Radio Hanoi

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Hello there GI Joe, How's your morning going?

It's likely a cold, hard, and lonely life out there for you in the jungle, eating stale rations and camping out in the woods. But that's what your Government and Army think of you. Leaving you out here in our land.

They don't tell you about the things they're doing in the Middle East. Palestine is trying to free itself, and stand on its own as a nation. Currently your Government is sending warships into the Mediterranian sea. Much like they were in our Tonkin Gulf. Your brothers and sisters may soon be sent out to die in the deserts of the Levant, like your government sent you out to fight here in our jungle?

You should be wary of your government, Joe. The imperialist overlords are only seeking to support the rich. They're leaving you here, to focus on the oil of the Middle East. I hope you can leave soon, and get out of here, before you're stranded by your government.

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Hey there GI! How are you liking the jungle? Those of you listening are still stuck here, but some of your friends have gone home. Soon, more of you will, now that your Imperialist government has recognized Vietnam as one nation. We hope you enjoy going back to your wives and families, GI. We hope you're as committed to seeing this all resolved peacefully, and don't want to be bloodthirsty dogs that would spoil the peace.

You know, many people around the world are displaced by wars and trauma, GI. Many Vietnamese have fled. Many Laotians have fled. Now, the Bengalese are fleeing from Pakistan's imperialism. The Palestinians are fleeing from Israel's imperialism. This is all a shame.

We are friends of the Bangladeshi people. We will be taking in any who seek to come here and work hard together with us on our farms. We will be seeking to help them, hosting them for as long as they need be, in our worker's state, Joe. You should turn to your imperialist Senators and ask, "What will we do to help these refugees? The people we kill are helping them. Isn't it our turn to help them?"

And if your government just leaves the refugees out there, cold and helpless, while we warmly take them in with all we have.... what does that say about your government, GI? The war you just fought? What did you really lose your friends for?

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Feb. 2, 1972

Good Morning, G.I.! I hope you've got a happy heart this morning; it's been six months and five days since the fighting stopped, and you will likely leave soon, no longer be trapped here by your villainous government's imperialist dalliances. We hope your wives and kids at home will welcome you back, as the wives and children you've had over here with Vietnamese women will be devastated at what you've done.

We wish you the best as you come back to your families--you all have sacrificed greatly for a system which has tried to throw you into a meat grinder. It took you from your homes when you were just becoming men in your own right, when you had just become adults, and it threw you into a camp designed to deconstruct you, a camp designed to shatter your will as a person, to make you conform, to indoctrinate you with the ideals of the group, to teach you to not question those ideals while calling such behavior "loyalty" and "duty"--to make you not question whatever orders you were given, whether they were right or wrong, just to serve the will of another. And this was the purpose: To render you helpless to throw your lives away in a far-off land, fighting for causes that you have no stake in, to die for the whims of the bourgeoisie to see their dominion of capitalism to continue.

We are fighting for a different cause: We seek to enhance the voice of the people. We wish to institute a radical democracy, where the voice of the people is the ultimate arbiter of what is right, where the party listens to that voice, takes the ideas from it, constructs them into practice, and allows the people to live under them. This is one of the major ideological developments of our friend up north, Mao Zedong: it is called the 'Mass Line.' Your government has brainwashed you to not recognize democracy when you see it, to be told it is simply one man pulling the strings of all: But this is just the capitalist projecting his authoritarianism onto the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. He hides himself behind the illusions of equality through bourgeoisie parliamentarianism, and the idea of 'equal rights,' but does not care for the actual equality of one man to another, only to preserve his power while making a paean to how he is 'equal under the law' to you, while he has enough power to influence congress and you have no say in your government. We need none of these illusions, for our system is actually free and equal between men: Our state officials are paid workmen's wages, as Lenin wrote. They are no more different than any of our other party members, on the field or in the factory. And as such when the projection of the illusion is compared to us, we seem unfree, for we lack such an illusion, for it is unneeded.

With our freedom comes a different method of fighting from your imperialist military. Many of you are likely still afraid of the men you call "Charlie," the brave partisans of our National Liberation Front, and their surprise attacks upon you. Your generals often label them terrorists, criminals, spies--and why would they not? They fight a war against you, not on the battlefield, but on a different field. They fight for the liberation of their people: they are fighting what our Maoist comrades would call a People's War. They are knowledgeable of what Imperialism will do to their country, they are aware of the dangers of complying with the bourgeoisie dictatorship of the south, and they are conscious of the need for class struggle. They have, on their own, come together into cadres, to fight against the imperialism you are put on the front lines to fight for. They have taken up arms, taken to the jungle, hidden in the streets, done what they have to do, among the people, for they are the people and follow the will of the people: to be free from imperialist control and capitalist oppression, to live in a new society ordered not by the wealthy but by the masses. They have set up the NLF so as to not use the corrupt institutions of the traitorous government set up by the Imperialists: These institutions they now set up will be the foundations for those in the south, when the people rightfully embrace Communism down there.

That is the way the Communist fights: Not as a soldier, but as a person: Not with armies, but with the masses.

Do you Hear the People Sing, GI?

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May 22, 1972

Good Morning, GI! I hope you are well and good.

We know that some of your commanders are quite worried that, with all of you leaving, the other countries in our region will be rendered defenseless.
They tell fearful stories of communist revolutionaries rising up, and then, as has happened in Laos, they do rise up, many of them panic, and immediately wish to see the land purged and squandered--they wish to repress it as a feudal lord used his army to repress peasants in times long past.
This is why they bomb Laos, support dictators in their own back yard, and give a pass to regimes that support serfdom, all for a drop of oil.

This, GI, is imperialism: It is the driving force of your capitalist machine: To use the poor to extract resources from the land. Comrade Lenin expounded upon this fact greatly, using Marx's theories as an ideological basis for this. Comrade Stalin cemented this into theory, and introduced the importance of Dialectical Materialism. And Chairman Mao, our comrade to the north, has put forth many theories in regards to how to uplift the proletariat within an oppressive, third-world capitalist or feudal regime. And this has led to the growth of many Maoist parties in the region.

While there may have been some tension in previous years, at the leadings of Comrade Kruschev, we are seeking rapprochement with these other parties in our area. One thing that the chauvinist Nationalists will not understand is our principle of internationalism: That we are all united, as a class, across borders: We are all one human people. We will seek to support them in the goals of their own national liberation as a part of international class struggle, each small part being a stepping stone to the larger establishment of an international order. All separatist movements, so long as they reject Imperialism in their character, are our allies in this movement. The entire world body of the Revolutionary Proletariat, those who seek to overthrow Capitalism, are our allies.

However, this Internationalist spirit does not get in the way of us talking to our neighbors: Of comparing the class struggle of the Vietnamese to the Laos or Khmer, of building bridges to the Maylay and the Thai, and of encouraging the revolutionary spirit of the Phillipines. We will build bodies to aid one another, while seeking self-sufficiency individually, with a mind towards our eventual goal of confederalism among Socialist nations. Our anti-Imperialist friends on the other side of Asia have done a great deed for the development of socialism internationally through their own confederation; when we, with our regional partnerships, have more state entities as our comrades, we too shall look to their example in forming a confederation.

And GI, we know that day is coming. The struggle of the Proletariat is eternal, and the forces of history and progress are on our side.

Will you join us, in pushing the world into a new age?

Reject reaction in your hearts! Embrace your fellow proletarian! Long Live the Revolution!

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May 25th, 1972

Good Morning GI! I'm glad to be speaking to you again.

We wish to speak to you more about our cooperation, its basis, and why it is important to us.

If your Imperialist history classes have not completely brainwashed you, all of our lands of Southeast Asia and South Asia--from Saigon to Pakistan--have been under Imperialist dominion. Unlike China, our small nations were not able to stand up to the Imperialist European guns of the Spanish, French, and English, as well as the Portuguese, Dutch, Germans, and others.

Before the World Wars we were used for resources, and exploited for our manpower quite blatantly. Artificial borders were drawn to exclude us from one another, and at the same time lump us in with strangers who were not of our peoples or our tribes. While the European Proletariat enjoyed a new Republic under which to be oppressed, that very same Republic came and oppressed us. After the First World War, we were promised autonomy by the President Woodrow Wilson, and his allies, the Imperialist devils in England and France, betrayed him, for they were wiser than he to the ways in which Capitalism works. Meanwhile, the Imperialist nations were unsuccessfully trying to overthrow the Revolution as it happened in Russia--to their ultimate failure, while Fascism was allowed to take over the German soul as it beheaded the leaders of its Revolutionary Proletariat.

This created a surficial peace, as Capitalism is quite fond of, but did not resolve the inherent contradictions of class and worker and nationality--or, as you have in America, Race. This led to the Second World War, where most of South Asia was overtaken by Japanese Imperialist Dogs, saying the slogan "Asia for the Asiatics" as an excuse to establish Imperialism with Japanese Characteristics.

However, our people, upon being invaded by the Imperialistic Japanese devils, were woken from their chains, were pressed in to fight against the imperialist invaders, and begun to fall into line. Comrade Mao is quite notable for his sacrifice, as is our founding patriarch, Ho Chi Minh. As with Comrade Lenin, the Imperialist Great War moved the population into action in the most exploited countries. All across the territory occupied by the Fascists, you would see Communist uprisings spring up, and internationally, Communists supported aiding the effort to fight the Fascists.

The proletariat was not satisfied with paeans about 'self-determination' that were ultimately unproductive and a new form of imperialism after the Second World War due to our education in Class Consciousness. In Vietnam, we actively took up arms as the new bourgeoisie French regime tried to reassert its control. We fought for our independence--the first time we fought against you, GI. Afterwards, we set up this state, in the North, to be the new body to represent the people. Not all claimed to want this, and tried to set up a state in the South under Bourgeoisie principles, and as could be predicted, this bourgeoisie state ended up in the hands of a dictator who oppressed and shot peoples, before his military ultimately turned on him. We are fighting against that legacy he is a part of: Of Imperialist domination, whether headed by colonial powers or the local bourgeoisie.

The other nations in our region were not so lucky as to be able to avoid a bourgeoisie government being imposed upon them. The Laotians and Cambodians--whose parties' heads were well known to ours, in the circles of the French Communist Party--were oppressed by Imperialist states again, and have risen up: They have our support and our encouragement. The Philipines, it does seem, is also on the verge of a People's war. Anger simmers in Malaysia. The Thai, having been previously complicit in the Imperialism with Japanese Characteristics, have deposed the Bourgeoisie state that replaced their fascist one with another fascist one: Our comrades there must be ready to resist this slide backwards. Burma, vital to the British effort against the Japanese, has fragmented into numerous people groups, showing the artificial boundaries within that nation: We would encourage strength to all those seeking self-determination there, especially the oppressed peoples. Our heart especially goes out to the people of Burma, as bourgeoisie forces within the Imperialist government have dragged their fledgling nation into a war against their own interests, and in the interest of Indian Imperialism. We urge the leaders in that conference towards peace, and urge our comrades in Bangladesh to resist Imperialism and set up a worker's state.

And in all other nations without a developed Vanguard, we hope to give aid and solace: Comrades, strengthen yourself, organize, and band together!

Together we shall fight the Bourgeoisie! The International Proletarian is strong! Solidarity!