Australian Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War - statements by Michael Matteson and Geoff Mullen
Submitted by Fluffy on Jun 30 2017 07:20
An overview of anarchist involvement in the Australian anti-war movement by Takver.com followed by two articles in the form of statements by Michael Matteson and Geoff Mullen, who were both imprisoned for draft resistance.
The last mutineer
Submitted by Steven. on Mar 18 2017 12:24
Article by Richard Linnett and Roberto Loiederman about the spectacular mutiny on the USS Columbia Eagle and what befell the mutineers afterwards. Two of the crew hijacked the ship, which was transporting napalm to drop on Vietnam, and sailed it to Cambodia.
Construction workers riot at Samsung, Vietnam
Submitted by Craftwork on Mar 3 2017 19:53
On Tuesday, a riot involving hundreds of construction workers broke out at a Samsung display plant in Bắc Ninh Province, not far from the capital, Hanoi.
Anarchos No. 2 (Spring 1968)
The No. 2 (Spring 1968) issue of Anarchos, an anarchist publication produced by the Eastside Anarchist Group out of New York during the late 1960s.
"We will not be part of this unjust, immoral, and illegal war": remembering the Fort Hood Three - Derek Seidman
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 5 2016 10:47
A short history of the Fort Hood three, a group of GIs who were the first high profile examples of American troops refusing to fight in the Vietnam War.
The Fort Hood three
Pamphlet about the Ford Hood three: three American GIs who refused to go and fight in the Vietnam War.
Revolution and counterrevolution under colonial rule: And now? – Ngo Van Xuyet
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jun 20 2015 17:16
The last chapter of Ngo Van’s book, Revolution and Counterrevolution under Colonial Rule, first published in French in 1997, denouncing the Stalinism of Ho Chi Minh’s repressive party-state, depicting the disappointing consequences of the triumph of the counterrevolution in Vietnam with the “victory” of 1975 when the enormous sacrifices of the Vietnamese peasants resulted in merely the exchange of one set of rulers for another, and quoting the Vietnamese author Bao Ninh: “So much blood spilled—for what?”.
A hundred year war - Ngo Van Xuyet
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jun 4 2015 01:24
In this two-part talk given in 2001 in Paris, Ngo Van Xuyet introduces his two books about Vietnam (Viêt-nam 1920-1945: révolution et contre-révolution sous la domination coloniale [1997] and Au pays de la Cloche fêlée: Tribulations d’un Cochinchinois à l’époque coloniale [2000]), starting with a critical chronology of the 1920s, and concluding with a first-person account of the period between 1930 and 1945, when Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh seized power after the Japanese surrender and immediately proceeded to exterminate the Vietnamese Trotskyists, while workers and peasants formed councils that were suppressed by the Stalinist government’s military forces.
In the crossfire: adventures of a Vietnamese revolutionary - Ngo Van Xuyet
Ngo Van Xuyet's accounts of class struggle in Vietnam before the rise of Ho Chi Minh and the US invasion.
The SS Columbia Eagle mutiny, 1970 - Steven Johns
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 5 2014 17:30
A short history of the most spectacular American naval mutiny during the Vietnam war, where two sailors hijacked a ship full of napalm and sailed it to Cambodia.
