Decline and Demise
By late 1969, the political and life-style tensions latent in the counterculture had emerged, and the leadership of the MFU—weary and frustrated in their attempts to realize its aims and aspirations—looked for a new generation of leaders and another path. That new leadership came from a group of members affiliated with the Revolutionary Union, a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization, which later became Venceremos (political organization). In 1970 it took control of the MFU, repudiated its Preamble and re-organized its newsletter. Enrollment fell to 700 in 1970 and to 70 by 1971; in July the MFU was disbanded.
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