period China allowed Soviet military supplies reach Vietnam uninterrupted fashion thoughout the In addition to the role of the States the Vietnam stimulated and was accompanied by, a major rising series of class struggles within the colonial world. The guerilla wars against the Portuguese occupation of Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and rapidly gained throughout the late 1960s before finally achieving liberation in 1974-75.
Liberation Organisation (PLO) underwent a rapid development after the debacle of the Arab regimes in the 1967 war with Israel. A series of major class struggles developed in Latin America centred in Argentina, Uruguay, and Bolivia.
In short, throughout the Vietnam war the United States found itself confronting almost continuously increas ing tension and struggle in the colonial world — struggles which built up the momentum which finally in 1975-79 resulted in a whole series of defeats of States backed regimes Afghanistan, and elsewhere.
In addition to its impact in the colonial world, in Western Europe the consequences of the Vietnam war spread opposition o ne among wide layers of students and people provided economic background the cas:
Finally in the United States itself, long before the imposition of wage conwar trols, the Vietnam conflict was provokWing not only direct opposition to the war but also economic strain. Che Guevara, in his famous letter known under the title Create two, three, many Vietnams summarised the situation for a long time shall we be able to know The if President Johnson ever seriously thought of bringing about some of the reforms needed by his people — to iron out the barbed class contradictions that grow each day with explosive power The truth is that the improvements anChile, nounced under the pompous title of the "Great Society' have dropped into the largest powers feel in its own guts the bleeding inflicted by a poor and underdeveloped country; its fabulous economy feels the strain of the war effort.' It was this enormous international in combination of class forces Iran, military struggle in military power of the USSR and China, the rising colonial struggle, the working class conflict in Western Europe, the economic strain and anti-war movewar ment in the United States itself which forced the United States to end the the Vietnam war As Henri it develops, creating increasing America.
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Socialist Action 16 November 1984