BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Fifty years ago, a group of students in the American Midwest issued a document rather portentously titled “The Port Huron Statement.” It was the founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society and became one of the most famous documents of that momentous and creative decade. Read any history of the upsurges in the United States in the 1960s written over the past three decades and you’ll at once encounter tributes to […]

The Port Huron Statement – 30 Years On
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