Ngô Văn Xuyết : Vietnamese Revolutionary and Advocate of Peasants and Workers

1945: Saigon Commune, The

One of the main concerns of the Vietminh Committee was to ensure its ‘recognition’ by the British authorities as a de facto government. To this end the committee did everything it could to show its strength and demonstrate its ability to ‘maintain order.’ Through its press it ordered the dissolution of all the partisan groups that had played an active role in the struggle against Japanese imperialism. All weapons were to be handed over to the Vietminh’s own police force. The Vietminh’s militia, known as the ‘Republican Guard’ (Cong hoa-ve-binh) and their police thus had a legal monopoly in the carrying of weapons. The groups aimed at by this decision were not only certain religious sect... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Ancient utopia and peasant revolts in Ch...

About the Author Ngo Van Xuyet (Born in Tan Lo, 1913; died in Paris, 2005) This essay, Ancient Utopia and Peasant Revolts in China, is Van’s last book; shortly after finishing it he died in Paris in January 2005. His life has been extinguished, but his knowledge and his spirit of rebellion still touch us. Van was for us not just a Vietnamese militant who fought against the colonialist and Stalinist oppression of his country and the author of an indispensable work on the history of Vietnam from the 1920s to the present, but a friend with whom we shared ideas and emotions. His relations with Barcelona were few but intense. In Barcelona, Van felt at home: he knew that here, in 1936 and 1937, a struggle was waged on t... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Hundred Year War, A

Greetings, dear friends, and many thanks to Jean-Jacques Marie[1] for having invited me to address this meeting. I will speak of the complicated and little-known period of Vietnamese history that preceded the so-called Indochina and Vietnam Wars.[2] The two works on Vietnam that I have published were basically intended to recall the forgotten struggle of a generation of revolutionaries who fought against colonial imperialism, not only for national independence, but also for a radical transformation of all of society. The first book, Việt Nam 1920–1945, révolution et contre-révolution sous la domination coloniale [Vietnam 1920–1945: Revolution and Counterrevolution under Colonial Rule (1997)], co... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Impressions of May

Preface In May 1968, Ngo Van was working in a Paris factory and soon afterwards he wrote one of the few accounts of what happened by a rank-and-file industrial worker that was published close to the time. His perspective was informed by his previous political experience. He had been a Trotskyist militant in Vietnam in the 1930s and 1940s, imprisoned and tortured both by the French imperialists and Hồ chí Minh’s Stalinists. Exiled in Paris in the late 1940s, he soon broke with the French Trotskyists over their dogmatic commitment to formulas such as the ‘deformed workers’ state.’ In 1968, his political discussions were focused on a group of workers meeting with the Marxist intellectual Maximilien R... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

In the Crossfire : Adventures of a Vietnamese Rev...

On Third World Struggles What does “national liberation” mean for workers and peasants? The imperialist powers speak of “the right of peoples to self-determination,” and this phrase is adopted by the parties striving for power in colonial and semicolonial countries. We propose to banish the word “people” from our vocabulary: it implies an equality of right between the exploiting classes and the exploited masses. Who “self-determines” whom in the new national “peasant” states? In countries within the Western sphere of influence, national independence hands power over to the local bourgeoisie, which exploits the proletariat, and to the landowning class, which exploits the peasantr... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

On Vietnam

Preface The text below is extracted from Sur le Vietnam, a series of articles published in Informations et Correspondences ouvrières from the end of 1967 and the beginning of 1968, at the height of the movement against the Vietnam war in Europe and North America. Whilst this description as a whole has not hitherto appeared in English, the final chapter, The Saigon Insurrection of 23 September 1945, was the only account of the events available in Britain for many years, having been first translated by Chris Pallis and printed in Solidarity, Volume 5 no.5, 27 October 1968, pp.3–6, 16. It was subsequently reproduced in the United States as a leaflet by the Spartacist West group of the movement now known as the ICL, and lat... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

Revolution and counterrevolution under c... : And Now?

Introduction Viet-Nam: 1920–1945. Révolution et contre-révolution sous la domination coloniale is an impressive document of Vietnamese social history from the period of 1920–1945. It has nothing to do with the mystification of the “heroic resistance” led by Ho Chi Minh against the American army during the sixties, for reasons of both chronology and style. The autobiography of Ngo Van, a Vietnamese militant in the communist opposition since 1932, deals with another era: the one that spanned the period between the first national liberation movements of the 1920s up until 1946, with the defeat of the December insurrection and the beginning of another Thirty Years War. From his lucid perspecti... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

‘Moscow trial’ in Ho Chi Minh’s guerrill...

The coming to power of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam in 1945 was favored by the special conjuncture of circumstances in which the country found itself: the absence of the French imperialist state apparatus, disrupted by the Japanese army since 9 March 1945, and the surrender of Japan itself on 15 August 1945. Arriving at the head of his guerrilla bands from the highlands of Tonkin, Ho Chi Minh took power in Hanoi. He was able to impose himself upon the insurgent masses not only by his reactionary nationalist demagogy but also above all by force of arms and through the murders carried out by his GPU, the Ty Cong-Au. Whilst the former mandarins, bourgeois, landlords, peasants and workers were being invited to participate in the Stalinist Viet... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)

<< Last Entry in People Willful Disobedience	Current Entry in People Ngô Văn Xuyết	Next Entry in People >> Baba Yaga
All Nearby Items in People Willful Disobedience Wilson, Charlotte - Charlotte M. Wilson was an English Fabian and anarchist who co-founded Freedom newspaper in 1886 with Peter Kropotkin, and edited, published, and largely financed it during its first decade. She remained editor of Freedom until 1895. Wilson, Robert Anton Winn, Ross Winstanley, Gerrard Wollstonecraft, Mary Wolman, Gil J. Woodcock, George - ...sought to raise awareness of the revolution in Spain and of what was being achieved by the Spanish working class against great odds. He was a firm believer in the working class's ability to reorganize society along fundamentally democratic and egalitarian lines. Woodruff, Abner E. World Social Forum - Anarchist Caucus Xuyết, Ngô Văn Yassour, Avraham Zerzan, John Yaga, Baba

Ngô Văn Xuyết : Vietnamese Revolutionary and Advocate of Peasants and Workers

1913 — January 1, 2005

Entry 5776

Public

Works

1945: Saigon Commune, The

Ancient utopia and peasant revolts in Ch...

Hundred Year War, A

Impressions of May

In the Crossfire : Adventures of a Vietnamese Rev...

On Vietnam

Revolution and counterrevolution under c... : And Now?

‘Moscow trial’ in Ho Chi Minh’s guerrill...

Image Gallery of Ngô Văn Xuyết

Chronology

Comments

Navigation