Anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Calcutta, India

Jul. 07, 1966 - Women demonstrate against USA: In Calcutta, India, over 500 women - housewives, factory and office workers, and students led by communists - held a three-hour demonstration in front of the United States Information Service Library in Central Calcutta last Tuesday (July 19) condemning American bombings in North Vietnam and association of the Vietnam war. The women coming from different parts of the city and suburbs earlier held a rally in central Calcutta's parade ground. Different speakers addressing the rally bitterly criticised President Johnson's Vietnam policy and demanded that Americans immediately withdraw from Vietnam. They then marched in procession through Calcutta's main roads. Arriving in front of the USIS Library the protesters marched in a circle for about one hour in front of the USIS main gate, constantly raising anti-American slogans - hand off Vietnam, Long live Vietcong, Long Live Ho Chi Minh, We are with the Vietcong, etc. Later they squatted at the library door for over two hours and shouted anti-American slogans constantly. The women also held there a street-corner open-stage communist drama whose theme was to condemn President Johnson's policy in Vietnam. Although anti-American demonstrations have continued almost daily in front of the USIS in Calcutta for over three weeks, this was the first all-women demonstration in the city. Photo shows women demonstrators marching in procession through Chowringhes, Central Calcutta's busiest road, carrying placards and banners, and shouting anti-American slogans

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