This is the many-fronted third world war. May 2nd Movement, recognizing that there can be no peace without freedom, supports and joins the struggles for national liberation. We defect politically from the corruption of culture, mind and body that is the price the privileged must pay in our country for a share in the booty of exploitation. The university offers no explanation of what's wrong, of what's happening in a world principally marked by revolution. Usually there is no course at all on revolutionary Cuba, one of the major developments of our lifetime, only 90 miles away.
Literature is concerned with form alone.
Students jump from major to major in search of relevancy, then, finding it nowhere, either quit or settle for banality. Lest this job prove too much of a burden for overstrained college administrators, it is shared with other institutions, from the moves to the Peace Corps. Out of this understanding of imperialism as responsible for the poverty of our lives, and out of the void of inaction of the existing peace and left groups on the campuses, the May 2nd Movement was formed. The major issue facing U.S. students at this time is the war against the people of Vietnam. This war is also against the interests of the students and almost the entire population of the United States.