VIETNAM
[The following declaration appeared in the January-February issue of the Progressive Review, a vanguard publication in the Philippines. ]
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We, students of various colleges and schools in the Philippines, condemn the clear attempt of the United States to provoke an international war in Asia, involve the Philippine youth in another futile war of American expansion as in South Korea, contravene our fundamental law which renounces war, and moreover, endanger the lives and homes of our people who themselves have more than enough problems of their own due to colonialism and imperialism,
We know for a fact that the United States, in taking over what the French left in South Vietnam after Dien Bien Phu, has transgressed the Geneva Agreement which prohibits foreign intervention. The Bogey of Communism has been raised only to justify the suppression of the South Vietnamese peasantry and strengthen American imperiam through the successive "free world" dictatorships of Ngo Dinh
Diem and Nguyen Khan and the brutal use of strategic hamlets (barbed wire enclosures), noxious chemicals and other forms of "special -warfare." We know for a fact that the South Vietnamese movement now bravely opposing the full power of the United States is neutralist and nationalistic in policy and would have none of imperialism,
Now, as if it were not satisfied with the senseless killing and oppression of the South Vietnamese peasants, the United States is trying to provoke a northward war against the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam.
- We condemn both the basic fact of American intervention in Indo-China and the heightened provocation against peoples wanting to live peacefully within their own national territories. We hereby affirm the principles of national freedom and peace to which we are deeply committed in the Manila and Bandung Declarations and the U.N. Charter, The U.S. has always been flagrantly too far out from its own national territory.
We see clearly that our military treaties and commitments with the United States negate our constitutional process and would be the very cause of our doom if a general nuclear conflagration breaks out in Asia. And, death shall not be our only share, but also shame <= shame for allowing the military bases of the United States in the Philippines to be the staging grounds for attacks against our Asian brothers,
SCHOOL ON AFRICAN AFFAIRS HELD IN LONDON
(The following article appeared in the June 11 issue of the ' British pacifist publication Peace News under the title "Violent revolution anticipated by African