The Death Throes of U.S. Imperialism

The U.S. House of Representatives voted by 219 to 188 on May 10. l973 to deny the government additional funds for the bombing of Cambodia. Although the immediate sum involved is not large, and the government still has alternative methods of appropriating funds for the bombing of Cambodia, the voting represents a great victory for the American people and the major political groupings in the U.S. The general opinion shows that at least 75 per cent of the entire American nation are against U.S. intervention of any kind in Cambodia.

Continued tension in Indochina, the threat to the Paris Agreement and the bombing of Cambodia are the direct result of the U.S. imperialist aggressive policy towards Indochina, and their use of airfields and other facilities in Thailand to implement this policy. The continued cynicism of those in authority in Washington in regarding Vietnam and Indochina is, however, part of the U.S. general defence scheme which is a long term weakness of imperialism.

Nevertheless, to talk in this vein is to ignore the spirit and letter of the Paris Agreement and to revive the spectre of global intervention by U.S. imperialism which caused so much bloodshed in various parts of the world and brought so much discredit and suffering to the American nation.

The Thai authorities permitting their country to be used as a foreign aggressors' base should equally be blamed and condemned. Such practice is in actuality against the spirit of peace and friendship that has existed for centuries among the peoples of Asia.