ing Cambodia merely amounts to another attempt by the Plame Petter tiv the military impasse in which they find ern Sr in the swamps and jungles of South East Asia, Indeed, with casualties il U.S. personnel exceeding 115,000, American imperialism is no os “ao goal of "pacifying" that part of the world. In an election 7 rea : is sorely in need of some type of victory.' All actions taken A eed the United States have been justified to the American public Wd eal Department as being necessary to bring the war to a quick rho rae Kaz Because of the super-human efforts of the Vietnamese people, a : ; been in vain. Instead, the Vietnam issue in 1968 promises to ren — American capitalist society. It has led to prefound social unrest wit : virtual civil war in the baack ghettoes and the development of the bigges anti-war movement in the history of that country.
1968, the war in Vietnam promises to become more openly and more re "a land war in South East Asia," something which the military expérts advised against since it would require the use of nuclear weapons and would result in the intervention of the Soviet Union and China. Already 50,000 American military personnel are conducting operations in Laos and Thailand, where the central Government has lost control of several provinces in the North East to the guerillas. If the Americans succeed in invading Cambodia with impunity, we can be assured they will then invade North Vietnam. The ruling circles in the United States calculate that having got away with so much, a little more of the samd medicine will bring greater dividends, The war machine has its own logic, The only way it will be stopped is by a world-wide counterescalation of the anti-war opposition. The struggle to get the Labour Party to come out against the Americans is a,maior task in 1968, The political acquiescence and moral complicity e Vietnam war on the side of the Americans is not just a "negative" policy but a direct contribution to the American war effort as valtable as that of the Australian and New Zealand governments. The fact that both the Labour Party conference and TUC have come out against this policy eases our task, With growing unrest on the industrial front this year, it will become that much easier for anti-war activists to gain the ears of Labour Party members and trade unionists to win a repudiation of Wilson's policy. At the end of last year we caught a glimpse of the possibilities and means to achieve this - the organising of a united-front opposition to the war as typified by the October 22nd demonstration.Many trade unionists participated in this. There were several Labour Party constituency banners. More such participants are needed on the next demonstration. What better way to start 1968 than by pledging to make the next action a greater success, The Vietnamese people themselves have given the lead — they have officially yj page for solidarity demonstrations to take place on the week of March 17 %? 2+, The Week gives its full support to the call by the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign for a meeting on January 11 to organise an : Ad Hoc Committee to plan the action. It is only by making Wilson aware that tens of thousands of people are opposed to his line, and that they are prepared to take to the streets to prove it, that we can have any success,
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