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documented story
of U.S. atrocities

in Vietnam

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Teachers
for Vietnam

Teachers’ international action
for solidarity with Vietnam is
reported in the latest bulletin of
the World Federation of Trade
Unions.

In reply to the appeal of the
World Council of Peace, the
Secretariat of the World Fede-
ration of Teachers’ Unions
(FISE) sent a message in Octo-
ber to teachers’ organizations
throughout the. world, invit:ng
them to increase actions of so-
lidarity with the people and
teachers to support the peace-
ful forces in the United States
of America fighting for peace in
Vietnam and against the policies
of the Nixon government.

The Secretariat of FISE has
announced some of the meas-
ures taken by certain teachers’
trade unions: the Teaching and
Scientific Workers’ Trade Union
of the Soviet Union, within the
framework of a world collec-
tion, is sending equipment and
fittings for the construction of
an orphanage in Vietnam. A
sum of money from the Confe-
deration of Latin American
Teachers has been recorded for
the “Orphanage for Vietnam”
account, which has been opened
by FISE at a Prague bank.

The Song My massacre revela-
tions are but a lifting of the
curtain on U.S. war crimes in
Vietnam. Not an isolated inci-
dent—Song May is built-in to
the nature of this unjust crimi-
nal war. Here is a damning
documentary account of the
theory and practice of U.S. war
in Vietnam, issued by Hanoi's
authoritative Juridical Sciences
Institute. Indistinguishable
from the Nazi horror of World
War. 2—and more frightful in
that it is happening now, not
a subject of post-mortem Nu-
remberg trial examination and
after-the-fact self-guilt— it de-
mands a popular outcry that
will ‘topple governments and
end this succession of Song
My's in tortured Vietnam. This
book will help arm those who’
want action to end the war in
Vietnam and have U.S. troops

India swings left in sharp strugg

The polarization of Right and
Left is rapidly developing in
India, the country with the sec-
ond largest population on the
globe, and the main shift is left-
ward.

Early in November a reaction-
ary group in the Indian Con-
gress Party leadership, led by
party president Mr. Nijalingap-
pa, attempted to oust Prime Min-
ister Indira Gandhi, daughter of
Nehru, the founder of the
modern Indian. state.

The majority of the Congress
Party deputies supported Mrs.
Gandhi, who was backed by
powerful demonstrations
throughout the country. In Par-
liament the attempt to unseat
her was defeated by the com-

bined vote of the anti-reaction-—

ary Congress deputies and those
of the Communist Party and
other progressive groups.

The dissident Rightists left
the cabinet and tried to split the
ruling party, but the  over-
whelming majority of the All-
India Congress Committee,
meeting on Nov. 22-23, ousted
Nijalingappa.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
pledged to continue progressive
domestic and foreign policies
and declared that only socialism
could help the people of India
to overcome their problems.

In the meantime dramatic
events unfolded in Kerala pro-
vince where a new government
of the United Front was sworn
in on Nov. 1 with Chelat Achu-
tha Menon, a leader of the Com-

The following is an excerpt
from a joint statement made by
the Soviet Union and Czechoslo-
vakia after a delegation from
Czechoslovakia paid an official
visit to the Soviet Union:

The Soviet Union and Czecho-
slovakia are following an agreed
line in international affairs, a
line aimed at ensuring favorable
conditions for building sccial-

‘ism and communism and at

fighting for peace and the free-
dom of the peoples, against the
aggressive policy of imperial-
ism.

The Soviet Union and Czecho-
slovakia are fully agreed in their
class appraisal of the sovereign-
ty of a socialist state as an ex-
pression of the power of the
working class and all working
people. Both delegations proceed

from the premise that a class .

understanding of sovereignty
includes the inalienable right of
every socialist state, every Com-
munist Party to define the forms
and methods of socialist con-
struction, as well as direct duty
to defend the power of the work-
ing class and the entire work-

ing people, their revolutionary —

socialist gains. In this sense
each Communist Party is re-
sponsible for its activities to the
people of its country and bears
international responsibility to
the countries of the socialist
community and the international
communist and workers’ move-
ment.

In full accordance with the .

Bratislava statement the Soviet
Union and Czechoslovakia con-
sider the defense, support and
consolidation of socialist gains,
achieved at the price of the he-
roic efforts and selfless labor of
each nation, as the common in-

‘ternationalist duty of all frater-

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munist Party, as chief minister.

Madhavan Atchutan reports
in an airmail despatch from
New Delhi to the Daily World:

“A week earlier, the Cabinet
of E. M. S. Namboodiripad, who
was the chief minister since the
United Front’s victory in Febru-
ary 1967, resigned after a de-
feat in the State Assembly as a
consequence of a political crisis
brought about by the disruptive
policies pursued by the Com-
munist Party (Marxist), the
group which split away from the
Ccmmunist Party of India (CPI)
in 1964.

“The political crisis in Kerala
arose out of the failure of the
CP (M) to take measures to im-
plement the minimum program
of the United Front of the vari-
ous left and democratic parties.
Namboodiripad belonged to the
CP (M), which was the largest
constituent of the Kerala United
Front.

“While professing extreme
militancy, the CP (M) group
virtually followed a policy of
surrendering to the vested in-
terests. The former labor min-
ister, a supporter of the CP (M),

‘favored a policy of opposing the

trade union struggle against
automation, despite mass unem-
ployment. He also took a posi-
tion against women’s equal
rights to job opportunities.
“The CP (M). has in its lead-
ership a core of dogmatists who
before the Communist Party of
India (CPI) was split were
responsible for its sectarian mis-

nal countries. In the interests of
the peaceful creative labor of
the peoples they express firm
resolve together with other fra-
ternal countries to rebuff the
counter-revolutionary designs of
imperialism and all other forces
of reaction.

The Czechoslovak people have
clearly seen from the historical
experience Of the _ struggle
against the danger of German
imperialism and revanchism how
greatly important is the defense
of the western frontier of the
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
for its national existence and
state sovereignty. At the same

time the peoples of Czechoslo- .

vakia realize that this frontier,
the strength of which is one of
the main factors for preserving
peace and security in Europe. is
simultaneously a western out-
post of the entire socialist. com-
munity. The agreement on the
temporary stationing of Soviet
troops on Czechoslovak territo-
ry is of great, fundamental im-
portance in this respect.

The Party and state delega-
tion of the Czechoslovak Social-
ist Republic stated that it re-
gards all-round cooperation and
close alliance between Czecho-
slovakia and the Soviet Union

_ and other socialist countries in

the struggle against a common
enemy—imperialism, as an earn-
est of genuine sovereignty for
Czechoslovakia, as a guarantee
of national security and social-
ist development.

- The two sides will continue
paying unabated attention to
the raising of the defense might
of the Warsaw Treaty Organiza-
tion which contains the main
aggressive forces of imperial-
ism and has at its disposal all
means to resolutely rebuff any

takes and adventurist tact
This section, at the time of te
1964 split, largély stood by
dogmatist position of the Me”
ists, but the latter have sin
denounced them as ‘revisionis”
for joining the United Front
the left and democratic parties
The CP (M), however, malt
tains its thesis, like the Maoists
that the Soviet Union is a 7¢
sionist’ country. cl
“The new government whitl
took over on Nov. | has Pl
ed to carry forward the prom
rams of the United Front. In
realigned coalition, the parle
represented are the Communis
Party of India, the Revolutl
ary Socialist Party of India,
Indian Socialist Party, the /
lim League and the Kerala C0
gress (a breakaway sectlO
from the Congress Party). 1,
“The CP (M) has chosen
keep itself out of the Unit”
Front coalition. Aa
“In. the two weeks sinc
took over, the new State i
ernment in Kerala has take!
steps to entrust the vital #4
in foodgrains.to. a State age?
and has finalized measures
enforce the right to collect
bargaining and election of
gaining agents through sech
ballot. The Government is 4
speeding land reform. :
“A textile mill closed 40
by the employer has been
opened, ‘
“A special law on retiremel!
benefits to industrial worker.
being enforced.”

vakia, the CPSU and the CO!
munist Party of Czechoslov4
stand for unity of the count
of the world socialist system ©
a principled Marxist-Len!?
basis. A weakening of ties, ce
cooperation among. the social
countries would play into ~~
hands of imperialism.

The Soviet Union an
slovakia, along with the
socialist countries, counter |
aggressive doctrine of impe?
ism with a constructive pro
of peace, which’rests on the Le
inist principle of peaceful (%
istence of states with a differ
social order. They are cons)
ently pressing for a negotl@
settlement of disputed inte et
tional questions, for a settle™
of the disarmament: prob:
stage by stage, and the devel?
ment of broad and equal coo?
ration.

The position of the reacti?
ary forces, specifically the fi
nazi forces in the FRG, W
stake on a revision of the
sults of World War II, cré4
dangerous tension in Europ®

A durable peace in Eu!
can be ensured by setting UP
collective security system.
Soviet Union and the czech
slovak Socialist Republic
actively contribute toward
paring and holding an all-
pean conference suggeste
the Warsaw Treaty mem»
nations in their Budapest Appe

The two sides expressed
conviction that the consis
peaceable policy of soc
countries and vigorous acti?
by the peoples of the wh
world can strengthen inte
tional security and remov
danger of war.

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