i Dra, Sa ‘i Ctica) ' g tabrigy Con, :.. re: ibining I voted with them’ for our At the Third International. unis ft Patriotism, not yet Com- Lenin, . €d me to have confidence in by Step the Third International. Step ing Me along the struggle, by study- a poe cunlam parallel _ with n Vities, I gradually came Co, ae. fact that only Socialism and Nations SM can liberate the oppressed through and the working people ut the world from slavery. ere j ~ Well as +, 2 legend, in our country as 0) or China, on the miraculous eat diss the Wise.” When facing finds a = Culties, one opens it and Miracyy>, cut: Leninism is not only Mass Us “book of the wise,” a aigs Or us Vietnamese revolution- an as Sun i] d people: it is also the radiant to f to gacting our path to final vic- ~ $0cialism and Communism. T 5 he Organizer (Artic : the g°l€ written in April 1960, for rs act He ew—Problems of the nin’s birth} 90th anniversary of ee Vi National eam Propaganda Unit for ‘844 iberation was set up Dec. 22, pPation I War against Japanese oc- py 34 omcding at the beginning thetand Seah and men under the fore, Vo Nguyen Giap, it was nner of the Vietnamese dF “Tetions: = These were Ho’s in- ae Th . the yj ttona retnam Propaganda Unit for 8re : rh an importance should be at- litary a ans Political side than to the 9 act it Successfully, in the military Sitecan instructions of the Party Cy) , ‘ha Wil] ute and energetic officers and of Buerril Picked out of the ranks of Ww ss 4 units and a great amount ae will be concentrated to es- ea T main force, b Us : angthe oa is a natic ial resistance q € people, we must mobilize t™m hen Be whole people. Therefore Centrating our forces to set 1 j . eration shows by its name . iin ell ALM — _ up the first unit, we must maintain the local armed forces, co-ordinate their operations and assist each other in all respects. On its part, the main unit has the duty to guide the cadres of the local armed units, assist them in dril- ling, and supply them with weapons if possible, thus helping these units to grow unceasingly. 2. With regard to local armed units, we will gather their cadres for training, send trained cadres to various localities to exchange experience, maintain liai- son, and co-ordinate military opera- tions. 3. Concerning tactics, we will apply guerrilla warfare, which consists in being secret, rapid, active, now in the East, now in the West, arriving unex- pectedly and leaving unnoticed. The Vietnam Propaganda Unit for National Liberation is the first born unit. It is hoped that other units will soon come into being. As first, its size is small, however, its prospect is brilliant. It is the embryo of the Liberation Army and can move from North to South, throughout Viet- nam. The Humanist (Twelve Recommendations, April 5, - 1948 — now in the war against the French.) The nation has its root in the people. In the Resistance War and national reconstruction, the main force lies in the people. Therefore, all the people in the army, administration, and mass organizations who are in contact or live with the people must remember and carry out the following twelve re- commendations. Six forbiddances: 1. Not to do what is likely to dam- age the land and crops or spoil the houses and belongings of the people. 2. Not to insist on buying or bor- rowing what the people are not willing to sell or lend. 3. Not to bring living hens into the mountain people’s houses. 4, Never to break your word. 5. Not to give offense to people’s faith and customs (such as to lie down before the altar, to raise the feet over the hearth, to play music in the house, etc.) 6. Not to do or speak what is likely to make people believe that we hold them in contempt. Six permissibles: . 1. To help the people in their daily work (harvesting, fetching firewood, carrying water, sewing, etc.) ; 9. Whenever possible, to buy com- modities for those who live far from markets (knives, salt, needles, thread, pen, paper, etc.) 3. In spare time, to tell amusing, simple and short stories useful to the Resistance, but not betraying secrets. 4. To teach the population the natio- nal script and elementary hygiene. 5. To study the customs of each region so as to be acquainted with them in order to create an atmosphere of sympathy first, then gradually to explain to the people to abate their superstitions. 6. To show to the people that you are correct, diligent and disciplined. The above-mentioned twelve recom- mendations are feasible to all. He who loves his country, Will never forget them. When the people have a habit, All are like one man. With good’ armymen and good people, Everything will be crowned with suc- cess, Only when the root is firm, can the tree live long, And victory is built with the people as foundation, The Teacher (From a speech opening the first theoretical course of Nguyen Ai Quoc School for Party workers, Sept. 7, 1957) 1. To be modest and frank. The level of ideological understanding of our party is rather low; nobody can boast of being good at it. Therefore modesty and frankness are to be em- phasized: to go deep into and ponder over Marxist-Leninist works and the lectures given by the professors from friendly countries, modestly to learn from them, recognizing what one knows and what one does not know. Conceit, self-assumption and self-com- placency are the number-one enemies of study. ; 2. Voluntarily and consciously to consider study as a task to be com- pleted at all costs by a revolutionary cadre, thereby actively and on one’s own initiative to fulfill the plan for study, highlighting industriousness and unflinching efforts when confronted with difficulties in study. 3. To stress independent and free thinking. To go deep into and thorough- ly understand the documents without having blind faith in every word and phrase of the documents, boldly to put forth for discussion the questions one has not thoroughly understood until one fully grasps them. To ask “Why?” when faced with any question and to consider carefully whether it is in con- formity with real life and reason, to refrain absolutely from obeying the book blindly. There must be mature thinking. 4. To defend truth and stick to prin- ciple; indiscriminate “yeses” and com- promise are not allowed. 5. To help each other in study, to ‘conduct bold criticism and sincere self- criticism from a desire for solidarity, with the aim of building new solidarity on a new basis... These are my views for you to exam- ine, I again wish the school success. THE INVINCIBILITY OF PEOPLE'S WAR IS BASED ON SOLIDARITY AND UNITY CTUUUUUURDOUOREOROOEUDUOUEUEOROUESEAUEEULECUCEUUUEG The greatest legacy which Ho Chi Minh has left to mankind in his five de- cades of: revolutionary service is his leadership to the present heroic strug- gle of his people to defeat United States imperialism. How this historic battle stands today is set out in this interview given to Granma by General Vo Nguyen Giap, Ho’s comrade-in-arms of many years, and one of the most outstanding stra- tegists of people’s warfare in the Twentieth Century: “The Vietnamese nation has an im- mortal tradition of struggle against foreign invaders, and it has never re- treated one single step in the face of an enemy. “Why have the Yankee imperialists sent more than half a million soldiers to attack Vietnam? Their satellite ar- mies and the puppet army together add up to more than one million soldiers mobilized. Johnson admitted on several occasions that the Vietnam war was a life-and-death struggle, one of greater importance than any other war ever waged by the United States in the past. Why is this problem so important to them? “It is mainly because Vietnam stands at the head of the national-liberation movement that the Yankees think that if they win in Vietnam they will_be able to.defeat the national-liberation movement of the peoples. Moreover, Vietnam stands in the front line of the socialist camp’s anti-imperialist strug- gle. The Yankee imperialists think that by winning in Vietnam they will deal a rude blow at the socialist camp. That is why they have gone berserk and act like savages, even though they have had.to pay a high price in both men and material resources. “It never entered their minds that in this ‘life-and-death confrontation’ the Vietnamese people would be the winner and Yankee imperialism would suffer a shameful defeat. “As far as the Vietanemese people are concerned,” General Giap continued, “we are fully aware of the fact that fighting the imperialists constitutes a duty toward our nation and toward the peoples of the world. The Vietnamese people have scored glorious victories and will, without a doubt, continue the resistance until the end.” “The invincibility of people’s war is mainly based on the solidarity and fighting unity of the people. This is the key factor. But it isn’t the only one. There are others. — “For example, there must be a cor- rect military and political line, together with popular armed forces which serve as the nucleus for people’s war. There must also be unanimous support _from sister socialist countries and other peoples of the world. But, of these factors, the most im- portant is the correct political and military line of the vanguard party. General Giap said that the Vietnam- . ese people’s victories had been won “above all, thanks to the correct leader- ship and initiative of the Vietnamese Workers’ Party, headed by Comrade Ho Chi Minh.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 12, 1969—PAGE 7