Editing Trotskyism (section)

==== Vietnam ====
In French Indochina during the 1930s, [[Vietnamese Trotskyism]], led by [[Tạ Thu Thâu]], was a significant current, particularly in Saigon, Cochinchina.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Richardson |editor-first=A. |title=The Revolution Defamed: A documentary history of Vietnamese Trotskyism |publisher=Socialist Platform Ltd |date=2003}}</ref> In 1929, in the French Left Opposition {{lang|fr|La Vérité}}, Ta Thu Thau condemned the Comintern for leading Chinese Communists (in 1927) to "the graveyard" through its support for the [[Kuomintang]]. The {{"'}}[[Sun Yat-sen]]-ist' synthesis of democracy, nationalism and socialism" was "a kind of nationalist mysticism". In Indochina, it could only obscure "the concrete class relationships, and the real, organic liaison between the indigenous bourgeoisie and French imperialism," in the light of which the call for independence is "mechanical and formalistic". "A revolution based on the organisation of the proletarian and peasant masses is the only one capable of liberating the colonies ... The question of independence must be bound up with that of the proletarian socialist revolution."<ref>{{cite web |last=Ngo |first=Van Xuyet |title=Ta Thu Thau: Vietnamese Trotskyist Leader |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol3/no2/thau.html |website=[[Marxists Internet Archive]] |access-date=14 September 2019}}</ref>

For a period in the 1930s, Ta Thu Thau's Struggle group, centred around the newspaper [[La Lutte (newspaper)|La Lutte]], was sufficiently strong to induce "Stalinists" (members of the then [[Indochinese Communist Party]]) to collaborate with the Trotskyists in support of labour and peasant struggles, and in the presentation of a common Workers Slate for Saigon municipal, and Cochinchina Council, elections. Ta Thu Thau was captured and executed by the Communist-front ''Viet Minh'' in September 1945. Many, if not most, of his fellow ''luttuers'' were subsequently killed, caught between the Viet Minh and the French effort at colonial reconquest.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ngô |first=Văn |title=In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary |publisher=[[AK Press]] |location=Oakland, California |date=2010}}</ref>