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Revolutionary Student BrigadesThe Revolutionary Student Brigade (RSB) was a student organization in the 1970s in the United States. Its predecessor was the Attica Brigade, which was one grouping that can be traced to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) split in 1969. The RSB was the student organization of the Revolutionary Union, which became the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1975. When the RCP split in 1977, most of the Revolutionary Student Brigade supported the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters, which left the RCP. The RCP had formed a new student / youth group, called the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, to take the place of the RSB. The struggle over how to organize students and youth played a role in the RCP-RWH split. The RSB waged a number of the most important campus battles of the 1970s, including continuing the student anti-war movement as Nixon pursued "Vietnamization"; working to discredit Nixon's efforts to hold onto power as the Watergate scandal unfolded; supporting the 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa; working to keep the memory alive of the student protesters who were killed in May 1970 at Kent State and Jackson State; as well as more particular campus struggles around open admissions, tuition increases, curriculum, etc. The RSB lost momentum toward the end of the 1970s. Its remnants joined the Progressive Student Network when it was founded in 1980.
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