Tạ Thu Thâu

Tạ Thu Thâu, 1939

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Tạ Thu Thâu (born May 5, 1906 in Tan Binh , † September 1945 ) was the leader of the Fourth International in Vietnam .

Life

Tạ Thu Thâu was initially active among Vietnamese emigrants in Paris from 1926 to 1930 . He was deported from France . After his return to Saigon in 1931 he founded the group of Indochinese Bolsheviks - Leninists , which published the magazines La Lutte (The Struggle) and La Verité (The Truth).

During the Second World War he was arrested and held on the notorious prison island of Côn Đảo (Poulo-Condore). After the war he became the undisputed leader of Trotskyism in Vietnam, but that political tendency quickly lost its influence. In 1945 he was murdered by agents of the Communist Party of Vietnam ("Stalinists").

literature

• Richardson, A. (Ed.) (2003) The Revolution Defamed: A documentary history of Vietnamese Trotskyism , London: Socialist Platform Ltd.
• Hemery, D. (1974) Révolutionnaires Vietnamiens et Pouvoir Colonial en Indochine: Communistes, trotskystes, nationalistes à Saigon de 1932 à 1937 , Paris: François Maspero.
• Hammer, E. (1954) The Struggle for Indochina , Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• I. Milton Sacks, 'Marxism in Vietnam' [Chapter 4] in Trager, F. (1959) Marxism in South-East Asia , Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Anh Van and Jacqueline Roussel (1947) National Movements and Class Struggle in Vietnam , London: New Park Publications [English translation 1987].
• Bà Phuong-Lan [Bui-The-My] (1974) Nhà Cách Mang: Ta Thu Thâu , Saigon: Nhà Sách KHAI-TRĺ [Vietnamese].
• Ngo Van (1995) Revolutionaries they could not break: The fight for the Fourth international in Indochina 1930-1945 , London: Index Books.
• Huynh kim Khánh (1982) Vietnamese Communism 1925-1945 , London: Cornell University Press.