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LABOUR MUST RECOGNISE P.R.G.

Red Weekly No. 96, 10 April 1975 · p. 8 of the scan · 200 words

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page 8 of the scan

horrors on them.

********************** the people of Vietnam. As the rotten regime of the money-lenders and the landlords enters its well-deserved death agonies, the labour movement has a plain and clear duty. It must demand the immediate recognition of the Provisional Revolutionary Government.

As the South Vietnamese armies disintegrate-unleashing an orgy of rape, loot and murder-Thieu and his American masters hypocritically and ruthlessly exploit the refugees. No doubt the Labour leaders, who could spare no sympathy for the napalmed victims of the US bombers, will use this issue to try and build up support for the collapsing puppet Government. But there should be no aid for Saigon because that aid will go to the rich parasites who have battened on the poor of that country for too long.

Vietnam is a tortured country. Its people desperately need assistance. But that assistance must go to the poor peasants and workers so that they can embark on building a planned society, free from the capitalists and the landiords and the imperialist nations who have perpetrated such unspeakable Labour must launch an immediate programme of aid without any strings being attached, and that aid must go to the Provisional Revolutionary **********************»

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