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  1. The ABC of National Liberation Movements
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    A war is politics continued by other, that is forcible, means. Our attitude toward a war must be congruent with our attitude toward the politics of which it is the continuation. This determines our principled position on the question of whether to support or oppose a given war - not primarily our opinion of the men, the government or the class leading the war, not our opinion of their past or present crimes. The latter considerations will be very relevant to how we support or oppose a war, but not to whether we do.
  2. After Pinkville
    In Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    Chomsky begins by expressing criticism of the peace movement protestors. He claims that their demands on the US government to "stop bombing and enter negotiations" in Vietnam were insufficient; they should have instead called for immediate withdrawal and adherence to international law. Chomsky then turns his criticism towards the American moral standing, citing one professors take on foreign policy: "To crush the people's war, we must eliminate the people". He parallels this to the moral level of Nazi Germany and questions the US's lack of moral considerations in the Vietnam War.
  3. After the Cataclysm
    Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
  4. Against Capitalism
    The European Left on the March
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  5. American Power and the New Mandarins 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
  6. America's Use of Terror in Vietnam
    The Evil That Was Phoenix
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    There’s a reason the CIA wanted to prevent the publication of Douglas Valentine’s 1990 book, The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. This masterwork is more than an exposé of the US pacification program in Vietnam the book is titled after. It is an indictment of a cynical and bloody plan to kill Vietnamese.
  7. America's War in Indochina
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    There is no special reason for America's intervention in Indochina, apart from her general policy of intervening anywhere in the world in order to prevent political and social changes that would be detrimental to the so-called 'free world,' and particularly to the power which dominates it.
  8. Anthroplogy and the Machine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The first Teach-In against the Vietnam war, held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in March 1965, proved the ideal solution, an event that was at the same time an exercise in learning and a political protest. Its success was to spur a widespread series of similar events, bringing the anti-war message and the realities of U.S. "counter-insurgency" in Vietnam to other campuses. It was not entirely surprising that one of the most innovative and effective strategies for opposing U.S. crimes in Vietnam was initiated by anthropologists. In a discipline sensitive to the problems facing peasant populations due to colonialism and the spread of western market interests, it was particularly difficult to accept at face value the rhetoric of U.S. geopolitical posturing.
  9. At War With Asia
    Essays on Indochina
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Noam Chomsky examines the many effects of America's war in Indochina and tries to answer the questions that underlie this conflict.
  10. Behind The Lines - Hanoi
    December23 - January 7
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967
  11. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  12. Canada's 1960s 
    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A history of social movements of the 1960s, including student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
  13. The Catonsville Nine
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Nine Catholic activists who burned draft files in 1968 to protest the Vietnam War.
  14. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why
    The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
  15. Central American Women Speak for Themselves
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A dossier focusing on the participation of women in the popular movements and revolutionary organizations in Central America. Contains transations from newspapers, pamphlets, documents, interviews and reprints of already-published material.
  16. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
  17. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
  18. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
  19. Dangerous Grounds
    Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned and operated by civilian activists, GI coffeehouses served as off-base refuges for the growing number of active-duty soldiers resisting the war.
  20. Democracy is in the Streets 
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
  21. Distortions at Fourth Hand
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Chomsky addresses the issue of "freedom of the press". He points out that while publications that shun eyewitness accounts of the situation in post-war Vietnam have a daily circulation of approx. 250 000, smaller publications which rely on these firsthand testimonies reach a limited audience. In this fashion, Chomsky warns of the dangers of accepting only what filters through to the American public, as it is "a seriously distorted version of the evidence available".
  22. A Dweller in Peace
    The Life and Times of Daniel Berrigan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renowned anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. nuclear weapons industry, died at age 94.
  23. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  24. Forgotten Graffiti Sheds New Light on Long, Hot Journeys to Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Inside a rusting former US army ship, historians found vivid details of the hopes and fears of soldiers bound for war.
  25. Fragging
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The assassination of an unpopular officer by members of his own unit.
  26. "Fragging" and "Combat Refusals" in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    The US Army itself does not know exactly how many...officers were murdered. But they know at least 600 were murdered, and then they have another 1400 that died mysteriously. Consequently by early 1970, the army was at war not with the enemy but with itself.
  27. Friends and the Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Friends from across North America gathered at Pendle Hill in 1998 for an in-depth analysis of what the Vietnam War means - both for themselves and for the larger Quaker community. This is the compilation of their personal narratives and analyses.
  28. GI Coffeehouses Recalled: a Compliment From General Westmoreland 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about the coffeehouses started near US bases during the War in Vietnam.
  29. How We Fought the War
    Bob Kerrey's Revolting Medal of Honor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2016
    On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war. The unit he lead killed women and children during an assassination mission in 1969. Some of the victims had their throats slit. Instead of being charged with war crimes, Kerrey was awarded a Medal of Honor for his role in another operation of that year in Nha Trong Bay.
  30. Hue Back When: the Bloodbath in Vietnam Was Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A look at Mark Bowden's book "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam", which provides a two-sided perspective on a particularly tragic moment in the Vietnam War.
  31. I would like to dodge the draft-dodgers but
    Resource Type: Book
  32. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  33. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
  34. Investigation of a Flame
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2003
    Investigation of a Flame is a 2001 documentary by Lynne Sachs about the Catonsville Nine, nine Catholic activists who became known for their May 17, 1968 nonviolent act of civil disobedience in burning draft files to protest the Vietnam War.
  35. Jeff Sharlet (activist)
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Jeff Sharlet (1942–1969), a Vietnam veteran, was a leader of the GI resistance movement during the Vietnam War and the founding editor of Vietnam GI.
  36. Kampuchea, Decade of the Genocide
    Report of a Finnish Inquiry Commission
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Commissioned by the Finnish Inquiry Commission this a straight forward account of the history of Kampuchea from the saturation bombing by the United States during the Vietnam war in the 1970's to the continued border warfare with remnants of the Kmer Rouge. The authors address the issue of human rights violations during the regime of Pol Pot and the legitimacy of the Vietnamese role in overthrowing that regime. Other main concerns of the authors are the questions of refugees, external opposition movements, intervention by the superpowers and the attempt to rebuild the agricultural and industrial infrastructure devastated during the Pol Pot era.
  37. Kill Anything That Moves
    The Real American War in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Turse demonstrates that violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the American war against Vietnam. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of orders to "kill anything that moves."
  38. Landmines still exacting a heavy toll on Vietnamese civilians
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam.
  39. Laos After the Bombs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
  40. Long Way From Home 
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  41. Looking Back -- and Ahead
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
  42. Machismo and Its Discontents
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The one clear memory I have of 1968 (as opposed to all those other antiwar and pro-civil rights struggles in which I was engaged in the 1960s and ‘70s) is that I was a member of a faculty ad-hoc group, mostly from UMass Amherst (but there was also someone who taught at Amherst college and his wife).
  43. Mainstream News And USA's Heroics In Vietnam
    Why The Silence About The 7 Million Dead?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An account of the media's role in suppressing information about US military actions in Indochina from the 1940s and onward, and how the same tactics persist in the present.
  44. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  45. A Marxist History of the World part 98: The Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    How an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war.
  46. A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
  47. Mayday
    The Case for Civil Disobedience
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    Chomsky addresses the expected "cooling" of the Student Movement in light of negative reviews of the May Day demonstration. He analyzes this cooling as a key factor in US strategy, especially in relation to the Congress and disputes arguments such as civil disobedience is illegitimate in a democracy as decisions are reached via democratic institutions. After his exploration of the numerous questions surrounding the issue of civil disobedience, Chomsky warns that by blocking channels of protest, the government may "bring about a domestic crisis of indeterminable proportions".
  48. McNamara's Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    McNamara's Cold War mentality is as firmly fixed as ever. The purpose of American policy in Southeast Asia was to stop Communism, invariably characterized as "Communist aggression." That end justified any means employed. It was just that McNamara and the rest of the best and brightest opted for ineffective means and failed to acknowledge it in time. Only in this tactical misjudgment does he believe that they were "wrong, terribly wrong."
  49. Memories
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    Regarding 1995 as the year of memories, Noam Chomsky critically accounts numerous historical conflicts before exploring the content of Robert McNamara's memoirs, In Retrospect.
  50. The Memory of Justice
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1976
    The Memory of Justice is a 1976 documentary film directed by Marcel Ophüls. It explores the subject of atrocities committed in wartime.
  51. Modern Capitalism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959   Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
  52. Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
  53. The Most Dangerous Man in America
    Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience.
  54. My 1968 in the Heartland
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    “Ezekiel's brother got arrested. He’s a Communist!”
  55. The Names You'll Never Know
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    Americans have been killing civilians since before there was a United States. At home and abroad, civilians -- Pequots, African Americans, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Filipinos, Haitians, Japanese, Germans, Koreans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, and Somalis, among others -- have been shot, burned, and bombed to death. So many civilians have been obliterated, incinerated, or "shredded" in America’s forever wars. Who in the United States remembers them? Who here ever knew of them in the first place?
  56. The New Left at 40
    Legacy and Continuity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A collection of memoirs and commentaries.
  57. The New Refugees
    American Voices in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Stories of 18 "new refugees" who came in Canada to escape the U.S. war against Vietnam.
  58. One Woman Army
    The Life of Claire Culhane
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A biography of Claire Culhane, member of the Canadian Communist Party, crusader for prison abolition, and peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
  59. Opposition to U.S. war against Vietnam
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
  60. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
    Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
  61. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
    Disobedience
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
  62. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
    Public Transit
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
  63. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
  64. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
    Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
  65. Our Generation
    Volume 5 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
  66. Our Generation
    Volume 6 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
  67. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  68. Our Generation
    Volume 9 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  69. The Party: Volume 1
    The Sixties, A Political Memoir: The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Barry Sheppard was a member of the US Socialist Workers Party for 28 years, and a central leader for most of that time. This is the first of two volumes recounting his life in the party.
  70. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
  71. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  72. A People's History of the United States 
    1492 - Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
  73. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
  74. Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
  75. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  76. A Question of Torture
    CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Chronicles the US government's use of terror as a political instrument
  77. The Real Terror Network 
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
  78. Reflections on a Political Trial
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    In wake of the sentencing of 4 of the 5 men on trial for illegal activities against the draft, Chomsky explores the details of the so-called "Spock" case as well as its meaning for both the "peace movement" and the state of American democracy. Though the issues of legality, legitimacy, and resistance must be, according to Chomsky, considered in the context of the democratic system, these were not addressed in Court. Chomsky reveals the flawed-nature of America's institutions, observing that if the outcome of this trial were to be taken as a guide of conduct, citizens would have to avoid all public acts undertaken jointly with others who share his views in order to avoid risk of prosecution.
  79. Resister
    A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    An insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the sixties and a look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters.
  80. The Responsibility of Intellectuals 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1967
    It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
  81. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  82. Review: Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam (2013)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Review of Nick Turse's book Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam.
  83. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
  84. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  85. SDS 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    The rise and development of the Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that became the major expression of the American left in the 1960s -- its passage from student protest to institutional resistance to revolutionary activism, and its ultimate impact on American politics and life.
  86. Sir! No Sir!
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2005
    A documentary about the anti-war movement within the ranks of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War.
  87. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  88. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  89. The Socialist Register 1967
    Volume 4: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1967
  90. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  91. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  92. Soldiers in Revolt
    GI Resistance during the Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A definitive account of GI resistance in the Vietnam War. With an introduction by Howard Zinn.
  93. Storming Heaven
    1968 Revisted
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
  94. The story of the GI coffeehouses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Examining the rise of the GI coffeehouse movement--during the Vietnam War and again today in protest of the war on Iraq.
  95. The terrible legacy of Agent Orange and dioxin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Agent Orange was manufactured by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemicals to use as a herbicide and defoliant in the Vietnam War.
  96. A Time for Learning
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I don't recall being aware of the events in France in May-June 1968. I was in college, beginning to get radicalized on several fronts, notably the war. Something called the “Free University” was started in Washington, D.C., and I signed up for a class on communes. I remember well a presentation that spring, in which the speaker kept referring to “the Establishment.”
  97. The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
  98. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
  99. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  100. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of Canadian 'underground' newspapers of the 1960s.
  101. U.S. Imperialism Defeated, Capitalist Rule Smashed
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975   Published: 2015
    April 30, 2015 was the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, marking the defeat of U.S. imperialism and its South Vietnamese puppet forces. The heroic Vietnamese workers and peasants fought not just for national liberation but also for social revolution.
  102. The Urge to Surge
    War is a Drug
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Englehardt describes the effects of the US surge addiction with the military issue as an example.
  103. Vain Hopes, False Dreams
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    In a time in which hopes and dreams seemed to be fading from American society, Chomsky systematically explores the theory that the reason for JFK's assassination was his intention to withdraw from Vietnam.
  104. Victory in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Forty years ago on April 30, 1975, the Vietnamese peopl were finally victorious in the long just struggle for national independence and unification against the United States and its puppet regime in Saigon.
  105. Viet Peace will come with victory
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    The burning determination of the Vietnamese to control their own future deserves our full support.
  106. Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassalage 1975-2015
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history – defeating the US, the world's biggest imperial power, after 20 years of struggle.
  107. 'Vietnam: It's our war too'
    The Antiwar movement in Canada: 1963 - 1975
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    PhD Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 2011
  108. Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A national veterans' organization.
  109. Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1970
    John Pilger's first film, The Quiet Mutiny, made in 1970 for the British current affairs series World in Action, broke the sensational story of insurrection by American drafted troops in Vietnam. In his classic history of war and journalism, The First Casualty, Phillip Knightley describes Pilger's revelations as among the most important reporting from Vietnam. The soldiers' revolt – including the killing of unpopular officers – marked the beginning of the end for the United States in Indo-China.
  110. War and the Culture of Violence
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
  111. War Crimes in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967
  112. The War Is Over (song)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An anti-war song by Phil Ochs.
  113. The Wars on Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the past month, the Pentagon, PBS, and the for-profit press took a three pronged approach to the Vietnam Wars: (1) praise the returned troops and promote the notion of a home-country stab in the back; (2) highlight the evacuees and the US heroes of the April ‘75 evacuations; and (3) focus on the post-war babylift and the Vietnamese babies now grown up.
  114. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
  115. We're facing a new Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
  116. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
  117. When Phoenix Came to Thanh Phong
    Bob Kerrey and War Crimes as Policy in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    On May 16, 2016, former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey was named chairman of Fulbright University, a US-backed college with ties to the State Department in Ho Chi Minh City. During his recent visit to Vietnam, President Barack Obama heaped praise on Kerrey, a former Navy SEAL who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. What Obama failed to mention is that Kerrey also supervised one of the most atrocious war crimes of that ghastly war.
  118. When Soldiers Resist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Let's remember the courageous war resisters who said no to the slaughter in Vietnam.
  119. Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go?
    War, Sunny Side Up, and the Summer of Slaughter (Vietnam and Today)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Let me tell you a story about a moment in my life I'm not likely to forget even if, with the passage of years, so much around it has grown fuzzy. It involves a broken-down TV, movies from my childhood, and a war that only seemed to come closer as time passed.
  120. Who spoke Up? American Protest against the War in Vietnam, 1963 - 1975
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  121. Why the rise of fascism is again the issue 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
  122. Winter Soldier
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1972
    A chronicling of the Winter Soldier Investigation - about war crimes during the Vietnam War - that took place in Detroit, Michigan, from January 31 to February 2, 1971.
  123. Winter Soldier 2008
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
  124. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
    A personal history of our times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 2002
    Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.
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