[illegible] tried to oppose the March [illegible] demonstration [with a] "conspiracy of silence" - this was an obvious failure. This time it is trying different tactics: a witch-hunt being conducted against VSC by both the bourgeois press and the mass media. We are accused of trying to burn down the imperial war museum, planning to seize key buildings, of trying to disrupt London's underground system, of trying to smuggle [illegible] into the country, of arranging for plane-loads of students to be trained in the art of insurrection, of making [illegible] and other even more lurid [illegible]. [illegible] a day has gone by without there being some leaflet, anonymous telephone [call, or] interview "revealing all".
Callaghan, surely the most hypocritical and reactionary Home Secretary even Labour has produced, works hand-in-glove with the press whilst pretending that he is a liberal, anxious [illegible] the right to demonstrate. His remarks on Independent Television News were calculated to prepare public opinion for brutal attacks on "marauding political hooligans".
[illegible] on October 27th it was told that the Square [was] booked by some boys' club. Now we learn that [illegible] maoists have [illegible]. Could it be that some are welcoming the prospect of a tiny [illegible] the demonstration going to Grosvenor Square to get massacred? We have asked the police [illegible]. If they try to nip [the] movement in the bud they [illegible] the beginnings of a movement which will finally overwhelm them.
We are marching [because] for us the Vietnam war is [a] priority. [Be]cause Vietnam is the battlefront [illegible] against US imperialism (and, therefore, world capitalism). Solidarity with the NLF and the Vietnamese people is the duty [illegible].
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From all available evidence it seems that they [illegible] ideas are like flowers and [illegible] bud. Hence the police [illegible] when the VSC [illegible]. [The es]tablishment fears it; that is why [the] "lefts" [illegible] it. But it will continue to [illegible] strong enough to settle accounts with British [illegible] imperialism emerges. That is why we are marching.