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2 . . a -m fraternal o Q bocoms "loft-wing anosetogiaG" wadting Lake a pack. =. ef vultures poorted } possible or tmaginod orror in efter to: aggrandiso. prewins ‘by proving that thoir prodictions| of claamity and sollout by he. Viotnamoso,. = ‘true, Tho PLP. loadership must bo hoping ts U,.-4g6 ue eo Y _wtunist move= : mont, to scoop tho loft, and bo catapulted into world loadorship by: tho yvorit, - of its prodictions,* It is difficult to find anothor oxplanation for the outm right distortions and lios it has porpetratod in its anti-Viotnem attack, :>% larl Davidson pointed out in the January 11 edition of tho GUARDIAN that. ‘tho ’ PRV and tho NLF had disclaimed tho political position of tho March, 1968 issuo » ¢ Of WAR/PEACE REPORT on which PLP based much of its caso. ~ Bat. has PL ropudiated: . dts position thoroby?-—not much of a | chanco. “ watson on tr ant a lank es oneeT Ug ‘ wee ” Sa Movamber. 1969 fesuo of CHALLENGE limited tho attack ‘to ‘tho North Viotnamose | Paran a f SEO WVU, Ase See we “"! Vale praising tho South Vietnamose's ability to “fight... Quick to note the. |. * Yalikely chenco that PL cule split the unifiod will of tho Viotnamoso,: John - Corvo wrote in tho Docombor CHALLENGE that tho NLF wore scllouts too. Howovor,. a _ fe main lino of attack has not boon’ to sot northornor against southornor, bat... _. ,, 66 place tho lecdership against tho poople. Boginning with. thoir notorious. “4°. feab loaflot in the April, 1967 domonstrations against the war in Viotnam . _ Mbich roferrod to-tho "shamoloss backsliding of tho Honoi loadors," thoy hevo™ "systomatieally stoppod up’ tho assault on tho Viotnamose loadorship, particularly * .Ho Chi Minh, Thoy not only attack his loadership but stato outright that his “4s-a U.S, and Soviot "puppot" rogimo, and that ho is boing “naintained"™ in safe facilitate the transformation of Vietnam into a base arse gainst China, . Hard to on, boliovet \b thought so too, But horo it is: Tho. U.S. and tho 5.0. aro trying to convert Viotnam into a giant..; He Bl at bess for war against China, This is ono dmportant roeson why thoy. ‘want tho sorshipee to _surrondow. find why thoy maintain the Ho., Chi - Finh Toad torship. rie tIgeu wakrice nee rsh yy Pe 2 ~ HRD ,asbutee Sinco the Chinese aro the ultimate cbjoct ‘of such 1 an > eneirelonont, whet r do they say about this "traitor", "puppot", and "sellout" Ho Chi Minh? Apparently tho air odition of CHALLENGE has boon held up in U.S. Customs, ‘bocause in tho Fobruary 21 odition of tho PEXING REVIEW lin Piao says tho. following: . _ to aro dooply convinced that undor the leadership of their great... leader Prosident Ho Chi Minh an’ porsevoring in, protractod pooplos. os ‘war, tho 31 million Viotnamoso poople will surely crive out all tho... ., .. ... . .. U.S. aggressors from Victnam and achiove tho groat goal of liborating the south, gofenting | tho north an procoecing to reunify.their -.. | ty TN TEN Sth planed, pate at aaa 2 ots abedis wrk: gotunen te 4 | considoring the throat to ‘China itsolf, aro wo to coneludo that. ‘Lin Pino ‘as a. ‘ -*" “poisonous wood? Meo Tsotung himsolf signod a letter on Docombor 19,1968, - ' ° praising the “loacership of their great leader Ho Chi Minh," stating: __ . _-+ On the occasion of the 8th annivorsary of tho founding of tha = _° - “+> South Viotnam National Front for Liboration, wo, on behalf of the ~~ * Chinoso pooplo, tho Communist Party of China anc tho Govornnont -- ron 7 “ef the Pooples Republic of China, oxtond the wermost grootings to... +: is ¢ho people of south Viotnam and tho South Viotnam National Front ~ pe for Liberation who aro stepcing at tho. forefront of tho struggle ~ ofan, _-* *. gpoinst U.S. imporialisn. - In a single sontance of grootings Meo sums up tho main question at issto. Tho Viotnamese stand in the forefront of tho strugglo! It 4s thoir practicg that ~ “i. @yory day provos tho falsity of the eohares. of rovisionism. The final tost of yovisionisn is not words byt @oods. ‘Tho Indian Communist Party (Marxist-/ =." Loninist) callod itsolf Maoist but was attackod oponly by tho Chinoso as © “+ rovisionistt Why? For tho simpto reason that whon’tho poasents of Naxalbari -~ a roso up to ovorthrow thoir masters, the Indien CP (ML) opposod the masses.. The | Incian example is not tho first timo that a party kas: opposed tha strugglo of. the massos under the guiso of "left" phrasos, . .”.. go - erat vey SBE rcp ttt ‘The Progressivo Tabor Party has epposod tho most 4mportant mass dononstrations against tho War in Viotnam undor one protoxt after anothor, In tho April, 1967 demonstrations reforrod to above, PL boycottoc tho organizing activitios ¢ on the gost coast, and in San Francisco confinod itsolf to issuing Yoaflots attacking Hanoi and tho march organizors, Its protoxt in that strugglo wes that tho: slogan "End tho War in Vietnam," cuo to its vaguonoss, oponed tho door to nuclear attack by tha U.5. as a quick moans of onding tho war. Jt is cortedinly - truco thet tho rovistonists who organizod the march along with others subnorged everything within tho "united front," but PL handort the bal over to thom and . - —— a _ Ba. "Biitorael," cHALLaNGg © 9+" a te a ea ed 256 PEAING REVIEW, February 21, 1969 St ot bs on ey on 26, PSKING PEVIEY, Doecnber 27, 1968 OM ey sis ns MPa eee en mee ie ei pre eee