The Land that Was Burning Reconstructs -- Canadian Aid For Vietnam Civilians, 1976

Vintage Leftist Leaflet Project

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Leaflet: The Land that Was Burning Reconstructs -- Canadian Aid For Vietnam Civilians, 1976

A very interesting leaflet that was released by the Canadian Aid For Vietnam Civilians (CAVC) in 1976. The CAVC was an organization that worked to raise funds and send supplies to the newly liberated, revolutionary South Vietnamese. Any supplies were shipped from Canada via Soviet freighters free of charge.

Here are short interviews with four veterans and survivors of the revolutionary struggle against the French and American imperialists. They include a battlefront surgeon, a youth worker, a trade union official and a revolutionary fighter who was tortured in what were known as the "tiger cages". 

They were interviewed while receiving free treatments and recovering at the Sochi sanatorium of the Metallurgical Workers Trade Union in the USSR.  

They talk about their experiences during the war, the hardships, and their dreams for the future of their country. 

(Click on scans to enlarge)

When The Left Chapter began part of what I wanted to do on the blog was to show and highlight vintage public leftist election/political leaflets and booklets. While many of these have been offered with commentary to date, a very large collection of hundreds of them from several different sources remains and to preserve these often quite rare documents we will be posting them on a regular (almost daily) basis now often without or with minimal commentary so that people may have access to them as quickly as possible as an historical resource.

While these will all be leaflets from a variety of different leftist viewpoints and countries, they are being posted as an historical/study resource and the views or opinions expressed in them do not necessarily reflect the views of this blog or blogger.

All of these posts (as well as posts made to date) will be listed on the page: Vintage Communist/Socialist Leaflets (which is still being updated with past posts).


If you have any public, vintage leaflets or booklets you would like to contribute to this project please contact us via theleftchapter@outlook.com