Links to resources from
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
and related groups and activities
 

Port Huron Statement (complete), Students for a Democratic Society, 1962
Port Huron Statement (excerpts)
Port Huron Statement (Original draft, before it was finalized)

SDS membership Card

Student Social Action By Tom Hayden, spring 1962 (PDF)

SDS Constitution Adopted 1962, with subsequent revisions

America and the New Era 1963 (PDF)

An Interracial Movement of the Poor? by Tom Hayden and Carl Wittman, 1963 (PDF)

The Care and Feeding of Power Structures by Jack Minnis, 1963 or 1964 (PDF)

SDS Political Education Project (1964-65):
   Johnson With Eyes Open, by Robb Burlage, 1964 (PDF)
   Goldwaterism: its origin and impact, by Jim Williams, September or October 1964 (PDF)
   Goldwater and the White Backlash, by Tom Kahn, Spring 1964 (PDF)
   1964 Campaign Report (PDF)
   For a New Coalition, by Douglas Ireland and Steve Max, December 25, 1964 (PDF)
   The March on Frankfort: A Study in Protest Organization, by Jim Williams, 1964
   The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party: Background and Recent Developments, by Steve Max, 1965 (PDF)

SDS Viewpoint (publication of New York SDS, 1964-65)

SDS Bulletin (predecessor to New Left Notes)

New Left Notes Some back issues

SDS San Francisco Regional Office - Newsletter

We Must Name the System: Speech to the first anti-war march on Washington, by Paul Potter, April 1965
Video re-enactment, July 26, 2007

Let Us Shape the Future by Carl Oglesby, November 1965

Democracy Is Nothing If It Is Not Dangerous by Carl Oglesby, 1965

Democracy, Volume 1 An Introduction to SDS 1965

Sex and Caste by Casey Hayden and Mary King, 1965

The New Left Today: Two Years of the "New Era." Working paper for the 1965 SDS national convention, by Jim Williams

Economic Research and Action Project (ERAP)
  A Short History of ERAP by Richard Rothstein, undated, probably 1965 or 1966
  Chester, PA: A Case Study In Community Organization by Danny Pope, Alain Jehlen, Evan Metcalf, and Cathy Wilkerson, undated, probably 1964 or 1965
  Organizing Poor Whites by Kim Moody, undated, probably 1964 or 1965
  Chicago: Organizing The Unemployed by Richard Flacks, April 1964
  ERAP Newsletters (page 1 only):   2/19/1965   7/23/1965  (JPG graphic files)

Wind in the Fields A Report on Farm Labor, published by SDS - San Francisco Regional Office, probably 1966

Resolution on SNCC June 18, 1966

Toward A Student Syndicalist Movement, or University Reform Revisited by Carl Davidson, August 1966

In White America: Liberal Conscience vs. Radical Consciousness By Greg Calvert, February 1967 (PDF)

White Blindspot Essays on Combating White Supremacy and White-Skin Privilege. By Noel Ignatin and Ted Allen, 1967 (PDF)

Toward a Theory of Social Change: The ‘Port Authority Statement’ By David Gilbert, Robert Gottlieb, and Gerry Tenney, 1967 (PDF)

SDS sets out on radical path Report on the 1967 national convention at Ann Arbor. National Guardian, July 15, 1967 (PDF)

SDS: An Introduction SDS pamphlet, 1968 (PDF)

Don't Mourn, Organize: SDS Guide to Community Organizing May 1968 (39 pages in image format, or large PDF file)

Radicals in the Professions newsletter, November-December 1968

You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows New Left Notes, June 18, 1969

More Weatherman/Weather Underground Organization (WUO) documents

The Real SDS Stands Up Report on the 1969 SDS National Convention and split, by Andrew Kopkind, Hard Times, June 30, 1969 (PDF)

Toward A Revolutionary Women's Militia, by Cathy Wilkerson. Excerpted from New Left Notes, July 8, 1969

Bring the War Home! Organizing pamphlet for SDS National Action, Chicago, October 8-11, 1969 (PDF)

The following 12 articles are collected in Revolutionary Youth & the New Working Class, edited by Carl Davidson, 2011. The collection can be downloaded for $5.00 by clicking here.

• Praxis and the New Left: From Student Radicalization To Class Consciousness By Bob Gottlieb, Gerry Tenney and Dave Gilbert, 1967

• The Multiversity: Crucible of the New Working Class By Carl Davidson

• The Look Is You: Rising Feminism vs Mass Media By Naomi Jaffe and Bernadine Dohrn, March 1968

• Toward a Revolutionary Youth Movement By Mike Klonsky, December 1968

• The Schools Must Serve the People By SDS National Council, Austin 1969

• Free Women: Connecting Our Battles to All the Others By Susan Eanet and Anne Goodman

• Weatherman vs RYM2: The Debate that Ended SDS By the ‘Weatherman’ and ‘RYM2’ collectives, 1968
  Includes "You Don’t Need a Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows" and two responses: "Revolutionary Youth Movement II (RYM II)" and "Without a Science of Navigation We Cannot Sail in Stormy Seas"

• Adventurism: A Destructive Disorder By Carl Davidson, 1969

• Toward a Critical University: Counter-Hegemony in Higher Education By Carl Davidson, 1970

• In White America: Liberal Conscience vs. Radical Consciousness By Greg Calvert, 1967

• Toward a Theory of Social Change: The Full Version of the ‘Port Authority Statement’ By Bob Gottlieb, Gerry Tenney, and Dave Gilbert 1967

• The White Blindspot Documents By Noel Ignatin and Ted Allen 1967

(The last three articles in the list above are also available on this page, above.)

Articles by Clayton Van Lydegraf 1967-1973

Radical America An SDS journal of the history of American radicalism. This magazine was begun by the SDS Radical Education Project in 1967 but continued to 1999. Most issues available here.

Looking Back on the Seattle Conspiracy Trial (1970), by Roger Lippman, 1990

Notes from an SDS Re-Union by Michael Rossman, 1977

FBI Cointelpro files on SDS

The Bosses' Songbook Part 1  Part 2 (7 MB PDF files) "Songs to Stifle the Flames of Discontent." This Trotskyite-tinged parody of "The People's Songbook" is a collection of modern political songs of satire. Collected and edited by Dave Van Ronk and Richard Ellington, 1959. These songs were written and passed along by people of every conceivable political and apolitical tendency, and sometimes they don't even express the serious views of the writers themselves. Often they poke fun at the ruling classes, be they capitalist or Soviet.

The following pamphlets and documents are provided as scanned images, saved in Word files. They are fairly large. Click here for access. If that link doesn't work, copy the following address to your browser address line:
http://cid-5c4f2a5596a22ddf.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/SDS%20archive%20-%20large%20documents

• SDS Membership Application 1965-66

• SDS Membership Brochure 1964-65

• SDS Membership Card 1963-64

• SDS Membership Card 1965-66

• ERAP Membership Application 1965

• Robb Burlage, “This is War? An Analysis of the War of Poverty with Special Emphasis on Appalachia” (SDS 1964?)

• Boston SDS Newsletter “New World” including articles by Doug Ireland, Barbara Easton & Joe Persky (Boston SDS 1964)

• David Arnold, “Vietnam: Symptom of a World Malaise” (SDS/PREP1964) (originally published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, May 1964)

• Christopher Hobson, “Vietnam: Which Way Out?" (SDS/PREP 1965) (originally published in Venture, Winter 1964-65)

• Carl Ogelsby, “The Vietnam War: World Revolution and American Containment” (SDS April 1965)

• Carl Wittman, “Seminar on Marxism” (SDS 1965?)

• Eric Levine, “The Berkeley Free Speech Controversy” (SDS 1965)

• Barry Bluestone, “Notes on Campus Program” (UMSEU/VOICE-SDS 1965)

• Paul Booth, “A Strategy for University Reform” (SDS 1965?)

• Shelley Bloom, “University Reform” (SDS 1965?)

• David Wegman, MD, “A Radical Doctor and the Dilemmas of Medical Practice” (Prepared for the July 1967 Conference on Radicals in the Professions, Ann Arbor)

• Mike Zweig, “The Radical in the Academic World” (Prepared for the July 1967 Conference on Radicals in the Professions, Ann Arbor)

• “Radicals in the Professions: Selected Papers” (REP/SDS October 1967)

• Vernon Grizzard, “Summer 1968: Possibilities for New Local Organizing”  (SDS? Spring 1968)

• Chuck Levenstein, “Democratic National Convention” (SDS? Spring 1968)

• Nick Egleson, “Anguish and Politics” (in Paper Tiger, 1967-68)

• Paper Tiger, issues 2 through 5, November 1967 - April 1968, published by (mostly) older Boston-area SDS members. Issue 5 was the final one. (PDF)