Call for an anti-imperialist contingent in antiwar march: 1972
A flyer by Youth Against War and Fascism (YAWF), a youth group affiliated with the Workers World Party, calls on people to join an anti-imperialist contingent in a larger march on Washington, D.C. to oppose the Vietnam War May 21, 1972.
While speeches took place at the U.S. Capitol to an assembled crowd of about 15,000, another 3-4,000 battled police at the foot of the U.S. Capitol. YAWF, along with the Attica Brigade, were the primary sponsors of the confrontation.
D.C. police chief Jerry Wilson was hit six times with rocks and a large stick and had blood running down his head from a number of cuts in one of the more intense clashes in Washington of the Vietnam War era.
Wilson was quoted, “They usually run when I walk toward them. This time they threw bigger rocks.”
A dozen police officers were injured and 178 protesters were arrested during the confrontation.
As U.S troops were being drawn down, President Richard Nixon escalated the war in other ways. Later in the year he would conduct expanding bombing campaigns through “Operation Linebacker” and “Operation Linebacker II,” the latter being the largest U.S. bombing campaign since World War II.
For a PDF of this one-sided flyer, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/1972-05-21-ya...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsjw6vLke
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson
Call for an anti-imperialist contingent in antiwar march: 1972
A flyer by Youth Against War and Fascism (YAWF), a youth group affiliated with the Workers World Party, calls on people to join an anti-imperialist contingent in a larger march on Washington, D.C. to oppose the Vietnam War May 21, 1972.
While speeches took place at the U.S. Capitol to an assembled crowd of about 15,000, another 3-4,000 battled police at the foot of the U.S. Capitol. YAWF, along with the Attica Brigade, were the primary sponsors of the confrontation.
D.C. police chief Jerry Wilson was hit six times with rocks and a large stick and had blood running down his head from a number of cuts in one of the more intense clashes in Washington of the Vietnam War era.
Wilson was quoted, “They usually run when I walk toward them. This time they threw bigger rocks.”
A dozen police officers were injured and 178 protesters were arrested during the confrontation.
As U.S troops were being drawn down, President Richard Nixon escalated the war in other ways. Later in the year he would conduct expanding bombing campaigns through “Operation Linebacker” and “Operation Linebacker II,” the latter being the largest U.S. bombing campaign since World War II.
For a PDF of this one-sided flyer, see washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/1972-05-21-ya...
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsjw6vLke
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson