Pakistan against China. The Soviet government, it cannot
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be forgotten, likewise furnished planes” to India during the conflict between India and China. The "pacifists" of today played the big power game for years at the expense of China.
It happens that China is now able to turn the tables, to play the same big power game. Those who are caught in their own moves really have nothing to complain about. No revolutionist can blame China, in seeking as a state power to profit from the consequences of a Situation which she not only did not create but which in its origin was directed against her.
Where revolutionists should judge the Chinese policy in the
Indo~Pakistan: conflict, aside from the governmental aspect, is onthe level of revolutionary politics. Unfortunately, from all the inform- -ation at our disposal, it must be concluded that the Chinese leaders are seeking to subordinate the vanguard, including the pro-Chinese Communists to their temporary diplomatic needs in Pakistan,
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Can India and Pakistan continue the war if they are subjected to economic sanctions by the big powers? We must not forget that some 500,000,000 people are involved in the struggle and that it is impossible to foresee what their reactions might be.
In a situation as serious as this one, one of the most somber aspects is the situation facing the revolutionary vanguard, In Pakistan they are extremely weak in number. In India most of the organizations that have been speaking in the name of socialism, including some that have been champions of nonviolence, have voiced outrageous chauvinist sentiments in connection with the war against Pakistan,
The opponents of the war include in particular the left Com munist party and the Trotskyists who have just organized the Socialist Workers party. They face a difficult period. There is no doubt that the repression will be severe,
But the struggle which they have undertaken, aside from the vicissitudes that can be expected, will contribute to accelerating the decomposition of the bourgeois system,