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Ngo Van
Vietnamese anti-colonial revolutionary (1913-2005) · Vietnam · On the map · Writers · Died at 91
Ngô Văn Xuyết, alias Ngô Văn was a Vietnamese revolutionary who chronicled labour and peasant insurrections caught "in the crossfire" between the colonial French and the Indochinese Communist Party of Nguyễn Ái Quốc.
Ngo Van is read about 17 times a day, in 9 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
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As a Trotskyist militant in the 1930s, Ngô Văn helped organise Saigon's waterfront and factories in defiance of the Party's "Moscow line" which, in the name of anti-fascism, sought to engage indigenous employers and landowners in an anti-Japanese nationalist front. When, after 1945, further challenges to the Party met with a policy of targeted assassination, Ngô Văn went into exile. In Paris, experiences shared with anarchist and Poumista refugees from the Spanish Civil War suggested "new radical perspectives." Drawn into the Council Communist circles of Maximilien Rubel and Henri Simon, Ngô Văn "permanently distanced" himself from the model of "the so-called workers's party."
