Vietnam Diary / Russell Trial Against US War Crimes in Vietnam

He was a member of the "International War Crimes Tribunal", which was established at the initiative of philosopher Bertrand Russell to investigate the war crimes committed by the USA in Vietnam.

The diary kept by Aybar, who spent about a month in Vietnam with an investigation commission of the Court, also known as the "Russell Court", is being published for the first time.

"Vietnam Diary", which includes Russell's speech at the first meeting where the Court's program was prepared and Jean-Paul Sartre's verdict after the Stockholm meeting, not only reveals the war waged ruthlessly by a "superpower" in all its dimensions, Aybar's It also offers pieces from his understanding of socialism. Mehmet Ali Aybar, one of the names that left his mark on a period with his identities as a lawyer, academician, journalist and politician, was a "different kind of" socialist: With the concepts of "friendly socialism", "socialism specific to Turkey" and "libertarian socialism" that he used; with no hesitation in expressing the distortions he sees not only in the system but also in the practices and theories of socialism; Being perhaps the first politician to address the Kurdish issue in the country; With his defense of the "horizontal organization" model... Aybar, who had international prestige, intellectual equipment, culture and knowledge to become a member of the International Russell Tribunal, which was established to judge the USA's war crimes in Vietnam, did not give up the struggle for socialism until the end of his life. There was a fact that Aybar, the leader of the Workers' Party of Turkey, who entered the Parliament with 15 deputies, underlined under all circumstances: "Socialism is for people; people are not for socialism..."



Number of Pages: 267

Year of Printing: 2012


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 267

First Printing Year: 2012

Language Turkish