The problem which confronts all those interested in peace today is the present policy of the United States. Those who are in power in the United States of America have committed that countzy to a systematic prog= ramme of exploitation and foreign domination. The essence of the problem may be summed up in the following ways the United States maintains over 3,600 military bases in the world. This vast international system of military control exists because American capitalism controls bon of the world's resources although the United States contains only 6% of the world's population. The peoples of the world are in revolt against these conditions, which mean for them poverty, disease and unrelieved misery. It is obvious that no nation can retain by force of arms the control and benefit of nearly two thirds of the world's resources without meeting resistance from the people who suffer as a result. It follows that the majority of the peoples of the world must accept their circumstances or come into open reve oltagainst American domination and exploitation. These are the essential facts which lie behind the appallingly brutal war of azzression which the U.S. is now waging in Vietnam. Let no-one be in doubt: the conditions which have caused this conflict in Viet Nam exist throughout Latin America and the greater part of South East Asia.
What is one to think of a war in which the most powerful industrial nation on earth uses all the ingenuity and resources at its disposal to amihilate the people of an agricultural country thousands of miles away? Eight million Vietnamese have teen placed in virtual concentration camps. In one year alone, 50,000 air attacks with napalm were conducted by the U.S. and its puppet government. Weapons of mass slaughter are being used experimentally on civilian populations in South Viet Nam. The U.S., furthermore, seeks to overcome the determined resistance to its policy of domination by pursuing a course of armed conflict with China. It is greatly to be feared that the men who have the power in the Pentagon, in the C.I.A. are, at this moment, preparing to destroy by bombing all of the industrial cities of China. This criminal act, which will bring the world to the verge of all-out nuclear war, must be warned against and opposed with all the vigour and resolution we can muster. It has been said in the past that all parties in the Cold War are to blame for the arms race and for the threat of nuclear war. It can no longer be said with any justification. Events of recent years and present policies of the U.S. make clear beyond doubt that the threat to world peace is American inperialism. Any honest observer of the world scene, conversant with the facts, must come to that conclusion.
It is the reckless behaviour of the U.S. Government which brings the world to the brink of nuclear war. The probable results are so awful that people will not face them. U.S. policy means that if major war should be averted for the moment, there will be a new crisis soon. American power challenges the aspirations of mankind. Until the U.S. Government ~ its military and the C.I.A. = abandon the doctrine of counter-revolution and cease opposing the struggle for political and economic independence, the world will stagger from one crisis to another. Until people are prepared to oppose and overthrow governments which support chemical and napalm warfare, the U.S. will continue its policies of experimental slaughter.
I call upon people throughout the world to act to end the U.S. war of aggression in Viet Name