Chinese Stalinist army invades Vietnam

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Fund, 31, Dartmouth Though Peking has declared that it has no intention of seizing Vietnamese territory, reports as we go to press suggest that Chinese troops are still advancing despite heavy resistance by Vietnamese The timing of the attack has clearly caught the Vietnamese at their weakest point, with an estimated 100,000 troops tied down in what seems an almost indefinite commitment to preserving their new puppet FUND like Socialist Press is clear. Help us paper by making & contribution to be sent to: Socialist Press Monthly Park Hill, London NW5 1HR.

Deng regime in Kampuchea from continuing guerrilla resistance from supporters of the deposed Pol Pot government.

But the timing is also clearly related to the international and domestic requirements of the Peking bureaucracy itself. • Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping has only just returned from the USA, the latest in the series Chinese visits to key imperialist nations, in which a major topic of negotiation has been Chinese desires to purchase tons of advanced military equipment-including British Harrier jump jets. for advanced technological equipment and investment which could equip the still chronically backward Chinese economy to offer the kind of improvements in living standards being increasingly demanded by workers and peasants alike.

In pressing their claim for such assistance the Chinese Stalinists have offered the capitalists not only the prospect of a slice of profitable investment in the huge, largely untapped Chinese market, but also hopes of an ally against the military might of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

The attack on Vietnamlinked to the USSR through a friendship treaty-can be seen as both proof of Peking's good intentions with regards to such an anti-Soviet alliance, and as a means of justifying its reactionary foreign policy and its growing military expenditure to the increasingly restive Chinese masses. • • For revolutionaries and socialists however it is yet further proof of the utterly reaction consequences of the nationalism embodied in the Stalinist "theory" of building "socialism in one country".

The Soviet Union has moved quickly to warn the Chinese of undisclosed consequences if they do not halt their invasion,: and other Warsaw Pact countries with the exception of Romania have. also denounced the incursion.

Under seige

Such divisions between non-capitalist nations can only delight crisis-ridden imperialism at a point where its own military outposts and puppet dictatorships are under seige from an advancing mass movement covering every continent.

The world workers' movement must demand the immediate withdrawal of Chinese troops from Chinese bureaucrats on arms spree Vietnamese soil, and the withdrawal of Viętnamese troops from Kampuchea.

Political revolution

An end to such reactionary national rivalries can only be brought about through the struggle within the deformed workers states of East Europe, Asia and Cuba for the political overthrow of the Stalinist bureaucracy through • the building of workers councils and the • construction of revolutionary, Trotskyist parties.

Only in this way can the social gains within these countries in the form of nationalised property relations be adequately defended against imperialism and made the basis for the furtherance of the world socialist revolution.