Fight Indo-China war with revolutionary working-class action

BY A This is proof that under the cover of talks in Paris and Vienna, US imperialism AS THE joint Saigon-US was preparing to extend the war. We now have the proof that Nixon is seeking the thrust up the Mekong destruction of the Vietnamese and Chinese River towards Phnom Penh Revolutions. The extension of the counter-revolutionary continued yesterday, it was officially admitted that the political framework of 'peaceful co-existence'. elusive NLF headquarters US imperialism has to take on the role of has not been located in the counter-revolutionary policeman for the defence of capitalist interests, to crush all the so-called 'Fish hook' area of Cambodia invaded by aspirations of the workers peace and socialism.

Nixon on May 1. 3 This decision was taken when the funUS military authorities in the stifling of the productive forces within Long Binh, Vietnam, now believe that the 'Central Office nation state-threatens once again to drag for South Vietnam' (COSVN) US imperialism and with it the whole of has moved westwards away from the region invaded by world imperialism into a crisis. Nixon's troops, and beyond he official 22-mile limit proclaimed at the outset of the One way out Cambodian invasion.

After repeated claims were made that the NLF headFaced with these contradictions in their system, the Wall St magnates and their govquarters had been either ernment know only one way out, as Hitler sighted or destroyed, the and the German imperialists knew only one whole pretext of the invasion solution in 1939: counter-revolutionary has been quietly dropped.

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Cover Workers throughout the entire world must understand this: the extension of the VietMilitary commentators now nam war into Cambodia is a deliberate act, openly state that as far as a first step in the preparation of war against the Saigon regime was concerned, the invasion was a means of establishing its forces permanently on Camderous arms of imperialism, are not halted bodian territory. by the class struggle of the world's workUsing the plight of the ers, imperialism will go to the very end, persecuted Vietnamese minorto war against China, the Soviet Union and all the countries that have escaped ity as cover for moving deeper into Cambodia the the control of imperialism. uppet forces of the Saigor Nixon and the Pentagon must prepare to regime have now mounted open new outlets for their system by using brute force. They must try to overcome the advance uhe capital. contradictions of capitalism by crushing entire peoples with fire, bloodshed and napalm.

equipment, planes and vessels are being used in this 4 But at the point where the American new Nixon's claim that all US deeper into their war of extermination in forces will be withdrawn from Indo-China, they struck in the United States itself. The four students assassinated for Cambodia by June 30 clashes with Monday's statement their protest against the extension of the war his Saigon puppet, President are proot that imperialism, to carry out its Thieu, who insisted that US counter-revolutionary war in Asia, will trj forces would return to Caled to crush the American working class and bodia the situation called its youth. fee a nis on too st will keep own troops there after the Tune 30 deadline.

lready the US troor coming bogged down by th Nixons rains campaign has damental contradiction of our epoch— confines of private property and the Cambodia and U.S.

If the Pentagon and Nixon, the murMrs Elsie Whitmee outside County Hall.

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eviction POLICE cleared the public g Greater London Council chamt ster, yesterday as tenants and : the Abbey Wood Action Gro against the brutal eviction of Norman Whitmee and their five lory councillors staged a walk-out as tenants drowned housing committee chairman Cl with chants of 'Put the Whitmee TL - The tamily was evicted from their council flat in Sewell Road, SE, last week by a force of more than 50 police after Mr Whitmee was sacked from his GLC assistant caretaker's post.

He needs a house with a garden for his mentally handicapped daughter Michelle, who cannot play in the street.

Tory spokesmen who met a tenants' delegation yesterday nade it plain that they do not intend to offer other accommodation.

If the family cannot find suitable accommodation they face the prospect of the Plumstead 'Halfway House'.

Commented Action Committee leader Bill Jeavons:

"The law stands to protect the bricks and mortar of our society-not the people in it. The people must fight to people: puts property before change the basis of the society allery of tr er, Westmir supporters i up proteste Mr and M : children. demonstrati the words • lase-Garden, es back'. stage in its disintegration. John M. King, the Colorado multi-millionaire, arranged the operation with the backing of a consortium of unnamed American financial IOS.

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But the withdrawal of both the London and Paris Rothschild Banks from all negotiations means that it will be hard to persuade other European banks to participate.

This is the essential question for the revival of confidence in the severely shaken The names of the institutions supporting the deal will not be revealed until it is finally signed in two weeks' No comment Meanwhile, the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company, closely associated with King in the past, has declined to comment, and the Bank of New York, also reported to be involved in the deal, has denied being engaged in any discussions.

Bernard Cornfeld, founder of the $2,300 million mutual funds enterprise IOS, deposed over the week-end, has to place his 15 per cent share holding in trust for three The voting strength of these shares will be exercised in this period by the new IOS board, 16 of whose 27 members will be nominated by King.

IOS shares, which fell sharply on Monday when the Rothschild withdrawal was announced, were unmoved by the news of King's 'rescue' loan.

King, Resources, like IOS, is in the mutual funds business, investing on behalf of small savers.

King directed this investworkers follow officials of the G&MWU nearby Centrax factory and the electricians' which has sparked off a union came to initiate spate of ware demands discussions with the management over the claim, they returned empty-handed after the company had refused to discuss in the presence of shop stewards.

The firm employs workers from all over E Devon, including about 50 non-unionists, some of whom have refused to join the strike.

The Otter Mill workers see their struggle as very much a continuation of the successful 21-week strike at the ment into oll and gas exploration and built up a $500 milion fortune in the process.

Even before this, he was a leading Republican politician, SLL Lenin lectures off to successful start AN AUDIENCE of 500 youth and trade unionists attended the first of the Socialist Labour League's Lenin Centenary Lectures in London on Monday night.

In opening the meeting on "Theory, practice and the revolutionary party', Mike Banda, SLL assistenevanretary, stressed the relevance Lenin's teachings with the approach of the European revolution.

The audience listened attentively as Gerry Healy, SLL national secretary, outlined the role of the revolutionary party in the struggle against revisionism in the workers' movement.

'Our aim is not just to make the working class organizationally independent, but ideologically independent,' he said.

This was not a question of confrontation with the Centrax lead in the area.

As an electricians' steward told Workers Press: "The Centrax strike shows that something can be done here. We are prepared to stay out as long as is necessary to win our demands.

The strikers have established fundraising committee and a hardship committee, and are setting up a body to co-ordinate "blacking' of the company's supplies and products. the main contribution and a collection raised f52 10s towards the £1,000 Workers Press monthly, appeal fund. Lenin Centenary The second of two London lectures to mark the hundredth anniversary of Lenin's birth Lecture given by HEALY, natlonal secretary of BEAVER HALL Garlick Hill, London, E.C.4 ar Mansion House tube stati although picket-lines have recently been hundreds strong Monday, May 18, 7.30 p.m. ' Lenin and the coming English Revolution'

Post to: Circulation Organlzer, Workere Press, 181 Clapham High Street, London, SW4. (Tel: 01-720-2001 sitting in the Illinois State Assembly and aiding Nixon's campaigns for the vice-presidency and the presidency in the 1950s.

King's intervention may well have Nixon's active backing.

The possibility of an IOS collapse is a fearsome one for US capital, especially in its présent critical condition.

But it is unlikely that the bid to save IOS will succeed.

Confidence cannot be restored at this stage of the game. The struggle between US and European financial interests must now be over who will cut whose throat— and the Americans appear to have the sharpest knives.

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