Vietnam deception

Danger swells council.

The statement, passed as read:

"That this Executive Council being aware of the hardships caused to the citizens of the United King dom, accept the shipowners' improved offer of June 28.

"Therefore, in the knowledge that the court of inquiry will fully investigate our other grievances and allow other negotiations to take place, strike action will be adjourned for a period of 12 months to allow the inquiry to proceed.

REDUCTION So 26,000 of the union's 70,000 members are being told a motion by 29 votes to 16, seamen's leaders.

years will, in fact, be breaking strikes. oppose the legislation.

have to face some very wing to witch-hunt them out of the union.

This would be a mistake because it would prevent the rank and file of the union getting rid of this right wing when the elections take place next year. So Joe Kenny, Jim Slater and others have to tread very carefully lest they be isolated.

An unofficial movement now would be used to get rid of them so that the right wing could romp home in next year's elections.

A sell-out has been forced on the union by the Labour government. Therefore it is necessary witch-hunt lest it isolate them political forces at work during he Communist rarty.

SUIKC.

It was only natural that the right wing of the National Union of Seamen under these circumstances would crumble before such an onslaught.

Mr. Gordon Norris, the Communist Party seaman, says that the calling off of the strike was achieved "democratically. This nonsense. The strike was called off because of the pressure of the Labour government.

The seamen's strike was a political strike. Without these political lessons, it cannot be understood.

to socialists in Britain. Ever since the first troops landed ir obvious that American imperialism is determined to carry the what the cost in U.S. and Vietnamese lives.

Not satisfied with killing, maiming and burning thousands of innocent women and children in South Vietnam, U.S. imperialism, in its desperate drive for profits and military superiority, now intends to incinerate the major cities of North Vietnam.

They see this not only as a means to end the heroic resistance of the Vietnamese people, but, if the maniacs in the Pentagọn have their way, this must surely be a prelude to a general warm soutn-east Asla, chief object is the Chinese People's Republic.

FEARFUL

U.S. imperialism, fearful of losing nuclear superiority, would like to find a pretext for devastating the atomic energy resources of the Chinese Republic and gaining a new area for markets and investment.

In this deadly and sinister game, they have so far had the wholehearted and unconditional co-operation and support of Mr. Wilson's government and, it must be stressed, of the flabby, unprincipled thoroughly fraudulent 'left' wing in parliament. exposed President Johnson Only a few months ago these miserable wretches on the 'left' withdrew a censure motion on Wilson when he assured them in his typically cynical way that Johnson was not intending to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong.

Now their combined deception has been unmasked by Johnson's latest actions. The mask is off, and the truth is out.

Mr. Wilson's belated dissociation from Johnson is pathetically irrelevant in the present situation and the 'left' wing motion is as pathetically inadequate as all previous gestures of these parliamentary cretins. ng will come as no surprise Vietnam, it has been patently war into the north, no matter The working class must act now and decisively.

DEMONSTRATIONS

Only massive demonstrations of workers on the streets and industrial action through all the major industrial countries, and particularly American and the USSR, under the slogans 'Hands off Vietnam', "Victory to the Vietcong, will bring real peace to the Vietnamese peopie and the withdrawal of U.S. and other imperialist, troops from this martyrcui One thing is certain: it will be criminal to place any confidence in the witch-hunter and strike-breaker Wilsoname left'that matter, in his tame wing 'rebels'.