Vietnam War
Vietnam War
Texts, articles and content about the Vietnam or Indochina War of 1957 to 1975.
Ending a war: Inventing a movement: Mayday 1971
After SDS committed political suicide, and after the Jackson and Kent State shootings, one of the largest mass direct actions in US history took place under the slogan "If the Government won't stop the war, we'll stop the Government."
Ending a war: Inventing a movement: Mayday 1971
Kauffman, L A
Korean workers riot in Vietnam, 1967
The riot by Korean workers at Vinnell Corporation, Cam Ranh Bay during the Vietnam War.
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
PDF pamphlet from 2003 with articles on mutinies in Vietnam and Yugoslavia.
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
Noam Chomsky's very brief account of US military, economic and "diplomatic" action in Indochina in the last half of the 20th century
