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Provisional revolutionary government:

The

ielegs National Liberation Front

— at the Paris peace
Movisiey wed last week that a
ona revolutionary Gov-
Uerat ae been set up in a
- area in South Vietnam.
ment yormation of the Govern-
in the 4 decided at a congress
lune a between June 6 and
Front y representatives of the
rN et the Alliance of Nation-
and Bec and Peace Forces
ions, ther patriotic organiza-
NU i. aid a spokesman at the
T Tess office.
®Dpeal lianee,_ which aims its
cludes g the middle classes, in-
sional pe th Vietnamese profes-
Was for €n and intellectuals, and
on med last year. The con-
cOnsultari decided to set up a
aa committee to advise
Dok sional Government, the
sman said.
A Congress was attended by
€gates and 72 others, re-
*eney, the Liberation Press
Ai
aig nh June 5 session of the
Sid oo S, an NLF spokesman
among acts were beginning
et outh Vietnamese oppos-
aimeg . Saigon puppet regime
“alt at forming a provisional
On Government.

The NLF has proposed that
such a coalition should replace
the present Saigon régime. The
NLF spokesman said the provis-
ional Government would “lead
the struggle of the South Viet-
namese people against American
aggression and for national sal-
vation.” .

The newly-formed provisional
revolutionary Government of the
Republic of South Vietnam is-
sued a 12-point political pro-
gram to lead the people in
defeating the U.S. imperialists.

The premier of the provisional
Government was named as Mr.
Huynh-Tan Phat, a 56-year-old
architect, who joined the strug-
gle for freedom and democracy
in his student days.

As general secretary of the
South Vietnamese Democratic
Party he was a deputy president
of the National Liberation Front,
and NLF chairman for the Sai-
gon area.

During the struggle against
French colonial rule, he was
twice arrested, after earlier hav-
ing taken part in the anti-fascist
struggle against Japanese dom-
ination.

The South Vietnamese Nation-
al Liberation Front (NLF) has

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a i

World

c By BERT WHYTE

hiveret Us turn July 20, the an-
Gen ey of the signing of the
Intern +: Agreements, into an
With peonal Day of Solidarity
to gt l€tnam, a day of struggle
an mee U.S. aggression!” says
Freep Peal titled ‘Independence,
Namp and Peace for Viet-
en? unanimously passed by
Com ‘ternational meeting of
The wnist and Workers’ Parties.

loWin appeal contains the fol-
The demands:
Noy € United States must re-

at ace its obstructionist stand
in Quadrilateral Conference
Tis;
With « United States must forth-
in ease its acts of aggression
Uncon tnam and completely and
troo ditionally withdraw its
lites’ and those of its satel-
Tom South Vietnam;
digg pupited States must recog-
Of §5 € right of the population
interme Vietnam to decide their
Vitho! affairs by themselves
ase foreign intervention;

United States must end-

appeal for
Vietnam solidarity

all-actions directed against the
sovereignty and security of the
Democratic Republic of Viet-
nam;

the United States must cease
its interference and aggression
in Laos and its violations of the
territorial integrity of Cambo-
dia, recognize her frontiers,
abandon its aggressive aims
with regard to the states of
Southeast and East Asia, and
strictly abide by the 1954 and
1962 Geneva Agreements.

The appeal also demanded
that Thailand, New Zealand and
Australia, the South Korean
puppet régime and also the Fe-
deral Republic of Germany and
Japan end their open or veiled
participation in the U.S. aggres-
sion in Vietnam.

It called for the immediate
initiation of further, still more
powerful, varied and coordina-
ted action by the anti-imperial-
ist, peace-loving forces in sup-
port of the struggle of the Viet-

_namese people against U.S. ag-

gression.

Program for Vietnam

transferred all powers to the
provisional Government, includ-
ing the right to represent the
South Vietnamese people at the
Paris peace talks.

In its program, South Viet-
nam’s provisional revolutionary
Government said it would co-
operate with all South Vietnam-
ese who want independence,
peace and neutrality in organiz-
ing a provisional coalition Gov-
ernment.

The program pledged the Gov-
ernment to:

e Lead the people and sol-
diers in South Vietnam to prose-
cute the military and political
war to defeat the U.S. imperial-
ists.

e The Government will de-
mand that the U.S. talk properly
with it on the basis of the ten-
‘point peace plan of the South
Vietnam National Liberation
Front and to withdraw uncondi-
tionally all American and satel-
lite troops from South Vietnam
and bring about peace in Viet-
nam.

e It will co-operate with all
political organizations and peo-
ple of all strata including politi-
cal refugees abroad who aspire
to independence, peace and neu-
trality in organizing a provision-
al coalition Government on the
basis of equality and mutual

- respect.

e Strengthen the forces of
Resistance in all aspects, con-
solidate revolutionary adminis-
trations in all echelons, and en-
large the liberated areas.

It will establish normal re-
lations between the North and
South regions of Vietnam, and
the reunification of the nation
will be implemented in stages,
peacefully and free of pressure.

e Realize all democratic and
liberal rights, release all patrio-
tic people imprisoned by the U.S.
imperialists and the Saigon pup-
pet régime, ban terrorist activ-
ities, revengeful and discriminate
treatment of people who have
co-operated with either side in
the country or abroad.

e The Government will safe-
guard the interests of Vietnam-
ese abroad and those of foreign-
ers in South Vietnam.

e It will pay attention to the
interests of people in the cities
and will rectify labor laws, set
minimum wage standards and
ban maltreatment of workers,
who have the right to participate
in factory management and
trade union activities.

e@ The Government will ban
enforced conscription of stu-
dents, guarantee freedom of
speech and thought, and protect
merchants against the exploita-
tion of foreign capitalists.

e It will promote production,
work for an independent econ-
omy, enforce a land program
suitable for South Vietnam, ex-
pand industry and agriculture
and protect the ownership in
production of people according
to the law of the nation.

e Eliminate the culture sub-
servient to the U.S., establish a
national and democratic culture,
promote science and technology,
remove illiteracy and promote
sanitary and hygenic works.

@ It will welcome and justly
reward soldiers and civil ser-
vants of the Saigon puppet ré-
gime who return to the people,
and give lenient treatment to
criminals who repent: °°

| ‘Support world
document’

—Kashtan

The following excerpts are
from the speech by William
Kashtan, head of the delegation
of the Communist Party of Can-
ada:

Our Party is in full agreement
with the main document before
us. We believe it correctly as-
sesses present-day phenomena
in their complexity and contra-
dictions, the strategy of imperi-
alism, and the tasks and respon-
sibilities confronting us at this
stage. We believe it will help to
overcome tendencies which have
arisen to one-sided interpreta-
tion of some questions related to
the struggle for peace, democ-
racy and socialism, and will
thereby make the work of the
Communist and Workers’ parties
in the coming period more ef-
fective.

6

Differences in estimating the
aims of imperialism and the re-
lationship of forces on a world
scale lead to different conclu-
sions for action and undermine
the cohesiveness of the world
Communist movement.

Our Party agrees with the
analysis of this question in the
main document. This is the basis
for our well-known position with
respect to the events in Czecho-
slovakia. Our party congress ex-
pressed full support and solidar-
ity with the present leadership
of the Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia in the steps it is
taking to normalize the situation
and strengthen socialism.

The international tasks pro-
jected in the main document
fully correspond to the national
tasks of our party. Indeed, most
of the points in it are also em-
bodied in the main resolution of
our 20th Convention. That is
only natural, for how can there
be a conflict of interest between
national and international tasks
in the face of the global strategy
of imperialism? .. .

As is already known, the Can-
adian Government announced
that it has decided to carry out
“phased and controlled” with-
drawal of a part of its armed
forces from the NATO Alliance
in Western Germany. However,
it was quick to add that the num.
ber of troops to be withdrawn
and the timing of the withdraw-
al are subject to consultation
with its allies.

Even this timid step was
sharply attacked by the Ameri-
can, British and West German
governments, which are fearful
this example might be followed
by other NATO countries. They
are striving to compel the Cana-
dian Government to retreat from
its stated position. This is fla-
grant interference in Canadian
affairs, an attempt to deny the
Canadian people their sovereign
right to determine the foreign
policy of their country. This
pressure from foreign states co-
incides with the efforts of the
industrial-military complex in
Canada which is closely related
to the U.S. industrial-military
complex, to tie the country per-
manently to NATO and the NO-
RAD military alliance, to the
Washington-Bonn war axis as a
means of securing war orders
from the United States and Bonn
at the price of the sovereignty
and independence of our coun-
try.. This. same. industrial-mili-
tary complex is pressing the

government to acquiesce in Pre-
sident Nixon’s ABM _ system,
which opens the door to a nuc-
lear arms race and directly
threatens Canada with destruc-
tion in the event of war.

There is a direct relationship
between the struggle against im-
perialism and coexistence. Some
see the struggle for peaceful co-
existence as.a rejection of the
struggle against imperialism;
others see the struggle against
imperialism as a rejection of the
struggle for peaceful coexist-
ence. In reality, there can be
no such. contradiction. To
achieve peaceful coexistence
and international détente, impe-
rialist aggression must be dey
feated. The struggle against im-
perialism and for peaceful co-
existence opens up opportuni-

‘ties for the broadest unity to

achieve social advance on all
fronts. This is the basis for the
unity of all the Communist and
Workers’ parties and all forces
for peace, democracy, national
independence and social progress
in the world. The strategy of
unity advanced by the main do-
cument will make the forces of
progressive humanity invincible.

Our party sees the working
class as the decisive leading
force of the struggle against im-
perialism. Indeed, without the
leadership of the working class
no effective struggle can be wag-
ed against. imperialism, against
monopoly. In Canada the strug;
gle against monopoly is mount~
ing, the class struggle is grow-
ing sharper. Every effort of the
monopolists and their stooges to
build up the concept of “class
harmony” and “class partner-
ship” directed to preserve the
privileged position of corporate
wealth, is collapsing in face of
the growing confrontation be-
tween labor and capital.

These movements and strug-
gles against monopoly capital
and its policies are augmented
‘by widespread sentiments and
actions for peace and around
democratic issues, for civil and
labor rights and particularly the
demand of the French-Canadian
nation for its right to national

self-determination. The demand ~

for control of their national state
in Quebec within a reconstruct-
ed federal Canadian state is lay-
ing the basis for uniting the
national democratic forces of
French Canada with the working
people of English Canada in the
common struggle against U.S.
and Canadian monopoly. The op-
position to the American domi-
nation of the Canadian economy
and foreign policy has become a
major factor of Canadian poli-
tics. ;

It is around the issue of Viet-
nam that opposition to the U.S.
dirty war has been most strong
ly expressed . . . It is not acci-
dental that it was in Canada
that the Hemispheric Conference

_to End the Vietnam War took
‘place Pee te a ees

* =CDACIFIC TRIBUNE? JUNE 20,1969 —Bage 3