who have demonstrated in the last week against nuclear weapons to a staggering total of two million.
and the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament in New York.
marched in Bonn, West Germany against Reagan last Thursday 300,000 in kome and 250,000 in London the previous weekend, well as smaller marches Dublin, Copenhagen and Antwerp. There was also a march of some 10,000 people against Reagan in Tokyo on 12 June.
The US march was the biggest since the tamous 1963 Civil Rights Freedom March and the largest disarmament gathering in the nation's history. success far surpassed the expectations of the organisers the June 12 Rally Committee an umbrella group of peace campaigns, trade rare glimpse at the evangelical mission of saving the world from 'Marxist evil' that forms the core of Reagan's policies.
He summed up his project which outlive our own generaas onows. and a hope for the the dom and democracy which will leave Marxism. Leninism in the ash-heap of history', and a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and for. titude of the next generaThe theme his speech was that the so-called "Communist world' was in growing crisis as peopic strove for western values and freedoms: And he urged the West to stop being shy about these ideals: 'Let us shy longer, let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.' Ine crises in El Salvador and the Falklands were all used to back up Reagan's argument. In fact of course they all prove the opposite.
Contrary to his claims about Ine elections In Salvador proving AN ENORMOUS ONE MILLION PEOThe marches coincided with President Reagan's visit to Europe unionists, religious and political Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, told the protestors:
have come here numbers so large that the message must go through the House and Capital Hill.
Weapons The movement against nuclear weapons in the US has grown rapidly into a major political issue, with many establishment politicians nationally and locally now backing a so-called 'freeze' on expansion OI the present nuclear stockpile.
But the movement also LOse see the links between US Duccal strategyaoune wars in Central America and Reagan's budget cuts desire for Western freedom' • recen reports have shown thạt inere was gigantic fraud ir the elections, fully endorsthe Reagan Professor Thomas Sheahan TONI Chicago claims that less than half the 1½ million claimed votes were actually cast. Death The elections brought to power the leader of the fascist death sulaus. Roberto D'Aubuisson, while the left wing parties who control a quarter of country in liberated zones were unable to stand candidates for fear oI immediate death at the hands of the death squads and the army, backed by US firepower in country owned lock stock and barrel by the US imperialists.
fine example of democracy to inspire the The Falklands crisis too is an example of imNUCLEAR WEAPONS wingers such as British CP vice-chairwoman Pat Milligan were only allowed into the US after interna tional protests against pontica discrimination.
The American Trot skyists the Socialist Workers Party reported selling some 6000 copies their newspaper The Militant, and raised slogans on the march calling for 'Not man, •not a cent for Washington's War', 'US out of Central America, Israel out of Lebanon' and 'Stop the War Against salvador Cuba and Grenada'. Impact The size of the demonstration left a few people unmoved most of lem in te US govern-
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PLE packed New York's Central Park and mid-Manhattan area last Saturday in a ten hour protest against nuclear weapons. This brought the number of people in Western Europe and the USA
READERS may have been forgiven for turning off the telly when President Reagan gave his historic address to the Houses of Parliament last week. But if you did, you missed a treat: a