
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