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<h2 class="date-header"><span>Thursday, 30 April 2015</span></h2>
40 YEARS SINCE VIETNAMESE VICTORY OVER NEO-COLONIAL WAR AND
OCCUPATION, WE OWE A MASSIVE DEBT TO THEM
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<b>40 Years since the Victory of Vietnam against Colonialism and
Neo-Colonialism</b></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family:
arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Mera Naam,
Tera Naam VIETNAM! VIETNAM! </span></b></span><br>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family:
arial, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">(My name,
your name is VIETNAM VIETNAM!)</span></b></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- Solidarity slogan of South Asian
peoples during the Vietnamese War of Liberation</span></div>
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Sukant Chandan</div>
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<i>Sons of Malcolm</i></div>
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30 April 2015</div>
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Today is the 40th Anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam by the
revolutionary leadership of Ho Chi Minh and General Giap and the
entire resistance forces in Vietnam, who defeated Japanese
colonialism in 1945, French colonialism in 1954 and then USA
neo-colonialism in 1975.</div>
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The colonial and imperialist war against Vietnam was an attempt by
the 'west' to stop the tide of independence struggles that was
raging like a prairie fire across the southern three continents in
the period after the second world war.<br>
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The genocidal imperialist war against Vietnam was an attempt of
the imperialists to take revenge on the global united resistance
that gave the USA its first post second world war defeat in the
theatre of Korea when the Soviet Union and Socialist China gave
support to the Korean peoples defeat of the imperialists in the
early 1950s, with the Korean people paying the terrible price of 4
million martyrs in the three years of the 'Korean War' in
1950-1953.<br>
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The imperialist war in Vietnam was revenge for the victory of the
Chinese Revolution in 1949.</div>
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The Resistance of the Vietnamese people ushered in a new phase of
militant global struggle, leading Che Guevara and many others to
focus on Vietnam as the vanguard of the global revolution, with
Che arguing for other peoples to take up the model of the
Vietnamese Revolution in order to disperse the impact of the
colonial genocide against them and in order to develop a major
global push in defeating imperialism.</div>
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The Resistance in Vietnam and its victory was overwhelmingly
achieved by the Vietnamese themselves, and then with support from
China and the Soviet Union. The Vietnamese Resistance opened up a
massive space of rebellion in the 'west', with the anti-colonial
internal struggles within the west, especially in the form of the
Black Liberation Movement throughout the west but especially in
the usa to combine their struggle against the same common enemy
with that of the much bigger, more intense, incomparably more
bloody and traumatic struggle of the Vietnamese against the common
imperialist enemy. This unity led the Black Panthers to offer
their own cadres to join the Vietnamese Resistance (the Vietnamese
appreciated the offer but pressed upon the Black Panthers to
escalate their struggle within the usa), it led the firebrand
radical and world champion boxer Muhammad Ali to lose his champion
belt in refusing to fight his brothers and sisters in Vietnam.</div>
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The Vietnamese Resistance won their struggle no one else won it
for them, as sometimes politicos in the west try and make out that
their opposition to the war had any strategic contribution in that
imperialist war's defeat. Apart from the escalating struggle of
the Black and Brown people allied with radical white
organisations, which played a minor and tertiary role in the
defeat of the imperialists in Vietnam, it was the Vietnamese and
them and their primary global allies that won the war. However,
the Vietnamese struggle radicalised the western youth and gave
them the biggest historical opening for rebelling against the
system.</div>
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Vietnam was destroyed deliberately for generations. Vietnam was
reunified and liberated in 1975, over three million dead, over 50
million gallons of toxins were put into the land and people of
Vietnam by the enemy. The people were intensely raped, looted,
bombed in their millions. Vietnam has gone on to conduct the
liberation in extremely difficult circumstances, and it is an
obligation of all anti-imperialists, decolonials, and people who
believe in justice for Humanity that they continue to give
unconditional support to Socialist Vietnam and their on-going
process of protecting their independence and uplifting their
people and land. </div>
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The deeply neo-colonial conceit and dark side of the human
condition is shown when those who will support a people when they
die in their millions for liberation but will turn their back
shortly after the imperialist enemy has been defeated and the
tasks of reconstruction is on hand, that at the very moment when
the Vietnamese and other peoples need empathy and solidarity, that
the neo-colonial lefty knives come out and they snipe and turn
their back on the Vietnamese.</div>
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The Vietnamese nation and people continue to make strides towards
healing their people and country and developing the conditions
towards socialism and equality. We owe a massive debt to the
Vietnamese people. We have everything to learn from them in terms
of their anti-imperialist and socialist ideology and their ethics
and culture of resistance and liberation. They owe us nothing, we
owe them everything.</div>
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In 2003 I went on a solidarity delegation that conducted some
volunteer labour in building roads in the central highlands of
Vietnam. We gave back a tiny amount of what we owed the
Vietnamese. We visited the Vietnamese government orphanages of
those children still born with severe defects from the toxins
('Agent Orange') which will impact the Vietnamese people for
generations to come. While the mainstream media will focus on the
death, deformities and destruction of the Vietnamese war in line
with their white supremacist colonial nature as they only like to
show our people when they are dead or dying or torn to bits. In
contrast, we raise up the Humanity and the earth shaking
achievements of the Vietnamese and learn at their feet of what
being a revolutionary is, and what a revolution against the enemy
gone mad looks like. </div>
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Every city had a museum dedicated to the Resistance during the
war, staffed often by a stern and militant Vietnamese female
comrade. These museums showed the creative wonders of the
Vietnamese people in their quest for freedom, each museum was a
revolutionary university. We visited Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, and
gave thanks to one of Humanity's greatest freedom fighters. </div>
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We visited the martyrs tomb in Cu Chi where the famous underground
resistance tunnel system is, and saw the thousands of names of
martyrs from Cu Chi engraved in the inner walls of the tomb. </div>
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And of course, we discussed, talked, and ate the delicious
Vietnamese cuisine with a wonderful people in a stunningly
beautiful land who can enjoy relative peace and security of their
Homeland.</div>
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Towards the end of the imperialist debacle in Vietnam, they had a
policy of 'Vietnamisation' of the war, ie., getting Vietnamese
people to increasingly face even more of the brunt of the war
instead of the tens of thousands of soldiers from the usa dying
and getting injured. The enemy has continued this strategy and has
used death squads in Libya on the ground while Nato bombed and
destroyed Libya from the skies. The enemy has now directed and
supplied their primary ally in the region in the form of Saudi
Arabia to front their neo-colonial war against Yemen. </div>
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The enemy continues to 'Black face' its neo-colonialism to confuse
the masses, a strategy which has some success as both Libya and
Yemen have seen no national mobilisations by the white left led
anti-war movements in the west, we can even say these are popular
wars in the west with the anti-war movement refusing to push for
serious anti-war mobilisation. </div>
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Those of us loyal to the Vietnamese, Libyans, Zimbabweans, Yemeni
and all resistant victims of the strategies of Nato and
neo-colonialism must wrest control of the anti-war movement and
raise the ideologies and strategies appropriate to resisting
neo-colonial war, indeed global covert and overt neo-colonial war
has ALWAYS been an integral part of the colonial and neo-colonial
system. </div>
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My Mother and Father raised me from childhood in loyalty to the
Vietnamese people, with my Mother recalling her participation in
demonstrations in support of the Vietnamese people and their central
slogan was 'mera naam, tera naam, Vietnam! Vietnam', translated as
'my name, your name is Vietnam! Vietnam!'. Our names continues to
be Vietnam, Korea, Algeria, Angola, Mozambique, Cuba and every
on-going struggle of our resistant peoples, leaderships and
countries which are still in an intense and complex knife edges
struggle in this last phase and age of struggle to totally defeat
neo-colonialism once and for all across the planet. Will we stand by
this struggle? We owe it to them.
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