# Port Huron Statement The 1962 founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society, drafted principally by Tom Hayden — the defining document of the American New Left and its call for "participatory democracy." It is included in this KB as a **contrast document**: the left-wing counterpart and near-contemporary of the right's [[Sharon Statement]] (the 1960 Young Americans for Freedom manifesto), the two together marking the youth-movement origins of the 1960s ideological split. Useful as a foil for understanding how the right narrates the New Left, the "long march through the institutions," and the cultural-Marxism conspiracy that mythologizes documents like this one. *Stub — expand with: participatory democracy, SDS history, the right's retrospective framing, contrast with the Sharon Statement.* [[Manifestos and Founding Documents Hub]]