[Green Left Weekly, May 24, 1995]
DAVE HOLMES, a founding member of the Democratic Socialist Party, first became an activist In Melbourne during the campaign to end the Vietnam war. KARL MILLER asks him about his experiences of that campaign.
What were your first experiences of the movement to end the war in Vietnam?
I got interested in politics in the later '60s, and by the time
of the first Moratorium in May 1970 I had considered myself a socialist
for several years. But this was the first demonstration I'd been on, and
certainly it had a massive impression on me. I think it did on all
those who went on it, and a great many other people.