Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), the founder of the Vietminh and President of
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, was the archetypical Communist and
anti-colonial revolutionary of the twentieth century. He played a key
role in the formation of the French, Chinese, and Vietnamese Communist
movements and fought successfully against Japanese, French and American
imperialism, becoming a hate-figure of the American state during the
Vietnam War. Anti-globalization activist Walden Bello shows why Ho Chi
Minh should still be read by anti-colonialists the world over.