SOLIDARITY DEMO, 20th APRIL

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A demonstration in solidarity with the struggle of the Portuguese working class will take place in London this coming Sunday. Organised by local groups of the Portuguess Democratic Movement (MDP), the Portuguese Socialist Party, and the Liga Portuguesa (an association of Portuguese inmigrants in Britain), it is being supported by the Portuguese Workers Co-ordinating Committee, and an invitation has been extended to British left groups to take part.

The demonstration will aseemble at Speakers" Corner at 2.30. From there it will march to the Spanish Embassy, where the demonstrators will express their solidarity with the struggle of the Spanish workers against the Franco dictadorship, and then Meanwhile plans for the Portuguese Workers Co-ordinating Committee's Solidarity Campaign with the Portuguese Working Class' are going ahead. Last week some 120 delegates at tie National Union of Students" Conference in Lundudno heard Ful member awaro Misons urge support for the campaig ****************: Lendon NW3. at a meeting sponsored jointly by the International Marxist Groop and the Internationul Socialists. Next Friday, 25 April - the first anniversary of the coop which overthrew the fascist regime-a public meeting is being planned for London, and two weeks later the Red Ladder theatre group will be putting on a benefit for the campaign at Conway Hall.

The PWCC has asked British trade unionists to support the campaign by inviting a member of the PWCC to speak at their trade union meeting, muring resolutions of support for the Portuguese working class in its struggle for socialism, calling on union national committees to invite PWCC speakers to nattonal conference, suhscribing to the PHCC bulletin, Our Common Struggle, and affiliating their trade anion body to the solidarity campaign.

For furtber information on the campaign, tickets for the Red Ladder benefit (50p cach), or subscriptions to Our Comor on Struggie (El for 10 issues) write to: PWCC, 18 Fleet Road, people. tion of socialism. *******

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