By PETER TEMPEST

MOSCOW—United action by the
‘entire world Communist move-
ment is urgently needed in the
struggle against world im-
perialism, the Soviet paper
Pravda declared last Sunday ina
long editorial article,

It stressed that the struggle
for the ending of U.S, aggression
in Vietnam was the key issue
in the current political situation
and that joint action, not dis-
jointed actions of fraternal par-
ties would produce the greatest
effect,

“The question of differences
in the international Communist
movement,” said Pravda, “should
be regarded in close connection
with the tasks of the struggle
against imperialism, for the in-
terests of the working class, for
national independence, peace and
Socialism,

“Communists have no right to
forget about their primary tasks
and their chief enemy — im-
perialism,

“The firmness of the Com-
munist Parties’ anti-imperialist
stand is tested first of all by
its deeds, There is no better
way of helping the people of
Vietnam than by taking joint
action in its support,”

Concentration upon what unites
the Communist Parties andonthe
pressing tasks of the Liberation
movements was the way to
achieve unity on Marxist-
Leninist principles, it said,

All forms and ways of reaching
_Mutual understanding, and re-

Pravda calls for unity
of world Communists

moving differences should be
used “including bilateral and
multilateral meetings and con-

- Sultations, regional conferences

and, lastly, a new international
conference,

*But in present conditions,
joint actions, not excluding but
presupposing the use of all other
forms of rapproachement be-
tween fraternal parties, are the
main way to strengthen unity.”
said Pravda,

Attempts to discredit certain
sections of the Communist move-
ment and to present them as
class foes were incompatible with
the interests of the world revo-
lutionary movement, :

Since last October Pravda
pointed out, the Soviet Com-
munist Party had not been con-
ducting public polemic, but “un-

fortunately this attitude has not.

been correctly appreciated by
the Chinese Communist Party
leadership,”

“A number of articles and
speeches openly hostile to the
Soviet Communist Party and most
fraternal parties, have recently
been published in the Chinese
Press, distorting the actual state
of affairs,

“Such steps naturally cannot
facilitate the success of the
struggle for unity of Communist
ranks,”

Capitalist ideologies had no
reason to rejoice at the present
situation in the Communist move-
ment, Pravda warned. Com-
munist strength was growing all
the time and the Communist
Parties in 88 countries now had
a total of 46,700,000,

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got.

Here is the wreckage of a U.S. plane shot down “‘some-
where in North Vietnam."’ The U.S> has. been suffering
heavy losses which official statements play down. Below,

EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT:

Hanoi’s defenders ready
to meet American attack

By ALAN WINNINGTON

HANOI—This is a city prepared
to face and defeat anything that
the Americans can doto it. Twen-
ty-four hours in this calm, ex-

_pectant capital is enough to see’

‘that,

Regular army, militia, mass
voluntary organizations are

working in complete unity to de- -

fend the city. “Around Hanoi we
have anti-aircraft units able to
hit the enemy at all altitudes,”
military commandant Nam Thang
told the British Communist Party
delegation when they arrived June
14,

Apart from regular troops,
apart from militia (in which 14
per cent of North Vietnam’s

people are enrolled), every able= -

bodied man, woman and youth is
involved in preparing. for any-
thing that can happen. We saw
this on a short trip outside Hanoi
yesterday to visit the little vile
lage of Yen Duyen.

In relentless tropical rain
army groups were training, heavy
anti-aircraft batteries stood
ready,
cheerfully about their work waved
and laughed, Many peasants were
‘armed and on the walls of the
village were stencilled pictures
of the main American aircraft
types with instructions how far

~ ahead to shoot to bring them down,

These are not people who will
be hiding in raids, They will be
out there hitting with all they have

Hanoi’s military commandant
told us briefly about the general

preparations to defend the city.’

Militia cover each hamlet, fac-

men and women going’

tory and office. Militia anti-air-

.craft gunners are being trained

to step at once into the shoes of
regular anti-aircraft artillery
men. Everyone with a weapon is
training intensively.

“Hanoi is determined, abso-
lutely determined, to win its,
first battle if the Americans
come—to shoot down the first

plane that attacks our capital,”

the plump, smiling, confident
commandant said. ;

* Preparations include main and
secondary shelters — intercon-
nected — and shelters for ma-
chines, with 20,000 Hanoi citi-
zens engaged in first-aid train-
ing, fire-fighting units spread
as close as the militia, plans for

JOHN GOLLAN, British Communist
leader now in North Vietnam, said
this week that after what he had
seen he was convinced the Vietnam-
ese people would win complete vic-
tory over U.S. imperialist aggression.

-people—their busy confide’ a
was attributed by the Hanoi Wor

Alan Winnington, Sritish Daily Worker correspondent if
Hanoi writes his first despatch after arriving last we
with a delegation frow the British Communist Party:

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of the politically broad "
mounting opposition in Bri’,

and elsewhere to the Ameri¢

dangerous and foredoomed
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visited yesterday every rely
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‘young people and 1,000 wo fot
have volunteered to be ready
everything. Nobody has the !¢
doubt that the Americans ©
only increase the squalor of ‘a
defeat by continuing and ext?”
ing the war,

“We want peace, but we shal

safeguard our achievement>)

Nguyen Lam said, “Ifthey tee
en nuclear weapons they nly
understand they are not the ol
ones with nuclear weapons.

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