! Some are calling parallels to the 1968 Tet Offensive in South Vietnam – where Vietcong guerrilla units came out of domestic homes, offices, and deeply-dug tunnels to attack the US Authorities, the US Army, the puppet South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) – and the oppressive Catholic Church! The Vietnamese Buddhist community showed solidarity by advanced monks and nuns burning themselves out of protest against US imperialism! From the North, the North Vietnamese Army (Regulars) attacked over the boundary marked by the 38th Parallel that temporarily separated North Vietnam from South Vietnam. Of course, North Vietnam still possessed extraordinary people such as Ho Chi Minh and General Giap (amongst many other talented individuals) – at a time when the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) was staunchly Marxist-Leninist-Maoist (things would change later – but we mustn’t dwell on that now)! The far-left in the West is in a sorry state today following more than a hundred years of continuous oppression, suppression, and unjustified attack.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 