What is life like in Kampuchea (Cambodia) today? What have been the activities of the Communist Party of Kampuchea during the last 17 years through which its existence has been secret? How did the Kampuchean people succeed in defeating U.S. imperialism?

The answers to these and other questions were given in a historic press conference held by Pol Pot during his recent visit to China. Pol Pot is the Secretary at the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and the Prime Minister of its government.…

The DC has been asked to take the lead in the effort to better understand Mao Zedong's Theory of the Differentiation of the Three Worlds (TTW). This paper is the first of 3 or 4 to be distributed before we hold a London meeting on the subject in late November. The national conference on the international situation is to be held next June, and our district-level study will be well directed in preparation for…

While the Hanoi authorities have long harbored the ambition of annexing Democratic Kampuchea - and indeed other neighboring states - this would have remained a mere fantasy had -Vietnam not had the support and patronage of the expansionist great power, the Soviet Union. Thus, the aggression against Kampuchea was carefully planned by both Vietnam and the Soviet Union, as the following facts…

The 9th-15th century kingdom of Kambuja stretched from the Burmese border in the west to the South China Sea in the east--including what is now southern Vietnam. Invasions of the kingdom by the Thais and Vietnamese weakened this ancient civilization and eroded its territory. In the late 19th century, the French imperialists established a "protectorate" over Kampuchea and, in 1887, merged their…

I have read the lengthy articles you wrote for the Daily Mirror on September 12 and 13 attacking the government of Democratic Kampuchea led by Pol Pot. You repeat many of the lies invented by Father Ponchard in his infamous book Cambodia Year Zero. You even use the same phrase "Year Zero" repeatedly. You really should have taken the trouble to read the works of well-known academics and opponents of US aggression in Southeast Asia, such as Naom Chomsky, Jan Myrdal, and Malcolm Caldwell.
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The Korean Central News Agency reports that Comrade Kim Il Sung, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a message to Comrade Pol Pot, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, on December 27.

In his message Comrade Kim Il Sung said: "The Korean people…

These were the words of a veteran guerrilla fighter, just 32 years old, as he told us of the great offensive which finally liberated Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia) from the U.S. imperialists and their Lon Nol puppets. To…

It was less than four years ago that the peoples…

But in the past decade, this legacy left over from the Monroe Doctrine has begun to crumble. For the first time, U.S. imperialism is facing a serious contender in its colonial domination in the region–the USSR.

Facing the revolutionary movement of the masses on one side, the U.S. is being pushed out…

Press reports emanating from both superpowers have been filled recently with slanders against Democratic Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia). One by one these lies are being torn apart by visitors and honest journalists in the region. A recent example was exposed by the journalist Marcel Barang, writing for Australia's Nation Review. Barang visited the scene of last summer's "massacre" of Thai villagers by "Cambodian communists" which were reported at great length in the Western press.
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For many Americans, such scenes evoke a strong desire to do something to help bring an end to the misery of this far-off country. But what can really be done?…

Recent weeks, in fact, have been a virtual “show and tell” period for the political lines of the Daily World, the Militant and the Guardian. One after another, they have each displayed their shoddy wares.

But few have been impressed and many have been disgusted–even among their own readers.…

When Joan Baez spoke out on Vietnam last month, her protest against violations of human rights in that country was bound to provoke considerable controversy.

The press of the revisionist CPUSA has especially indulged itself in the fray, labeling Baez’s protest “vile betrayal,” “sinister,” “abominable slander” and even “the mark of Judas.”

They, along with the Trotskyists and a few others, have…

Vietnam’s naked aggression against Kampuchea and the Kampuchean people reached a new level with the capture of the capital city at Phnom Penh on Jan. 7. After a 16 day full scale armed invasion involving over 100,000 troops and heavy aerial bombing, the Vietnamese are now claiming control over “almost all” of Kampuchea.

Under cover of their puppet organization, the “Kampuchean National United Front…

Blind hatred of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge is pushing the U.S. toward policy changes that could well contribute to the ultimate destruction of Cambodia as an independent society through conquest by Vietnam. Preoccupation with Pol Pot's misdeeds seems to have dulled normal skepticism about the deeds and actions of Vietnam. Hanoi's invasion of Cambodia in late 1978 is widely regarded as a…

Behind the conflict between Kampuchea and Vietnam and their governing communist parties lie differences so profound that each revolution stands as an implicit critique of the other. That the existence of each revolutionary model challenges the basic premises of the other is the result of a complex interaction of history, politics and geography. For two such different neighbors to avoid conflict would require extraordinary good will and a mutual commitment to cooperation and compromise.
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