Exclusive interview with Hugo Blanc AT Friday'S Rally Imperialism, the International Marxist Group Development Fund Drive raised £2.000.
Penny Duggan, Central Committee, made the appeal for money, explaining that the theme of the rally was •Workers of the World "That need not be an empty slogan: she said. "the Fourth International in a modest way is a living reality of that political theme.
The platform of speakers proved the point impressively from Latin America, Asia. Africa and Farope.
"Our Iranian comrades, she went on, have just distributed 20,000 copies of their newspaper magnificent, large collection at the Fourth International Anniversary rally November helped to make this possible.* She continued the wutlining the different objectives of the Development Fund Drive.
•We need more publications, just like nur Iranian comrades, to explain our revolutionary politics. And we need to build up our printshop in order to facilitate the production publications.
Another key area of the fund drive is to finance the construction revolutionary youth organisation.
•The Revolution paper has its own 14.000 fund drive and as part of the IMG appeal we intend to ensure that it gets every penny of that £4,000, she explained.
To date fund drive total has reached t5.787 with a further £826 in pledges to be collected.
Between now and May Day. the fund drive closes, further national events are planned national Revolution rally and a large May Day event.
Al a local level 1o0. branch is organising Tundraising event. And every comrade and sympathiser is asked to donate wage or grant, to the Fund Drive Appeal.
So. if you want more information about the fund drive or would like to make a donation.
coupon below and send to: IMG. PO Box 50, London N1 2XP.
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Finally, there was a lack of unitary leadership of the strike, as there had previous the controlled by Constituent Assembly was engaged on its night-long weekly plenary session. Shortly after the opening, the assembly moved into secret session to consider, it was said, relations with Chile after a recent Chilean spy case in Peru.
Before the end of the secret session, Blanco was able to leave the chamber, having denounced the presence in Peru of other spies — those of the CIA -to give this interview to RONALD FRASER THIS interview with HUGO BLANCO took place on the evening of 23 January in the Parliament building in Lima where the