Union chiefs in Cabral protest

Workers Press no. 979, 24 January 1973 · scan pages 3, 4

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DEMONSTRATORS gathered outside the Portuguese Embassy in London on Monday night in a two-hour vigil against the assassination of Amilear Cabral, the leader of the A leaflet distributed at the vigil said: 'Inspired by Amilcar Cabral's example, let us fight together in 1973 to end the evil alliance between the British government and the Portuguese colonialists and avenge the death of him and all those militants who have fallen on the battlefield.' Below left: AUEW Guinea liberation movement.

END THE BRTUKUESE assistant general secretary Ernie Roberts (left) and NUM general secretary Lawrence Daly joined the vigil in front of a giant portrait of Cabral.

Two further meetings will be held next week. On Monday night at 7.30 a memorial meeting will be held in St Pancras Town Hall and L. on Friday, February 2, journalist Basil Davidson will talk about the African liberation struggle at a meeting at 7 p.m. at the reading room of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Malet Street.

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H$E ONE MAN WILL NOT KILL MOVEMENT France's oh so loyal left FRANCOIS MITTERAND, leader of the French Socialist Party, held a joint Press conference with Georges Marchais of the Communist Party and Robert Fabre of the 'left' Radicals on Monday: 'We are not asking for new Constitution.' Evidently with the support of the Stalinist Marchais, Mitterand called on President Pompidou to 'respect the Constitution' in the even: of a victory for the left coalition of the three parties in the March general elections.

Marchais gave his own guarantees of good behaviour in an exercise aimed to convince the middle class of the coalition's respectability.

Much emphasis was laid on the fact that it would not be difficult to finance the reforms proposed in the common programme. Marchais said that small investors held only 20 per cent of the shares of the 1 per cent of firms which it is proposed to nationalize.

In a statement read before the Press Marchais claimed that the programme did not propose any changes for which the money could not be found. The CP and its partners were ready to carry out these reforms 'in order and liberty'.

The coalition partners offer themselves as loyal managers of the capitalist economy within the framework of the Bonapartist constitution of 1958 which gives vast powers to Pompidou....

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