liberation.
of the indochinese workers and peasants.
monster.
ist system and its war criminals.
working class and its struggle.
involve the violent destruction of the capitalist system. JOSt will be the working class that will triumph in the end. What more can be said on Vietnam? The red, blue and gold flag of the Provisional Revolutionary Government flies over Ho Chi Minh City. The United States, the greatest military power on earth, has suffered its first ever defeat in war. The international working class has celebrated one of its greatest ever May Days. Humanity has taken one long stride nearer its But as revolutionaries glory in the triumph of Indochina, we should understand what made such a victory possible: - first, last and above all else the heroism and will to struggle - the solidarity of revolutionaries throughout the world, from Che Guevara in Bolivia to the anti-war movement in the United States, who helped sap the belly of the imperialist - the endeavour of the working class of the entire world, whose unrelenting struggle dispersed the power of the capitalThe Vietnamese triumph-in a way that no revolution has been since Russia in 1917-is the victory of the international Vietnam-the spark which relit the flame of revolutionary struggle for millions of people in the imperialist countries —is the ultimate disproof of the lie that imperialism and the world working class could 'peacefully co-exist. Vietnam is the living example that the socialist conquest of power must Finally, Vietnam expresses something which has never been seen so clearly until this day. No country in the world has ever met an imperialist onslaught on the scale of that in Indochina. The allied invasion of Russia in 1918 was nothing compared to the nightmare of Vietnam. Five times as many bombs as in the entire Second World War rained down on a country with a population only half that of Britain. The forests were stripped, the people were attacked with poison gas, and the soldiers were asphyxiated with bombs which sucked the oxygen from the air. The United States created a South Vietnamese army of over a million and gave it the third largest airforce in the world. And it was the Americans who Their puppet army was pulverised to defeat in eight weeks. Nothing in history has ever shown in quite the same way the superiority of the working class and its struggle to brute force, the superiority of politics to weaponry, the superiority of revolutionary will and courage to the mechanical power of the paid puppets of imperialism. Indochina is the uitimate lesson that no matter what horrors capitalism can unleash, it Vietnam resounds around the world because it confirms the great cry that once echoed from Havana through the slums of Harlem to Hanoi: "Venceremos-We Will Win!"