APPEALS FOR INCREASED AID TO VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION
The International Executive Committee of the Fourth International met in a plenary session March 10-12 in Stockholm. One of the main points on its agenda was the war in Vietnam.
There was unanimous agreement that international mobilization of all the forces supporting the Vietnamese revolution is indispensable in order to counteract the pressure being exerted by the Soviet bureaucracy to impose a "compromise" on the Vietnamese fighters contrary to the interests of the revolution.
Te IEC decided to call on all the sections of the Fourth International to intensify efforts to mobilize solidarity with the Vietnamese revolution and against American imperialist aggression.
The decisions on this question came in the framework of a report on the work accomplished by the United Secretariat since the last meeting of the IEC. The United Secretariat is the leading body of the Fourth International between sessions of the IEC.
Livio Maitan reported on the political crisis in China which has been under discussion among the leading bodies of the Fourth International since the “cultural revolution" first began. It was decided to draw up a resolution on the basis of the report and utilize this to open a discussion in the world Trotskyist movement as a whole on this important and complex question.
The discussion will be part of the
preparations for the third world congress
since the reunification of the Fourth In-
ternational in 1963 (the ninth congress
since 1938).
Reports were presented on the situ-
ation in Latin America. It was decided to
open a solidarity campaign in behalf of
the Bolivian revolutionists struggling
against the military distatorship of Gen-
eral Barrientos. The entire leftist move-
ment in Bolivia has been the object of a
savage witch-hunt launched last January by
the regime.
The IEC also decided to step up the
campaign in defense of Hugo Blanco and the
other victims of the repression in Peru.
A conference of the Latin-American
sections of the Fourth International was
scheduled to discuss these and other ques-
tions of vital importance in the struggle
against U.S. imperialism, native reaction
and for the socialist revolution.
A report was made on the current
Situation facing the organizations and
groups of the Fourth International in
Asia.
The IEC registered with satisfac-
tion the progress made by the Indian sec-
tion and the results of a joint conference
organized by the Indian and Ceylonese sec-
tions.
Attention was called to the impor-
tance of the evolution of the prerevolu-
tionary crisis now developing in India.