The news of North Vietnan Bangla Desh Liberation cause is considered politically most significant inasmuch as it indicates recognition of the anti-imperialist character of the present struggle in BanglaDesh against Yahya Khan's military junta, said a spokesman of the Bangla Desh Liberation Struggle Coordination Committee, an alliance of the largest number of revolutionary parties and organisations, including the East Bengal Communist Party, in a statement issued recently from a guerrilla base inside BanglaDesh.
The spokesman of the alliance in his statement was referring to the announcement made recently by the North Vietnam Consul General in India, Mr. Nguyen Anh Vu, at a press conference in New Delhi, in which he expressed his country's support for East Bengal.
Mr. Ngugen Anh Vu at New Delhi press conference said that Government and people of North Trotskyism in Belgrade On November 22, 1971, upon the invitation of of anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and antithe Cultural Student Centre of Belgrade, Comrade Ernest Mandel gave a lecture on, "The role of Trotskyism in the contemporary worldwide liberation movement." This was the first public lecture on Trotskyism given by a leading Trotskyist in a workers state, since the end of the Second World War.
In the presence of two hundred people, Comrade Mandel spoke about Lenin's and Trotsky's concept of worldrevolution in the imperialist epoch. He analysed the present developments Vietnam had "understanding and sympathy" for the East Bengal people's struggle for national independence and a better standard of living. He was answering a question which compared the struggle of the people of BanglaDesh with that of the people of Vietnam.
Recognising the revolutionary content of the present struggle in Bangia Desh an article in the Vietnamese journal "Hoc Tap", reprinted in the English edition of Peking Review, No.37, made a reference stating that the people... of Pakistan are waging heroic revolutionary struggle."
The peasant-guerrillas had been very encouraged to hear the support and sympathy of the Vietnamese people for the Bengali liberation struggle", said the guerrilla spokesman.
We are waging a relentless struggle in Bangla Desh against the common enemy, the interna tional imperialism, and its internal allies, the a public conference on bureaucratic struggles in the world and spoke about the role which the Fourth International was playing in these struggles. He stressed the revolutionary Marxist belief of organising workers power based on Soviets as the only durable basis for the dictatorship of the proletariat.
An extremely interesting discussion followed Comrade Mandel's talk. Among the many questions raised, some militants demanded the official rehabilitation of Trotsky in Yugoslavia. feudal landlords and comprador-bourgeoisie of Pakistan and Bangia Desh. The great achievements of the Vietnamese people are a source of constant inspiration of the peasants and workers of BanglaDesh," commented the spokesman.
The situation in Bangla Desh has taken a dangerous turn with the recent introduction of Indian troops into the present war. That this is New Delhi's ultimate design to frustrate the national liberation struggle of the Bengali People by foisting a puppet Awami League regime is widely felt by all revolutionary forces now engaged in fighting. In view of the recent Indian move, the Vietnamese support will undoubtedly go a long way to strengthen the revolutionary alliance.
-Khaled Yousuf, writing from BanglaDesh frontier.
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