US TROOPS IN VIETNAM!
The US of the Fourth International issued the following statement regarding the use of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
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"In recent weeks the Imperialist rulers of the U.S. have been threatening to extend their undeclared war in South Vietnam into North Vietnam. At the moment they have somewhat muted their beligerent declarations about bombing Hanoi. Since McNamara's return to Washington the talk has been reduced to mounting guerrilla forays into North Vietnam and to increasing the already colossal flow of weapons and dollars to keep the rotten Saigon regime in power.
"The danger thus remains that U.S. intervention in South Vietnam can "escalate" at any time. This in turn would almost surely bring in China and the Soviet Union.
"The basic fact in South Vietnam is that U.S. imperialism and the reactionary puppets it is maintaining there face a military debacle. In the same region where Imperialist France suffered a historic defeat a decade ago, the still mightier power of imperialist America now faces a still more spectacular catastrophe at the hands of an insurgent people seeking national liberation and socialism.
"What power the colonial revolution is revealing! With a courage that will live forever in the memory of mankind, the Vietnamese people are following the example of the Chinese, the Cubans and the Algerians and, almost barehanded, are seizing the very arms brought to suppress them in order to turn them against their would-be conquerors.
"This lesson will ring throughout the rest of the colonial world with thousand fold force, bringing fresh tens of millions to their feet in rebellion against the schemes of the new imperialist combination that was created on the ashes of World War 1l.
"And inside the United States itself, big sectors of the population, particularly among the workers, farmers and minorities, will recall the lessons of Korea and speak out more insistently against the insane policy
of plunging American forces into military adventures in foreign lands, The same sectors that created an irresistible pressure at the end of World War II to bring the G.I.'s home, will gain in courage, in demanding that thẹ American troops be withdrawn from Vietnam.
"The whole world will back them in three slogans that are the most realistic in the situation.
"Hands off Vietnam'!
"Let the Vietnamese People determine their own fate!
"Get U.S. Troops out of Vietnam!"
15th March 1964 (Continued from Page 2)
What has happened in the course of the last months, particularly, in Africa, is a further confirmation in a new arena of the validity of the theory of the permanent revolution in its essential aspects. The colonial peoples who are shaking loose from the ancient yoke of imperialism, if they wish to really consolidate their victory and begin to resolve the enormous tasks which face them, must necessarily develop their revolution in an uninterrupted, permanent