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Note on Issue Numbering for
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Revolutionary Communist Youth Newsletter
Young Spartacus
The youth group of the SL began as the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus within SDS in 1970, around the time the Maoist Progressive Labor Party took over SDS after the walkout of the New Left at the Chicago Convention.
They published (stapled memiographed legal 8 1/2 X 14 size sheets, 8 to 12 printed pages per issue, red ink for the banner) issues 1 thru 8 of Revolutionary Marxist Caucus (RMC) Newsletter. 8 issues total.
Then the RMC became the SL's national youth group, the Revolutionary Communist Youth (RCY). This published RCY Newsletter.
BUT, because it was a group in continuity with the RMC, they started numbering their newsletter with issue 9, the first 8 issues being RMC Newsletter 1 thru 8. RCY Newsletter was in professional printed tabloid form.
Later, after publication of issue number 18 (nine issues total), the Revolutionary Communist Youth changed their name to Young Spartacus, and changed the name of its publication to Young Spartacus, too. But again, because this was in continuity with the previous organizations, the first issue of Young Spartacus was numbered 19, reflecting its previous "incarnations" as RMC Newsletter and RCY Newsletter.
Young Spartacus was published as a stand alone tabloid for issues 19 through 134 (March 1984). At that point, it was folded into Workers Vanguard, where it became an occasionally appearing section of the paper.
—Riazanov Library
Issue 1 February 1970
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Issue 2 March 1970
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Issue 3 May-June 1970
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Issue 4 September 1970
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Issue 5 December 1970
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Issue 6 March 1970
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Issue 6 March 1970 (Original layout)
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Issue 7 April 1970
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
Issue 8 July 1970
Revolutionary Marxist Caucus Newsletter
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