A victory for all humanity! Vietnam 1965-75 Seminar – Poster exhibition – Film festival

A victory for all humanity!
Vietnam 1965-75
Seminar – Poster exhibition – Film festival

Sydney Sat September 25, 1pm
@ the Direct Action Centre, suite 72/65 Myrtle St, Chippendale.

2010 is an important anniversary year for many events in Vietnam's history:
• the 35th anniversary of Vietnam’s final liberation and reunification;
• the 65th anniversary of Vietnamese independence;
• the 80th anniversary of the Indochinese Communist Party.
• the 45th anniversary of the first demonstrations against the war, and
• the 40th anniversary of the big Moratorium demonstrations.
Panel discussions on:
1. Vietnam's long struggle for liberation;
2. The Australian campaign against the war in
Vietnam;
3. Vietnam Today – Reconstruction and Solidarity.
Speakers: Vietnamese representatives; Sylvia Hale, Greens MP in the NSW
Upper House; Warren Smith, Assistant national secretary MUA, CPA (tbc); Jack
Mundey, former BLF leader, Green Bans activist (tbc); John Percy, RSP national
secretary; Hamish Chitts, RSP, Standfast; Doug Lorimer, RSP, editor Direct
Action; Bob Gould, Founder of Vietnam Action Campaign; Harry Black, CPA,
former wharfie involved in stopping the Jeparit.
The poster exhibition includes 80 posters from the antiwar campaign, mostly
Sydney demo posters, and about 40 reprints of Vietnamese posters, as well as badges,
pamphlets, books and magazines.
In the evening of the seminar there’ll be dinner, followed by a film night, showing
“In the Year of the Pig,” the antiwar film by Emile Di Antonio which we screened
extensively in Australia in 1970 and 1971, and the 1978 documentary by John Pilger,
“Do You Remember Vietnam”. 

Organised by the Revolutionary Socialist Party & Direct Action.

More info: 9114 5882, 0419 989 720 (John). Cost: $10, $6 for seminar, meal, films.