with the blood of the Vietnamese people The same commodity i such plentiful supply hus brought Nixon to Moscow, If it were not for Hanoi, Moscow would have Bittle to sell The great advantage of these concessions from the point of view of U.5 imperialism is that they cost it in real terms practically nothing while at the sume time Heing most tempting to the Chinese bureaucracy espectally since they all help to flatter Chinese nationat sentiment of which the hurcancracy took iself to he the most falthful custodian, A cireful analyste of China's policy of congratulating Yanys Khan on his brutal attempt to suppress Bangla Besh and of congratulating Mes Bandaramake on the I/ bloody suppression of ihe uprising in Ceylon must certainly have helded US, Imperialism to correctly estimate Peking's willingness to do deale of this sort We should rememher that every one of China's hrilliant diplonalie coups has heen hought with the blood al revolutionary peasants und workers. The Geneva convention itsell should not he forpatten there in was the conthired eriorts of Chou en Tai and his Soviet counterpr which peraded the Vietminh, who had as hut swept the french imperialists out of Vietnam, to accept the dismeniberment of their country and a continued imperialist presence in the South MOSCOW The sigat of Peking wineng and dining with the hut cher made Mescow throw all res traint to the winds. Just at the time when The maoive escalation in bombing Macon had hegun and the tuning of Hatphong accomplished st welcomed hieras an honoured guest It did tot take much to persuade Moscow to joir against the Vastnamese resolution. Orer the sane charapagne glasses the Kramba hereaucrats in exchange for silene and pohae health co operation ut scienve and technologe and a count space exploratice prostalone sold the Wielnantese resolution dowa the river But from Moscow's was U.S. endorsement of their idea fot a European security conference Such a conference they feel is essential to consolidate their grip on Lastern Europe, In this way the Soviet bureaucracy embarrassment in Czechenlovakia becomes a reason for helping the US overcome its predicament in Vietnam The only thing on which both the Soviet and Chinese bureaucracies were united was in their following, to the letter, the Stalinis pos ition of peaceful co-existence which. hoiled down to its essentials, means class collabor ation in the interests of a bureaucratie caste at tie expense of work revolution, Indeed, U.5 imperialism now finds itself in a situat ion where Peking and Moscow are actually competing for its favour. The virulent booInity hetween thems purs US triperialisat an a most advantageous position since it allows them to play one haresacracy off against another.
This a not. of coune, le deny the vochil barrage which Telined the drastic escalation in the North, What hort failed to Lo was to threaten to break the Heckade of Hai phong. to call for internutioral protec, apJin the war crimes of S imperialism anal to ware Sixon that an escalation would sect with joat retaliation frea. the worker stages The critrals heband the her chery of the Vietnanes people are cot ony to he Found in Washington bat alen Pekme and Muscow. The Egores are ciear during the period 1967107971 Sovet military ads c-tinated to have decrease: Iron 5505 m. to 5100m. and Chinese aid Iron: Ai45m ta 875m. LAsocated Pressdiscatch. 12 Apsil leven according to the ligares issied by Washington, the combined Soviel and Chaese tuitary aspstance to Sorth Versam ancunt ed to only one tiffeth of what the US Carernment spent on the war in 1971. ESCALATION The mamove cocalation of troops and the benning of Sorth Viacame 1965 hy Johnson led le the Pentagon assessment "The most interesting reactions of course are those at the 'Bloc countries. As predicted of the iwo principal Communst powers to the limited L'S reprisal attacks were relatisely re betrayal of the Soviet and Chinese bureauc unspecified support and asistance to Hanns. Neither raised the spectre of a broad confliet or portrayed the U.S. actions as a threat to world peace - " The extract reveals that the ability of US imperialism to escalate the war had. al evers stuge, been based upon the knowledge that the Soviet Union and China i committed to the pernicious doctrine of "peacetu co-existence) would ofter no retaliation -part from demagg What if proves negatively is that to the workent states had reacted Frily, sach escalation could have heen stopped. Washington. unlike many lette knew that belind the rhetoric lay a paper tiger:
INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY The complicity in U.S. escalation of both the Soviet and < Tonese hereaucracies will obviously work towards fostering a re-divoion of the country along lines similar to lao Licaove Convention. Siltanous. Le deposed Cambodian menarch supported hy Peking, Eas not only admitted he willogness to head a coalition Poverument in C'ambodia fincluding the military hulcher Lon Noll hut nas erinced a lee towards South Vietnan which de Arete admits be legitimacy of the Thies rope. The lact that Peking suppers Shanonk gives sume indicion the National Peace Action Coalition in the of their attitude towards a solution in Vietnam. I sobviously hoped that. through the com- 9 hined pressure frem Moscow and Peking and Bos hardens Does Nixon, the Virtnariese people con he hrought to stomach a samilar deal to thal concocted an 1954. The impact of this criminal collusson depends upon the same factors that have led U.S. imperilisa. ever deeper into the mire of fedochina: The determination el the Vietnamese liberation righters to continee their vallant strupgle, and the abalry of corollamaries around the world to narrow the rop for manoelge of Nixon in his fortacoming deals with the bureaucracies. The Peatagon Papers show that the massive ach-war marches in the SA. Land throughout the world) were partly responsible for the roduc tion of troops in Vietnam. The responsibility of recolationares, following on the cynical strained: with both Moscow and Peking pledging, racies, las increased enfold. The only allies of the Vietnariese revolution reemin the masses of people throughout the world who vehemently oppose the genocidal policies of the C.S. adMittistration.
RESPONSIBILITIES Successe British goverments fincluding the Wilson government which stamped on Labour Conference deusions) have provided U.S. imperialism with invalcable policizal and moral support during the gradual escalation of the war and introduction of the worst barbarities, Setsh udustry tas in the care of Rolls Royce which provides engines for the Corsair fighters or Elliot Automation which manufactures equip ment perfecting fighters" bombing technipues) has directly contr buted to U.S. Imperialim": war effort The defeat of the Indochinese revolution would set back the work revoltion; a decisive serback for Nixon in his penocidal activity would act as a mighty lever not anly for national aberation struggles world-wide particularly that of the Irish people for self-determination! but also for the class strugele wichir the imper aust centres. On 28 October and 18 Noverber E.S.A. is caling for international protests against the present escalation of the war in Vietnant, The call for solidarity decionstrations must became a concrete manifestation ol proletarian internationalise. The IMG, which intends to work for a demonstration this t Autunin, calls upon all revolutionary groups to see this as a certral task in the coming period. I i also a centra. task to ensere that such "Peace or Negotiations' (which is to fall into the trap being prepared by L 5, imperialism and the burcaucracies for the Vietnamese pcople) but in full solidarity with the strugsle of phe Vietnamuse people, demandiog the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces and an end lo British complicity
ing that profit margins could be restored painlessly for the workers by an expansion played by foreign competition in precipitating the present crisis makes it astonishing