Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ROUSSET Pierre
In February 1968, the liberation forces in South Vietnam began the “Tet offensive”. It was conducted on a very large scale throughout South Vietnam, including Saigon. Its international reach was considerable, it galvanized anti-imperialist and national liberation movements and accelerated the (…)
, by RUDER Eric
Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese resistance turned the tide against the American war effort, with profound implications back in the U.S., writes Eric Ruder, in the next article in SocialistWorker.org’s yearlong series marking the 50th anniversary of 1968.
THE TET Offensive first came to the (…)
, by FANNING Rory
This Memorial Day, let’s remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam.
On August 10, 1965, less than two months after General William Westmoreland launched the first major offensive by American ground forces in Vietnam , Congressmen L. Mendel Rivers (D-South (…)
, by BOYLE Peter
September 1, 2009 — There has been a lot of media coverage in Australia around the August 31 return of the remains of the last two Australian armed forces personnel – Canberra bomber pilots – who were missing in action in the Vietnam War. But none of the articles put this in the context of the (…)
, by TATE “Ernie” Ernest
Recently, Solomon Hughes of the British daily, the Guardian, has been in touch with me regarding the recently released London police reports about the preparations for the October 27th, 1968, mobilizations against the Vietnam War, which my partner, Jess MacKenzie and I were involved in. The (…)
, by SCHOENMAN Ralph, TATE “Ernie” Ernest
An introduction from Ernie Tate
Ralph Schoenman asked me to post this on the list; I think subscribers will find it interesting. I hope it circulates widely, if only to remind us of the horrors American imperialism inflicted upon Vietnam. I think Schoenman effectively eviscerates Brightman (…)
, by MILLER David
After getting involved in the civil rights and peace movements during college in the early 1960s, David Miller — today a Reclaiming teacher and activist — went to live at the Catholic Worker house in New York City. The CW, founded in the 1930s by Dorothy Day, ran both a monthly newspaper and a (…)
, by Comité de soutien à la lutte des travailleurs précaires de Genaral Motors–Daewo
Review: Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veteran Movement by Gerry Nicosia (N.Y., Crown, 2001) 688 pages, $30 hardcover.
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SERVICE IN THE United States military was an honorable calling before the Vietnam war deflated that robust patriotic tradition. Young men (…)
, by Amistad Resource
By July 1965, SNCC members had produced their first uncompromising statement on the war, declaring that blacks should not “fight in Vietnam for the white man’s freedom, until all the Negro people are free in Mississippi.” From the outset, the burden of the conflict was borne disproportionately (…)
, by ALBANO Teresa
On Oct. 15, 1965, a young Catholic Worker activist, David Miller, burned his draft card in protest of the U.S. war in Vietnam, becoming the first antiwar activist to challenge a law banning the act. Miller was later arrested by the FBI, found guilty at trial and sentenced to two years in prison. (…)
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