Fifty years ago, on 30 April, 1975, the people of Vietnam led by their communist party headed by Ho Chi Minh liberated their country. After a heroic, 20 year long war of liberation, the indomitable Vietnamese people inflicted a resounding defeat on US imperialism and its puppet regime based in Saigon (now known as Ho Chi Minh City). At the end, as the tanks and forces of the Vietnamese liberation fighters rolled into Saigon, all the bombs, weapons, planes and deadly arsenal in the hands of the world’s mightiest imperialist power were no use. No one can forget the images of the US ambassador and other American functionaries and their hangers-on fleeing the city and clambering onto helicopters in a desperate bid to escape.
Continue reading