The demonstration had been banned by the police until yesterday. In face of mounting protests and the determination of the sponsors of the demonstration, the SDS [Sozialistischer Deutsche Studentenbund -- German Socialist Students League), to go ahead despite the ban, the courts reversed the police ruling.
About three-quarters of the demonstrators were from the city itself. The rest were from other places in West Germany and other countries in Europe.
The marchers carried pictures of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Lieblkmecht. Red banners gave color to the demonstration.
A prominently displayed slogan,
carried by a number of contingents, read
in English: "Hey, Hey, L.B.J., how many
kids have you killed today?"
A rally was held in front of the
Opera House where an antiwar student dem-
onstrator, Benno Ohnesorg, was killed
last June 2 by the police. The students
have renamed the spot where Ohnesorg fell
the "June 2 Square."
At a rally following the march,
Rudi Dutschke, spokesman of the SDS, was
heavily applauded when he said: "Tell the
Americans the day and the hour will come
when we will drive you out unless you
yourselves throw out imperialism."
The participants cheered resolu-
tions calling for a campaign to convince
GI's in West Germany to desert and seek
political asylum, for European workers
to stop producing war materials for the
U.S., and for dismantling the NATO bases
and kicking the U.S. out of Europe.
It was the largest demonstration
of its kind yet staged in the city.
LEADERS OF FOURTH INTERNATIONAL HOLD MEETING
Paris
The International Executive Committee of the Fourth International, the World Party of Socialist Revolution founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938, met in the first part of February. The main item on the agenda was consideration of the new situation in Vietnam following the inspiring victory of the Vietnamese freedom fighters and a discussion of what revolutionary socialists throughout the world can do to bring fresh help to these heroic battlers.
One of the lessons of the victory, in the opinion of the