Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism: Solidarity with Vietnam
For ten years, from 1965-1975, Vietnam was at the center of world attention as a small but proud country fought the most powerful imperialist military power in history and won. The price was very high. Three million to four million Vietnamese were killed, millions more maimed, and another 5 million people poisoned with Agent Orange. A massive anti-war movement, in the US and world-wide, grew during the war years to support the Vietnamese people, to put social, economic and political pressure on the US war makers to withdraw funds and troops from the war.
Since the war’s end,
Vietnam is also a leader in increasing life expectancy, advancing education, electing women and minorities to government at all levels, empowering its growing working-class, and developing a rich humanistic culture, all components in building a vibrant socialist society.
The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism sends warm fraternal greetings to the people of Vietnam, its government, the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Vietnam Women’s Union, the Vietnam-USA Society, the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange, and the many mass people’s organizations on the 40th Anniversary of its total liberation, and wishes Vietnam and its people many future successes. Many of the leaders and members of CCDS were leaders and activists in the
National Coordinating Committee
of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism