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This rubrique contains studies on the history of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, and their revolutions, both from historians and including articles written in the framework of polemics within the international radical Left on this matter. This rubrique will be enriched only progressively.
Fifty years ago today, the Tet Offensive exposed the US military and the global economic order it oversaw.
At the end of January, the media will commemorate the fifty-year anniversary of one of the Vietnam War’s most pivotal moments: the Tet Offensive.
On January 30, 1968, the combined (…)
Ben Kiernan introduces his new book – This text is excerpted from the introduction to Ben Kiernan, Việt Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present (Oxford University Press, New York and London, 2017).
“The mountains are like the bones of the earth. Water is its blood,” wrote a (…)
Today there is nothing unusual in the United States losing a war. This was not the case in the previous century. Just 40 years ago, the US debacle in 1975 in Viet Nam was an event which was all the more significant in that Washington had for years mobilized its gigantic resources to prevail, (…)
General Vo Nguyen Giap, second from left, with Ho Chi Minh, in 1957.
October 24, 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — Few people from the 20th century can really claim to have changed history. One of them without a doubt was General Vo Nguyen Giap, who led the Vietnamese (…)
Can you tell us something about your background?
Pierre Brocheux – I was born in Vietnam. My mother was Vietnamese, but her father was already a French citizen. I found his ‘naturalization’ certificate, as they called it in those days, number 18, dated 1906—which is to say, he was the (…)
Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery, Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954. Series “From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective.” Translated by Ly Lan Dill-Klein, with Eric Jennings, Nora Taylor, and Noémi Tousignant. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of (…)
When the United States first entered the war in Vietnam in defense of colonial France, the conflict was already decades old. Indeed, it may have been the most protracted anti-colonial struggle of the twentieth century. France’s domination of the region they called Indochina had been challenged (…)
Review by David W. Del Testa, Bucknell University of: Mathieu Guérin, Paysans de la forêt à l’époque coloniale: La pacification des aborigènes des hautes terres du Cambodge (1863-1940). Series “Bibliothèque d’Histoire Rurale” vol. 10. Caen: Association d’Histoire des Sociétés Rurales/Presses (…)
Our dear Vietnamese comrade Hoang Khoa Khoi has just died at the age of 92, on Thursday April 9. His family and friends gathered a week later in front of the crematorium of Père-Lachaise to pay him a last tribute.
He was the oldest Vietnamese Trotskyist still alive. He arrived in France in (…)
* Joe Allen. Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2008. 253 pages, including index. $14.00.
* Jonathan Neale. A People’s History of the Vietnam War. New York: The New Press, 2004. 336 pages, including index. $ 15.95.
These are important books. They need (…)
The wars of the 20th century destroyed many millions of people who once lived in the hillsides and valleys of remote rural worlds. Few were hit as hard as the Hmong, an ancient tribe whose members hewed out rough lives upcountry in Laos, west of Vietnam. Half a century ago, Laos became a cockpit (…)
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 (…)
“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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Accords that ended the war in Indochina, six weeks after the French army was defeated at Dien Bien Phu. This was a signal to other colonies yearning for independence: the next to rise up was Algeria, three months later.
FRENCH and Vietnamese (…)
Huu Ngoc article was originally published in Vietnam News, September 18, 2000. We added to it, below, the introduction from Jean-Michel Krivine taken from International Viewpoint Online magazine : IV n° 328 - February 2001.
"It’s comforting to discover a current Vietnamese text which pays (…)
Q: Was Diên Biên Phu a conventional military victory or was it a victory for military warfare?
Giap: The victory at Diên Biên Phu was a victory for the people. But then, of course, while the concept of a people’s war and guerrilla warfare are not entirely separate, they are separate (…)
For more than a decade the world situation was dominated by the civil war in Vietnam and the attempt of U.S. imperialism to determine its outcome by means of a counterrevolutionary war of intervention. This was not simply a result of the fact that the international, internal, military, and even (…)
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