catering for a domestic market: it is a key element in the strategy of the German car-makers to cut wages and conditions world-wide.
While we celebrate the fighting spirit, the tenacity and commitment which won the military victory in Vietnam, the full political victory has yet to be won.
We reprint here extracts from keynote articles on the Vietnamese victory written at the time by two British Trotskyist organisations, whose very different traditions have since converged on many issues.
The first is from Red Weekly, paper of the International Marxist Group, then the British section of the Fourth International.
The second is from Socialist Press, then a newly-launched fortnightly paper of the Workers Socialist League, formed after mass expulsions from Gerry Healy's Workers Revolutionary Party. WHAT MORE can be said on Vietnam? The red, blue and gold flag of the Provisional Revolutionary Government flies over Ho Chi Minh City. The United States, the greatest military power on earth, has suffered its first ever defeat in war.
The international working class has celebrated one of its greatest ever May Days. Humanity has taken one long stride nearer its liberation.
But as revolutionaries glory in the triumph of indochina, we should understand what made such a victory possible:
• first, last and above will to struggle of the Indochinese workers and peasants.
• the solidarity of revolutionaries throughout the world, from Che Guevara in Bolivia to the anti-war movement in the United States, who helped sap the belly of the imperialist monster.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No.82, April 29 1995, Page 9. The old formula