Re: AUT: Re: unions against the war??

["Laura Fiocco" <fiocco@xxxxxxxxx>]

O.K. but vietcongs gave us ten years, with their "partial victories", to
grow up

ciao laura

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From: "Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: unions against the war??


> On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Laura Fiocco wrote:
>
> > And Harry ask what I mean by "Vietnam teaches"
> >
> > The USA army in the war of vietnam was defeated by vietcong (people, not
> > just workers), but USA military policy against vietnam was defeated by
the
> > struggle of millions of people in the State and in the whole world.
> > The anti-war movement grew upgrading and unifing the goals of different
> > social forces because the choice at stake was so high (quality of life
> > against capitalist power).
> > I think that this is the lesson
> > ciao laura
> >
>
> Basically I agree, except I would say that while the VietCong won many
> partial victories over the US military on the ground, in the end the only
> real military "defeat" was political for exactly the reason you state:
> the circulation of struggle against the war within the United States and
> around the world.
> H.
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