The forces of reaction of world exploitation and oppression, have long fighting a losing battle against the progressive and revolutionary forces of the world. Their strategy has been to vilify and divide the socialist world, along two different lines.
The first is to confuse the minds of uncommitted liberals and progressive and to sow dissent and dissatisfaction among the people of the socialist world through the mass media. They have taken noble concepts like human rights and personal freedom, and used them as ideological weapons of reaction and world domination.
Their second strategem is to make socialist nations fight each other. They tried it in Yugoslavia and partly succeeded. They tried it in Hungary and failed. They tried it in Czechoslovakia and failed. They have now scored a major victory in being able to co-opt the leaders of the most populous socialist nation as allies of world imperialism.
It is one strong nation, the U.S.S.R. the pioneer and leader of world socialist revolution, that they are most afraid of. To isolate the leader and to vilify the soviet Union as an imperial power of the same kind as the U$A, has been their desire. They tried first to confront the soviet Union with military power (hence NATO) and have became frightened about the invincible power of the Socialist world. The debacle of U.S.aggression in Vietnam gave clear evidence that direct military intervention was of little avail.
So now, they have bought the leaders of the great Chinese people by pandering to the latter's dreams of becoming a super-power, by offering them technology and weapons. Deng Xiao-ping, that crafty national socialist, has now led the Chinese people along the garden path of betraying the world socialist revolution. The great Chinese people have now been branded traitors and aggressors, as dangerous to the peace and welfare of the world in the seventies and eighties as Hitler was in the thirties and forties of our century. As an Asian, ashamed.
The Dilemma Of The Chinese Leadership
Deng Xio-ping is in a fix today -- on three counts. He staked his claims to China as a super-power on his adventurist effort to "teach Vietnam a lesson“ --a lesson which an immensely more powerful military machine hod sought to administer to that heroic nation and failed miserably. Dong is learning, painfully indeed, that little Vietnam can teach him a lesson -- that adventurism and hegomonism can only be beaten hack by the human spirit of a small nation that cherishes its freedom and independence. Deng is bound to fail in Vietnam and has already failed. His claims to super-power status have now become the laughing-stock of the world. Deng's stake was cold and big. Hence his failure is also huge and momentous. How much longer can he claim to be the leader of the great Chinese people?
Second, Deng has brought about the biggest set-back the Chinese people have ever suffered, in losing the friendship and confidence of all the freedom-loving people of the world. Since February 17th, 1979, China has lost an enormous number of friends among the peoples, not only of Asia, Africa and Latin America, but also among the peoples of the socialist and capitalist worlds of the west. The complete unanimity we have experienced here in this Emergency Conference in support of Vietnam, with representatives of 103 nations present, is eloquent testimony to that fact. Many of our young people who once looked to China as a model of socialist development, are now disillusioned and have to regard China not as a friend, not as a leader, but as an enemy and a traitor, as the land of new Chengiz Khans riding ruthlessly over the homes and hearths of the peace-loving peoples of the world. Will China ever win back her friends? Certainly not with its present leadership. Her only friends for the present will be the ex-friends of the ex-Shah of Iran.
Third, Deng and his Colleagues will have seen to face the 900 million Chinese people and explain to them what has been the outcome of their adventurism. News have been kept back from the people of China. But news will spread. The anger of the Chinese people is bound to find expression, if not today, tomorrow when that happens, we can only say, woe to the adventurist clique of reactionary leadership!
The Battle Goes On
We must be realistic. In the world battle for the emancipation of the oppressed and exploited, we can chalk up a few victories -- Cuba, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissan, South Yemen, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iran and so on. We must also win soon in Vietnam.
First, Vietnam is.our-leader. I say to the people of Vietnam, not that we support you, which we do, but that you are our leader. Your battle is our battle, the battle of the exploited and the oppressed. Your front is our front. You suffer and sacrifice, not only on behalf of the Vietnamese people, but also on behalf of all of us who love peace, justice and freedom. You are our hero, you are our leader, you are the captain of our forces. Your victory is our victory. Victory, Victory, Victory to Vietnam. Victory to the victims of oppression and exploitation all over the world!
Second, we must not forget that there is one strong, mature, wise nation, the Soviet Union without whose strength and wisdom, the world battle would be lost, and the nations of the world would be over-run by adventurist hegemonists and imperialists of Asia, Europe and America. We must be conscious of the fact that the Soviet Union has always been consistently on the side of the oppressed and exploited -- whether it be in Indo-China, in the Caribbean, in the Middle East, in the Horn of Africa, in southern Africa or in Latin America. Without the might of the soviet Union, all of us would have been defence-less against the might of the oppressor. She has been the leader of the world socialist movement ever since 1917, and will remain so for long time to come. We should not be afraid to acknowledge that fact, nor be inhibited from expressing our gratitude to the great Soviet people and their leadership.
Third, we so-called intellectuals and progressives of the world have a duty. We must first clear the cob-webs of confusion that the multimedia spiders of world imperialism have woven around our brains and hearts. We must dispel all pseudo-liberal illusions about human rights and personal freedoms about Maoist Euro-communist or pseudo-Marxist alternatives to the socialist path, about who our real friends and allies are, and who our enemies are. We should be uninhibited in standing shoulder to shoulder with the People's Republic of Vietnam with the Soviet Union and with other genuinely socialist countries and movements all over the world. The intellectual must not be trapped into being a traitor, and must be on guard against the wiles and stratagems of the oppressor and exploiter.
Conclusion
As World Peace Council President Romesh Chandra has pointed out, the forces arrayed against are enormously powerful and big. The new axis, U.S.A. - NATO - TOKYO - China is not something to be smiled at. Let us not under-estimate the power of the oppressor.
But the forces on our side are even stronger. History is on our side. The forces of justice and truth are on our side. The forces of peace and humanity are on our side. Vietnam, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Ethiopia, and the other socialist countries are on our side. WE SHALL OVERCOME.
Hands off Vietnam, She is our Loader!