Simon Pirani

Vietnam & Trotskyism


First Published as a collection: 1987
Source: Vietnam & Trotskyism published by the Communist League (Australia) from letters and articles from the Workers Press, London from author Simon Pirani, introduction by Andy Blunden
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CONTENTS

Section 1

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Statement by National Committee of the Communist League
Introduction by Simon Pirani

Section 2

The Vietnamese Trotskyists, by Andy Blunden

Section 3

Vietnam and Trotskyism, by Simon Pirani
The ‘Struggle’ Front, by Simon Pirani
1945: Vietnam’s August Revolution, by Simon Pirani
A Stalinist Massacre, by Simon Pirani
The Fourth International and the Stalinist Ho Chi Minh, by Simon Pirani

Section 4

The Trotskyists and the United National Front by Simon Pirani
The Saigon Insurrection, an eye-witness account by N Van, 1968
An account of the 1945 August Revolution, by Lu Sanh Hanh, September 1947
Under Vichy France’s Jackboot, by Simon Pirani
Letters to the Workers Press

Section 5

Vietnam: The ‘Hideous Reality’, by Simon Pirani
Declaration of the Indochinese Oppositionists, August 1930
On the Declaration of the Indochinese Oppositionists, Trotsky, 1930
What is Permanent Revolution: Basic Postulates, Trotsky, 1930
Excerpts from writings of Leon Trotsky, 1939
Peasant War in China and the Proletariat, Trotsky, 1932
Excerpt from Vietnam & the World Revolution by M McLaughlin

Section 6

Three Letters from Ho Chi Minh to the Vietnamese CP, 1939
Letter by Bolshevik-Leninist Group of Vietnam to USFI, 1974
On the Nature of the Vietnamese Communist Party, from Vietnamese Trotskyist Group in France, 1985
Further reading



Last updated 8 January 2010