GRIM LEGACY GENEVA

As President Nixon and drink their rice-wine toasts and hold their private consultations in the Chinese capital, the workers and peasants of Vietnam are brought forcibly up against one of the blackest betrayals Behind all the mutual congratulations and the high-sounding phrases about the future of mankind and peace on earth, the central issue of the talks is the fate of the revolution in Asia and in particular of its highest expression, the struggle of the peoples of Indo-China.

Nixon, whose government has expended billions dollars unsuccessfully trying to crush the Vietnamese revolution in rain of airborne death and destruction wants the Maoists' agreement to settlement in Indo-China which will leave his puppets in S Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

He has been encouraged by the Chinese government's support for counter-revolution in other pas tulsome backing for the sup- of the world- particularly pression the Sudan Communist Party and its support for dictator Yahya Khan against the people of BanglaDesh.

He knows that by itself imperialism is powerless to defeat the The revolutionary upsurge in Asia. eight years since American troops were sent in force to Mit am haubr! proved this beyond all doubt. The Vietnamese workers and peasants have stood up to everything the might of American capitalism could throw at them.

It is here that the full treachet peaceful co-existence' with of the Stalinist conception impe was underes it slogera toat Was under this slogan that the Soviet and Chinese leaders banded together in 1954 to foist the Geneva agreement on the Viet Minh. In this way the Vietnamese were robbed 'al tne conference table of the victories they had won on the battlefield.

The fall of Dien Bien Phu at he end of April 1954, sealed he tate of the renc attempt to restore colonial control over Indo-China.

The defeat of the French forces was decisive because the entire strategy of the occupation forces had been centred around the defence of this key base in the thick jungles of NW Vietnam. the day, headed by Tene al The American government Eisenhower, CYCH considered using nuclear weapons. to stave off the defeat of the beleaguered garrison in the Dien Bien Phu fortress.

The idea was rejected, though schemes for immediate American intervention. - including dispatch of 15,000 Marines- -were seriously considered by the Eisenhower cabinet.

The French position deteriorated so rapidly, however, that the US decided intervention would be impossible and would only compound the consequences of defeat for the French. This was the background to the longdrawn-out negotiations at Geneva in the months that followed.

The idea of "peaceful coexistence between states with different social systems' follows ine socialism rom the conception socialism in a single country with which the Soviet and Chinese bureaucracies justify their continued rule.

means subordinating the revolutionary struggles of the working class in the capitalist world to the national requirements of the ruling caste in the deformed workers' states.

This is precisely wha1 happened at Geneva. The Chinese and Soviet representativesChou En-lai and Molotov-were determined that a settlement would be reached not on the basis of the military victories won by the Viet Minh, but on the basis of dividing the area into spheres of influence.

The ai coucal provided for BOMBERS Constant bomb attacks on a Chicago statue have forced the authorities to move it off its pedestal to a safer position— the foyer of police headquarters.

Since 1970, when it was the target of two bomb attacks, the statue has been under constant police guard at an estimated cost to Chicago taxpayers of something like $68,000 a year.

Mayor Richard Daly said the bombers were 'evil creatures who work in the dark'.

The statue shows a policeman in 19th century garb with his hands upraised apparently halting an oncoming stream of traffic.

In fact, it is supposed to commemorate the seven police officers killed in the course of the Haymarket massacre on May 4, 1886.

There is no monument to the workers who died in the massacre, though more than 20 are known to have been killed.

The massacre itself was the outcome of a deliberate provocato tried th disband a poice, ful meeting of workers. The meeting was called after police had opened fire the previous day on strike pickets demanding the eight-hour day, killing several.

When police arrived to close down the meeting, a provocateur threw a stick of dynamite at them, killing one outright.

Forthwith, ine other officers opened fire pointblank on the crowd, some of whom returned the shots. Seven police were killed and three timec that number of workers.

The massacre was the signal for … a massive witch-hunt against 'anarchists' and four German-born workers were sent to the gallows on framedup charges before a jury later admitted to have been prejudiced against them.

The Haymarket trial and the martyrdom of the four workers' leaders set the pattern of frame-up and anti-working-class violence that has continued to this day in the United States.

Its latest manifestation in Chicago was the brutal suppression of the anti-war demonstrations outside the Democratic Convention in 1968, and the subsequent conspiracy trial of Bobby Seale and the 'Chicago Seven' 12 22 The statue particular, motor insurance,