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Indonesian C.P. Politburo Self-criticism
Marxism-Leninism vs. Castroism
China's Great Cultural Revolution
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Why World Revolution?, Editorial...................................................................................2
South Vietnam: U.S. Defeat Inevitable, General Van Tien Dung
Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi, DRV, April 1967.........................3
China's Great Revolution and the Soviet Union's
Big Tragedy, Observer, People's Dally, Peking, PRC, June 4, 1967...........8
Down With Slavishness, Lin Chieh, Peking Review, June 30, 1967..........................12
Armed Struggle in India, WE Round-up ............................................................................17
Israel's Role in Plundering Arabs of Oil, WR Round-up.................................................19
Peoples Daily Blasts Soviet Neo-Co Ionia list "Aid,"
Hsinhua News Agency, September 13, 1967....... 21
Lessons of the Arab War Against Aggression, Chou Tien-chih,
Peking Review, Septembers, 1967............ 22
Chilean Revolution, Speech by George Diaz, Revolutionary Communist
Party of Chile, November 1966............................................................................28
"Friendly" Soviet Youths in Colombia,Bruce Franklin,Paris, France.......................30
Foquismo: Urban Terror or Popular War?, from "A Petty-bourgeois and a
Proletarian Line in the Chilean Revolution," Revolutionary Communist
Party of Chi le, Edie Iones Espartoco, 1967................................................................31
On the Struggle Against Modern Revisionism,Speech by Enver Hoxha,
Albanian Party of Labor, November 1966............................................................35
Soviet Revisionists Encourage Growth of Private Economy,
Hsinhua News Agency, September 7, 1967........................................................ 41
Build the PKI Along the Marxist-Leninist Line to Lead the People's Democratic
Revolution In Indonesia. Self-criticism of the Political Bureau of the
Central Committee of the , Indonesian Tribune,
Tirana, PRA, January 1967....................................... 42
Soviet Bolsheviks Call for the Overthrow of Revisionist Leadership of CPSU,
Soviet Revolutionary Communists (Bolsheviks), published in "Zerl I Popullit,"
Tirana, PRA, December 20-21 1966 ........................................................................ 58
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South Vietnam: U.S. Defeat Inevitable
General Van Tien Dung, VPA Chief of General Staff
from Introduction and Part II "South Vietnam: U.S. Defeat Inevitable"
Foreign Languages Publishing House, April 1967, (Hanoi, DRV)
INTRODUCTION
The die being cast, the American imperial Vietnam, with its present scale, has surpassed
ists, defeated in their “special warfare,’’ reck the one it waged against Korea (1950-1953) in
lessly and frenziedly unleashed a “limited war’’ all respects. It outdoes any previous war in the
against South Vietnam and a war of destruction intensity of bombs, bullets and modern weapons
against North Vietnam. They introduced into the used, in fierceness and barbarity. It can be said
Vietnam battlefield huge forces in an attempt to that in the world history of war, never before
turn the tide of the situation in their favour. In has any aggressor thrown into a small and
1966 alone, they despatched 210,000 G.I.’s, narrow battlefield like our country such a large
bringing their expeditionary troops to 400,000 number of troops, such a big amount of weapons,
men, not counting those of the Seventh fleet bombs, bullets, money and other material re
and in the bases in Thailand and other places. sources.
Thus, the U.S. forces engaged in direct combat But, what a shame for die U.S. aggressors'.
in Vietnam have risen to more than half a mil Bumping against the nation-wide, all-sided war
lion, while the total number of American, puppet of resistance of the heroic people of Vietnam
and satellite troops has exceeded one million. Of they have suffered and are sustaining ignomini
the means of war, many have doubled or trebled ous setbacks.
and more. According to the French Revue de Taking avail of their winning position and
Defense nationale, the United States has used maintaining the initiative of operations, in the
directly or indirectly for its aggressive war test of strength with the U.S. expeditionary
against Vietnam 75 per cent of its ground forces, force, our people in both zones have achieved
60 per cent of its air force and 40 per cent of great successes. They have won the first round
its naval forces, drawn from the most seasoned of the American imperialists’ “limited war’’
units. To cite American official figures—usually in South Vietnam, frustrated their air war of
curtailed—it spent for this war 25 billion dollars destruction in North Vietnam in regard to its
in 1966 and is planning to put in from five to main goals, consolidated and strengthened our
seven billion more in 1967. people’s forces in every field, and prepared all
The United States aggressive war in South material and moral conditions to bring our re-
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sistance against U.S. aggression for national both in the military and in the political fields,
salvation to complete victory. first of all, in the military field.
hi South Vietnam, in particular, under the We shall deal below with the military suc
banner of the National Front for Liberation, cesses that the South Vietnamese armed forces
our people's war against the U.S. "limited war” and people have registered in the recent past.
has scored far-reaching and glorious successes,
PART II
The South Vietnamese Armed Forces and People
Will Certainly Defeat the U.S. Imperialists
by smashing one after another the self-defence war into military strength and mili
strategic plans of the U.S. imperialists, wiping tary superiority so as to vanquish the U.S.
out an important part of the American, puppet imperialists in any circumstances.
and satellite forces, and of their war means, by Together with great military successes, peo
crushing all U.S. “pacification” programs and ple’s war in South Vietnam has scored big gains
contributing to foil the U.S. war of destruction on the political plane, with the former paving
against the North, the South Vietnamese armed the way for the latter. The South Vietnamese
forces and people have dealt a heavy blow at armed forces and people uphold a just cause,
the U.S. counter-offensive strategy, won the possess a strong force and are being the victor.
first round of their “limited” war of aggres Fighting an unjust war the American imperialists
sion and scored big military successes. are the aggressor and find themselves in a losing
The above-cited successes have given us position. That is why our entire people’s single-
more practical bases to assert once again that mindedness, determination and confidence in
to defeat the U.S. imperialists in the military their ultimate victory are strengthened with
field, the armed forces and people of South every passing day. The struggle of the South
Vietnam must and can create a certain military Vietnamese armed forces and people under the
strength, and secure a stronger military posi banner of the National Front for Liberation is
tion than the enemy’s by: enjoying growing sympathy and support from the
1 — Relying on the absolute political superi forces of peace, national independence,
ority of our just war and the all-sided strength democracy and socialism throughout the world.
of our country due to favourable climatic, terrain Inversely, the enemy’s political situation is in
and human conditions, and to the great support an increasing mess; the puppet administration
of the world peoples for our liberation war waged is plagued with endless crises, the puppet army
for our self-defence in our own country. This is continues disintegrating while the contradictions
the fundamental objective factor which creates between the Americans and the puppets deepen,
military strength and superiority. those between the Americans and their satel
2 — Relying on correct political and military lites develop, and the U.S. warmongers political
lines and the correct conduct of the war. This is ly become more and more isolated at home and
the decisive subjective factor generating military abroad.
strength and military superiority. Thus, the successes of people’s war in South
3 — Relying on the strength of the militant Vietnam are major ones, in both the political
solidarity of our entire people who dispose of and the military fields, in both strategy and
three categories of armed forces. These are in tactics. They consecrate the triumph of firm and
suitable number and of high quality. The armed correct political and military lines, the triumph
forces form the backbone of military strength of the clever and creative conduct of the war and
and the direct basis of military superiority. of people’s war military art. They also reflect
4 — Using people’s war as a fundamental the grim determination to fight and the latent
form of struggle to defeat the U.S. aggressors. forces of our entire people who, in addition,
This is the only correct and effective means to benefit by the active support andasistance of the
turn the latent, varied capabilities of the just fraternal socialist countries and our friends over
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the world.
Those successes, especially in the military deeper they are bogged down. They want to fight
sphere, bespeak the military and political mights rapidly to snatch a quick victory, but they are
of people’s war;^ they mark a new development of compelled to fight a protracted war.
people’s war in the South which, after thwarting Disunity has been widening in the ranks of the
“special warfare,’’ has won the first round of U.S. ruling circles, with some advocating with
the “limited war’’ of the American imperialists drawal, others urging stronger actions, others
and their stooges in every aspect. They lay bare again wavering, not willing to lose the war and
the limitations and fundamental weak points of fearing at the same time that it may broaden and
the U.S. aggressive war on both the military and drag on. Politically, the United States cannot
the political planes. It is in the fierce confronta fully use its military strength and, moreover,
tion between our people and the aggressor, par is sustaining more and more bitter defeats. This
ticularly in the past two years or so that we have explains why it is faced with a graver political
come to know our enemy and ourselves more crisis and more serious political isolation.
deeply and more comprehensively. 2. Out of self-complacency the United States
Obviously, the U.S, imperialists' strength is relies on its economic and military potential,
of a material and technical nature. They have a and underestimates the moral and material
big economic and national defence potential, a strength of the Vietnamese people.
numerous army with high mobility and a strong It hopes that by boosting its effectives and
firepower, especially that of the air force. using more bombs and bullets it can intimidate
All American schemes and strategic and our people in both the North and the South, and
tactical plans in this war of aggression against change the balance of forces in its favour, thus
Vietnam are based on this point. That is why our creating a basis for its counter-offensive stra
people’s struggle is a very arduous one. But in tegy. But the balance of forces has changed
our country, the strength of the United States contrarily to the U.S. wishful thinking. So, the
has a limit. It cannot be brought into full play more the Americans “escalate” the war in
due to U.S. political weaknesses, the terrain North Vietnam, the deeper they are bogged down.
conditions and our people’s war combat methods. On the South Vietnamese theatre their counter
Less than two years after the American im offensive strategy, which did not take into ac
perialists started their “limited war’ ’ of aggres count the practical relation of strength, has be
sion, many personages in the U.S. political come an adventurous one, doomed to failure.
circles have already complained that the war After each setback they cannot find where their
burden is heavily weighing on the U.S. economy mistake lies, but obstinately ascribe it to the
and the American people’s life, that it is deal lack of troops, and military equipment, and then
ing a mortal blow at Johnson’s so-called “great commit bigger mistakes and sustain still more
society’’ program. The U.S. imperialistshave bitter defeats.
themselves admitted that they are not in aposi 3. The U.S. strategy is a passive one, vacil
tion to spend as much money as they want on lating between offensive and defensive, between
the war nor to prolong it indefinitely. increasing the mobility of troops and using them
Moreover, the enemy’s weak points are funda as an occupation force. It has to cope with peo
mental, on both the political and the military ple’s war in South Vietnam on many theatres of
planes. They spell out his doom in strategy and operations, from the 17th Parallel to the point
tactics, in “search and destroy’’ and “pacifica of Camau, in the jungles, on the plains as well
tion’’ tasks, in his “limited war’’ of aggression as in the towns and cities, both at the front and
in the South as well as his war of destruction in in the rear. The immediate rear of the Amer
the North. The prestige of the U.S. trump cards— icans, the staging base for their counter-offen
infantry, air force and navy—have been debunked sive, is unstable and being narrowed down. In
in the eyes of our and the world peoples. Ballyhoo fact, there is no place in South Vietnam that they
about the United States (incredible) military regard as their sanctuary. Their logistic
might has gone bankrupt with the fiasco of its operational bases, their airfields, are fre
aggression against a small country as ours. quently hit though heavily guarded. Their com
This is particularly true of the U.S, conduct of munications and transport are under constant
the war: harassment. The American press estimates that
1. They have been conducting the war in a on the average the United States suffers 100
passive way, without consistency in strategy. casualties without being able to secure one kilo
Defeated in their “special warfare’’ strategy, metre of safe road. Attacked in all parts of
they have had to switch to that of a “limited war” South Vietnam, it has to fall back to the de
and wage a war of destruction against North Viet fensive although it wants to take the offensive.
nam, but the more they “escalate,” the heavier It has substantially increased its effectives, yet
their setbacks become in both zones of Vietnam, its mobile forces are still insufficient, support
and the more they increase their troops, the units swell rapidly while fighting units remain
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inadequate. For their part, the puppet troops, — They cannot save the American, puppet and
who can assume neither combat nor defence satellite troops from annihilation, their logistic
tasks, are assigned the "pacification” job, bases from attacks and their communication
which can only accelerate their disintegration. lines from being cut off;
4. Jh operational conduct as well as in fight — They cannot solve their tactical problems,
ing the Americans proceed from the point of view remedy the weak point of the U.S. expeditionary
that everything is decided by firepower. They force—their infantry—so as to wipe out the
repose no confidence in the effectiveness of L.A.F.;
their infantry, which, in fact, is too faint — They cannot "pacify” the countryside;
hearted and too weak to engage the L.A.F., — They do not know how to attack North Viet
without firepower support, let alone annihilate nam in order to limit, let alone prevent, its sup
them. They work out imposing plans but their port to South Vietnam, nor how to get rid of their
possibilities to put them into effect are limited. political isolation at home and abroad;
Their firepower is strong when it is used from They cannot deceive the Vietnamese and world
long distances, but the support which it actually peoples about their "peace goodwill” and their
gives to the infantry is also limited. Though offer for "unconditional negotiations.”
commanding a great operational mobility in As the Los Angeles Times of December 9,
tactical and combat jobs, the U.S. Infantry 1966 has admitted, powerful America turns out to
usually huddles together in one place, not daring be the victim of an ill-conducted war, and is be
to fan out. As a result, this mobility only tires coming the laughing-stock in the eyes of the
out their troops and makes their operations strategists throughout the world.
more costly. American planes, guns and tanks True, in the words of the Christian Science
possess a big strike force, but they are greatly Monitor (January 19, 1967) the American im
handicapped by the infantry (shock force) which perialists have engaged in an awkward war that
is weak, and in some cases, even nil. President Johnson himself does not understand.
Clearly, the U.S. ground forces cannot destroy From a subjective point of view, how can the
the L.A.F. because their infantry has a low United States conduct the war to escape defeat,
morale, is weak and trained to fight on battle let alone win the war? No wonder that this paper
fields with clearcut frontlines, and their other has also acknowledged, though reservedly, that
services are incapable of great effectiveness. the war does not fare very well and there is no
When fielded, American troops can form encir sign of a better course.
clement prongs rather quickly; however, as The enemy’s foibles lie precisely there where
their infantry lacks combativeness such a mobile our fortes are. Together with their military and
deployment simply scatters their forces to be political strong points inherent in a just self-
destroyed by chunks. In attacks, assaults and defence war for liberation, waged on their native
pursuits, they essentially count on the firepower land, the South Vietnamese armed forces and
of their air force and artillery, so that their people have another truly fundamental one—their
"search and destroy” efforts prove futile. In own strivings both in the direction of the war and
stead, they are often intercepted and suffer in the execution of the war plans.
heavy losses in men and materiel at the hands 1. They are endowed with a determination
of die Liberation forces who turn up unex of a strategic character to fight for independence
pectedly. In the direction of their predatory and freedom till complete victory. Uris is also
war against a small country like Vietnam, the the determination of our entire people. Theirs
U.S. imperialists are facing the following un- is a correct strategy, an offensive strategy,
surmountable difficulties and deadlock in the one of resolute and uninterrupted attacks, which
political, strategic and tactical fields: has been developed day after day. When the United
— They cannot stabilize the puppet adminis States massively sent its expeditionary troops to
tration as a political prop for their aggressive South Vietnam, thus switching from "special
war; warfare” to a "limited war,” the South Viet
— They cannot consolidate the puppet army namese armed forces and people, far from being
as their political and military mainstav: scared by the U.S. outward military might, far
— They cannot decide how many more G.I.’s from vacillating and falling back to a defensive
should be sent to South Vietnam; position or attrition warfare, continued to apply
— They cannot extricate themselves from their offensive strategy, that of resolute and
their worsening strategic position; uninterrupted attacks, and furthered this strong
— They do not know how to end the war with position on all theatres. This determination
out losing face or how long to carry it on; stemmed from the correct, scientific assess
— They cannot bolster the morale of the ment of the relation of forces between the enemy
American, puppet and satellite troops. About and us, in accordance with our resolute and
this Newsweek (Feb. 6, 1967) wrote, "the U.S. thoroughly revolutionary class stand. It was the
morale is deep into slush”; expression of our people’s aspirations, will and
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mettle In face of the U.S. direct aggression, and 4. With their perfectly correct political line,
correctly reflected the respective positions and the South Vietnamese armed forces and people
strength of our people and the enemy at that time, have won ever more active and broader support
as well as the law of revolution and revolutionary from the socialist countries, the working class
war in South Vietnam which consists in develop and International communist movement, the
ing the struggle from political offensives to national-liberation movement and the peace-
ever-stronger military and political offensives. freedom- and justice-loving people throughout
This determination has enabled the South the world.
Vietnam L.A.F. to mobilize and organize all Clearly enough, while the American imperial
the latent forces of the masses, to maintain ists are passively sliding instead of firmly ad
their initiative of action, their strong and win vancing in the war, as the Washington Post of
ning position, in the fight against the “special December 28, 1966 wrote, without seeing the
warfare’’ and now against the “limited war’’ light at the end of the “ tunnel,” the South Viet
despite the continuous build-up, the introduction namese armed forces and people are making
of a huge materiel and technical forces and re ever-steadier steps with the bearing of the
peated counter-offensives of the U.S. aggres victor, forging ahead on the correct path they
sors. This determination has a decisive effect have chosen to attain their goal.
on the successes in every field over the recent The military successes of the South Vietna
past, just as on the trend of the development mese armed forces and people over the recent
of the war—the inevitable defeat of the U.S. past have paved the way for forthcoming greater
aggressors and the certain victory of the South ones. Keeping clear of subjectivism, self-
Vietnamese armed forces and people. complacency, fear of hardships and sacrifices,
2. The L.A.F. and people have built up an and guarding against Illusion in a Pax Ameri
everbroadening and more experienced people's cana, they fully understand that only by fighting
armed force composed of three categories in resolutely, destroying many more U.S. troops
appropriate number and with high quality. Ra and weapons, wiping out many more puppet
tionally fielded on all theatres this armed force troops and disintegrating the Saigon army, can
has created a powerful people’s war battle-array they smash the will of aggression of the Ameri
with regular troops attacking the enemy without can imperialists.
let-up everywhere, encircling him tightly as in
an iron net. Like a beast held at bay he is strug
* * *
gling furiously, but the more he wriggles the
more firmly he is caught in the net.
3. The South Vietnamese armed forces and
people have worked out and creatively put into Despite their bitter failures, the U.S. imper
effect wonderful people’s war combat methods, ialists remain incurable braggarts. On the one
such as combining armed struggle with political hand, they admit that they are not in a position
struggle, co-ordinating large-unit offensives to win but on the other, they claim they cannot
with guerilla warfare and attacks on the adver lose. Thus, the question is whether they will be
sary’s rear bases and communication lines. defeated by our people militarily.
Relying on the strength of their revolutionary The military victories of people ’ s war in South
spirit and their resourcefulness, the L.A.F. Vietnam and throughout our country have made it
have made full use of all weapons and other war unmistakably clear that in Vietnam the U.S. im
means at their disposal, promoted close-range perialists have suffered heavy military defeats
fighting, managed to limit the effectiveness of the and that they will sustain complete failure. This
enemy’s strong firepower, and made their shock is a reality of historical significance which con
troops the decisive force to win victory. That is tributes to demonstrate a truth of our time: in
why they have scored more and more successes the conditions of to-day’s world, a small people,
in wiping out American, puppet and satellite determined to rise up and closely united, fearing
troops, in striking at their bases and war means, no sacrifice, having a correct political and mili
in defending and liberating the population, in tary line, and knowing how to wage people’s war
safeguarding and enlarging the liberated zones, and win broad international support, are fully
in narrowing down the occupied areas, in making able to defeat militarily the enemy number one
deep thrusts into the enemy1 s rear, and in main of mankind—U.S. imperialism—>which is wielding
taining and developing the initiative of action on the biggest economic and military potential in the
all theatres of operations. capitalist world.
China’s Great Revolution
and the Soviet Union’s Big Tragedy
Observer, Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily),
from Hsinhua News Agency June 4, 1967
From the beginning, China's Great Prole through clenched teeth that this would be the
tarian Cultural Revolution has hit the Soviet “last act” of the Russian Revolution, that it
revisionist clique of renegades in the solar was “arbitrariness” and an “adventure of the
plexus and shaken their tottering “throne.” Bolsheviks.”
Throughout the past year, scarcely one day When victory was won by the Great Chinese
has passed without the Soviet revisionist clique, Revolution in 1949, how jubilant were the people
headed by Brezhnev and Kosygin, slandering, throughout China and the rest of the world*. But
attacking and vilifying China’s Great Prole then U.S. imperialism cried out in panic that the
tarian Cultural Revolution. In a constant out situation in China was “unfortunate” and
pouring of Venom, they allege that China’s great “tragic” that it was a “most anguished period.”
cultural revolution is a “big tragedy.” The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Is this strange? Not at all. History shows now going on in China is a revolutionary move
that a genuine, great revolution is always a ment which is more deep-going and larger in
joyous festival to the revolutionary people but a scale than the Paris Commune, the October
big tragedy to the reactionary forces. Revolution and all past revolutions in China.
When the great Paris Commune came into Isn't it quite logical that such a great revolu
being, Marx hailed it as the greatest day for tion should give rise to howls and abuse from
the proletariat. But the monarchs and bourgeois the Soviet revisionist clique of renegades and all
rulers in Europe cried out in alarm that it was reactionary forces in the world?
a catastrophe. Who abused the first Soviets created by the
When die salvoes were fired by the cruiser Russian workingclass? Lenin wrote after the
Aurora in 1917 and when the song of triumph Russian October Revolution that they were “all
was sounded for the Great Russian October the bourgeois scoundrels, the whole gang of
Revolution, how elated and inspired were the blood suckers with Kautsky echoing them.”
proletarians and other revolutionary people the Brezhnev, Kosygin and their like today are
world over ’. But then the imperialists and the disciples of the renegade Kautsky, whom Lenin
renegades of the Second International said bitterly denounced. In abusing China’s great
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