Socialist Outlook

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IO SOCIALIST NATO out of the Balkans!

Socialist Outlook no. 24, April 1999 · 271 words

War and peace Balkans

Candlelit vigil against the bombing organised by the local Serb community in George Square at 10 pm on April 10.

April ||: main demonstration starting Blythswood square at 12.30 speakers included Tam Dalyell.

Protest outside the army and air force recruitment offices in Queen street at 12.00 on Thursday April 15. London Over 600 people crowded into a meeting at Friends meeting House on March 30 to hear Benn, Paul Foot, CND and Kurdish speakers oppose the war. Since then there have been packed meetings in many parts of London - 200 in Lambeth, 150 in Islington, 100 in Hackney, 30 in Brent among others.

April | I: Between 5000-10,000 people demonstrated in Central London against the war. A small but important contingent of socialists marched behind a banner demanding Nato out of the Balkans, Independence for Kosova, Open the Borders. This was important given the prescence of vitriolic Serb nationalists on the march who booed when a letter was read out from an oppositionist in Belgrade and the fact that speakers such as Benn failed even to mention the atrocities against the Kosovars Manchester A wide range of activities are being co-ordinated by Greater Manchester against War in the Balkans April 16: Mass Lobby of foreign minster Tony Lloyd's surgery, 7pm Newton Heath April 24: North. West Regional Demonstration |1.30 Platt Fields to Albert Sq STREET STALL in Market St every Saturday at 2pm For further information about Kosovar refugees are being driven out by Milosevic: but a NATO invasion would not win them freedom KLA would to the problem, and would simply

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