Vietnam
Go and see The Post, but it isn’t quite first class viewing
The Pentagon Papers exposed the US lies about Vietnam by successive governments. The battle to publish them could be gripping, says?Sam Lorde
Vietnam's blow to US empire
In January 1968 Vietnamese resistance fighters inflicted a shattering defeat to US prestige. The Tet Offensive sent shockwaves across the world, writes Alistair Farrow
Vietnam—a graveyard for the US’s imperial ambitions
A new ten-part documentary sets itself up as the definitive account of the Vietnam War. It brings out new voices and footage, but obscures the truth
A world with no wars
It’s possible—if we understand what makes them. Tomáš Tengely-Evans takes aim at imperialism
Iraq: how the west lost
Iraq was supposed to be the war that finally erased the memory of defeat in Vietnam. Instead, says Simon Assaf, ten years on it is clear that the conflict dealt another blow to imperialismTragedy explores mental illness and racism: but i cd only whisper
Bold and fragile in equal measures, the new play "but i cd only whisper" explores the psyche of a black Vietnam war veteran after he allegedly commits a terrible crime. It delves into the history of a man whose war began long before he joined the army.The Sapphires: drama that sets out racism faced by Aborigines
13 November 20121968. Riots and revolution. Vietnam. Soul music. The elements that make up director Wayne Blair’s film The Sapphires have been done before—but never in quite this way.
At last an end to the 'wasted years'
10 May 2011The legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye famously asked, "What’s Going On?" His 1971 album examined the US’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin
16 February 2010McCullin is famous for his photographs of the Vietnam war. But he also photographed many of the other conflicts that have shaped the modern era.
New challenges for US movement against war
03 November 2009The quagmire in Afghanistan is worse than it has ever been. But the US anti-war movement finds itself in a desperately floundering situation, unable to adequately mobilise protest activity around Barack Obama’s Vietnam.
Winter Soldier | Sir! No Sir! | FTA
17 February 2009This is a long awaited chance to get hold of three classic films about the hidden history of US troops in the Vietnam War.
Afghanistan: war is ‘tougher than Vietnam’ for US
10 February 2009The US has admitted that winning the war in Afghanistan will be "tougher than Vietnam".
Video of Adrian Mitchell at the Royal Albert Hall in 1965
28 December 2008Anti-Vietnam war poetry reading
US voices for change
11 November 2008Jim Baldridge – Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Baltimore ‘I went with a busload of union members from Maryland to Richmond, Virginia, to support the Obama campaign.
Waged London: photographer Larry Herman on his new project
04 March 2008Larry Herman was born in New York, and moved to Britain during the Vietnam War. Since then he has lived in Glasgow and Sheffield, but mostly in London.
Watergate, anti Vietnam war protests and US imperial failure
04 September 2007A US President losing a war abroad and facing an anti-war movement at home, while talking up troop withdrawal, extends his imperial adventure – leading ultimately to his downfall. That is what happened to Republican president Richard Nixon.
Vietnam vet on George Bush’s false history lesson
28 August 2007In his speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention last week, president George Bush urged Americans to "resist the allure of retreat".
The anti-war movement: the radicals have not gone away
28 August 2007"Where are the students on the rampage?" Polly Toynbee asked plaintively in the Guardian recently. "Compare this inertia with the fury over Vietnam back in the late 1960s, when Britain had no troops in that war.
Rewards to imperialism
06 June 2007By 1967 the US was losing its long and bitter war in Vietnam with the Viet Cong, the peasant-based guerrilla national liberation movement. It was terrified by the prospect of the anti?imperialist movement spreading to the Middle East.
Half Nelson | Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
24 April 2007Half NelsonDirected by Ryan FleckFilm out now Heard the one about the sexy, 20-something, crackhead, inner city, history teacher whose star student is his dealer’s runner and whose parents are alcoholic anti-Vietnam war lefties?
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