E43: The movement against the Vietnam war, part 1

Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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First of our four-part podcast miniseries about opposition to the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the United States. We speak with Cora Weiss, Vivian Rothstein, Omali Yeshitela, Michael Novick and Joe Maizlish about their participation in a movement which grew from being a small fringe to having the support of the majority of the population.
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0:00.0	In 1955, after the defeat of French colonists in Vietnam, the United States stepped in as the colonial power,
0:06.0	and for the next two decades fought an increasingly brutal war of occupation.
0:10.0	Through the 1960s and 70s, a powerful and broad-based anti-war movement developed which opposed U.S. intervention,
0:15.6	with an increasingly militant wave of protest and direct action.
0:19.6	This is working class history.
0:30.0	Hi and welcome back to the working class history podcast.
0:33.5	This four part mini-series is the final planned part of our intermittent series we've been putting
0:37.9	out of episodes about the US war in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. In it, we're going to be looking
0:43.5	at the anti-war movement which developed in the US. To learn more about other aspects of the conflict,
0:48.7	you should check out the other episodes in the series. So in episode 14, we talked to Nome Chomsky about the geopolitics of the conflict
0:55.8	and learn about the human cost of the war from a member of the Vietnamese Women's Union. In
1:00.2	episodes 10 and 11, we learn about the anti-war movement within the US military. In episodes 21, 24,
1:06.4	we tell the story of the Columbia Eagle mutiny of two anti-war sailors. In episode seven, we talk
1:12.2	about the wave of workers' strikes in the US during the war. And finally, the story of the
1:16.1	movement against the Vietnam War very much intersects and overlaps with the Black Liberation
1:20.1	Movement. We will be producing more episodes on this in future. Our episode 12 is about revolutionary
1:26.6	black auto workers organising in Detroit with the background of the war.
1:30.8	We've been working on this mini-series for just under two years now and have put in a lot of hours.
1:35.3	This is only possible because of generous support from our listeners on Patreon.
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1:45.2	link in the show notes. Patrons get early access to episodes, exclusive bonus episodes,
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