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: poaco, to show U.S. imperielsim and Chiang Kai-shek in thoir true colors and so holp unite and oducato tho masses of poople."20 In fact Mao and tho party wore the 1949 negotiations was one tactical move along the 1 Revolution, ‘he Chinese peoplo, through the steadfast Polk leadership of the Coomunist Party had come to learn of the real nature Chaing Kai-shek, Kuomintang reectionariss, Therefore thse CCP trensformed the’ consciousness of the vast majority of the Chinese people into tho policy of in-: sisting on 8 torms for tho basis of tho negotiations. ‘Tho content of each of those points was to be strugglodout, Mao statos on that subject: “le should be firm in principle; wo should also havo all fee flexibility pormissible and nocossary for carrying out our principles," Pov les le pk oe But was it alwsys the case that oach time the Chinose Communist Party” entered into nogotiations it was umdor tho samo conditions and circumstances? © - Absolutely not. Tako for instance tho Chungking nogotdations in 1945, Mao and tho party decided to onter into negotiations with the Kuomintang “in order to mako every possivlo effort for poaco and also, in tho process of struggling for ew: willing "to make such concessions as are necessary and as do not damego the © . fundamental interests of the people, Without such concessions, wo cammot eons oxplodo tho Kuomintang's civil war plot, cannot gain tho political initiative, © cannot win tho sympathy of world public spinion in oxchange for legal status i of our Party and a stato of peaco,"2!" In fact the concessions were quito large ~ -=-8 liboratod zroas.22 Was this a betrayal of Pooplo's War? Was this "Bartor. Ang away the hard won efforts of rovolutionary forcos on tho battlofiold7" No. It was ea tactical advance of that war. This is tho gonius of Mao Tso Tung-- the ability to grasp tho dialectical movomont in tho real world and to know how to resolve theso contradictions in favor of tho masses, And it is procisoly “** this whichis totally absont from tho psoudo-rovolutionary phrasomongoring of the PLP loadership, Even while throwing a bone to negotiations as tactics, the PLP proclaims the absolute, static and counter-revolutionary character of negotiations and places it in opposition to people's wart Whilo Mao tells AS How to give tit-for-tat depends on tho situation, ~ -:” we > | Sonotimes, not going to negotiations is tit-for- ares tatjand sometimes, going to negotiztions is also ’ tit~for-tat,23 It is ono thing to recognize that tho U.S, secks to win at the con- ference table what it loses on the battleficld, to recognize that it usos the talks to sproad confusion, demorelization and division within revolutionary ranks, and that the roal victories take place in the battlefiold, It is quite another thing to totally acecpt and publicize tho imporialists' propaganda on tho talks. Tho U,S, nas in no way beon "legitimized" by the talks oxco: perhaps in PL's oyes. ‘The morale of tho rovolutionarics end tho worldwide support fer tho Viotnameso is roaching new hoights, whilo tho imporielists, treated by PL as titans who always know oxactly what thoy aro doing end who . will undoubtedlyoutsmart tho inforior Asians, move from one defoat and disastor to another, on dows 7 cr an Tt 4s truc, as PL'claims, that"the Viotnameso lot it bo known through Wilfrod Burchett that they would oxcorcise "restraint" to givo tho imperialists no possible fig leaf ofan oxcuse to step up aggressions during tho talks, Pst imperialists being what they aro, they wont ahoad with now provocations, . It is important tacticelly to show clearly again and again that tho onus of aggrossion is on tho imporialists thorcby holping to win over the vgcillating ofeaents and onable moro people to grasp the prisedplos at stako. Ets dia- & . leeties of revolution and countor-rovolution, completo withadvances’ and ro- > treats, military and political thrusts, are completely foroigh to phrase- mongerers of the PLP. te know that yaricus t-ctics, mancuvors, otc. must be subordinated to the overall strategy of pooplo's wer and are an incvitavlo part of the strugglo, But it is absolutoly not tho task of revolutionarics, particularly those in tho bolly of the beast itsolf, to arrogantly eppoint thomselves jadgos and interpreters of every twist and turn in the strugglo of T9) io Yso Tung, "Roport to tho Socond Sossion of tho Soventh Central Commit- | too" (Poking: Pooples Publishing Houso, 1961) : “ 20) . "Qn Podico Nogotiations with tho Kuomintang," Vol, 4, p. 48 Lootnese. ' pom. 2t) Ibid., pe 49. - rnnr an “ 22) "On Gnunking Nogotiations," p. 56.° 23) Ibid. vas