THE OCTOBER PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS
More than 50,000 persons on November 27 union confederation.
between Assisi and Perugia; 300,000 in Rome on France. Seventy thousand participants in Paris
October 24 in a demonstration called by the PCI, in a demonstration called on October 25 by the the far-left organizations, the Radical Party, and Mouvement de la Paix, the CGT, the PCF, and supported by the Ligue Communist Revolutionnaire,
West Germany. Around 50, 000 in Berlin in Sep- French section of the Fourth International.
tember at the time of Alexander Haig's visit. Netherlands. One hundred and fifty thousand in
Some 300, 000 in Bonn at a demonstation called Amsterdam on November 21.
by 900 organizations, including important sec- The Spanish State. A half million demonstrators in Madrid on November 15 in a march called by
Britain. About 250, 000 in London on October 25 all the working-class organizations after the in a demonstration initiated by the Campaign Cortes voted for joining NATO.
for Nuclear Disarmament. The Labour Party Greece. Some 300, 000 in Athens on November 15 and the Trade Union Congress take a position against "NATO, which means dictatorship and war. " The demonstration was held on the eighth elgium. Roughly 200, 000 in Brussels on Oct anniversary of the 1973 student rebellion.
er 25, involving the Christian Workers Move ment (MOC), the CP, far-left organizations and There were also mass demonstrations in the FGTB, the Social Democrat-dominated main Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.