All these arguments apply with greater force to the planned presidential visit to the leaders of Communist China.  In addition, the communists of China make no secret of their determination to cooperate in the destruction of constitutional democracy in America and to impose communist dictatorship.

            Planned human activity can be understood only if the thoughts and motives of the planners are understood.  At this important and decisive moment in history, it is invaluable to know what the Chinese Communist leaders are thinking.  Here are recent statements from the Chinese Communist leaders and their associates:

            “People of the world, united and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs.”  Peking Review, May 21, 1971.

            “Our great leader, Chairman Mao, haspointed out: ‘The Chinese people are determined to liberate Taiwan.’” Peking Review, May 7, 1971.

            “Every Communist must grasp the truth, ‘Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’”  Quotations from Mao Tse-tung, Page 61.

            “Marxism-Leninism holds that the fundamental question of revolution is political power and that the seizure of power by armed force is the central task and the highest form of revolution.” Peking Review, July 2, 1971.

            “The people of the United States are dealing heavier and heavier blows from within at U.S. Imperialism, the world people’s ferocious enemy, and they have become an important vigorous force in the people’s struggle against U.S. Imperialism.”  Peking Review, May 21, 1971.

            “War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states or political groups.”  Quotations from Mao Tse-tung, page 58.

            “War is the continuation of politics.  In this sense war is politics and war itself is a political action.”  Quotations from Mao Tse-tung, page 58.

            “All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. . . Not only do we Communists not oppose just wars, we actively participate in them.”  Quotations from Mao-Tse-tung, page 59.

            “Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy’s poison but also purges us of our own filth.”  Quotations from Mao Tse-tung, page 60.

            “We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”  Quotations from Mao Tse-tung, page 63.

            “U.S. Imperialism, which looks like a huge monster, is in essence a paper tiger, now in the throes of its deathbed struggle.”  Peking Review, May 28, 1971.

            “U.S. Imperialism is bound to fail—this is the inexorable trend of the development of history.  U.S. Imperialism, a paper tiger, is outwardly strong but inwardly weak.”   Peking Review, May 28, 1971.

            “Imperialism is divisible so long as the revolutionary people unite, they can dismantle its military bases one by one, wipe out its aggressor troops group by group, thus bringing about its final collapse by inflicting repeated defeats on it in the battles of attrition.”  Peking Review, May 25, 1971.

            Lin Piao is heir apparent to Mao Tse-tung and his “closest comrade in arms.”  In his famous article “People’s Revolutionary War,” he writes:

            “Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called ‘the cities of the world,’ then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute the ‘rural areas of the world.’”

            “The contemporary world revolution also presents a picture of the encirclement of cities by the rural areas.”  Peking Review, September 3, 1965.

            Nikita Khrushchev visited frequently with the Chinese Communist leaders.  He reports:

            “Mao Tse-tung has played politics with Asian cunning, following his own rules of cajolery, treachery, savage vengeance, and deceit.  He deceived us for a number of years before we saw through his tricks. . .  Mao Tse-tung has always been a master at concealing his true thoughts and intentions.”  Khrushchev Remembers, pages 461 and 462.

            “Mao replied by trying to assure me that the atoic bomb itself was a paper tiger!  ‘Listen, Comrade Khrushchev,’ he said, ‘All you have to do is provoke the Americans into military action, and I’ll give you as many divisions as you need to crush them—a hundred, two hundred, one thousand divisions.’”  Khrushchev Remembers, page 470.

            At this crisis moment, the thoughts of God revealed in the Bible should give guidance:

            “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”  Ephesians 5:11

            “Draw me not away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.”  Psalms 28:3

            “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.”  I Thes. 5:3

            “We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us.”  Isaiah 28:15

            “Your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.”  Isaiah 28:18

            “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”  II Chronicles 7:14

LOOKING DOWN THE GUN BARREL

            In the general applause associated with moves to admit Red China to the United Nations, recognize Red China, and promote cultural interchange on the presidential level between Red China and the United States, the leaders and people of Formosa tend to be forgotten.  Their concern is expressed in the following editorial entitled, “Looking Down the Gun Barrel,” published in the Free China Weekly, July 11:

            “Chou En-Lai recently told Edgar Snow that if the Chinese Communists were admitted to the United Nations, the organization would have to be changed or suffer the same fate as the League of Nations.

            “In other words, the Maoists would have their way or destroy the U.N.

            “How is it, then, that so many countries of the free world are supporting the U.N. admission of Red China?  Either they have stopped their ears to what the Chinese Communists are saying or they don’t believe what they hear.

            “Naivete about the Chinese Communists sometimes borders on the unbelievable.

            “In the 1940s, the Chinese Reds were widely represented as agrarian reformers.

            “Even today, free peoples deliberately turn away from the fact that the followers of Mao did their agricultural reforming with a gun.  The estimates of the number they killed ranges from 20 million to more than 60 million.

            “In 1950, the Peiping regime sent millions of troops into battle against the United Nations and the United States.  The identification of Red China as an aggressor by the General Assembly has never been rescinded.

            “Chinese Communists have been involved in wars and guerrilla movements in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia and India.  They nearly succeeded in grabbing Indonesia through subversion.  They have carried out acts of hot war in the Taiwan Straits.

            “This is the wolf which some naïve and foolish people expect to lie down with the sheep at the United Nations.

            “Some others know the reality of Chinese Communism but believe that Mao can be more easily controlled by having him ‘in’ rather than ‘out.’  This does not accord with the experience of the Soviet Union.

            “Relations with Russia were never broken, not even at the height of the ‘cultural revolution.’  But since the great schism, nothing has been settled with the U.S.S.R.  Border talks have gotten nowhere.  Not only do the Chinese Communists mean what they say; they also keep their threats to the letter just as soon as they are able.

            “Those nations which say the Chinese Communists could not tear the United Nations to pieces have consulted neither the record nor the composition and practicalities of international organization.

            “With a seat on the Security Council as well as in the General Assembly, the Peiping regime would be in a position to paralyze the U.N. and would surely do so, if not given its way.

            “The concept of Chinese Communist reformation is based on wishful thinking.  The Chinese Communists have not changed in 50 years.  If they shoot their way into the U.N., why should they start changing now?  Mao is still saying that things have always been settled by the barrel of a gun and that they always will be.

            “Our friends of the free world had better take another long hard look both at U.N. representation for China and the increasing number of recognitions of the Peiping regime.  That gun of Mao’s is aimed straight at all who oppose his intention of imposing Maoism on all the world.”

COMMUNIST THREAT IN URUGUAY

            The communists have a double-barreled threat in Uruguay.  The urban guerrilla movement, known as the Tupamuros, is engaged in violent revolution characterized by bank robbery, kidnapping and assassination.  At the same time the Communist Party of Uruguay is attempting to secure political power through a united front and the electoral process as was done in Chile.  The Cuban Communist paper, Granma, of July 4, 1971, publishes an interview with three communist leaders of Uruguay in which they discuss the strategy and the prospects of success.  The article appears under the following caption: Two Uruguayan Communist leaders discuss the chances of the Broad Front in the November 28 elections.  Statements from the article follow:

            “General elections are held in Uruguay to elect the President and Vice-President of the Republic, 30 Senators, 99 Deputies and all the municipal authorities every five years, on the last Sunday in November.

            “The two big traditional political parties—which, of course, represent the Uruguayan oligarchy—the White (Blanco) and Red (Colorado) Parties—are now opposed by the Broad Front, a coalition of various popular forces that have proclaimed retired General Liber Seregni as their presidential candidate.

            “In view of the presence in Cuba of Jaime Perez—member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee—of the Communist Party of Uruguay, General Secretary of the CPU in Montevideo and member of the Executive Committee—and of Lepoido Carlos Brueras—member of the Executive Committee and Propaganda Secretary of the CPU—reporters from Granma and Bohemis magazine asked them about the Broad Front, its makeup and its chances for victory in the general elections which will be held in turbulent Uruguay on November 28.

            “Comrades Perez and Brueras, who have spent several days in our country, explained how the Broad Front was created and the changes it has brought about in the political situation of Uruguay.

            “‘The political situation is very favorable for the popular forces.  On March 26 we had the largest political demonstration ever held in the history of Uruguay.  It was the meeting to proclaim the Broad Front’s candidates for President, Vice-President and Mayor of Montevideo.  According to the foreign press this meeting was attended by 150,000 people; the BBC estimate was 200,000.  It had a nationwide impact and brought about quite a change in the political situation.’

            “The Communist leaders went on to denounce the campaign of ideological terror unleashed by the reactionaries against the Broad Front and, more specifically, against the Communist Party, which is a member of the Front, and General Liber Seregni, the Front’s presidential candidate.

            “The two leaders of the Uruguayan CP described the program of the Broad Front as follows:

            “‘The program of the Broad Front has been announced in public and signed by all its member organizations.  It is anti-imperialist, includes an agrarian reform and is nationalist in the patriotic sense of the word—that is, it is aimed at the recovery of national resources, in short, it is an advanced, democratic and anti-imperialist program.

            “‘It is not explicitly socialist, but everyone realized that, if it is carried out, it will open the way for new forms of human relationships.’

            “The Uruguayan leaders discussed its chances for victory in the coming elections as follows:

            “ ‘The March 26 demonstration indicated that we can win the Presidency.  We don’t say we can. . .  The people of Uruguay may take power this year.

            “In Latin America we now have Cuba, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia—which is in turmoil—and, if General Seregni is elected on November 28, a new situation will exist in Latin America.’”  Page 10.

            The term “anti-imperialist” signifies antagonism to the policies of the U.S.A.

WAR IN THE “PEACE” MOVEMENT

            If action speaks louder than words, the “civil war” that was fought at the national antiwar convention of the National Peace Action Committee (NPAC), held at Hunter College in New York City on July 2-3, affirms that this “peace” organization is a colossal hoax.  The physical fight at the convention is described in the Guardian, July 14, 1971.

            Before describing the battle the Guardian reports that, as always, the Trotskyist communists of the Socialist Workers’ Party and its youth organization, the Young Socialist Alliance, exercised effective control of the Convention though they allowed other groups to participate to create a Popular Front.  The Guardian describes it thus:

            “Although the program resulting from the conference was predictable, the conference itself was distinguished by two features which are comparatively new for NPAC.  One was the large number of widely differing political groups in attendance.  In addition to the Socialist Workers party and the Youth Socialist Alliance, (the Trotskyist communists, ed.) which have been the leading organized political tendency in NPAC since its inception, about a dozen parties and committees, together representing more than a quarter of the participants, created a wider and sharper political diversity than that characterizing previous NPAC conferences.”  Page 16.

            The conference, attended by over 1500 people, adopted a program whose main emphasis is on a day of mass marches to be held November 6 in a dozen U.S. cities.  This will be preceded by local demonstrations on August 6-9 to commemorate the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and on October the 13^th, national moratorium and student strike.

            NPAC will also sponsor antiwar “Veteran’s Day” demonstrations on October 25 and a month of local constituency actions between that day and November 6.

            The conference also confirmed joint action with the competing radical “peace” group, the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ) led by Rennie Davis which organized the attempts to close down Washington last May.

            Describing the fight at the convention the Guardian reports:

            “The disruptions which were to mar the convention began at the opening rally which featured Senator Vance Hartke (D-Ind.), who has recently been made a member of the NPAC steering committee, Victor Reuther of the United Automobile Workers and David Livingston, president of the Distributive Workers.

            “After NPAC coordinator Jerry Gordon convened the evening, a large group of people including about 150 members of the Progressive Labor Party and SDS presented a resolution demanding that ‘ruling class’ speakers, including ‘sellouts and bosses,’ be excluded from the convention.  Although this proposal was voted down by a noisy show of hands and peace signs, there was considerable uproar from those in the audience who supported the proposal.  After several short speeches, as the aisle in which PL-SDS was grouped began to fill up with people, Gordon pleaded with the assembly to observe fire laws and clear the aisles.

            “When Senator Hartke took the stage he was met with a tremendous chorus of booing and hissing by a significant minority of those in the audience, including those from PL-SDS who were massed in the aisles.  He began his speech by calling on Nixon to ‘set the date,’ but most of his speech was unintelligible as shouting and chanting drowned him out.

            “The hall became somewhat calmer during the speeches that followed, but order was never fully restored.  When Victor Reuther began speaking, chanting and chaos again broke out.  He spoke of the need for a coalition of antiwar groups for peace and jobs, but his voice too was overwhelmed by the shouting, although the outburst was now more limited to the PL-SDS group.

            “At this point a large number of conference marshals, led by SWP leader Fred Halstead and young union members, surrounded the people who were in the aisles and began to forcibly remove them.  Fist-fights broke out repeatedly as marshals struggled with those who refused to leave.  Fighting continued into the lobby, where college security guards entered the fray.  Chemical mace was used, although it was not clear who used it.  Several people were injured when they were forced through plate glass doors.  Reportedly, no one was seriously hurt, although there were a number of broken bones and cuts.

            “When David Livingston began to speak there was a third round of clamor and chanting.  Livingston spoke forcefully against the disrupters, contending that ‘SDS hates Hartke more than Nixon and hates Reuther more than Meany’ and that they were ‘doing the bosses’ work.’  While he spoke at length about the necessity for unity in the peace movement and cooperation between NPAC and the People’s Coalition, marshals, many of them apparently from Livingston’s union, continued to remove people from the auditorium.  Although PL-SDS had already been removed from their seats.  Part of the audience that had not supported the disruption became involved in fighting as they intervened verbally and sometimes physically against what they considered undue force.  The process of removal went on for some time, but by the end of Livingston’s speech the hall was somewhat calmer and the meeting was adjourned in comparative quiet.

            “By the next morning all the entrances were locked and guarded by marshals and university guards, except for the main entrance.  While PL-SDS supporters picketed outside, calling the NPAC convention ‘scab’ and ‘racist’ and chanting ‘ally with the working class, not with the ruling class,’ a large number of NPAC marshals formed a gamut at the entrance and carefully scrutinized all those who entered.  Although the marshals were reportedly instructed to exclude only those whom they could identify as disrupters from the previous night, many people were stopped and questioned about their political affiliation or were barred because they were carrying a large amount of PL literature.

            “On the final day the same tight security procedures were carried out.  Half a dozen PL supporters who had gotten into the auditorium were ejected after being identified.  By this time the outside picket line was watched over by city police in riot gear.

            “Intense debate began immediately when James Lafferty offered a resolution from the steering committee ‘to commend the marshals for a difficult job well done.’  This was met by shouts of opposition and a resolution condemning the disrupters, but also ‘rejecting and reproving the violent style of the NPAC monitors.’

            “This resolution produced the most heated and bitter dispute of the conference.  Former SWP presidential candidate, Fred Halstead, contended that the question of marshalling was ‘a political point—the right of people to free speech, to have a meeting,’ and that he had personally led the marshal, for which he had been criticized, to avoid bloodshed.  He was defended in a passionate speech by Pete Camejo, also of the SWP.

            “Several other organized tendencies supported the marshals, including the Workers League and the National Caucus of Labor Committees.  The motion to commend the marshals was accepted by well over a majority of the assembly.”  Pages 16 and 3.

ONLY IN AMERICA

            “The 13 member Congressional Black Caucus raised $250,000 in contributions from a $100 a plate dinner held recently in Washington, D.C.

            “The money will be used to fashion ‘an instrument of change,’ said caucus chairman Charles C. Diggs Jr. (D-Mich.).  ‘After 300 years it is time black people called some of the turns,’ he said.

            “Speakers, including Ossie Davis and Bill Cosby, called for black unity when addressing the audience, which was 85% black.”  People’s World, July 17, 1971, page 2.

ART FOR ANGELA

            The Communist Party knows how to extract every advantage from the legal and propaganda defense of a party favorite who can be presented as a martyr.  They always have ample legal talent available for the best legal defense.  In addition, they use such cases to increase the influence of the Communist Party nationally and internationally and to raise funds.

            The Communist Party is exploiting the Angela Davis case to the full.  No avenue of financial gain is neglected.  The People’s World, July 24, 1971, reports an international art auction for Angela Davis.  This is one of the many fund-raising events being held all over the nation.

“Capacity crown at Angela art action

            “Los Angeles—The international art auction for Angela Davis July 18 was a dramatic national and international demonstration to free the imprisoned black woman Communist from her Marin county jail.

            “Artists from Italy, France, Mexico and England joined with artists throughout the U.S. in making available 129 art works that were offered for sale.

            “The capacity crowd at the art gallery at 1760 S. La Cienega Boulevard responded generously to the appeals made by members of the Committee of the Arts to Free Angela Davis which sponsored the event.

            “A committee representative said the art auction netted more than $7,000, which will be used to help defray the heavy legal expenses incurred in the campaign to free Davis.

            “Actor William Hershell, who is co-chairman of the arts committee described his visit with Angela Davis several weeks ago.  He expressed his concern for her well-being and conveyed some of her sentiments to those present.

            “‘She told me she is quite overwhelmed by the attention given to her fight for freedom that has come from the artists and others throughout the world,’ Marshell said.

            “‘She, however, expressed concern that not enough attention was being given to the Soledad case,’ the black actor said.”

THE PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY DENOUNCES THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS

       Alliances within the “left” change rapidly.  The Progressive Labor Party was formed when a small group left the American Communist Party and sided with the Chinese Communists in their conflict with the Moscow Communists.  The Progressive Labor Party now denounces Communist China as well as the Soviet Union.  The break came when the Chinese Communists supported the Western Pakistani army in their war of destruction against the East Pakistani people.