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_ 7, afratemnal poopte-} bocons "loft-wing Hanotstogis fe waiting like @ “4° "- Zeab loeflot in tho April, 1967 domonstraticns against tho war in Viotnam Foye fee + ee of vultures for ovory possible or imsginod orror in ofCor to-aggrandiso 7 £03 ‘by proving that thoir prodictions of claamity and sollout by tho. Viotnamoso,ere-s ‘true. Tho PLP loadorship mst bo hoping ty U,.-4g6 vad +20. -munist movo= mont, to scoop tho loft, and bo catapulted into world loadorship by tho yority. - of its prodictions,* It 4s difficult to find anothor oxplanation for the oute right distortions and lios it has porpotratod in its anti-Viotnem attack. > (arl Davidson pointed out in the January 11 odition of tho GUARDIAN that tho .. PRV and tho NLF had disclaimod tho political position of tho March, 1968 issuo Of WAR/PEACE REPORT on which PLP basod much of its-caso, - But has PL ropudiato: Ats position thoroby?~-not much of a chanco. ~ com "ly ote Tho Novomber, 1968 issuo of CHALLENGE limited tho attack to tho North Vict yhilo praising tho South Viotnamose's ability to“fight. . Quick to note tho. ynlikely chenco that PL céuld split tho unifiod will of tho Viotnamoso,’ John - Corvo wrote in tho Docombor CHALLENGE that tho NLF wro sollouts too. Howove: ho main lino of attack has not boon’ to sot northornor ageinst southornor, bu! ‘to placo tho lecdorship ageinst tho pooplo. Boginning with. thoir notorious which roforrod to tho "shamoloss backsliding of tho Hanoi loadors," thoy havo “'systomatically stoppod up’ tho assault on tho Viotnamoso loadorship, particularly * .Ho Chi Minh, Thoy not only attack his loadorship but stato outright that his - t soe ‘4s-a U.S, and Soviot "puppot™ rogimo, and that ho is boing "maintainod" in orde: facilitate tho transformation of Vietnam into a baso egainst China, | Hard to boliove? 'b thought so too, But horo it is: . : Tho, U.S. and tho S.U; aro trying to convort Viotnam into a gisnt.; +“ pas for war against China, This is ono dmportant reason why thoy. ce want tho Vie tnangge to surrendow, And why thoy maintain the Ho Chi Minh loadorship,“" °. - a ‘ 2 none, Sinco tho Chincso aro the ultimato’ object of such an encirclomont, whet - do they say about this "traitor", "puppot®, and "sollout" Ho Chi Minh? Apparently tho air odition of CHALLENGE has boon held up in U.S. Customs, bocause 4n tho Fobruary 21 odition of tho PEXING REVIEW lin Piao says tho following: _ Yb ero dooply convinced that undor tho leadership of their great... leador Prosidont Ho Chi Minh an? porsovoring in, protractod pooplos_ war, tho 31 million Viotnamoso poople will suroly crivo out all tho ., U.S. aggressors from Victnam and achiove tho groat goal of liborating tho south, dofending tho north an‘ procoeding to rounify. thoir - * motherland, se ne f et ‘ dace 5 est Considering tho throat to China itsolf, aro w_ to conclude that Lin Piao is as poisonous wood? Meo Tsotung himsolf signod a lotter on Docombor 19,1968,- ,: praising tho "leacorship of thoir greet leader Ho Chi Minh," stating: 4 “ Q tho occasion of tho 8th annivorsary of tho founding of tho * South Viotnam Nationel Front for Liboration, wo, on behalf of tho. * Chinoso pooplo, tho Communist Party of China and tho Govornnmont .- ” “of tho Pooples Republic of China, oxtond tho wermost grootings to. tho pooplo of south Viotnam and tho South Viotnam National Front _° for Liberation who aro stepding at tho. forefront of tho struggl . against U,S. imporialisn, ae at ete a In a singlo sontanco of grootings Mo sums up tho main question at’ isstio. Tho Viotnamoso stand in tho forefront of tho strugglo! It 4s thoir practico that évory Cay provos tho falsity of the charge of revisionism, ‘Tho final tost of revisionism is not words byt 2oods, ‘Tho Intian Communist Party (Marxist=/ -.": Loninist) cellod itsalf Maoist but was attackod oponly by tho Chinoso as “ “~ rovisionistt “hy? For tho simplo roason that whontho poasents of Naxalbori ~~ roso up to ovorthrow: thoir masters, tho Indien CP (ML) opposod the masses. Intian oxample is not the first time that a party kas’ opposed tho struggl the massos undor the guiso of "left" phrasos, TTR es . sro te The Progressiva Iabor Party has opposed tho most important mass domonstrations against tho Yar in Viotnam undor ono protoxt after anothor, In tho April, 1967 domonstretions reforrod to ebove, PL cotto: tho orgenizing activitios on tho gost coast, and in San Francisco confinod itsolf to issuing loaflots attacking Hanoi and tho march organizors, Its protoxt in that strugglo wes that. thor slogan "End tho War in Viotnam,"” duo to its vaguonoss, oponed tho door to nucloar attack by tho U.S. as a quick moans of onding tho war. It is cortainly truc that tho rovisionists who erganizod tho march along with othors subnorged everything within tho "united front," but PL handod tho ball ovor to thom and _ De "Biitordal," CHANGE © ; 25. PEKING REVIEW, February 21, 1969 7° 26, PaKING REVIEW, Doccmber 27, 1968 ~~