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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

29 September

Black Dwarf Vol. 13, No. 5, 22 September 1968 · pp. 10-11 of the scan · 1,018 words

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alteration in attitude that leads to way that this aczinn advances the and whose effects are aggravated by begins by analysing the There was a process of seizure of situation whice would lead to the plexes of a very backward tech. in Czechoslovakia. since power of the main means of com- detachment of a socialist country nological level. uary changes, mentioning Czech Government was munication and they fell into the and its falline into the arms of There was also an abandonment hands of reactionary elements. In get loans from the U.S. German foreign policy there was a series of One cannot calm that there was nationalism, communist ideals - of inter- of revolutionary vigilaction of the governments. imperialist developments movement towards capitalist concep- involving clear not a violation of the sovereignty of the Czech state. That would be a and of all those beautiful ng to receive the praise and was very favourable: and which in our mind tions and theses, and involving a movement towards the West. We for our part have no doubt at a legal point of view it cannot be fiction violation was * Magrant one. From and a lie Moreover, the communist ideal of a society without classes and without egoisms, and in which man ceases to be a miserable begins to the imperialist arouse suspi- press was moving towards capitalism and inexorably towards imperialism. The all that the Czechoslovak regime justified. That is perfectly clear. For uS, vakia can only be explained from a the decision about Czechoslo- slave of poverty. Together with all this came the sermons in favour of peace, but it is imperialist world received this situa- political point of view and not from the imperialists who are the incen e same time a series of tion with extraordinary satisfaction. legal one." diaries of war, and up to now there events took place. There It encouraged it by all means and пI. Socialism in Eastern Europe is no mention in any of the statemands in favour of the there is no doubt that it was rubbing "What were the circumstances ments of the governments that have xist and anti-Leninist, such n of opposition parties, in to theses that were openly its hands thinking of the disaster which this would constitute for the socialist world. that made a remedy of this nature necessary? We all know that the sent troops into Czechoslovakia of Yankee They have exercise the function which thesis that a party should This defines. our first position in leadership that ruled Czechoslovakia for twenty years was a leadership made some world imperialism and some con- vague remarks about relation to the concrete fact of the saturated in many errors - dog- crete ones about imperialist circles al party should play in a action taken by a group of socialist matism, bureaucratism and many in West Germany. But who does not society, that should countries. We think that it was things that cannot be put forward as know that West Germany is simply lay the role of a guide, that absolutely necessary to prevent at model of really revolutionary a tool of Yankee immerialism xercise a kind of spiritual any cost that that event should leadership. They sold us for a Europe, the most agressive and the p. In short: tha power occur. The essential thing is whether high price arms they had taken as best known? ease to be the preronative of the socialist camp could or could not War booty from the Nazis, In many Although it is correct that the munist Party. permit the development of a political cases they sold us industrial com. countries of the Warsew Pact sent around to undertake it. their troops into Czechoslovakia, we also have a disagreement with them concerning relations of economic and cultural and political nature with the oligarchies of Latin America. And these puppet governments have begun to say that now is the time to invade Cuba. The Journal do Brasil writes to-day: "The Soviet agression in Europe opens its flank in Latin America to an inevitable re-examination". I ask myself whether in the light of the bitter reality which forced the coun tries of the Warsaw Pact to send their forces to smash COunter. revolution in Czechoslovakia, they will cease to support in Latin America the rightists, refomrists and concilators who are opposed to armed struggle.

If the imperialists de invade, we are ready to fight like the Vietnamese for a hundred years against the best imparialist divisions. that necessary."

PATRIA O MUERTE VENCEREMOS! And the boy knew everything.

He knew everything about them, the caves the trails the hidden places and the names, and in the moment that he cried out, in that same instant, protected by frail tears far stronger than any wall of steel, they passed everywhere like tigers across the High Plateau.

(Vietcong guerilla; his body was recovered with this poem on it some time in 1966, near the Cambodian border, by a Sergeant sainer. A story written for United Press by the reporter Sean Flynn, and published by an American newspaper chain, also mentioned this about a boy who refused to talk. supposed to have occurred on the Duc Phong Plateau, seventy-five miles north of Saigon; father and son were never identified).

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