The only thing unusual about the call was that it came so early.
'Good morning, comrade,' said a commanding voice at the other end of the line. 'We need you at Columbia in half an hour.'What he was talking about, of course, was the famous university in New York City near where I lived. 'Sure,' I said, 'what's up?''You'll find out when you get there,' he said, and hung up.The voice was familiar, belonging to the leader of an organization I'd just joined, called the Young Socialist Alliance.
'Recent days have shown that the protests aren't merely bursts of student moral concern about Gaza,' the piece contends. 'They're often guided by professional leftist groups exploiting students to foment chaos...
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