International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Leicester Vietnam Demonstration

The Week Vol. 3, No. 18, 6 May 1965 · p. 7 of the scan · 96 words

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from Alec Acheson

The Radical Club of Leicester College of Education organised a March and meeting on May Day to protest against American intervention in Vietnam, and to demand the withdrawal of American troops. An ad hoc committee has been formed out of the supporters of the demonstration in order to step up the campaign in Leicester. The secretary is Miss Vicky Rooney, 45, St. Barnabas Rd., Leicester. About 100 demonstrators took part with many posters, made up of various political groups and peace organisations (Communist Party Labour Party, Young Socialists, Anarchists, C.N.D., Anarchists, War Resistors}

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