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Red Weekly No. 98, 24 April 1975 · p. 10 of the scan · 594 words

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page 10 of the scan

Provisional Revolutionary Government soldiers sit in a crowded truck passing down a busy Danang street where life is getting back to normnl. (PRG) in the South.

in the past perlod fias been fixed within which were forraulised in the Acoords The whole thrast of the PROx activity the frimework of the Paris leucu Accor af 1973. The PRC has hold that the gains should be defended as strongly as posable.

This frumework was soon by the PRG as providing a valuable diplomatic weapon and given the potential isolation of the greater importance, however, i thu fact although a distorted one-of some of the requirements of the revolution. It allowed SHE USE BINES The PRO repeatedly made it clear Lat their aim was to spoed up the overtarow they were willing to negotiste a settlement once Thieu was removed, The aim of these negotiations was described as the formation of a National Caunel of Peace and Reconciliation' to work towards reunification.

It is quite clear, however, that nciches exist the possibility of national reconcilia tion between the exploited and exploiting classes The problems of the national and democratic questions can only be solved by a determinod struggle against the bourgeolsic, not by forming a bloc with them.

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PRG's fonnulation of a "National Council of Peace and Reconciliation. This derives from the stalinist heritage of the Vietna cadres of the party and she revolutionary This formula will also be used to pro vent the formation of organs of wotkers democacy in South Vietnam We counter and peasants councils based solely an the organised to cuntiont the reactionaries at 1 China had alrendy agrood to precisey sa a demand Finally, tie PRG may make such an alliance because it fears a LS blockade Workers State Wintever the confusions created by the manoeuvres of the PRG, it is almost completely excluced that the process in die South will result in any thing other than the creation of a workers state. Fustly, although the Vietnamese Cl has Communist International, and adopti a rhetoric of forming alliances with bourgouis forves of pusce, ole, it at prosent interpret that line in a teny which is ver ditteront tom that of the Moscow-domi nated CPs For cxample, on the outral question al peaceful coexistence, Le Doar, the f secretary of the Vietnamese CP, urote strost as if answering the Societ and Chancso Durenucades that To intensi the anti imperialist revolution, far from neing incompatible with pesos, is provis in practico to be a very findamontai direction in which to attack imperialism in order to safeguard peace in a teaty effective manner.

This statement, in The Vietamese Revolution-fundameural probies. ever nual Saska, is in line with his speech to military tadre in 1974 in reply to those members or the Vietnamese CP who appose to tact on acepenane to reve titionary strupple and wanted to play down reunification. He said: Our whole country is in a stage of acute national saiggle and class struggle. So long as our national liberation and no unification is not complete there can be no complete independence and peace"

EUR DE BRO CEONE COUSIOD OF LI character of the revolution in the South. Le Duan stated: The national liberation revolution no longer tits into the raine work of a bourgones revolution, but is becoming an integral patt of the preictur revolution and the dictatondip of the prolerariat on a world scale. in our times the national damperalic revolutior led by the woricing class is of nosessity bound up with the socialist rerolution Repolition!

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