VIETNAMESE PLEDGE SOLIDARITY TO STOKELY CARMICHAEL
[Stokely Carmichael, during his recent visit to North Vietnam, met with Premier Pham Van Dong and other officials of North Vietnam and of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
{During the August 31 meeting, Pham Van Dong made a declaration of solidarity with the struggle of black people in the United States for their freedom. The text of his statement appears below. It is reprinted from the September 2 Vietnem Information Bulletin, published in Rangoon, Burma.
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The Vietnamese people deeply sympathize with the sufferings of black people in the U.S. as their brothers and close comrades in arms in the struggle against the common enemy, U.S. imperialism.
The Vietnamese people sincerely thank black people in the U.S. for the warm support they give to the Vietnamese people's cause of resistance to the U.S. aggressors, for national salvation, and rejoice to see that this valuable support is developing with every passing day among black servicemen in the U.S. army.
The Vietnamese people fully approve and firmly support the just struggle of black people in the U.S. who under the leadership of their own leaders, are thoroughly opposing the policy of racial discrimination which is made a State policy practiced in a most odious and cruel manner by the U.S. ruling circles.
Since this struggle is aimed at winning the legitimate rights and responds to the deep aspirations of black people in the U.S., it has the power to stimulate the spirit of close solidarity and staunch fighting spirit of black people and is bound to develop broadly and quickly and become an invincible strength.
The Vietnamese people firmly believe that the just struggle of black people in the U.S. which is enjoying the sympathy and vigorous support of the African peoples as well as the people of other countries in the world, will surely tide over all difficulties and hardships, and win glorious victory.
THE GOOD LIFE IN VIETNAM ~- AMERICAN