of the “pacification
in South Vietnam.
: or summed up
effort with the
only thing wrong
is that it
impass the United States
ached in Vietnam is also
cted in the Thieu-Ky
ime. Torn apart with
‘power struggles and
> base whatsoever in
try, the Saigon clique
tely nonviable.

the history of the re-
Tecent article in the
Courier points out why
administration is

: * *
middle of 1965 the U.S.
d its troops en masse
war” in South Viet-
br, since this “local
retained a neo-colo-
er, the building
dation of a puppet
ration was a prime ne-
the U.S. After en-
a series of putsches,
tha he: and “purges”
their most loyal hench-
U.S. imperialists allow-
ed the “Young Turks” led by
Van Thieu and Nguyen
‘to seize power. By
‘coup on June 11th,
Thieu-Ky group set up
dictatorship and
powers in their
Later, through rigged
of the “national as-
“president” and “vice-
” the U.S. tried to give
Ky regime a veneer
OC! and “constitu-

» faced with the
rowing opposition of the South
people, U.S. “local
Ta in an impasse,
in its wake the attempt
a “viable” puppet re-
latter’s “independ-
nd democracy” signboards
were torn down by the very
resence of a U.S. expeditionary
my that had been indulging
Massacres of South
The Thieu-Ky re-
itself as a group
warlords who
to rally even the
forces to serve. the
| of U.S. strategy. Its
Crankiness has been
Beravated by the incurable
aping wounds inflicted on it by
South Vietnam P.L.A.F. and
‘ople since the beginning of
@ generalized offensives and
idespread uprising early this
Pring. While at the village level
= Practically broken down,
the ict and provincial
Nels it has also become rick-
Y. The personne! of the puppet
’ at grassroots
have seen the trait-
Nature of the ringleaders
ne strength of the mass up-
sings as well as the correct
licies of the N.L.F., have been
Over in _ increasing

ers to the people’s side.
emergence of the Viet-
Of National Demo-
Peace ,Forces has
ustrated the urban po-
strong adhorrence of

the Thieu-Ky regime and resolve
to overthrow it.
te: Mahe

The article in the Courier
goes on to describe the reasons
behind the reluctance of the
Thieu-Ky government to enter
into the Paris Talks, and the
political crisis this has caused
and the further undermining of
its position. The article con-
tinues:

Many papers in Saigon have
openly stigmatized the puppet
regime for “having delayed” the
peace talks in Paris” and voiced
their “support for a coalition
government”. Many teach-ins
have also taken place in which
the participants welcomed the
pronouncements of the N.L.F.
and the Vietnam Alliance of
National, Democratic and Peace
Forces, urged the Saigon regime
to end the war immediately and
restore peace, and demanded
resignation of the Thieu-Ky-
Huong war cabinet, formation
of a “peace cabinet”, and talks
with the N.L.F.

* * *

The failure and irremediable
collapse of the Saigon puppet
regime is a logical development
which stems from many causes,
first and foremost from the vali-
ant fight of the 14 million South
Vietnamese.

The U.S. imperialists have
chosen the wrong time and the
wrong place for the realization
of their neo-colonialist policy.
Fhey set foot on South Vietnam
in very unfavorable circum-
stances. They have come to a
land with a long tradition of
Struggle and have bumped
against a heroic people who ac-
complished the August Revolu-
tion in 1945 and fought a vic-
torious war of resistance against
the French invaders.

The South Vietnamese are en-
dowed with a high national and
democratic spirit, profound poli-
tical awareness and abundant
experiences in combat. More-
over, they have enjoyed real in-
dependence and freedom and
the right to be genuine masters
of their destiny brought by the
revolution. No wonder in their
eyes all pretences of “national-
ism”, “independence” or “free-
dom” put up by the U.S. aggres-
sors and their henchmen are
only clumsy and floppy farces.
The U.S. has put to use in South
Vietnam all its neo-colonialist

build up. Ever sirce, in spite

tricks such as “psywar”’, “paci-
fication” program and “free
elections”. But none of these
political contrivances have
worked and in the end, facing
the movement of the masses,
the U.S. had to resort to plain
war methods to keep afloat a
puppet regime. But this has not
succeeded either. All its barbar-
ous methods of terror and re-
pression have come to a flop
one after another.

The failure of the puppet re-
gime is the failure of an out-
dated and rotten reactionary
regime on its last legs. Such a
regime can in no way stand its
ground when confronted with a
regime of genuine democracy
which is steadily developing in
South Vietnam.

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In South Vietnam U.S. impe-
rialism can never find a group
of henchmen capable of imple-
menting its neo-colonialist
policy. After having kicked out
the French colonialists and
jumped into South Vietnam, the
U.S. imperialists resorted to the
most vicious tricks to create for
their “strongman” Ngo Dinh
Diem a political structure. How-
ever, due to their unjust and
reactionary nature, the U.S. im-
perialists and the Ngo Dinh
Diem clique soon unveiled their
predatory and traitorous colors
before the Vietnamese people.
In the end, the U.S. had to mur-
der the Ngo Dinh Diem brothers
to bring to power another group
of henchmen. The latter, for
fear of reprisals on the part of
the Diem party, undertook a
large-scale “purge”, killing and
jailing a great many followers
of the former dictator and
smashing to pieces the reac-
tionary political structure he
had set up, thus dealing a heavy
blow at the reactionary political
and military forces which the
U.S. had taken great pains to

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of its intensive efforts, the U.S.
has never been able to provide
a “stable” social basis for the
Saigon regime. Under the im-
pact of the people’s actions, the
counter - revolutionary classes
have gradually lost all their
positions. The landlord class
which had been weakened by
the August Revolution in 1945
and the anti-war resistance has
further declined and its ranks
have been seriously split. Ex-
cept for the most reactionary
minority which take sides with
the aggressors, the landlords
either adopt a wait-and-see at-
titude or come under the influ-
ence of the revolution to vari-
ous extents. For their part, the
comprador capitalists who are
licking the boots of the aggres-
sors to enrich themselves wield
no political influence upon the
people. Meanwhile, the middle
class in the towns and cities has
gradually grown alive to the na-
tional interests and is more and
more attracted by the revolu-
tion. In such conditions, the
reactionary political parties
created by the U.S. have almost
no social foothold.

we! ee

In South Vietnam, the peas-
antry problem bears a signi-
ficance of primary importance.
This the U.S. imperialists know
very well. That is why, they
have made the “winning the
hearts and minds” of the peas-
ants a state policy for the pup-
pets. But how can they attain
this goal with the help of such
notorious tyrannical landlords,
political job-seekers and traitors
as Ngo Dinh Diem, Nguyen
Khanh, Nguyen Van Thieu and
Nguyen Cao Ky?

Only the National Front for
Liberation can win the support
of the peasantry. The Front has
laid down a sound revolutionary
line and effective methods of
revolutionary struggle. The
Front has never neglected the
vital rights and interests of the -

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political, cultural as well as eco-
nomic fields. Therefore, it has
been able to rally all patriotic
forces opposed to the U.S.-pup-
pet regime, of which the peas-
ants and workers form the hard
core.
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The puppet apparatus of the
U.S. in South Vietnam has been
made weaker by its internal
strifes. All the henchmen of the
U.S. have been pursuing great
personal ambitions, When put-
ting themselves in the service of
the U.S.A. every one of them
hopes to be given the monopoly
of swapping the people’s blood
for gold. How can these horses
of the same stable eating in the
same manger“get on with one
another?

At times, the conflict among
U.S. servants took an open and
acute form against their mast-
ers’ will. This has many times
caused real headaches to the
U.S. In addition, the U.S. policy
of using its henchmen, marked
by prefidy and ingratitude, con-
tributes to exacerbating these
divergences. While giving one
man a leading role on the poli-
tical stage, it keeps many others
as reserve trump cards to keep
him in check. As each group of
the ruling capitalist class in the
United States controls a group
of henchmen in Saigon, it en-
sues that a conflict of the U.S.
rulers inevitably gives rise to
a squabble among their subor-
dinates in South Vietnam.

The inescapable failure of the
puppet administration of the
U.S. in South Vietnam also
stems from deep-seated and
chronic inner contradictions
both on the part of the U.S, and
its servants, contradictions in-
herent in their reactionary char-
acter. And faced with the total
break down of their aggressive
and treasonous scheme, the U.S.
and the puppets are quarrelling
with one another still mote
acrimoniously

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