International Marxist Group Archive

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

Vietnam Mobilisation in Edinburgh

· The Week Vol. 8, No. 17, c. 26 October 1967 · p. 2 of the scan · 156 words

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from Bob Purdie One of the largest demonstrations in Edinburgh for a number of years took place on Saturday 21st October, when 400 people marched in solidarity with the U.S. anti-war movement. The March assembled at 2.15 pem. outside the N.U.R. rooms in Hillside Crescent, and moved off at 3 p.m. down Leith Walk, the heart of one of idinburgh's most populous working-class districts, to a rally on Leith Links. There were contingents from C.N.D., Labour Parties, Trade Union branches, C.P. and Y.C.L. The youthful V.S.C. contingent included the banners of Napier College Labour Club, and Edinburgh South L.P.Y.S. The V.S.C. badges and N.L.F. flags which were sold before the March, made a colourful contribution, and copies of the new V.S,C. Trade Union pamphlet were bought eagerly. On Leith Links, the chairman of the rally, Bill MacLean of the N.U.M., last year's chairman of the Scottish T.U.C., denounced U.S. aggression in Vietnam,

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