“On that occasion, both the CPA and ALP aligned members of the TLC prevented elements of the student left (particularly the Revolutionary Socialist Students Alliance) from voicing active support for the Viet Cong. They did so by convincing Hugh Hamilton to alter the speaker’s schedule at short notice to delay Laver’s address, and then allowing CPA members to physically restrain Laver while ALP Senator George Georges spoke in his stead (Joe Harris pamphlet). This incident demonstrated that the radical politics of the student left had diverged from the political interests of the TLC. From then on, it became increasingly unlikely that the two movements would ever work as closely as they had during Foco.” – see http://radicaltimes.info/PDF/PeterCross.pdf
Comment: It is ironic that Laver should be held back from speaking for his support for the Vietcong when he later condemned the NLF ‘for being communist’.