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Kidnapping in Berlin in 2017: Slovakia implicated

9 August 2018

According to the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, an executive of the Vietnamese administration, who had sought refuge in Germany, was kidnapped in Germany by the Slovakian Secret Services. They then handed him over to the authorities in Vietnam.
According to the German (...)

General Giap is dead

5 October 2013

General Vo Nguyen Giap passed way at 102 years of age.
He was despised by his Western counterparts because he had never attended a military school and because he was gay.
However, he successively defeated French and US imperialism, and liberated his country, Vietnam.
Opposed to Cambodia’s (...)

Shift in Russian-Chinese tectonic plates

Calling the China-Russia split by its right name

by Melkulangara K. Bhadrakumar

4 September 2012

As China and Vietnam lurch increasingly towards crisis, Beijing is not amused at the Kremlin’s refusal to reciprocate over the United States’ "pivot" in the Asia-Pacific, especially since returns from its diplomatic support for Moscow’s embattled ally in Damascus are expected. The symbolism of (...)

Today’s Pentagon Papers Warning

by Daniel Ellsberg

19 June 2011

The U.S. government has finally released the full Pentagon Papers describing how the American people were misled into the Vietnam War. The declassification comes four decades after most of the document was leaked by Pentagon insider Daniel Ellsberg, who today says similar deceptions are (...)

Cuba Commemorates Establishment of Vietnamese Communist Party

Havana (Cuba) | 4 February 2010

Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo presided over a ceremony on Wednesday night to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Vietnamese Communist Party.

Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam

by Marjorie Cohn

16 June 2009

More than 30 years afte the end of the Vietnam War, it is time to make good on Nixon’s promise and remedy the terrible wrong the U.S. government perpetrated on the people of Vietnam . Congress must pass legislation to compensate the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange as it did for the U.S. (...)

History

Ho Chi Minh: The Vietnamese struggle against Japanese, French and US Imperialisms

by Marta Rojas

Havana (Cuba) | 13 September 2005

On the occasion of commemorations for the 30th Anniversary of the liberation of Saigon, we publish a work on the life and work of the founder of Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh. By rejecting all compromises that led astray part of his own generation, Ho Chi Minh restlessly fought imperialism, either (...)

“Just Once Was Enough To Get a Medal”

by Anatoly Khiupenen

8 May 2005

The Russian involvement in the war of Viet Nam is exaggerated. There was only a total of 6 000 Soviet military specialists there. Thirteen died there, out of which 3 or 4 died in combat. At the beginning, soldiers of two antiaircraft missile-launcher battalions departed to train the (...)

“The Vietnamese Made Sure We Did Not Take Control”

by Evgueni Antonov

8 May 2005

At the beginning of the war, complete units of «Zenith» missile-launchers departed from the USSR to Viet Nam. The 2nd Briansk battalion, for example, left with all its members. There we tested the new material, improved it to escape from the missiles and learned how to shoot against small (...)

“The War We Silently Introduced”

by Michael Sexton

8 May 2005

Two important anniversaries pertaining to the war of Viet Nam will be celebrated this week. 40 years ago, Australia entered the war and, 30 years ago, Saigon fell into the hands of the north-Vietnamese forces. _ Later 1964 and early 1965, the debate about the interference in Viet Nam was at (...)

“The clouds of war still hover over Vietnam”

by Pham Thi Hoai

8 May 2005

When I was born, the war was already underway. I lived it everyday for 15 years. But I was not an unhappy child. In North Viet Nam, during the 1960s and 70s, I thought war would last forever, like clouds in the sky. However, in 1975, we saw the advance of red flags in our school maps. Everyday, (...)

Vietnam 1967/ Iraq 2005

"Vietnam: 83% participation despite the Viet Cong terror"

by Arthur Lepic, Jean-Sébastien Farez

11 February 2005

While fully bombing the north of Vietnam in 1967, the U.S. was organizing elections so that part of the population in the occupied Southern Vietnam chose a president. Eleven years before, the U.S. had openly breached the Geneva Agreements by annulling the general elections held under (...)