Progressive Labor started the movement against the Vietnam war: In March 19 *64* , a Yale University conference on socialism was attended by many pseudo-left organizations, including the “Communist” Party USA and various Trotskyite groups. The conference was geared for a scholarly debate on theory. Only Progressive Labor Movement (PLM) broke through this nonsense to advocate building a militant anti-imperialist movement! PLM leader Milt Rosen electrified the audience of 500 students and faculty by focusing on opposing U.S. imperialism’s efforts to crush the revolutionary movement in Vietnam. He called for a nation-wide mobilization on May 2 to protest U.S. aggression there. The proposal was approved overwhelmingly and a May 2nd Committee was organized under PLM’s leadership. On May 2, thousands of workers and students marched and rallied in cities nationwide. In New York City, 1,000 heard PLP speeches about the necessity for communist revolution. They broke a police ban on demonstrations in midtown Manhattan, winding their way through Times Square to the United Nations, demanding: “U.S. Get Out of Vietnam Now!” It was the *first national demonstration* against the U.S. imperialist invasion. The Committee became a national organization called the May 2nd Movement (M2M). Hundreds joined. They played a major role in popularizing the struggle against U.S. imperialism’s war against workers and peasants in Vietnam. They issued hundreds of thousands of leaflets, buttons and pamphlets; initiated numerous university teach-ins; organized rallies and marches; and developed “Free Universities” as an off-campus alternative to the rulers’ educational system. –from https://www.plp.org/home/challenge-newspaper/13158-lessons-from-vietnam-war-movement-plps-antiwar-legacy
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