Communist Party of Vietnam
General Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013): Military hero, revolutionary intellectual, environmentalist
General Vo Nguyen Giap, second from left, with Ho Chi Minh, in 1957.
Socialist Party of Malaysia: Vietnam's dilemma
Will Vietnam and its people continue to be inspired by the revolution previous generations sacrificed so much for or will t
Vietnam: Extraordinary petition by 'patriotic personalities'
By Michael Karadjis
July 29, 2011 -- Vietnam from the Left, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with the author's permission -- Below is an extraordinary document initiated by some 20 prominent Vietnamese academics, former military figures, former officials, writers etc, who express great unease about the current situation for Vietnam, faced on the one hand by increasingly aggressive Chinese actions in the East Sea (also known as the South China Sea), and on the other by an economic situation characterised over the last few years by mounting crisis and severe inflation, which is hammering people’s living standards.
The left cannot ignore China’s achievements, but neither can it be too celebratory
Rural poverty in China is much higher than urban poverty.
The rise and fall of the Communist Party of Thailand
September 9, 2009 -- ESSF -- The communist movement was first established in Siam (renamed Thailand in 1939) mostly in the Chinese ethnic migrant communities, then proliferated in the seemingly disparate surrounding regions in the north, northeast and south of the country. Following a long, difficult period of transition, the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT), once an urban party, retreated to the jungle and engaged in armed struggle. Its national expansion, during the 1970s, occurred while the kingdom was transformed into a US base for military intervention in the Vietnam War. The party eventually saw its decline during the Sino-Indochinese conflict of 1978–9 and disappeared from sight in the mid-1980s.
Vietnam: `Building an equitable, democratic and civilised society'
By Le Vinh Thu
This is the text of the speech on behalf of Communist Party of Vietnam's delegation to the World at a Crossroads conference, organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and Resistance, held in Sydney, April 10-12, 2009.
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Dear comrades and friends,
Vietnam: On the road towards the renewal of socialism
By Michael Alexandros
Vietnam's long history of struggle
By Nguyen The Phiet
Socialism and the market: China and Vietnam compared
By Michael Karadjis
This article first appeared in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, No. 27, January-April 2005.