Nguyen An Ninh

Nguyễn An Ninh was a Vietnamese revolutionary, political journalist and publicist in French colonial Cochinchina. An independent and charismatic figure, Ninh was able to conciliate between different anti-colonial factions including, for a period in the 1930s, between the Communist Party of Nguyễn Ái Quốc and its left opposition— the Trotskyists who looked to Tạ Thu Thâu. Ninh died in the French penal colony of Pulo Condore at age 42. He is recognised by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as a Revolutionary Martyr.