PRO-CUBA MEBTING IN AMSTERDAM
Amsterdam
Some 200 socialists, students and left-wing militants turned. out May 14 to hear Ernest Mandel, editor of the Belgian left socialist weekly La Gauche, discuss the Cuban Revolution. The meeting was sponsored by the Dutch "Guba Information Committee." It was the largest yet held in Holland on this topic. ~
Mandel called special attention to new progressive developments that have recently occurred in Cuba, particularly the stress placed by Fidel Castro in his January 1, 1965, speech on the need to fight the danger of bureaucracy in Cuba, the election of workers councils, and Cuba's independent stand in the Sino-Soviet conflict,
“This was the twentieth meeting addressed by Mandel since he visited Cuba a year ago. He has lectured in Belgium, Germany and Holland.