[Anti-Vietnam War movement, UK.] Mimeographed pamphlet issued by the ‘Committee for Communist Unity & Vanguard’, titled ‘Vietnam’.

The Committee for Communist Unity and Vanguard were both mouthpieces of the Maoist Welsh Communist A. H. Evans, who was born in the village of Aber Clydach, near Talybont on Usk, Breconshire. He gives biographical information in his ‘English Historians and Welsh History’ (1975). The only copy of the present item traced is at the British Library, which dates it to 1964 or 1965. 8pp, small 4to. Mimeographed on two bifoliums, one loosely inserted in the other. A lo-fi production. The full title reads: ‘VIETNAM / OPPOSE “NEGOTIATIONS AT ANY PRICE!” / OPPOSE A CEASEFIRE WHILE U.S. IMPERIALISM OCCUPIES SOUTH VIETNAM! / SURROUND & ISOLATE THE U.S. GANGSTERS! / ALL-OUT SUPPORT FOR THE JUST LIBERATION WAR OF THE ENTIRE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE!’ Sections headed: ‘VIETNAM.’, ‘MISTAKEN FRIENDS.’, ‘THE ROOTS OF CONFUSION.’, ‘AN ATTITUDE TO THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT.’ The back page carries an advertisement for Vanguard. The publication address at 33 Anson Road is said to be the premises of ‘Alf Cross’, but this is probably a pseudonym of Evans’s. Written in the usual agitprop style: ‘The past twenty (20) years have confirmed beyond doubt that this gang of cut-throat exploiters are the worst enemies of world peace ad would only “negotiate” a “treaty” in order to break it at will so as to secure even better terms later on.’ and ‘Thus the modern revisionists, whilst compelled to pay lip service to the Vietnamese cause are using the issue to foment enmity towards Socialist China and all who justly support her.’