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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
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In the early hours of 31st January 1968, 70,000 North
Vietnamese soldiers, together with guerrilla fighters of the NLF, launched one
of the most daring military campaigns in history. The Tet Offensive was the
real turning point in the Vietnam War. On its 40th anniversary, Alan
Woods analyses the events that led to the Vietnam War and the significance of
the Tet Offensive in bringing about the defeat of US
imperialism, and draws some parallels with Iraq.
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
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In the early hours of 31st January 1968, 70,000 North
Vietnamese soldiers, together with guerrilla fighters of the NLF, launched one
of the most daring military campaigns in history. The Tet Offensive was the
real turning point in the Vietnam War. On its 40th anniversary, Alan
Woods analyses the events that led to the Vietnam War and the significance of
the Tet Offensive in bringing about the defeat of US
imperialism, and draws some parallels with Iraq.
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By Jonathan Clyne, editorial Board of the Swedish Marxist journal, Socialisten
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Tuesday, 15 October 2002 |
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As US imperialism prepares to go to war against Iraq, Jonathan Clyne (of the editorial
Board of the Swedish Marxist journal, Socialisten)
looks back at the Vietnam War. He shows quite clearly the level of radicalisation that had
developed among both the US soldiers fighting in Vietnam and the mass opposition that had
developed back home among US workers and youth. As he says, "It was the American
working class, those in uniform and those without, that more than anything else put an end
to the war." |
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By Nguyen Ki
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Thursday, 15 March 2001 |
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We received a letter from Vietnam which gives a wider and
more political view of the situation in Vietnam on the eve of the important forthcoming
congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam on "market led socialism". |
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By LNG
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Monday, 05 February 2001 |
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This article describes the situation of poor young
girls in the rural areas who try to escape from misery by marrying Taiwanese men. |
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By Dang Ngoc
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Friday, 29 December 2000 |
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We publish this article from the Vietnamese press, translated for In Defence of Marxism by
one of our Vietnamese correspondents which shows the conditions Vietnamese workers face in
the Export Processing Zones through the example of the strike at the Tan A company in Ho
Chi Mihn City. |
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By PB and DH
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Thursday, 16 November 2000 |
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This article gives a picture of the appalling housing conditions
of workers employed in the IZs and EPZs, the special industrial zones established to
attract foreign investment. |
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By Nguyen Ky, Vietnam
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Monday, 23 October 2000 |
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After 14 years of "reform", with the introduction of the so-called "market
economy under state control in a socialist direction", an economic boom is indeed
taking place in Vietnam. However, its economy is obviously not immune from the financial
crisis of its neighbours. Very few strikes have been reported, and most of them have attracted
very few workers. However the strike of over 4,000 workers at the Hue Phong company (a
joint-venture producing shoes) on 12-13th September may represent an important turning
point in the workers' struggle in Vietnam. |
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By Lao Dong
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Friday, 11 August 2000 |
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This article has been specially translated by one of our Vietnamese subscribers for
"In Defence of Marxism" from the Vietnamese newspaper Lao Dong("Labour"),
11 August, 2000. It describes the conditions in which this section of toilers has to work
in order to keep up with the demands put on this industry by world capitalism. |
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By Jim Hensman
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Tuesday, 16 September 1986 |
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In 1975 the Vietnamese people gained a historic victory, driving out the US armed
forces and liberating the south. After 28 years of war the country was reunited and
capitalism and landlordism abolished throughout. With these heroic sacrifices, the
Vietnamese workers and peasants paid the price for the defeat of the revolution of
1945,when they had power in their grasp. Why was this opportunity lost in 1945? What are
the lessons of this defeat for the workers' struggle today? |
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