| | SDS member [[Carl Davidson]] again visited Cuba in March. He and others had a three hour discussion with [[Fidel Castro]], and reportedly met with representatives of North Korea, North Vietnam and the People's Republic of China. During the militant Labor Forum, held in April, Davidson reported on his meeting with Castro, stating that Castro now believed that a socialist revolution was possible in the United States. Davidson later was to become active in [[Progressives for Obama]]. | | SDS member [[Carl Davidson]] again visited Cuba in March. He and others had a three hour discussion with [[Fidel Castro]], and reportedly met with representatives of North Korea, North Vietnam and the People's Republic of China. During the militant Labor Forum, held in April, Davidson reported on his meeting with Castro, stating that Castro now believed that a socialist revolution was possible in the United States. Davidson later was to become active in [[Progressives for Obama]]. |
| − | During April, SDS activist Steven Halliwell visited North Vietnam; Ken Cloke<ref>In 1967, while CPUSA veteran Victor Rabinowitz served as the [[National Lawyers Gujild]] (NLG) national president, Ken Cloke was hired as NLG national executive secretary at the sametime Bernardine Dohrn was hired as national student organizer. [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/NLGWU2.pdf]</ref> later to become a Weatherman and Revolutionary Union (RU)<ref>The Revolutionary Union was "Maoist offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society which sought a united front with other left-wing groups and had been infiltrating [[VVAW]] chapters around the country." [http://www.archive-news.net/Articles/FD041012.html Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist Connections,] October 12, 2004. Retrieved from archive-news.net, March 2, 2010. The Revolutionary Union was an affiliate sponsor of Vietnam Veterans Against the War-Winter Soldier Organization demonstrations. FBI Memo, “Demonstration Sponsored by Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization (VVAW/WSO) at Washington, D.C., July 1-4, 1974,” FBI HQ 100-448092, Section 63, FBI HQ 100-448092 [http://web.archive.org/web/20061020164422/ice.he.net/~freepnet/fbifiles/100-HQ-448092/Section+63/Section+63.pdf Section 63, pp. 72-74] (pdf). Full index online at [http://web.archive.org/web/20070208160606/http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=VVAWFBI www.wintersolider.com,]</ref> member also met with a North Vietnamese delegation during this time in [[Sweden]]. | + | During April, SDS activist Steven Halliwell visited North Vietnam; Ken Cloke<ref>In 1967, while CPUSA veteran Victor Rabinowitz served as the [[National Lawyers Guild]] (NLG) national president, Ken Cloke was hired as NLG national executive secretary at the sametime Bernardine Dohrn was hired as national student organizer. [http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/NLGWU2.pdf]</ref> later to become a Weatherman and Revolutionary Union (RU)<ref>The Revolutionary Union was "Maoist offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society which sought a united front with other left-wing groups and had been infiltrating [[VVAW]] chapters around the country." [http://www.archive-news.net/Articles/FD041012.html Kerry and the Antiwar Movement’s Communist Connections,] October 12, 2004. Retrieved from archive-news.net, March 2, 2010. The Revolutionary Union was an affiliate sponsor of Vietnam Veterans Against the War-Winter Soldier Organization demonstrations. FBI Memo, “Demonstration Sponsored by Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization (VVAW/WSO) at Washington, D.C., July 1-4, 1974,” FBI HQ 100-448092, Section 63, FBI HQ 100-448092 [http://web.archive.org/web/20061020164422/ice.he.net/~freepnet/fbifiles/100-HQ-448092/Section+63/Section+63.pdf Section 63, pp. 72-74] (pdf). Full index online at [http://web.archive.org/web/20070208160606/http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=VVAWFBI www.wintersolider.com,]</ref> member also met with a North Vietnamese delegation during this time in [[Sweden]]. |
| | At the 1968 June SDS National Convention meeting it was decided that SDS should align itself with students from other countries. The convention adopted resolutions of solidarity with the students of [[Germany]] and [[France]] and with the Iranian Student Association. The resolution dealing with [[Iran]] stated in part: | | At the 1968 June SDS National Convention meeting it was decided that SDS should align itself with students from other countries. The convention adopted resolutions of solidarity with the students of [[Germany]] and [[France]] and with the Iranian Student Association. The resolution dealing with [[Iran]] stated in part: |