Revolutionary leadership

The most important fact in the victories of the Indochinese peoples has been the leadership provided by revolutionary Marxist-Leninist parties. As the Vietnamese women put it during their recent visit to New Zealand: "The Party is the organiser of all our victories."

The application of Marxism-Leninism to the actual realities in Indochina enabled the parties to formulate a correct political line which guided the national liberation movement. In backward agrarian countries like those in Indochina, the basic social conflicts are between foreign imperialism and the nation and between the feudal landlord class and the people, particularly the peasantry. The conflict with U.S. imperialism was seen as the most important one.

With this understanding, the Indochinese revolutionaries have aimed their spearhead at defeating foreign imperialism and the feudal landlord class. At the present stage, except for north Vietnam, domestic capitalism has not been made a target, provided it has not collaborated with imperialism. When conditions are ripe, the revolution in all of Indochina will switch from the present national-democratic stage to the socialist stage, as in north Vietnam.