U.S. IMPERIALISM-OUT!

tion fighter, Tran Van Dang, over 800 Young Socialists demonstrated through London last Sunday against U.S. aggression in Vietnam.

Echoing the last words of the 20-year-old fighter: 'You may shoot me, but others will come against you,' youth at the head of the demonstration carried banners saying 'We are the others'.

In banner, slogan and float the youth made their position of complete support for the workers and peasants of Vietnam against imperialist aggression very plain in contrast to the Communist Party and left fakers' call for peace negotiations and complete betrayal by the Wilson government.

From Marble Arch to Battersea Park youth in the colourful procession kept up their chants of 'Labour must arm the Vietcong', 'U.S. Imperialism Out!' and 'Secret Diplomacy Out!' Their loudest calls for 'U.S. Imperialism Out' resounded around Grosvenor Square as they passed the American Embassy.

Along with the dramatic picture Dang marched three girls carrying 'Americans. Get out of Viet-.nam!' They were followed by members of the National Committee of the Young Socialists and Central Committee memDers of the Socialist Labour League.

Then followed the contingents from all over London behind their decorated lorries and vans.

The impressive floats each had their own theme:

Float themes South-west London, no secret diplomacy; Middlesex, arm the Vietcong; South-east London, Socialism or barbarism (with pictures of atrocities committed by U.S. and South Vietnamese puppet troops); East London, aid to Vietnam by Australian and Japanese dockers (ship of imperialism being sunk by the fist of dockers); West London, a warmongering. Johnson with Wilson in his right pocket and Labour lefts' in his left pocket; Central Middlesex, workers of the world unite (workers of different nationalities burying the boss); Tottenham, Wilson serves imperialism; East Surrey, a huge slogan of 'U.S. imperialism get out of Vietnam', and vans with slogans and pictures saying "withdraw all troops', another saying 'the writing is on the wall for Wilson'.

Large banners of the Young Socialists ('Arm the Vietcong', Defeat American Imperialism') and the Socialist Labour League ('U.S. Imperialism get out of Vietnam') were also prominent.

Enthusiasm

The tremendous enthusiasm with which Young Socialists had prepared the floats, banners, posters and support, permeated through the whole demonstration, which attracted many youth through systematic and thorough leafleting, canvassing and explanations of YS policies in the week before the demonstration.

Tired from marching and slogan-shouting, the youth still poured in their hundreds into the Battersea Park meeting where they heard secretary of the Young Socialists, Dave Ashby, say the demonstration was a tribute to Young Socialists.

'It measures up to the kind of fight the youth are taking up on behalf of the revolutionary fighters of Vietnam, he commented. Imericans of Tran Van large posters, Saturday, July 24, 1965 THE colourful and impressive demonstration organised by the Young Socialists last Sunday was a real blow against Wilson's subservience to imperialism. This demonstration gave the lie to the centrist double-talk about 'Labour foreign secretary Stewart being a prisoner of his own propaganda' and that there can be 'no victory, only negotiated peace in Vietnam'.

As the war progresses, all the deception and lies of the reformists and centrists become more glaringly exposed.

Thee a of i rains 100, 25 dogs' of imperialism, stands equally exposed. For years they have exhorted the working class to place its faith in the sanctity of international agreements and in the virtues of secret diplomacy.

Now, all the terrible implications of this policy are blossoming like burning jellied petroleum. These people denied the fact that The increasing number of Section of YS demonstrators who listened to Editor M. Banda. campaigns and demonstrations taking place showed there was Tetnam! Trotskyism and the in war the real struggle against imperialism can only be an international working-class struggle, led by a Marxist party armed with a strategy of world revolution and independent of all bureaucracies.

The Moscow and Peking Stalinists, by their conscious opposition to such a policy, have placed themselves against the historical interests of the Vietnamese working class.

The refusal to give massive military aid, indeed, to intervene milifarily, flows logically from the reformist, anti-internationalist perspectives of the Soviet and Chinese bureaucracies.

This policy undoubtedly facilitates the diplomatic and military offensive of U.S. imperialism and underlines the necessity to break with the strategy and tactics of Stalinism.

Vietnam The role of Marxist parties is to give unconditional support to all liberation movements fighting imperialism.

In the case of Vietnam, workers in every country must mobilize to weaken the imperialist forces and hasten the victory of the Vietcong.

The campaign for unconditional class support for the Vietnamese revolution in opposition to all the opportunists, Stalinists and revisionists is the first necessity for the construction of parties of the Fourth International in every country.

The Trotskyists are the severest critics of the leaderships of these colonial movements, because we are also the most loyal defenders of the anti-imperialist revolution.

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These parties can, and will be built only through uncompromising struggle against all forms of Stalinist and Pabloite liquidationist revision of Marxism. That is the meaning of Sunday's demonstration. Wilson attacks railmen Brown and Gunter Labour leaders further colleague Gunter, Minister of Labour, have threaten unions swing to the right up