SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Anti-Reagan demos

Socialist Action No. 139, 2 May 1986 · p. 9 of the scan · 327 words

The scan: 139-may-02-1986-SA-UK.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 6-7 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 9 of the scan

and in Milan.

given notice, Mexico the collapse of oil prices.

Pakistan MORE NEWS on world opposition to Reagan's attack on Libya: in Athens more than 100,000 took part in demonstrations demanding the removal of US bases and condemning the raid. In Italy demonstrations of several thousand took place on Wednesday and Saturday. On Wednesday all universities and secondary schools came out on strike in Rome In Vienna a demonstration of 400 on the Tuesday of the bombing was banned and attacked by police because 'they hadn't been ' and 22 arrests were made. But the next day around 3,000 came out, and again on Friday. In Dublin 500 marched from Parnell Square to a rally at the GPO where they were addressed by John Doyle, outgoing president of the Union of Students of Ireland, Danny Morrison of Sinn Fein, Abdu Sharif of the Libyan students and Eamonn McCann.

New figures from the US Immigration and Naturalisation office reveal that 1,200,000 Mexican workers were arrested and deported for crossing the border illegally in 1985. In January 1986 131,495 had already been arrested, 53 per cent higher than the same figure for 1985.

The reason for the rapid growth in attempted emigration from Mexico lies in the catastrophic economic crisis brought on by its debt burden and Around 70,000 people demonstrated on 4 April in Karachi on the seventh anniversary of the execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Crowds burned effigies of Zia ul-Haq and his prime minister Mohammed Khan Junejo. This was the third major anti-government demonstration since martial law was lifted in 1985. All have been organised by an ll-party front called the Movement tor the Restoration of Democrac (MRD) which is campaigning for Zia to call elections. The past elections, in February last year, . were boycotted by most opposition parties because of the restrictions imposed on them Parties cannot become legal unless they agree not to criticise the armed forces and support Islam.

← Haiti: eight dead in protestReviews Simone de Beauvoir →

Something wrong on this page?