If in South Vietnam in 1957 you wanted to
> organize resistance to the terror that descended on the countryside
> after the partition, this is the pattern you followed.
Pg. 38 on Diem and the Communists, of Neale's," People's History of the
Vietnam War, "
> ...In 1956 anybody who agitated for elections was arrested. About 50,000
> people, of whom roughly 12,000 were executed. This is an extraordinary #
> given that there were probably only 15,000 Communists left after so many
> withdrew to the North after 1954. The terror smashed half the Communist
> cells Tay Nanh province by late 1955, and 90% of the cells were gone by
> the end of 1956."
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From an important cadre in the International Socialist Organization, Jonathan Neale, chapter one, The Vietnamese, in, "A People's History of the Vietnam War, " blurbed by Howard Zinn, The New Press, 2003, (see, for example Neale's book review of a previous book by C. Appy, " Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam , " http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj79/neale.htm whose new oral history of the Vietnam War, "Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides, " which includes one w/ Chalmers Johnson). -- Michael Pugliese