[Marxism] 40th anniversary of Tet offensive

[Sukant Chandan]

The Tet offensive, while being a massive sacrificial struggle on behalf of
the Vietnamese liberation forces against the US occupation, was a historic
offensive that signaled the end of the US occupation. Perhaps the Vietnamese
victory will go down as the start of the end of US military and economic
domination of the world. Today Socialist Vietnam is forging ahead with
healing the wounds of war (some 3 million people were killed and 300,000
people remain missing), and are developing their economy for the benefit of
their people (having won UN awards for poverty alleviation in the early
2000s), and on the international field are championing the rights of small
nations, developing links with fraternal progressive, socialist and
communist organisations, and belief in a multi-polar world. In 2002 I
visited Vietnam and was pleasantly surprised of the many positive aspects of
the country: the friendliness of the people, the beautiful countryside,
mountains and coastline, the delicious food and the societal development of
this once extremely poor and war-ravaged country. I will always remember the
many museums exhibiting the crimes of the US and the resistance of the
people, indeed these museums are schools for oppressed people in how to
cleverly resist an occupation. At the war crimes museum in Ho Chi Minh City
many young people from the US were sobbing after learning of what atrocities
their country had committed against the Vietnamese people.
- Sukant Chandan, Sons of Malcolm

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