International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Foundry Workers! Leader on Viftnam

The Week Vol. 3, No. 17, 28 April 1965 · p. 6 of the scan · 128 words

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Writing in the latest issue of the journal of the Foundry Workers! Union, Mr. William Thompson, the union's assistant general secretary, has

about the war in Vietnam: = pees (a ar’@to condone the barbarous colonial war being fought by the U.S. Government in Vietnam? High explosives, napalm fire bombs and vomiting gas are being rained down on the men, women and children in a desperate effort by the U.S.A. to subjugate the people and place them under the control of a South Vietnam puppet Government that the Americans = themselves cannot rely on to exist any day of the week.

It is certain, Mr. Thompson continued, that without American forces the South Vietnam Government would be removed and replaced by one which had the support of the people.

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