What do the Vietnamese Want?

The Vietnamese liberation forces themselves have made it plain what they want New Zealanders to support: they want continuation and spreading of anti-war actions against our government. This is precisely what the mobilisations represent.

The message from North Vietnam to last year's National Anti-war Conference read: " .....Now when the U.S. openly expands and intensifies its war of aggression against the Indochinese peoples, we hope your conference will contribute to world public opinion demanding the U.S. stop its aggression, withdraw all American and allied troops from Indochina and let the lndochinese peoples settle their own affairs without foreign interference."

If, in order to appear super-radical, the anti-war movement reduces itself to just the radicals, it will be betraying the needs of the Vietnamese liberation forces themselves.

It is obviously very important that every single student who opposes the war — and thousands of Victoria students took part in last year's mobilisations — come out and vote to support the July 14 mobilisation in the student referendum. This means supporting the Out now demands of the mobilisation, which are being supported by the July 14 Mobilisation Committee. This committee is recognised nationally as the body organising the Mobilisation in Wellington and is handling the distribution of leaflets, buttons and posters for July 14.

—George Fyson