APPEAL FOR HUGO BLANCO
Montréal
The Québec Young New Democrats, a provincial wing of Canada's labour party youth, has joined the growing number of Québec forces demanding amnesty for Hugo Blanco and his comrades. On May 8, the NYD convention resolved:
"WHEREAS we of the Young New Democrats of Québec recognize the justice of the struggle of Hugo Blanco for human rights, which are being denied to the people of Peru by their government; and,
_ "WHEREAS we recognize that he and his comrades symbolize the just struggle of the Latin-American peoples against imperialism and oligarchy;
"BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that the Québec Young New Democrats demand immediate amnesty for Hugo Blanco and his conrades, and will notify President Belatnde Terry of this fact."
Before the resolution was passed, the overwhelming majority of delegates to the convention had individually signed a petition to this effect. One of the most prominent signers was Michel Bissonet, candidate of the New Democratic party in a current Montréal bye-election. The convention elected him president of the Québec Young New Democrats.