DEMONSTRATIONS AND PROTESTS AGAINST U.S. POLICY IN EL SALVADOR

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Demonstrations and Protests Against U.S. Policy in E1 Salvador
DATE
PLACE
HO
.
13 Jan.
Montreal
40
16 Jan.
. Bern '
800
16 Jan.
-16 Jan.
-Panama City
Sydney
40
16 Jan.
Managua
300
17 Jan.
Georgetown
40
.17 Jan.
Brussels
250
19 Jan.
Bilbao
40
20 Jan.
Barcelona
50
20-Jan.
Vancouver
75
20 Jan.
Wellington
8
20 Jan.
Quito
unk
SPONSOR
Comite Unitaire De Solidarite Paur
0 .1
."Usual?run of left-wing youth and
third world interest groups, mostly
Swiss but with a smattering of Latin
A
merican partiit
c
pans .
Federation of Panamanian-students,
Revolution Student Front. There was
also an attempt to firebomb the Embassy.
"Ai tral ian Social i'st Workers Party"
(Trotykyite) (NOTE: Some Chileans were
to participate, according to permit,
But were not seen at site.-
All U.S. Citizens, Wiain1y 11, aryknoller's,
and others describing themselves --as
th
o
er Leftist
groups.
Members of the-Faculty of Theology
of th
e
U
niversity D
o
.
feusto
Liga Comunista Revolucionari
,
a
Movimiento Comunista de Catalunia
` *El Salvado jr''
r caragua Support
Co
mmittee.
' Nicaragua Solidarity "Committee
Leftist students from Catholic
University
R
People? Progressive Party (Pro-Soviet
"A -small local Trotskyite-party". nd
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-20 Jan.
Rome
Unk
22 Jan.
t
USUN
200
22 Jan.
Bogota
35
22 Jan.
Managua
15
22 Jan.
San Jose
unk
?
24 Jan...
Stuttgart
80
_?_
24 Jan.
-Cal gary
2QQ
29 Jan.
Vienna
1,500
22 Jan..
Dusseldorf
100
Committee of olidarity with the
Salvadoran People. Speakers included
Brazilian labor leader and Communist
"Lula" Uruguayan Ernesto Gogi, and others
Committee in Solidarity with the People
of El Salvador
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Regional Branch of Spanish Communist. Party.
Colombian Communist Party (pro-Soviet)
Group describing itself as American
California
Professional people.from New York and
The Government of Costa Rica subsequently
expelled 16 foreigners including 3 U.S...
citizens for demonstrating illegally.
Unidentified group, mainly foreigners
? Amnesty International., Association of
German Catholic Youth, Action Committee
Stuttgart, Communist'Party of Chile,
? Latin American Comm., Stuttgart, Movement
of'the Revolutionary Left, Socialist
Party of Chile, Socialist Party OR,
Chile. ? _
Committee of Friends of El Salvador -
New Democratic Party, the U.S. Association,
the Inter-Church Committee on Numan Rights
in Latin America
Anti-U.S. campaign spearheaded by
Austrian Communist Party.
Working Group for El Salvador, Neuss;
Central America Committee, Wuppertal;
Nicaragua Information Office, Wuppertal;
Initiative Group for the Third World,
Neuss;
?-Working Group of BDKJ For The Politics
of Development;
ASIA (Combined German Student-: Cori uni ttee) ;
Professional Group.of. the PP; Neuss;
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29 Jan.
Dusseldorf
100
31 Jan.
Mexico
.10,000.
31 Jan.
Frankfurt
15,000
31 Jan,
Stockholm
400
3 Feb.
Milan
--
6 Feb.
Melbourne
unk
10 Feb.
San Jose
(Cont'd.)
Evangelical Student Committee, Dusseldorf;
Working Group ;for.Alternatives in Social Work;
The Foreigners Group, Bilk;
Action Movement for Housing, Dusseldorf;
Independent Medical Group;
Biker-Base Central Book Assn.;
Saegewerke, E. V.;
Children's Book Store.-in tkupnertal Third
'
Iorld Section;
Provincial
(An Environmentalist Political Party);
F
ree International University..
(Not attributed by Embassy report)
Informationsstell& El.Salvador. Marchers
included several hundred masked leather-
jacketed rowdies" and "a number of orderly
Turks and Chileans." The keynote speaker
was Karsten Voigt. There. were acts of violencE
Guatemala-E1 Salvador Committee. Vast
majority of demonstrators were Latin
Americans, from Latin American exile groups.
Telephone threat against U.S. Consulate'in
Milan by group calling itself MOVEMENT OF
28 FEBRUARY. Caller said in Spanish that,
U.S. must cease giving arms to Salvadoran
junta or his organization "will take
measures against you."
Nicaragua-Reconstruction Comm ittee,
Socialist Workers Party, Spartacist
League of Australia, International
Socialists, Communist Party of Australia.
Partido Revolucionario de Los.Trabajadores.
Demonstration followed series of radio
announcements claiming Feb. 10 would be
day of world-wide demonstrations against
El Salvador by the Fourth International
"Partido Mundial'De Los Trabajadores."
10 'Feb.
Mexico
150
Partido Obrero Socialists, Liga Obrero
Marxista, Partido Marxist'a De Mexico,
Juventud Democrati ca Mexicans
10 Feb. .
Lima
is
"Leftist and Communist Demonstrators,
--organized and led by Senator Cesar Napuri
(P0,MR) and Diputado Enrique Fernandez (PST)
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10 Feb.
Paris
500
10 Feb.
Hamburg
1.0.
10 Feb.
Frankfurt
5
10 Feb..
Lima
15
11 Feb.
Quebec;
?
13 Feb.
Perth
6
14 Feb.
Amsterdam
2,500
17 Feb.
Dublin
35
20 Feb.
Oslo
200
25 Feb.
Paris
1,000
26 Feb.
Stuttgart
'15
26 Feb.
Rome
35
27?Feb.
Edinburgh
75
?
28 Feb.
Vancouver
500 -
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Organisation Coruniste Internatio naliste.
Unattri buted
Protest letter delivered by reps of
Internationaler Arbeitskreis Frankfurt.
Persons representing various political
parties, including-the trotskyites.
Communist Party - These' demonstrators
demonstration.
?Unattributed (Perth 00.30)
showdd up during a driving rain storm for
El. Salvador Committee, together with the
the support of other local anti-American
protest groups-and United Uruguayan Group
In Solidarity With El Sal vador_
International.:: Communist League,
Convencion Idacional de Trabajadores del
Uruguay, IKS - Grupo Combate.
El Salvador Support Committee. (Note:
the Embassy in Dublin reported this was
the Fifth demonstration 'by this group.)
HHnattributed.
.(all these groups were organized by the
Organisie 4E Internationale, a Trotskyist
group)..
Same groups as Jan 24 demonstration.
. Partito Denocratico Unione Proletario
tiovimiento Laboratori Per Il Socialismo.
Among the group were six parliamentary
reps of the PDUP.
Latin American Solidarity Campaign Of
Edinburgh. Some damage Was done to the
Consulate door'by battering it_
-El- Sal vador/Ki caragua Committee..
Comite Soutien au Peuple du Salvador,
Comite du Nicaragua, Comite du Guatemala.
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28.Feb. Quebec
500 Quebec/El Salvador (NFl)
6 Mar. Adelaide 30 Socialist Party of Australia, Socialist
Workers Party, Communist Party of
Australia.
3 Mar. Copenhagen' 1,500 "Several Danish , political organizations
? from Center-left of Communist"' Chile-
? Nicaragua Allende-Uruguay Coriittee.
10 Mar. Toronto 200 El Salvador SupportCorrznittee.