Challenges of the Revolution

Book Review: The Challenge of the Kampuchean Revolution

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  • Posted 8th March 2025, 11:46 pm
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Besieged by Soviet-Vietnamese imperialism cloaked in patently fraudulent and self-serving apologetics, the Kampuchean revolution today is the time-tested crucible of revolutionary internationalism. Depending on one’s attitude to Democratic Kampuchea’s resistance, one’s political commitment can be defined as progressive or reactionary in word and deed.

Today it is the Communist Party of Kampuchea headed by Pol Pot that all-sidedly incarnates the dynamic principle of materialist dialectics: people’s war. Po…

Bitter Fruit of Revisionism

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Over three years after the U.S. imperialists and their war machine were driven out of Indochina, the area is still plagued by bloodshed and open warfare.

For over thirty years the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia (now Democratic Kampuchea) and Laos fought side by side against the French and then the U.S. imperialists. Their victories were not only a tremendous material blow against the imperialists, they were an inspiration to people everywhere struggling for their liberation. Th…

Kampuchea: Report From Behind the Lines

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  • Posted 6th March 2025, 4:21 pm
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After crossing the border from Thailand in the back of a pick-up truck, we traveled five or six miles into Kampuchea on dirt roads that had been turned into ribbons of mud by the monsoon rains. Looking out over the jungle, we saw no villages and no obvious signs of life.

Suddenly we were mired in a mud pit, the truck’s wheels spinning uselessly. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, ten Khmer Rouge soldiers appeared in crisp green uniforms and pushed us out onto firmer ground. This was our introduction to Democratic Kampuchea.…

Hanoi’s Refugee Policy Just Like Nazis

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  • Posted 6th March 2025, 4:16 pm
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The forced expulsion of one million Indochinese refugees by the Vietnamese authorities is a shocking tragedy, one of the worst acts of genocide in the 20th century. Yet it is not the first time that hundreds of thousands of people, robbed of their possessions and persecuted by a militaristic, expansionist regime, have been forced to flee their homelands. People around the world are drawing obvious parallels with the mass exodus of Jews from Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.…

Hoxhaism or Leninism?

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Imperialism and the Revolution, a book written by Enver Hoxha, is an all-round attack on the basic principles of Marxism-Leninism. It is the latest in a series of polemics coming from Albania since the November 1976 Seventh Congress of the Party of Labor of Albania (PLA), which has Hoxha as its chairman.1

These polemics have been directed against the Communist Party of China (CPC), particularly…

Inside a Secret Khmer Rouge Base

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  • Posted 6th March 2025, 3:52 pm
  • By The Call
Dangrek Mountains, Kampuchea – Day breaks in a banyan forest. The sound of tropical birds mingles with the soft sunlight to offer the visitor a picture of unparalleled calm and tranquility.

Yet not 20 miles from here, Vietnamese armor is rolling and guerrillas are staging hit-and-run tactics against it. This is Cambodia, or what the people here call Kampuchea. It is a nation that has known little…

Vietnam's Vienam

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  • Posted 6th March 2025, 3:50 pm
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In December of 1977 both Kampuchean and Vietnamese sources publicly reported for the first time heavy fighting in their border regions. At first most of the U.S. news media insisted on dubbing the conflict a “border war.” In form, of course, it was a border war. In the Parrot’s Beak and the eastern zones of Kampuchea, Vietnamese troops had penetrated as deep as 30 kilometers into Kampuchean territory. Ka…

US Diplomatic Cables on Democratic Kampuchea in 1978

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A trove of more than 500,000 US diplomatic cables from 1978 released by WikiLeaks, which includes hundreds that paint a vivid picture of a US administration torn between Pol Pot’s government and fear of Vietnamese influence should it collapse.

“We believe a national Cambodia must exist even though we believe the Pol Pot regime is the world’s worst violator of human rights,” reads a cable sent by…

Albania Praises Vietnamese Invasion of Kampuchea and Attacks China

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The counterrevolutionary position taken by the Party of Labor of Albania (PLA) in a lot of fundamental issues facing the world proletarian revolution makes it mandatory for all genuine communists and revolutionaries of the world to establish firm and clear lines of demarcation with this formerly revolutionary party. The PLA has come out with an all-out attack against great Chairman Mao Zedong who…

Socialist Kampuchea

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The Kampuchean Communist Party and Government Delegation visited the People’s Republic of China on September 28. This visit had particular importance because it marked the 17th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Democratic Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia) and came on the eve of the 28th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.

Upon arrival in Peking, Pol Pot,…

Tito: Fighter for National Independence

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The serious illness of Yugoslavia’s President Tito has aroused grave concern around the world. His impending death will mark the end of a generation of national leaders who directed the struggle against Hitler fascism during World War II. It could also represent a signal to today’s warmongers to launch a new offensive against this Balkan country whose independence Tito never compromised.

Josip…

Stalin Was Key To Growth of Socialism

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  • Posted 6th March 2025, 1:54 am
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Joseph Stalin, a great leader of the Russian revolution. Because Stalin’s name was virtually synonymous with the cause of the Soviet Union when it was a revolutionary country, he was widely slandered and attacked by capitalists everywhere. He became perhaps the most vilified revolutionary in history.

On this, it is a good opportunity to take a brief look at who he really was and what he represented.…

Hoxha, Reminiscent of Trotsky's "Leftism"

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Eighty-five years ago, in the face of World War II, Leon Trotsky worked hand-in-glove with the Hitler fascists. He attacked the antifascist front from the "left" while the ruling circles in the West attacked it from the right.

Enver Hoxha’s legacy continues to be used to push a divisive agenda amid the increasing threat of global conflict. His book, Imperialism and the Revolution, still…

Is Cuba a Non-Aligned Country?

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  • Posted 6th March 2025, 1:33 am
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Cuba’s pose as a “non-aligned” country has been discredited lately as numerous non-aligned nations have exposed and condemned the Cuban government’s role as an agent for the interests of the Soviet Union.

On June 21, Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko declared in a nationwide speech that his country will boycott the non-aligned summit scheduled to be held in Havana next year. Mobutu denounced the…

Marx Laid Basis For 3 Worlds Theory

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Many socialists may already be somewhat familiar with Marx’s general view of society and his overall class stand as well as something about his life’s work struggling for a communist world.

What may not be as widely known is that Marx and Engels’ view of the international situation in their day (the latter half of the 19th century) was the forerunner of the theory of three worlds, developed under today’s conditions by Mao Tsetung.…

Quotes From Secret US Reports on Kampuchea

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  • Posted 6th March 2025, 1:21 am
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One good way to refute the U.S. government's lies against Democratic Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia) is to examine Washington's own propaganda.


This is exactly what The Call has done. A Call reporter recently got hold of an official State Department manual of "evidence" against the newly-liberated South-east Asian country. Included in this volume, prepared for the UN, are accounts from refugees as well as a number of Airgram reports from CIA and U.S. embassy staffers in Thailand.…

Why Vietnam and the USSR invaded Democratic Kampuchea

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In December 1978 a League delegation visited Democratic Kampuchea, just a few days before the Vietnamese invasion. In this article, the delegation answers questions many people are asking about Soviet interests in this part of the world and about the changes that have led to Vietnam’s becoming an aggressor.

The military aggression against Democratic Kampuchea early this January and its occupation by more than ten heavily Soviet-equipped Vietnamese divisions shocked the whole world.…

Monarchy or Democracy

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Written: By Saloth Sar (aka Pol Pot), using the pseudonym "Khmer Deum" (Original Khmer) in 1952.
 
On June 15, 1952, S.M. Norodom Sihanouk dissolved the government and, at the same time, threatened to dissolve the People's Assembly if it opposed the takeover. This royal coup stirred the whole country and makes us, the citizens, think about its causes.

Certainly, the constitution gives the King…

Kampuchea - Who Should We Support?

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  • Posted 4th March 2025, 1:03 am
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New York City - "I had a deep love for the Vietnamese and I still do. Not in a romantic sense, but because they were the cutting edge of the struggle for liberation all over the world... The cutting edge of the struggle for everything we fought for, however, has moved from Hanoi and Saigon to the maquis[jungles] of Kampuchea. The cutting edge is now the Kampuchean people's struggle for the right to self-determination, self-definition, independence and freedom."…

1978 Interview with Deputy Prime Minister Ieng Sary

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  • Posted 4th March 2025, 12:08 am
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The high point of our visit to Kampuchea came the day before we were scheduled to leave. Ieng Sary, the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of foreign affairs, had agreed to give us an interview. He would brief us on the answers to numerous questions we had raised about the history of Kampuchea’s revolution and its present state of development.

When we arrived at the house where the meeting was to take place, Sary was outside waiting for us. Dispensing with all formality, he came over to our car, embracing each of us as we got out.…

U.S. Bombed Democratic Kampuchea Long After War

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  • Posted 4th March 2025, 12:05 am
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The U.S. government claims that its war against the Kampuchean people ended in April 1975. But it really didn’t.

Aggressive U.S. actions against Kampuchea have continued to take place. Our recent visit enabled us to gather firsthand evidence about one such incident–the bombing of Siem Reap.

Siem Reap, located in the northwest part of Kampuchea between Lake Tonle Sap and the Thai border, was the site of a vicious bombing raid carried out by U.S. Ai…

Why Phnom Penh Was Evacuated

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  • Posted 4th March 2025, 12:02 am
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In the spring of 1975, Phnom Penh was a city swollen, choked and starved by war. Among its 3. 1 million inhabitants were 2. 5 million people who had crowded into the city between 1970 and 1975. They were refugees from the U. S. war of aggression that had left their villages bombed out and their ricefields defoliated. This article is the story of how and why Phnom Penh was evacuated after the victorious Revolutionary Army entered its streets on April 17, 1975.

Malcolm Caldwell: Scholar, Activist, and Advocate of the Kampuchean…

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  • Posted 28th February 2025, 9:21 pm
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The death of Marxist scholar-activist Malcolm Caldwell on December 23, 1978 in Cambodia (Kampuchea) is a shocking event, not only because he was deliberately murdered as the best-known friend of the Cambodian revolution, but also because it occurred in the context of a war between the two countries of Indochina, which had triumphed over the most vicious attacks of American imperialism.

Anti-Communism and the Hundreds of Millions of Victims of Capitalism

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  • Posted 25th February 2025, 11:08 pm
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Capitalist production, when considered in isolation from the process of circulation and the excesses of competition, is very economical with the materialised labour objectified in commodities. Yet, more than any other mode of production, it squanders human lives, or living labour, and not only blood and flesh, but also nerve and brain. Indeed, it is only by dint of the most extravagant waste of…

Pay attention to the "Chang Kuo-tao" phenomenon

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  • Posted 25th February 2025, 7:38 pm
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Comrade compatriots, the People's Republic of China and the Central People's Government were founded today!

Ever since the reactionary government of Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang betrayed the motherland, conspired with imperialism and launched a counter-revolutionary war, the Chinese people have been plunged into bitter suffering.

Fortunately, our People's Liberation Army, supported by…