Fight Indo-China war with revolutionary working-class action

[p040] Fight Indo-China war with revolutionary working-class action US IMPERIALISM and its head—Richard ‘Tricky Dick’ Nixon - have just taken the decision to extend the counter - revolutionary Vietnam war into Cam- bodia. Through this decision, US imperial- ism tramples underfoot all speculation on a so-called ‘peaceful co-existence’ which could be set up between imperi- alism and workers and peasants strug- gling throughout the world for a new society : socialism. This decision was taken precisely at a time when US imperialism was supposedly negotiating in Paris for a return to peace, at a time when secret talks are beginning in Vienna for the limitation of nuclear arms. This is proof that under the cover of talks in Paris and Vienna, US imperialism was preparing to extend the war. We now have the proof that Nixon is seeking the destruction of the Vietnamese and Chinese Revolutions. The extension of the counter-revolutionary war gives added proof that peace and war do not depend on negotiations within the political framework of ‘peaceful co-existence’. US imperialism has to take on the role of counter-revolutionary policeman for the de- fence of capitalist interests, to crush all the aspirations of the workers and peasants for peace and socialism. % This decision was taken when the fun- damental contradiction of our epoch— the stifling of the productive forces within the confines of private property and the nation state—-threatens once again to drag US imperialism and with it the whole of world imperialism into a crisis. Fight Indo-China war statement by the International Committee of the Fourth International on the extension of the counter-revolutionary Vietnam war into Cambodia. One way out Faced with these contradictions in their system, the Wall St magnates and their gov- ernment know only one way out, as Hitler and the German imperialists knew only one solution in 1939: counter-revolutionary massacre. Workers throughout the entire world must understand this: the extension of the Viet- nam war into Cambodia is a deliberate act, a first step in the preparation of war against China. If the Pentagon and Nixon, the mur- .derous arms of imperialism, are not halted by the class struggle of the world’s work- ers, imperialism will go to the very end, to war against China, the Soviet Union and all the countries that have escaped the control of imperialism. Nixon and the Pentagen must prepare to open new outlets for their system by using brute force. They must try to overcome the contradictions of capitalism by crushing en- tire peoples -with fire, bloodshed and napalm. 4 But at the point where the American imperialists were sinking deeper and deeper into their war of extermination in Indo-China, they struck in the United States itself. The four students assassinated for their protest against the extension of the war are proof that imperialism, to carry out its counter-revolutionary war in Asia, will try to crush the American working class and its youth. Significance But the protest. of students in the USA has the same significance as the struggles of French students in the first days of May 1968, struggles which opened the way for the General Strike of ten million workers and youth against the Gaullist government and state. The four students assassinated in the USA by the murderer Nixon announces the en- try of the US working class into struggle. As they have shown in recent strikes, they re- fuse to accept the economic consequences of the Vietnam war. The International Committee states that all the conditions in Europe and the United States, in Asia and Latin America are present to begin mass united actions against the war of murderer Nixon. All the conditions are now present for the workers’ traditional organizations— those who stand for the defence of the workers’ interests—to present a united front against capitalism. Socialist goal The struggle of the Indo-Chinese peoples for national independence is a struggle for socialism. The struggle of the Indo-Chinese peoples against murderer Nixon merges with the struggle of the American working class and youth against imperialism. The goal of the Indo-Chinese peoples and that of the American working class unites with the class struggles of the workers of every country against their own ruling class and for the socialist revolution. Outside this perspective, there is only the blind alley of so-called ‘peaceful co-existence’, which permits world imperialism to prepare its blows against workers and peasants. We condemn the action of the revisionists in using the struggle against the war as a pacifist parade, substituting the middle class for the working class. The International Committee fights for the mobilization of the working class on a revo- lutionary-defeatist programme to expose the role of the social democratic and Stalinist bureaucracies. The only way to fight the ex- tension of the Vietnam war into Cambodia is through class action—industrial action— against the war, as part of the struggle to build revolutionary leadership for the working class. May 6, 1970 21

[p041] Fight Indo-China war with revolutionary working-class action US IMPERIALISM and its head—Richard ‘Tricky Dick’ Nixon - have just taken the decision to extend the counter - revolutionary Vietnam war into Cam- bodia. Through this decision, US imperial- ism tramples underfoot all speculation on a so-called ‘peaceful co-existence’ which could be set up between imperi- alism and workers and peasants strug- gling throughout the world for a new society: socialism. This decision was taken precisely at a time when US imperialism was supposedly negotiating in Paris for a return to peace. at a time when secret talks are beginning in Vienna for the limitation of nuclear arms. This is proof that under the cover of talks in Paris and Vienna, US imperialism was preparing to extend the war. We now have the proof that Nixon is seeking the destruction of the Vietnamese and Chinese Revolutions. The extension of the counter-revolutionary war gives added proof that peace and war do not depend on negotiations within the political framework of ‘peaceful co-existence’. US imperialism has to take on the role of counter-revolutionary policeman for the de- fence of capitalist interests, to crush all the aspirations of the workers and peasants for peace and socialism. ‘ This decision was taken when the fun- damental contradiction of our epoch— the stifling of the productive forces within the confines of private property and the nation state—threatens once again to drag US imperialism and with it the whole of world imperialism into a crisis. Fight Indo-China war solution in statement by the International Committee of the Fourth International on the extension of the counter-revolutionary Vietnam war into Cambodia. One way out Faced with these contradictions in their system, the Wall St magnates and their gov- ernment know only one way out, as Hitler and the German imperialists knew only one 1939: counter-revolutionary massacre. Workers throughout the entire world must understand this: the extension of the Viet- nam war into Cambodia is a deliberate act, a first step in the preparation of war against China. If the Pentagon and Nixon, the mur- .derous arms of imperialism, are not halted by the class struggle of the world’s work- ers, imperialism will go to the very end, to war against China, the Soviet Union and all the countries that have escaped the control of imperialism. Nixon and the Pentagen must prepare to open new outlets for their system by using brute force. They must try to overcome the contradictions of capitalism by crushing en- tire peoples with fire, bloodshed and napalm. 4, But at the point where the American imperialists were sinking deeper and deeper into their war of extermination in Indo-China, they struck in the United States itself. The four students assassinated for their protest against the extension of the war are proof that imperialism, to carry out its counter-revolutionary war in Asia, will try to crush the American working class and its youth. Significance But the protest. of students in the USA has the same significance as the struggles of French students in the first days of May 1968, struggles which opened the way for the General Strike of ten million workers and youth against the Gaullist government and state. The four students assassinated in the USA by the murderer Nixon announces the en- try of the US working class into struggle. As they have shown in recent strikes, they re- fuse to accept the economic consequences of the Vietnam war. 5 The International Committee states that all the conditions in Europe and the United States, in Asia and Latin America are present to begin mass united actions against the war of murderer Nixon. All the conditions are now present for the workers’ traditional organizations— those who stand for the defence of the workers’ interests—to present a united front against capitalism. Socialist goal The struggle of the Indo-Chinese peoples for national independence is a struggle for sccialism. The struggle of the Indo-Chinese peoples against murderer Nixon merges with the struggle of the American working class and ycuth against imperialism. The goal of the Indo-Chinese peoples and that of the American working class unites with the class struggles of the workers of every country against their own ruling class and for the socialist revolution. Outside this perspective, there is only the blind alley of so-called ‘peaceful co-existence’, which permits world imperialism to prepare its blows against workers and peasants. We condemn the action of the revisionists in using the struggle against the war as a pacifist parade, substituting the middle class for the working class. The International Committee fights for the mobilization of the working class on a revo- luticnary-defeatist programme to expose the role of the social democratic and Stalinist bureaucracies. The only way to fight the ex- tension of the Vietnam war into Cambodia is through class action—industrial action— against the war, as part of the struggle to build revolutionary leadership for the working class. May 6, 1970 21

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