demonstration that included all the left wingers of the Brussels regions -- members of the new Socialist Workers Confederation, the pro-Moscow Communist party, pro-Peking Communist party and left-wing Social Democrats still inside the Socialist party, all marching together,
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The parade was headed by Pierre Le Grave; the Lidge member of parliament, Frangois Perin; two senators of the Communist party; Ernest Mandel, editor of the weekly La Gauche; Jean Godin; and lead-= ing representatives of the youth movements supporting the march,
The main slogan of the march was "U.S., Get Out of Vietnam" This slogan appeared on hundreds of posters and banners and was chanted along with other militant slogans expressing solidarity with the Vietnam revolution and hostility to the policies of American imperialism and the support it has been receiving from the Belgian government. :
In the forefront of the parade was a huge placard proclaiming solidarity with the thousands of progressive Americans demonstrating the same day against the aggression of U.S. imperialism in Vietnam.
The march has already had a very significant and important result. The congress of the Liége regional federation of the Belgian trade-union movement, which met October 23-24, passed a resolution extending fraternal greetings to the Vietnam Day Committee and expressing its solidarity with all demonstrations against the war in Vietnam. The regional federation represents 100,000 workers,
The Social Democratic and pro=Moscow currents succeeded in watering down the resolution by including the clichés about "peace through negotiations" and "an appeal to the United Nations" for a> cease-fire among all concerned, including the "Viet Cong." Nevertheless the stand taken by the congress is of great importance, This is the first time that a large trade-union body in Western Europe has solidarized with the appeal issued by the Vietnam Day Committee,