CP appeals to Heath in Vietnam protest
By John Spencer
1972John SpencerVietnam and IndochinaTory governmentUnited States Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
THREE THOUSAND demonstrators gathered in Trafalgar Square, London, yesterday to protest against the continued American presence in Vietnam.
They included contingents from the Communist Party, Young Communist League, _International Socialism, the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Maoists carrying portraits of At a meeting before marching off to the American embassy in Grosvenor Square, Gerry Cohen, from the CP national executive, condemned the 'abject and spineless refusal' of the Heath government to speak out against the American presence in Vietnam.
"The honour of the British labour and trade union movement is at stake, he said. Cohen went on to call for a massive movement of protest to force the Tory government to speak out.
Other speakers included Pat Jordan, leader of the International Marxist Group, who made no criticism of the CP beyond pointing out that Nixon had been feted in Moscow and Peking while bombarding North • Vietnam.
Neither James Reid, the UCS stewards' leader, nor CP. secretary John Gollan, both billed as speakers, actually appeared.