CENTRAL NEWS – Under the leadership of the great revolutionary Ho Chi Min and the great commander Giap there was a revolution happening in Vietnam. For the first time in the modern age the imperialist force of the US was defeated and till today they still struggle with this big loss. Even though so many people were burned alive and the people really hat a very difficult time they didn’t gave up on the revolution and finally in 1974 the were successfully.
The first uprising takes place in 1931 in Vietnam but unfortunately they get defeated. At this time Ho Chi Min is secretary of the Vietnamese Workers Party and is very effected by the revolution that is developing in China. At this point neither in China nor in Vietnam capitalism is very developed. Most of the people pass their life in villages. Some cities existed and in the cities the state was strong but in the villages the state was not too present. With this situation it is very similar to the one of Kurdistan before the revolution of PKK. The revolutionaries under the leadership of Mao Zedung want to be successful with the strategy of the “long lasting peoples war”. They say that they will organise themselves first in the villages and on the land because the state is not very strong there and on the other hand the people in the villages feel a lot more the necessity of the revolution. The farmers work from morning till evening and still have difficulties to make a living. Based on all this they slowely start to build up the guerrilla. In the second phase they wanted to make the guerrilla grow and get all the villages, lands and the mountains under their control. This will basically mean that the state has just power and control in the cities. This can be named as the level of balance. In the third or last phase the guerrilla goes into the cities and with the support of the people expel the state form there. According to this plan the revolutionary forces in China and Vietnam wanted to be successful.
The Development of the Vietnamese Revolution
To prepare the revolution on Vietnam the leader of the Vietnamese people Ho Chi Min called up on Giap who at this time was a teacher. Hi sends him together with some comrades to China to get some military education. They return with 34 people and some weapons to Vietnam. At this point Vietnam is colonised by France. But during the second world war (1939 – 1945) Japan, because they are in an alliance with Hitler invades in Vietnam. At that time Hitler defeats the French Army and they can’t control Vietnam anymore. Ho Chi Min sees the time to rise up and on the 15. August of 1945 they rise up against the Japanese forces. Japan at that time was retreating anyway because Hitler lost the war and they could keep up the fight alone. That way the revolution in Vietnam was successful. Ho Chi Min and his friends liberated their land and started to build up their government and their guerrilla forces are transformed into a normal army. But France doesn’t accept the Vietnamese independence. After Hitler was defeated and France liberated again from fascism the new government of France decides to colonise again the countries they had under their control before. That’s why they send their soldiers again to Vietnam. Ho Chi Min sees that with their army they can’t deal with the French technique and their modern army that’s why they decide to again dismantle their army and become a guerrilla again. Ho Chi Min together with all his comrades and all the ministers they take up arms and start a guerrilla war. For nine long years a intensive war between the French army and the revolutionary forces of Vietnam is going on and with the victory of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 the revolutionary forces of Vietkong win.
The attack from capitalist modernity against the Revolution
Just three years later close to the US on Cuba under the leadership of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro a revolution takes place and America and the imperialist forces a very scared. But not just in Vietnam and Cuba socialist revolutions win and every day more and more the idea of freedom and equality gets spread within the oppressed people. After the second world war America finally decided to take the leading role of imperialism also because it compared to the centre of Europe where the war was heavy didn’t saw much damage. Germany, France and Britain’s industry and their whole economic system was completely destroyed. America which didn’t accepted the victory of Vietnam and the other peoples started an offensive. In a lot of countries they they developed military coups, killings and undercover forces but for Vietnam they decided to send their own soldiers. They send not less then 600 000 soldiers to destroy the revolution. Because all the Vietnamese revolutionaries went to the north of Vietnam America settle down in the south. There in the south of Vietnam they start to build up an army of tractors to fight against their own people against their own brothers and sisters. Also this army is about the size of 600 000. Against betrayal and collaboration north Vietnam starts an offensive and from 1961 on they punish agents and tractors in south Vietnam. At the same time with small groups of 10 people they make armed propaganda. Against the American army they dig hundreds of kilometres of tunnels and make a lot of traps (booby traps) for them. Because they despite all their technique and soldiers can’t get hold of the guerrilla they start with a massacre. With help of planes they drop their Napalm bombs and hundred of thousands of people burn alive. It doesn’t matter if woman, child, civil or guerrilla. All the imperialist countries stay silent but the youth of the world with a big anger and rage rise up and under the influence of this massacre we can see the first revolution of the youth.
In Kurdistan the Revolutionary People’s War take its lessons from the Vietnamese revolution
As we can see there are a lot of similarities between the revolutions in Vietnam and the on in Kurdistan that under the leadership of Rêber APO started. Not just that in both struggles the Workers Party is the leading force of the revolution but also that the date of the 15. August in both revolutions sets the date for the uprising. But nevertheless there are some important differences between this revolutions too. We have to understand that the situation in Kurdistan doesn’t resemble any other situation in the world because Kurdistan on the one hand is the centre of the neolithic revolution that place a key role for the development of human beings and on the other hand also the centre of the third world war. That’s why all the imperialist forces fight on the ground in Kurdistan and also for control on Kurdistan. And because our situation here in Kurdistan is that way Rêber APO with the strategy of the “Revolutionary People’s War” shows us the way to victory. Rêber APO said because of the circumstances in Kurdistan it’s not enough if just the guerrilla fights but the guerrilla and the people have to become one and that way we will be victorious. There is no other way for Kurdistan.
That way the self-defense forces or civil protection forces play a key role. At the same time it is from immense importance that especially the youth and woman learn to use weapons and tactics of war. In Kurdistan everyone has to know how to use a weapon. The Turkish fascist state and every of their soldier has to be scared with every step they make in Kurdistan like in Nisebine when their psychology got affected with the Nisebine syndrome or like the American soldiers in Vietnam with their psychology that was so bad that a lot of them when they returned back home they made an end to their life. Every Turkish soldier, every gang member has to be in fear every second that behind every door, behind every window is a Kurd waiting for them with a weapon. They have to fear every Kurd. That’s the way towards victory. That way its not possible that the fascist Turkish state is able to stay in Kurdistan. If a small group of young people with some weapons and a bit of ammunition can resist against the second biggest NATO army for more then three month think about how it will be if all people take up arms? Victory is guaranteed. Freedom is guaranteed. That’s why all of us young man and woman have to understand this strategy the right way. We have to know history very well so that we can play our vanguard role successfully. The people and Rêber APO expect this form us. There is not one single reason why our mood should be bad or why we shouldn’t work. For sure the occupation of Efrîn, Serê Kaniyê and Girê Spî is a very big pain and something we will never forget but the blood of all this fallen heroes should give us strength and should make us work even more. Revolution is a long work. As we can learn from Vietnam just because the enemy occupied a region it doesn’t mean that we lost everything. The end is what madders and we know with all our believe that as the great commander and symbol of the youth Şehîd Çiyager Hevî said it: “What ever happens, the end will be spectacular.” That’s the only right approach and that way we should play our role to liberate Rêber APO and Kurdistan.
