congress.
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL GREETS SDS CONGRESS
(The following is the text of the remarks made by Thomas Clement in behalf of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International at the congress of the Socialist German Student Federation held in Frankfurt, September 6-8.
{For an evaluation of the congress
it is not necessarily revolutionary at each and every moment. In France, Belgium and Italy the development of class consciousness among the workers has been held to the trade-union level. In Germany even the elementary beginnings of class consciousness were destroyed for a whole period by Nazism. The problem is to revolutionize the class as such and to bring it to exist for itself.
The lines of action proposed by your congress -- first, to mobilize on the parliamentary level against the emergency laws; second, to campaign for the expropriation of the Springer newspaper chain; third, to organize demonstrations in support of the Vietnamese revolution and against NATO -- go beyond the campus and can be understood and accepted on a broad scale among the exploited layers of society.
The activities of your movement
along such lines can contribute to break-
ing the impasse in the German political
situation, for it is only by and through
political action that class consciousness
can be developed.
We think that the student revolt
in the German Federal Republic is an ex-
tremely important phenomenon. If your
movement appears in the social scene not
in an abstract way, verbally, but con-
cretely through mass actions, it can open
up a dynamic process, the end result of
which would be to set the working class
into motion.
Long live the SDS congress!
Long live the Vietnamese revolu-
tion!
Long live revolutionary Cuba!
Long live socialism!
"I'M NOT A WARMONGER BUT..."
Most people in the world look on the United States' bombing of North Vietnam as a brutal aggression against a people fighting for their freedom. Not so Lieutenant John Newman, a U.S. navy pilot who flies bombing raids "over the beach" (into North Vietnam) every day.
"I'm not a