পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৪২

614 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড revolution in the whole sub-continents. If the mass uprising in East Bengal is smashed this will strengthen reaction in the whole peninsula and the very same reactionary army that Mao and Chou flatter today, would be ready tomorrow to support aggression against the Chinese Revolution. Those communists on a world scale who have been to support the Chinese leadership in the south Soviet dispute on the grounds that it acts in a more revolutionary and military way against imperialism must by today where they stand on this issue. Silence would amount to complicity. The various Western imperialist power have, while deploring the mass slaughter, supported in various ways the masque. The United States in particular has maintained the distribution of its stocks of food to favor Yahya Khan, knowing full well that starvation is a key weapon in his armory, Moreover, most of the arms used by Yahya were supplied by the pentagon and will be replaced from the same source as they are used up in putting down the population. The Fourth international appeals to the international workers movement to render all possible assistance to the freedom fighters of Bangladesh to carry out solidarity actions with the Bengali masses and to demonstrate unconditional support of the Bengali struggle for national self-determination. The Fourth Intentional calls upon all socialists to oppose any interference by capitalism and imperialist forces designed to maintain neo- colonialism's grip on the whole Indian subcontinent. In particular military aid and especially assistance to Yahya Khan's forces in transit must be opposed by all means necessary. Revolutionaries should put the maximum pressure on the Maoist leadership to end its shameful support to Yahya Khan's dictatorship. It is also a vital task to expose the Soviet military aid which helped build up the West Pakistan counter-revolutionary army. The left should be on its guard against the possibility of a massive intervention sponsored by U. S. imperialism to prevent any spread of the revolutionary struggle in Asia. The Fourth International calls upon the workers, peasants, students and revolutionary intellectuals in West Pakistan to break with all chauvinistic anti-Bengali sentiments, to understand that the murderous Generals now trying to smother the uprising of the Bengali people in a bloodbath are their old oppressors. The struggle against the colonial war unleashed by Yahya Khan Eastern Bengal is not only their internationalist duty but is also in their own class interests. To defeat the West Pakistani army tauarmy in Bengal will speed the liberation of the West Pakistani masses from the yoke of their exploiters. The Fourth International is confident that despite temporary setbacks, the Bengali masses will finally triumph over the armed might of West Pakistani capital and thus pave the way for a united socialist Bengal which in turn will give powerful impetus to the liberation of the entire sub-continent from the yoke of imperialism and landlordism. Victory to Bangladesh! For a Socialist Bangladesh! For a United Socialist Bengal! 18 April, 1971