Ngo Van

IN THE CROSSFIRE
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary

Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist Party). The Stalinists were ultimately victorious, but only after they systematically destroyed all the other oppositional currents.

This book is the story of those other movements and revolts, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors.

Introduction (Ken Knabb)
Ngo Van, Relayer of Living History (Hélène Fleury)
MAPS [The maps and the numerous other illustrations in the book are not included in this online version.]

I. IN THE LAND OF THE CRACKED BELL
Preface
1. Arrest
2. Childhood
3. Years of Apprenticeship
4. In the Central Prison
5. From One Prison to Another
6. In the Mekong Delta
7. Caught in a Crossfire
8. Toward Other Shores
9. And My Friends?

II. IN THE LAND OF HÉLOÏSE
10. Worker in the Promised Land
11. New Radical Perspectives

ARTICLES
A Factory Occupation in May 1968
On Third World Struggles
Reflections on the Vietnam War

Translators’ Notes
Note on Stalinism and Trotskyism
Chronology
Bibliography
Index

Table of Contents of Ngo Van’s In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary (AK Press, 2010), with links to the online text of the complete book (minus illustrations).

In the Crossfire is a translation of Ngo Van’s Au pays de la Cloche fêlée (Paris: L’Insomniaque, 2000) and of excerpts from Ngo Van’s Au pays d’Héloïse (L’Insomniaque, 2005). It has been edited by Ken Knabb and Hélène Fleury and translated by Hélène Fleury, Hilary Horrocks, Ken Knabb, and Naomi Sager.

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Of related interest at this website:
Two Local Wars (Situationist article on the Vietnam and Arab-Israel wars).

Ngo Van

IN THE CROSSFIRE Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary

CONTENTS

IN THE CROSSFIRE
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary