Vietnam War

Steven. — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:09:27 +0000

Ending a war: Inventing a movement: Mayday 1971

David in Atlanta — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:37:29 +0000

Ending a war: Inventing a movement: Mayday 1971
Kauffman, L A

Korean workers riot in Vietnam, 1967

Peter — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:15:03 +0000

MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam, the U.S. command for all its military forces in Vietnam – ed.) had also been directed to start a civilianization program on September 15, 1967. South Vietnamese workers would be substituted for U.S. military support personnel in certain logistical units. There were many advantages. American manpower could be trimmed as technical expertise was shared.

Mutinies - Treason pamphlet

Peter — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:18:13 +0000

Despite the media and the respectable leaders of antiwar movements endlessly repeating the lie that US forces withdrew from the Vietnam War due to peaceful protests in the streets of American cities we are not fooled. The US withdrew from Vietnam because it’s military was on the verge of collapse due to widespread desertion, the killing of officers and small-scale mutinies.

1948-1991: US intervention and war in South East Asia

Steven. — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:43:30 +0000

The US wars in Indochina fall into the same general pattern

1945-1957: Vietnam

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:18:39 +0000

1957-1975: The Vietnam War

Steven. — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:13:47 +0000

Following the partitioning of Vietnam into the pro-independence Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the North, and the US puppet state the Republic of Vietnam in the South in 1954 (see our short history of Vietnam from 1945 to 1957) elections were due to be held on re-unification.

18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam

Steven. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:28:57 +0000

From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country-and failed. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

1961-1973: GI resistance in the Vietnam War

Steven. — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:01:09 +0000

The GI anti-war movement within the army was one of the decisive factors in ending the war.

[i]An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said

GI opposition to the Vietnam War, 1965-1973 - Howard Zinn

libcom — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:40:38 +0000

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