impressive antinuclear demonstration was staged in Brussels April 24. Radio commentators put the turnout at some 30,000.
The marchers were mostly young people. They gave a spirited tone to the demonstration. Workers from other lands, who now constitute a sizeable part of the labor force in Belgium, were well represented.
Opposition to the war in Vietnam was included among the official slogans issued by the organizing committee.
The most militant note was sounded by the Belgian section of the Fourth International: In a leaflet distributed to the demonstrators, the Belgian Trotskyists praised thé initiative displayed in organizing the protest action but said that in the long run a nuclear holocaust can be prevented only by the workers taking power in the — imperialist countries themselves.
7 "In Vietnam, " the leaflet said, "a heroic people are resisting practically alone the assaults of the most powerful army in the world. Their struggle is inspiring other peoples, who will follow the example of the October Revolution, of-the Yugoslav Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, the Cuban Revolution and the Vietnamese Revolution. They will abolish capitalism."
The leaflet called for more effective and ‘better coordinated aid for the revolutions already under way. "The last world congress of the Fourth International appealed to the workers of all countries to demand from the governments of the workers states, jet planes and missiles for the heroic Vietnamese people. No difference in views, no tactical considerations, can justify failure to provide more effective aid for the Vietnamese Revolution."
The best aid, however, is international extension of the revolution, continued the leaflet. “With American imperialism committing the bulk of its forces ‘in