Rob Devigne
Template:TOCnestleft Rob Devigne is a political science professor at Tufts University.
RSB
Iowa City–Radical students from around the country met July 1974 to form a national organization of anti-imperialist students.
The Revolutionary Student Brigade, the name chosen for the new organization, is the outgrowth of the two-year-old Attica Brigade, an anti-imperialist student organization from the East Coast. The Brigade has expanded from its East Coast base to include chapters in the Midwest, South and West.
The founding convention, held here June 15 to 17, saw the consolidation of the Brigade as a national organization. About 450 Attica Brigade members and independent anti-imperialist students, from some 80 colleges, universities and community colleges, met at the University of Iowa for the three-day conference.
The opening speaker at the convention set the tone for the gathering which was characterized by a high level of enthusiasm and unity.
Speaking of the need for a mass, student anti-imperialist organization, Rob Devigne, a member of the Brigade’s governing body, said, “Students have a definite role to play in the worldwide struggle against imperialism. We can bring the understanding to the students on our campuses that it’s not a bad policy or politician that causes a Vietnam or an energy freeze, and it’s not just one bad boss that causes a Farah strike, it’s the system of imperialism.”[1]
Revolutionary Workers Headquarters
Members of the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters Central Committee;