The following extracts have been translated by Ted Crawford from Daniel Hemery's book, Revolutionnaires Vietnamiens et pouvoir colonial en Indochine, which is published by F Maspero (1 Place Paul Painlevé, Paris 5) in 1975. We are greatly indebted to both author and publisher for permission to reproduce them in English garb here.

Daniel Hemery is a member of the Ligue Communiste Internationalists, the French section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. The research on which his book is based formed part of the doctorate he submitted to the University of Paris in 1973. He lectures at the Universite Jussieur, and has also written an account of the thought of Ta Thu Thau before he became a Trotskyist, 'Ta Thu Thau: I'itineraire politique d'un revolutionnaire vietnamien' in Pierre Brocheux (ed), Histoire de l'Asie du sud-est, Lille, pp 193-222. The snippets that we produce here reflect only a fragment of the massive research of Comrade Hemery's 526 page book, and hopefully will tempt confident French readers to study the rest.

As is our custom, the notes have been renumbered, though it should be possible to find them very easily in the original from the page references which we give. Unless otherwise stated, the notes are the author's own, but we have cut out or reduced some notes that do not deal with the Trotskyist theme that is our concern here.

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