3000 people demonstrated I AM ASHAMED TO BE BRITISH London against Thatcher's war 9 May. Three thousand people took to London streets for the second successive week last Sunday to Tony Benn SECH withdrawal of the fleet.
Benn exposed the preSOTT *Hhoney war which has broken out in the Phe BBC and TN of beiny press Вепп "mouthpicees Ministry of Defence". In this context it was quite MADrOHAEC INaI demonstration went to the BBC to hand in a note protesting it's biased reportage.
He charged Thatcher's talk of negotiations as be ing just a smokescreen immediate She had been bent on war from the beginning and was determined on a fight to the finish, said Benn Benn claired that the British people support us And indeed there is evidence that support for •THECIeS WaTS dEci ing. A poll conducted for Week-end dicated that there had been a drop from over per cent to 55 ber cent of thos. who thought loss of life was justified to retake the course the rest of the press chose to highlight the per cent of people thai She paied tir neos or e supported the re was involved. And could if they wings!
A further blow to Thatcher's so called principie of Britain's claim to savereignty the Maivinas-Falklands was delivered over the weekend by the ex Argentine Ambasador to London. Eduardo McLoughlin claimed in an Trish radio wiar bram neconalcd Enu By Brian Grogan ceding of sovereignty to Argentina in 1968. ArReemeLss lae Cewce such a stage that Lord Chalfont W43- -io: nave visited the islands to explain the agreement. • The ad hoc committee against the war in the Falklands has called a national demonstration and major raily Park March to rally Trafalgar Square. The ad hoc committe CN D. SOnSOreE by nineteen national organisations and nineteen MP's.
Socialist Challenge 13 May 1982
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