"The bygckest day of the War" said the headlines on ‘ednesday. For sccialists, on the contrary, the humiliating defeats inflicted upon the American aggressors made this one of the best weeks of the war, One gasps in admiration for the heroism, skill and audacity of the National Liberation Front, But the events cf the last few days have sreater significance than the immediate effect on the military situation in Vietnam, The capture of part of the American Emabssy by the Vietnamese liberation fighters was symbolic. The American imperialists have sought to teach the pcor of the world a lesson by making victory over the national liberation forces in Vietnam a question of principle. They seek to demonstrate that it does not pay to fight for national liberation and social advance in the world today. Instead, the Vietnamese are teaching the Americans a lesson: that they cannot, with impunity, attack even the smallest country. The cartoon which we have used on our front page indicates @hat some sections of the American ruling class are learning the lesson (it was based upon one in the New York Herald Tribune).
More power to arm of the National Liberation Front. Let us do what we can to moblisie direct political support for the Vietnamese people in their struggle against American aggression. The whole left should support the March 17 demonstration.