offensives in Southern Vietnam and Cambodia that they understand et army was catastrophic. For revealclass movement as a whole. liberate Indochina.
The total lack of support for the puppet regime has been demonstrated very clearly by the rapidity with which they have had to abandon large areas to the liberation forces. In less than a month nearly half of the puppet army has been either defeated or disintegrated by the National Liberation Front's offensive. Nine the city of Da Nang. THE LIBERATION OF HUE AND DA NANG, the fall of the Central Highlands in Southern Vietnam and the virtual collapse of the South Vietnamese puppet army represent an enormous victory not only for the Vietnamese people, but for the international working The Indochinese liberation forces have demonstrated by their that the relationship of forces between imperialism and revolution is international. This has enabled them to exploit the divisions and weaknesses inside the American ruling class and the troubles of Imperialism elsewhere in the world to launch a final offensive to TARIQ ALI provinces and 11 major towns huve been liberated, leaving only the Mekong Delta and a few regions outside Saigon in the hands of the puppet North Vietnamese liberation forces, pictured during an attack on South Vietnamese marines in 1971, inside Guang Tri province. Since that time despite the Paris Peace Accords and heavy bombing by US aircraft, they have expanded their influence and this week their biggest prize was won — Jands was facilitated by the decision of over 1000 ClA-trained Montag and join the NLF. The effect of this defection by an imperialist-trained ing this fact to the world a French journalist was executed in Saigon by the military police. The decision of the US Congress to deny President Ford the money required to fight "North Vietnamese aggression' was undoubtedly the final straw that broke the back of the South Vietnamese regime.
people represent a continuing rise of the world revolution, and demonstrate that despite the setbacks suffered in Chile and elsewhere, Americ an imperialism has not been able to shift the interaational relationship of forces hack in its favour.
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try has not been freed. The Cambof Phnom Penh and Suigon are increasingly isolated and bound to fall. But bow will they fall? There are two possibilities: one is an outright military victory leaving the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of South Vietnam and the coalition governments with other groups, but in reality dominated by the NLF and Red Khmers, as a perlod of transition to a compiete takeover in name as well as deed.
Of these two possibilities the is within the power of the liberation forces But here some of the weakcome into play - particularly their er of the revolution. An outright The liberation of the Central Highnards (mountain tribesmen) to desert clite corps on the morale of the pupp and united. scheme.
The victories of the indochinese However the whole of the coanodian and South Vietnaniese capitals Cambodian Red Khmers in complete control; the second is through pseudofirst is clearly the most desirable and MAKE CUT DUCK.
deep for our paper. messes of the liberation organisations failure to admit the socialist charactmitary viciory would involve the immediate setting up of a workers' state, und the dismantling of the whole puppet set-up. Something would have to be established in its place, and the population of the cities would have to be organised The fact that the PRG has up till now not understood the need to create organs of popular power bas left serious gips in their strategy.
Their way of resolving this problem has been the 'coalition government' But even if a duramy coalition government were set up, this would not represent a capitulation on the part of the NLF to imperialism or its local allies: it would merely delay the creation of a nationwide revol utionary administration.
What is beyond doubt however. is that the United States, and impcrialism as a whole, has suffered a major defeat. Is echoes will be heard throughout the world -not least in Portugal and Spain where the revolutionary struggle of the working class is already underway.
Every voice in the British workeis' movement should now be mised to herald these great victories and to demand that the Labour Government breaks off all links with the rotten and tottering puppet regimes and re cognises the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. ************************ ND DRIVE FUND DRIVE - FUND DRIVE - FUND DRIVE The end or mirch is now here but we have not made the absolubaly assential E400 We are still short of CB0. That puts us in a hell of a spot. As usual all the and of the month bille are crashing down on us and uniess we maise up that deficit we have no chance of meeting them.
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