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By Peter Jeffries

Workers Press no. 170, 26 May 1970 · scan pages 2, 5

Topics: Vietnam and Indochina, France

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Vote Labour June 18!EEr must stop 'IMPERIALISM has tied the whole world up into one bloody knot. There is no way out except the struggle of the working class for socialism, WorkLENIN G TROTERY LENIN CENTENARY SWINDON Sunday, May 31, 7.30 p.m. "Theory and practice and the Sunday, June 7, 7.30 p.m.

Lenin and the coming English Revolution' OXFORD HOTEL Corner of Groundwell Rd Speaker: Gerry Healy, national Secretary, Socialist Labour League Admission 2s It has always been considered a traditional working-class right to use the cemetery to commemorate the Commune, when the working class Paris wielded power for over two months.

The rapid development of the AJS and the growth of

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ers Press editor Mike Banda told a capacity audience of more than 600 at a public meeting against the Indo-China war in London's Beaver Hall on Sunday night.

rike Cavanaeysi docker Larry and Keep Left' editor Aileen Jennings, who also spoke at the meeting, Cde Banda stressed the need to step up the campaign for industrial action against the war-a campaign which had already borne fruit in the May 1 strikes in Liverpool.

The invasion of Cambodia and the reported Chinese troop movements had made this campaign thousand times more urgent, comrade Banda said.

'Only the working class can stop this war. We mustn't lose one hour to unite the working class behind a programme for industrial action.

Major threat

'The extension of the Vietnam war into Cambodia and Laos. is a major threat aimed at the Chinese People's Republic' he said.

"The reason the Americans have the confidence to do this is because they have the tacit support of the Soviet bureau'Peaceful co-existence today means not only peaceful coexistence with capitalism, it means peaceful co-existence with every militarist and fascist thug in the world.' Stressing the complicity of Stalinism in the Vietnam war, he pointed out that:

'The British Communist Party doesn't really want victory for the Vietnamese peoples.

'They rely entirely on the so-called goodwill of the ruling class. That's why we could not get any agreement with them to oppose Wilson's visit to Nixon - the same Nixon who presides over the biggest murder machine in human The Americans were using and two Maoist organizations are being investigated on the grounds that they represent the reconstitution of organizations which were dissolved by government order after the May-June general strike.

These actions are now aimed at isolating the revolutionary youth from trade unionists, in a period when the gains made in 1968 by the French working class are being hacked away.

Reverse ban

There must be immediate working-class action to reverse this ban and to prevent further repressions against the AJS and the other organizations.

The French Communist Party did nothing to defend those organizations which were banned in 1968. Where do its leaders stand in relation to these latest attacks on the working-class movement and its democratic rights?

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politically advanced conference the latest most modern inventions of human ingenuity to carry out organized barbarism in Vietnam.

But with all their computers they were unable to match the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian peasants.

Imperialism has been fighting the wrong war in the wrong place and at the wrong time since the beginning of this century and they have never yet defeated the colonial peoples,' he added.

£178 10s 4d was collected at the meeting towards the £5,000 fund for the Workers Press.

fought for such a socialist policy and to build an independent socialist leadership fighting on all working-class issues.

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