Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
This section contains articles on Vietnam and the former French Indochina as a whole (as well as the Sino-Indochinese crisis). Articles specificaly on Cambodia and Laos are placed in these national sections.
, by HAYDEN Tom
During Christmas 2007 I traveled back in time with my family, to Vietnam, for the first time in thirty-two years. I was feeling a deep need to see the place once more, a regret at having withdrawn from a country I had visited four times during the war. I wanted to understand the long-term (…)
, by MASON Bill
“Forty years ago, the Tet offensive — the decisive battle of the Vietnam War — took place, changing the course of the war, and beginning the long retreat of the US military which eventually led to the victory of the Vietnamese revolutionary national-liberation forces with the fall of Saigon in (…)
, by McILROY Jim
Forty years ago, the Tet Offensive changed the course of the Vietnam War and world history. On January 31, 1968, fighters of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (NLF) — known dismissively as the “Vietcong” — launched an all-out assault on cities and (…)
, 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 ALLEN Joe
THIS IS the first in a series of articles about the remarkable year 1968, a year of conflict, class struggle, and revolutionary upheaval around the world. It was a year marked by the massive escalation of the student Vietnam antiwar movement around the world, the rebirth of mass working-class (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
The January-February 1968 Tet offensive sealed American defeat in the Vietnam War. Paradoxically the insurgent armies – the Peoples Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front (NLF) – achieved few of their main military or political objectives and suffered heavy casualties. But the (…)
, by BOYLE Peter
Whenever a socialist from the generation whose political ideas were shaped by involvement in the global movement against the US-led Vietnam War pay their first visit to Vietnam, it is a bit like a pilgrimage. It is an encounter with a symbolic home of our political hopes and convictions. (…)
, by TAN Patrick
“Lying has become an everyday habit” as officials ignore fraud at home.
Earlier this month, Vietnam’s top anti-corruption agency, the Government Inspectorate, completed its annual investigations in the country’s central, central highlands, western and southern regions, and to no one’s (…)
, by CHENG Eva
On April 29, eight solidarity groups from across Europe adopted a Public Appeal of International Lawyers issued in December that calls on the US government to honour its responsibility towards the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. Used during the Vietnam War, this dioxin-rich defoliant is (…)
, by Green Left Weekly
Vietnam,
Nearly 700,000 people have signed an international online petition in solidarity with Vietnam’s victims of Agent Orange, which was sprayed extensively by the US military during the Vietnam War. The petition, which was launched in 2004, will be presented to the judges of the US Court (…)
, by BOWRING Philip
With a booming economy attracting hordes to the stock market, the country needs to be careful to avoid a bust.
Amid the myriad booms and bubbles the asset world has witnessed in recent months, one stands out, at least for originality: Vietnam. It is awash in more money than it can handle. (…)
, by Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
Paris (VNA) – Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin have garnered further support at the fourth session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Mar. 27.
Speaking at the meeting, André Bouny, Chairman of the international committee in support for the Vietnamese Agent Orange (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Through its Vietnam ambassador, the Bush administration announced on February 9 that it will fund 40% of a US$1 million plan to study how to clean up a former US military base in Vietnam that is contaminated by dioxin, a class-one human carcinogen. Dioxin was a key ingredient in Agent Orange, a (…)
, by KARADJIS Michael, VO Quynh Nga
Introduction
This report aims to give an overall assessment of the state of Community Disease Control (CDC) and reproductive health from a gender perspective. It will attempt to draw out issues related to major communicative diseases that are gender-specific, and how the specific difficulties (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Many of the 2.6 million US soldiers who served in the Vietnam War have contracted cancer and a cocktail of serious health problems that they believe to be directly linked to their exposure to the dioxin-contaminated defoliant Agent Orange. The US military sprayed Agent Orange heavily in some (…)
, by KARADJIS Michael
In my piece in Links comparing China and Vietnam, I outlined that China is well in advance of Vietnam in the process of capitalist restoration. I also gave a far more favourable view of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) than of the Chinese CP (CCP), consistent with the DSP’s long-held views. (…)
, by LE Thanh Thuy
Hanoi,
Her body is that of a two-year-old, deformed and limp. And yet, Truong thi Thuong is 16, a brilliant student in the village of Phu Dong (in Vietnam’s central Quang Nam province).
With a dark, stern look on his face, Truong Cong Bay haltingly tells the story of Truong thi Thuong, his (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Backed by the Vietnamese government, in January 2004 a few of Vietnam’s estimated 3-4 million surviving victims of Agent Orange, the chemical weapon widely used by the US during the Vietnam War, brought a lawsuit in a US district court against nearly 40 US chemical companies. The case was (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Even though the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago, the US’s saturation chemical bombing is still wreaking havoc on millions, including the newly born - making them third-generation victims. Nobody knows when the congenital deformities, one of many horrific health consequences of the toxic (…)
, by HUU Ngoc
A French travelogue has likened The Story of Kieu, a Vietnamese literary gem, to the famous French novel Justine où Les Malheurs De La Vertu (The Misfortune Of Virtue).
In an article included in an unfinished manuscript he sent to his Vietnamese friends shortly before his death, Georges (…)
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