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A New Stage Opens in Vietnam Revolution by Dick Roberts FEB A New Stage Opens in Vietnam Revolution By Dick Roberts FEB. 6- The massive National Liberation Front offensive against most of the occupied cities of THE South Vietnam opens a new stage of the Vietnamese revolution. The revolutionary forces demonstrat­ ed that they can challenge U.S. and Saigon armies for control of practically every square inch of the land. MILITANT The world's mightiest imperial· Published in the Interest of the Working People ist power has been dealt a stun­ ning blow. The blow is primarily Vol. 32 - No. 7 Monday, February 12, 1968 Price 10¢ political, although its immediate military impact is considerable. What has occurred is a sudden upsurge of the Vietnamese revolu­ tion; and those who are carrying it forward have written one of the most extraordinary and heroic Holsteotl Demont!: pages in history. The extent of the total attack is still not known, but it has al­ ready included "no less than 30 of South Vietnam's 44 provincial Bring Gls Home capitals, as well as larger cities such as Saigon and Danang, FEB. 7 - Fred Halstead, So­ ing the campus antiwar and black American installations and un­ cialist Workers Party candidate power leaders, endorsed the Hal­ counted towns," according to the Feb. 6 New York Times. for President, said today, "The stead-Boutelle ticket as a result of this meeting. Vietnamese patriots struck the offensive of the National Lib­ There is an active group of Hal­ "most secure" U.S. military strong­ eration Front in South Vietnam stead-Boutelle supporters on cam­ holds - from the new U.S. Em­ demonstrates clearly that the pus at NIU, and many students bassy in Saigon to the big base VICTIM OF WASHINGTON'S WAR. Democratic and Republican American people have been fed can be seen around campus with near Camranh Bay, once consi­ politicians are guilty of sending Gls to be wounded and killed in a pack of lies about the war "Vote SWP" buttons on their dered safe enough for visits from unjust, immoral war Washington is waging against Vietnamese. all along. coats. Lyndon Johnson himself. "The NLF is obviously gain­ While he was at NIU, Halstead Saigon and Hue really happen. At the time of the The Pentagon policy of support­ ing strength and support in its had a meeting with three leaders An AP dispatch this morning re­ broadcast, Thieu himself had fled ing fteld "search and destroy" fight for freedom and social of the Afro-American Cultural Or­ ports that fighting is continuing the city. Clearly the guerrilla operations with saturation bomb­ justice while the forces of the ganization in the campus cafe­ in Saigon and Hue where the reb­ fighters had been welcomed into ing was taken directly into pop­ Saigon dictatorship and the U.S. teria. els are "defying superior Allied city homes. And the city dwellings ulation centers. In Hue, Feb. 4, are becoming more and more The NIU meeting was publicized firepower to slug it out in the were bombed indiscriminately. an officer told New York Times reporter Gene Roberts, "What we isolated and hated by the Viet­ by the local chapter of Students for devastated streets. At some points, AP reported from Cantho Feb. a Democratic Society. In the SDS the enemy appeared to be out­ 5 that civilian casualties in Cantho need is sunny weather and air namese. Washington's course of newsletter, the Kishwaukee Sur­ maneuvering government troops. and 10 other Mekong Delta towns strikes and more air strikes." continuing the war can only fer, the Socialist Workers candi­ "Large sections of Saigon and were 1,250 killed, more than 3,000 An AP radiophoto, carried on result in untold additional suf­ dates are described as follows: Hue lay in smoldering ruins. Tow­ wounded, and 80,000 to 120,000 left the front page of the New York fering for the Vietnamese and "Halstead and Boutelle are not ering columns of smoke rose into homeless. The dutiful pro-war Post Feb. 6, shows a young wom­ thousands and thousands more the favorites of the Administra­ sunny skies as South Vietnamese agency stated "the official estimat­ an begging and sobbing. The cap­ American men being killed and tion, and the newspapers do not divebombers, U.S. helicopter gun­ ed that 10 to 20 per cent of the tion reads, "A Saigon mother maimed. support them with banner head­ ships, artillery and tanks blasted wounded civilians had been in­ pleads with South Vietnamese away at Communist troop pockets jured by U.S. military action." rangers not to fire into house "This war must be stopped, lines and victory cartoons. And like other anti-Establishment can­ in scattered sections." But the truth is that tens of where children are. The rangers and our men must be brought didates we have seen lately, ·Big The fact of massive U.S. and thousands of civilians are being said there were Viet Cong inside home from Vietnam right Fred speaks the open truth and Saigon aircraft bombing of these driven from their homes by U.S. and kept firing. The children away!" does not hesitate to put the blame cities dramatizes the turn that has bombing - if they are lucky escaped injury." where it belongs." taken place. Jan. 31, President enough to escape - and that this A likely story. The only way Thieu appealed to civilians to Fred Halstead, Socialist Work­ must be taking a terrible toll on U.S. and Saigon troops can hope Democrats and Republicans evacuate their homes so that the ers candidate for President, wound civilian lives. New York Times to recapture the cities is to bomb homes could be bombed and he up a week of campaigning in The article points out that reporter Charles Mohr wrote from and shell the areas of resistance called on citizens "to refuse to Northern Illinois on Jan. 29 by neither the Democratic nor the Saigon Feb. 6 that in another to the ground, as the Nazi forces allow Viet Cong sanctuary in their speaking to a crowd of over 300 Republican parties "have really Delta town, Mytho, "about 25 per­ did when they crushed the Polish homes." students at Northern Illinois Uni­ taken any direct action to solve cent of the town area, housing resistance armies in the Warsaw It would be a parody of the versity in DeKalb. The meeting, the problems of America. How do perhaps half of the people, was massacre. And those are the orders Saigon regime .,.... if only it didn't sponsored by the student govern­ the SWP candidates differ? in ruins." (Continued on Page 3) ment, was packed. There was "First, they, like our own Stu­ standing room only, and many dent Power candidates, are not students had to be turned away afraid to appear as leaders of mass for lack of space. demonstrations. Halstead has Ed Heisler, Illinois Socialist continued organizing . political Black Gls Against War Workers campaign director, re­ demonstrations, rent strikes and ported that 25 students, includ- peace marches . Paul Boutelle By Susan Harris black Gis has been enthusiastic, help but feel like a black mer­ is also experienced in leading mass NEW YORK, Feb. 6 - A group and some white Gis have re­ cenary fighting to maintain a white demonstrations an d political of 13 black Gis at Ft. Sam Hous­ sponded well, too. privileged class rather than for movements." The article ends: ton in Texas have been attempt­ One of the articles in the news­ the political freedom of black "The platform of the Socialist ing to educate other Gis at the letter states that "black Gis are people. All across the land, black Workers Party is as honest and base about black power and the fighting and dying for the so­ men in and out of the white milita­ forward-looking as its candidates." true nature of the Vietnam war. called freedom of the South Viet­ ry complex are calling for new Ed Heisler reports on other suc­ At a press conference called at namese when black people in this action in the promotion of black cessful meetings for Halstead in SNCC headquarters here today, country are not yet free. The freedom. Honkey had better get the Chicago area: "On Monday, one of the Gis, Pvt. Alton Jones, government has never attempted right or suffer the consequences." Jan. 22, the Civic Activities Board described how it all happened. to spend even a fraction of the Immediately after the 13 Gis at Lake Forest College sponsored He said that he and the other money spent in Vietnam to help had passed out all their copies of a meeting attended by about 50 12 first got together when they the black masses in this country. the newsletter, they were ordered students. The meeting was organ­ found out through informal dis­ "Black Sectian" to stop the distributions. They ized and chaired by a member of cussions at the base that they "What happens when, or rather were also told that they could not the college Young Republicans. were in agreement on the fact that if, a brother comes back from continue their meetings at the "On Jan. 24 Halstead debated the real fight for black people is Vietnam? On Christmas leave a servicemen's club. Professor Daniel Reiber on the not in Vietnam, but here in the train of Gis stopped in Texas. Alton said that several of the 13 Vietnam war before 200 students U.S. He said they then started to Some black troops went into a have suffered harassment, osten­ at the University of Illinois in hold meetings on black power in restaurant to eat but were made sibly for reasons having nothing Chicago under the auspices of the the servicemen's club.
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