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OTHING can exceed the hypocrisy of the 'protests' about Nixon's bombing of Vietnam issued last week by the leaders of the British Labour Party.

le 'Daily Mirror' gave over its entire front page on Friday to Roy Jenkins' letter to Heath complaining of the Tory premier's 'indifference' to the United States' offensive against 'stubborn' Vietnam. either Jenkins nor the 'Mirror' pointed out that if he had not led 69 Labour traitors into the Tory Common Market lobby in October 1971, the Heath government would not be in power today. so on Friday 'The Times' published a letter from Mr R. G. Hayward, general secretary, of Labours abhorrence, outlining bombing and its 'regret' at the breakdown of the Paris 'peace' talks.

r Hayward failed to explain why there has not been single official demand from the Labour Opposition for even a parliamentary debate on the renewed US bombings, let alem in the campur movemenst ader Harold Wilson, fresh from Israel, where. he had been hailed as a friend of Zionism, also 'condemned' and deplored' the atrocities.

it this was the same Wilson who, as Labour Prime Minister, flew to Washington on January 25, 1970, and gave President Nixon his complete support for the Vietnam policies of US imperialism.

id that was shortly after the revelations of the notorious My Lai massacres, which had also occurred during the lifetime of the Labour government —in March 1968.

her clear examples of imperialist brutality in Vietnam which hit the headlines during the time of the Labour government included the news that in June 1969, a company commander of the US Ninth Infantry Division ordered his men to use village huts and their. occupants for target practice.

›out the same time American army commanders were ordered not to 'generate' more refugees because all the camps were full. This meant, as everyone knew, 'kill them instead'.

1 authoritative New York Times' report spoke of 'official acquiescence to the destruction of the countryside and its people' and declared that 'air strikes on civilians have become a matter of routine'.

et the Socialist Labour League was the only organization to campaign against Wilson's visit to Washington. We said hen (Workers Press, January 21, 1970):

We know that Wilson, re• formist and servant of the oahukers bankers that he is'hilt. That Nixon's war to the is one of the reasons why he is going to Washington. All talk of Wilson being able to put 'pressure' on Nixon to stop the war is so much rubbish.

But for that very reason, we will fight tooth and nail in the remaining few days to prevent Wilson speaking up for imperialism in the name of the British labour and trade union movement.

That has happened all in the past.

Wilson and his kind did not build this movement. The working class did, in a fight against the very system we see unleashing its terror today on the Vietnamese people.

ilson has no right to speak for the millions of workers who fought for this movement in the past and continue to defend it today-against, it should be said, the attacks of Wilson and his big business 1s we have stressed repeatedly throughout this campaign, the fate and struggle of the British and Vietnamese workers are linked.

Vhat Wilson has attempted to do with his 'penal clauses' against the trade unions and his wage freeze against the entire working class, Nixon continues in Vietnam with napalm bombs and 'pacification campaigns'. ley all attack the working class. The difference is one of degree, not kind. United with our Vietnamese brothers we can both defeat imperialism and go on to build socialism.

erything we said then has been proved correct. Yet neither the Labour 'lefts' nor the Communist Party Stalinists raised murmur against Wilson's Washington trip. either have they fought since to bring down the Tory government. No number of verbal protests nor 'vigils' outside the American embassy can end the war in Vietnam.

lat needs the united action of the Vietnamese masses and the American and European working class. Immediately, that means a campaign now to force the Tory government to resign and to return a Labour government committed to all-out opposition to American imperialism in Vietnam. le verbiage of the social democrats and the vigils of the Stalinists are a cover to avoid such a fight. and Haiphong is an admission of bankruptcy by President Nixon and a portent of impending defeat for US imperialism in Indo-China.

The American claim-dutifully echoed by Tory premier Edward Heath - that the North Vietnamese have been forced back to the Paris talks is a threadbare lie.

It is designed to cover the fact that the US has lost a major portion of its strategic bomber force since the air onslaught against the northern capital began on December 18.

Hanoi has put American losses at 34 B52s, five FIll swing wing jets and other planes, totalling 81 from December 18 to 29. The Americans admit to losing 15 B52s and ten other planes.

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'For 12 days and nights of fierce but heroic and skilful fighting we have dealt deadly blows to the US strategic air force and gained victories full of strategic meaning and without precedent in the history of wars,' the paper said.

The commentary, entitled 'A Strategic Victory, said the US mobilized its entire strategic as well as tactical air potential in south-east Asia to produce a 'destruction effect' similar to an atomic bomb in the most populated areas.

The paper said US strategy was important both militarily and politically, but it failed because of the courage and heroism of the North Vietnamese people and armed forces.

The bombing was a desperate act by the Nixon regime to try and stave off defeat in the south and maintain the partition of Indo-China. President Thieu's protest at Soviet embassy BUKOVSKY VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY, the young Soviet writer now serving a 12-year prison sentence in the USSR, is in a bad state of health and suffering from rheumatic fever, say the latest reports.

Bukovsky, who was 30-years-old over the weekend, is reported to be in the tough Vladimir Prison outside Moscow. His damp cell is affecting his He was arrested by police in March 1971 on the trumped-up charge of 'anti-Soviet agitation'. His 'crime' was to publish an appeal to western psychiatrists to assess the mental state of oppositionists imprisoned in asylums, based on diagnoses he had managed to obtain.

On Saturday, of the Working RIGHT TOEWORK TELIM war material.

Nixon had hoped to bomb North Vietnam back into the stone age, dropping a greater explosive power in the last two weeks than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bombs combined.

The barbarous tactics have proved a failure. The workers and peasants of Vietnam have stood firm in defence of their revolution against everything that Nixon can throw at them.

The talks reopen in Paris in a week's time, though there will be meetings of technical experts' beginning on Tuesday.

The American side is trying to save face by maintaining that the Vietnamese have made crucial concessions on the size of the international observer force to police an agreement.

However, according to reports, the US has made the far more fundamental concession of recognizing, according to reports, that Vietnam is one country.

It is on the basis of this principle that North Vietnam claims the right to maintain troops in the south.

Bukovsky health and could lead to heart trouble. actor David Markham, secretary Group on the Internment of Dissenters in Mental Hospitals, staged a protest against Bukovsky's continued imprisonment outside the Soviet Embassy in London.

'According to information the authorities are building 150 new mental hospitals in the Soviet Union for political prisoners,' he told Workers Press.

'And it is said a lot of workers are • being imprisoned as well as the intellectuals. Now.

The Kremlin bureaucracy is also dealing harshly with dissenting psychiatrists. Dr S. Glusman has just been given ten years in jail for refusing to certify normal people insane.

David Markham said attempts had been made in the west to keep the whole question quiet.

In my opinion, some leading British psychiatrists have assisted in preventing the subject being raised at world conferences for fear of antagonizing the Soviet delegation.

*On the other hand, a number of leading psychiatrists are sympathetic and are willing „LO anything they can to help, to do His working group is actually made up of four leading in the psychiatric field.