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‘0 the Countries have lived up
letter and the spirit of

However, this latest adven-
ture of American imperialism
stokes the fires and threatens a
world war, pushing the situation
to a point of no return.

The decision to send US.
troops. against Cambodia was
announced in L.B.J. type rhe-
toric, just after President Nixon
had publicly announced the pro-
posal to withdraw 150,000 U.S.
troops from Vietnam by 1971.

The domino theory, used to
justify U.S. imperialist aggres-
sion under the Johnson regime
— that is, if the U.S. lets go in
Vietnam, all other Indo-Chinese
countries will fall, one after the
other, to the Communists — is
knocked into a cocked hat by

Dilote val aircraft shot down by anti-aircraft fire February 7, 1965

ditforees in Vietnamese. In this province, Quang Binh, the American
bombs gt’ so far flown over 63,000 missions dropping 245,000
n

that pledge. All of the class,
economic and social basis for
fascism has been swept away"1n
the socialist countries.

“In sharp contrast, the 25th
anniversary of the defeat of Hit-
ler fascism coincides with the
dangerous escalation of the war
in Indo-China by President Nix-
on of the United States.”

The party’s statement goes on
to say that President Nixon, us-
ing the device of anti-commun-
ism, has spread the war to Cam-
bodia, and threatens an escala-
tion of war in the Middle East.
Nixon’s support, says the state-
ment, comes from the most re-
actionary war-like circles in the
United States, and Nixon is nak-
edly emerging as the outright
spokesman for the extreme right
wing circles in the United
States.

this latest military adventure.

The coup against Sihanouk
was engineered by the US.
State Department in preparation
for spreading the war. Obvious-
ly the Cambodian U.S. puppets
couldn’t conduct the kind of war
the Pentagon wanted, so U.S.
troops were sent in. This is to
the satisfaction of the Cambod-
ian puppet regime, who want in
on the same gravy train as their
Saigon counterparts.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have
long been demanding the right
to strike at what they call the
“sanctuaries” of the Vietnamese
National Liberation Front. Such
demands were always given
much publicity whenever Wash-
ington wanted to justify its es-
calation of war, or its bombings.

United States policy has been
aimed at getting rid of Siha-
nouk, beginning with the time
he resisted Washington’s pres-
sures to force Cambodia to join
the Southeast Asian Treaty Or-
ganization (SEATO). Cambodia
followed a policy of neutrality
instead. :

The World Council of
Churches, | representing 235
religious bodies in 90 coun-
tries, has condemned the

Cambodian action, has called
for new meeting on Indo-
China, and for the withdrawal
of all foreign troops before
the war explodes into a “dis-
aster for all mankind.”

Sihanouk closed down the
U.S. military mission in Cam-
bodia after uncovering a plot to
assassinate him. U.S. military
and dollar aid was cut when it
was recognized it was strangling

Cambodia’s economic develop-
ment and independence. No re-
prisals were taken by Cambodia
when the U.S. Embassy in
Phnom Penh was sacked, be-
cause of repeated U.S. bombings

The statement also points to
the widespread opposition to the
escalation of the war inside the
United States.

However, “the voices oppos-
ing Nixon’s drive to a bigger
war do not include those of
the Canadian government. The
Canadian government is bought
off by the $300 million annual
arms sales to the United States.
External Affairs Minister Sharp,
asked to comment on the escala-
tion of the war, replied weakly,
“ don’t find myself in a position
to condemn the United States.’”

The Communist Party points
out that the escalation of the
war is leading ‘the United
States and Canada into a dan-
gerous economic depression,”’
an expression of which is. the
recent stock market plunge.

“Nixon, like Hitler before

of Cambodian frontier villages.
In 1965 Cambodia broke off
diplomatic relations with the
U.S.A. because it continued to
bomb.

The Cambodian delegate to
the United Nations reported that
the U.S. armed forces had en-
croached on Cambodian terri-

tory, without permission, no less
than 7,000 times — a fact which
makes it obvious that it was the
U.S. military, not the Vietna-
mese Liberation Front that was
violating Cambodian neutrality.

There has been swift opposi-
tion to Nixon’s further aggres-
sion all around the world.

In the U.S. protests are mount-
ing, with some Senators de-
manding the impeachment of
President Nixon. The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
has taken the unusual step of
requesting a conference with’
Nixon to discuss U.S. military
involvment in Indo-China.

Edward Kennedy has called
the latest extension of aggres-
sion “madness.” Representative
George Brown told the Business
Executives Move for Vietnam
Peace that “any President who
sends American boys to die in
Cambodia after what we’ve seen
happen in Vietnam should be
ridden out of the White House
on a rail . . . he should be im-
peached.” Ways to impeach Nix-
on are reportedly being studied.

Twenty-three members of the
House of Representatives have
sent telegrams to Nixon con-
demning the escalation. George
D. Aiken, ranking -minority
member on the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, has protested
the action. Paul O’Dwyer, lead-
ing member of the New Demo-
cratic Coalition, has called upon
the Democrats to join ranks in a
national coalition to support
Senator Fulbright’s opposition
to the U.S. action.

A. response has already come
from the trade union movement.
Patrick Gorman, secretary treas-
urer of the powerful Amalga-
mated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen, blasted the escala-
tion. John E. Desmond, presi-
dent of the Chicago Teachers
Union has demanded immediate
U.S. withdrawal from _ Indo-
China.

The United Automobile Work-
ers, at its recent international
convention reaffirmed its oppo-

him, miscalculates. He is mis-
calculating the determination of
the socialist countries to unite
against imperialism. He is mis-
calculating the growing power
of the peace movement. He is
miscalculating the revolutionary
power of the people of Indo-
China, and he is miscalculating
the determination of the work-
ing class of all countries, includ-
ing the U.S.A., who refuse to
continue to be victims of im-
perialist wars.

“The Canadian Labor Con-
gress convention, to take place
soon, is a good place to begin
the struggle to organize the full
power of the Canadian working
people against Nixon’s dirty war
in Indo-China. The working
class is the force that, when
thrown onto the scales, will de-
cide the issue.”

Halt Nixon's Indo-China War!

Demonstrations, protests
‘hit Pentagon's new thrust

sition to the war in Vietnam,
citing it as the -principal.-cause
of inflation.

The Soviet Union has sent a
message of greeting to the con-

‘ference of representatives of the

Indo-China peoples, held on
April 24-25, condemning U‘S.
aggression against the Indo-
Chinese countries. The Soviet

Union continues to render fra-
ternal aid, and will continue to
do so.

Reactions in Canada were al-
so swift. Nigel Morgan, B.C.
leader of the Communist Party,
sent an urgent appeal. to all
members of the C.P. in B.C. to
develop a wide popular demand
to stop the war, end the- ship-
ment of Canadian arms to the
U.S., and compel the withdrawal
of all U.S. forces from Vietnam.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mitch-
ell Sharp said, “For the Cana-
dian government either to con-
demn or support the U.S. action
would simply be gratuitous com-
ment.” He went on to indicate
the support of .the Canadian
government for United States
imperialism.

The Canadian Peace Congress
has wired both Nixon and Tru-
deau protesting the escalation of
aggression in Cambodia.

The Toronto Vietnam Mobil-
ization Committee immediately
organized 250 protestors outside
the U.S. consulate. in Toronto on
May 1. Executive Secretary
George Addison termed the in-
vasion of Cambodia “an act of
desperation by Nixon” which
“can only broaden the opposi-
tion to the war.”

On behalf of the Voice of Wo-
men at the demonstration, Mrs.
Nancy Pocock expressed horror
at this “total disregard for
world opinion and for human
life,’ and demanded that new
ways to “call a halt to this mon-
strous war” be found. The VOW
presented a statement to the
U.S. Consul General. The To-
ronto faculty peace committee
of the University of Toronto
sent a telegram to Prime Min-
ister Trudeau asking him to op-
pose the war.

Reports from the United
States indicate the possibility of
a U.S.-wide strike, by college
students. eee

The Communist Party of Can-
ada fully supports the aims of
the April 24-25 Conference of
the Peoples of Indo-China,
which declared its goals as be-
ing the independence, peace and
neutrality of Cambodia, Laos
and Vietnam. The conference
called for a ban on all foreign
troops and bases in these coun-
tries, declared non-participation
in any alliances, and a_ ban on
using their home territories as
bases for aggression against
other states.

—— Ny
Saigon puppet: “If the Americans
leave we'll carry on the war ourselves.”
Karol Ferster
in the Polish Szpihi

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