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Reflections on Vietnam

Leading historian of Indochina discusses the emergence of nationalist and communist impulses—and their subsequent fusion—in the country’s long struggle against outside rule.

Victory in Indochina

“The ultimate victory of the Indochinese revolution has profound significance for the global order that emerged from the Second World War. After so much heroism and sacrifice the Vietnamese revolutionary movement has at last achieved the goal of which it was deprived by the way that war . . .” read more

Debate on Agriculture in North Vietnam

“Marxist hegemony of the North Vietnamese revolutionary movement has always been characterized at its high points by an ability to conduct the anti-imperialist struggle together with internal social revolution. Recent victories in North and South against us imperialism have tended to turn outside observers’ attention from the . . .” read more

Strategy of the Vietnamese Liberation

“Military success brings with it new problems for the nlf. The forces of the us and its allies are now concentrated in the cities, the bases, and in the provinces adjacent to the border; vast areas of the country-side have therefore been completely freed. With the . . .” read more

Introduction to Sartre article

“It is now no longer only liberals like Mary McCarthy who discuss the American occupation of Vietnam in terms of genocide: even such a hitherto faithful supporter of the State Department as Theodore Draper, prised loose by the war from his long-held certainties, wrote in his recent book . . .” read more

From Petrograd to Saigon

“The staggering blows that the National Liberation Front has now dealt the American military expedition in Vietnam have changed history. When some half a million American troops with enormous technological superiority are no longer capable of keeping even the us Embassy in Saigon safe, the most rabid . . .” read more

Genocide

“The word ‘genocide’ has not been in existence for very long: it was coined by the jurist Lemkin between the two world wars. The thing is as old as mankind and so far no society has existed whose structure has prevented it from committing this crime. In any . . .” read more

The Americans Are Not Invincible

“When did you go to North Vietnam, how long did you stay, and how widely did you travel?” read more

'The New Legions'

“Donald Duncan: The New Legions. Victor Gollancz. 35s.” read more

Vietnam Must Not Stand Alone

“Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen.” read more

Imperialist Morality

“Interview with Jean Paul Sartre on the War Crimes Tribunal” read more

Common Men in Vietnam

“Since the author has been four years in Vietnam for ap, Malcolm Browne’s The New Face of War might be a book of substance. The outlook is engaging: ‘Vietnam’, he says; ‘is a beautiful and sometimes noble little country, which I have come to love. As a . . .” read more

Vietnam and the Dynamics of Guerrilla War

“Three things have won conventional wars in this century; greater reserves of manpower, greater industrial potential and a reasonably functioning system of civilian administration. The strategy of the United States in the past two decades has been based on the hope that the second of these (in which . . .” read more