l. A large protest movement against American imperialism and supporting the Vietnamese revolution presently exists in the world. The vanguard youth organisations must play an important part in that movement, but it is necessary to co-ordinate their activities. It is for this purpose that the Spring Conference, 1967 is convened on the initiative of the National Federation of Belgium Young Socialists (FNJGS). The FNJGS considers that one of the main weaknesses of the movement in support of the Vietnamese revolution is precisely the absence of co-ordination. The present text, the general line having already formed the subject of a prior discussion during the meeting that followed the International Anti-militarist demonstration of the 15th October, 1966 in Liege, constitutes the basis for convening this conference. The struggle of the people of South Vietnam against American imperialism and the ruling class of Saigon is not only a struggle of international importance: Vietnam is the key to the world situation, the decisive test of American imperialism against the colonial revolution and against the whole labour movement. At this time, facing one another is the international capitalist alliance directed by the American government (NATO, SEATO, Treaty of Manilla) and the Vietnamese revolution which is an integral part of the world-wide socialist revolution. The victory of the National Liberation Front (NLF) over the American aggressors and their accomplices would stimulate the revolutionary movements of the world still suffering under colonial oppression. The purpose of our support is not for negotiations with the aggressor, but to contribute to the victory of the NLF. Conversely, the success of the American aggression against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the defeat of the NLF in the south would endanger victories won from capitalism in long, bitter struggles. The defensive potentialities of the Socialist countries as a whole would be weakened by it. The peoples Republics of Asia would be directly threatened and, in particular, the democratic Republic of Korea and the People's Republic of China. Therefore the American imperialistic intervention in Vietnam is the focal point of the general confrontation between the oppressed peoples of the world and international capitalism. It aims to impede any rupture in the actual Status Quo in favour of the revolutionary movement. The duty, therefore, of the Vanguard youth organisations is to support in the most adequate way and with the most effective means the struggle of the Vietnamese people. Consequently any campaign of support must include the demand for the unconditional and immediate withdrawal of the imperialist forces, a demand which is included in the "5 points" of the NLF and in the "4 points" of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. A united front for assistance and action must be formed, including firstly the labour movement and the socialist countries, without exception. Every step of the imperialist escalation must be opposed with the world-wide escalation of the anti-imperialist struggle and with material assistance to the Vietname revolution.
The world-wide escalation of the anti-imperialist struggle primarily implies in
Western Europe the escalation of the struggle against NATO.