*** 1968 ***
TET: TURNING POINT OF THE VIETNAM WAR

7pm, Thursday, January 24
In These Times, 2040 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Guest Speaker: Joe Allen, frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, counterpunch.org and author of the forthcoming book, **Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost** (2008, Haymarket Books)

In the early hours of January 30, 1968, on the first day of Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF) launched a massive attack and breached the American embassy in Saigon.

While the U.S. eventually beat back the Tet Offensive, supporters of the U.S. war in Vietnam never recovered from it politically.

President Lyndon Johnson would soon announce that he would not run for re-election, and the country soon turned decisively against the war while thousands of antiwar activists turned toward revolutionary politics over the course of 1968.

Nevertheless, the war continued for another seven years, until the resistance in Vietnam, a soldiers’ rebellion in the U.S. armed forces and mass protests at home finally brought it to an end.

Attend this forum to discuss what the history of the Vietnam War and the 1968 Tet Offensive can teach us about the struggle against today’s wars and occupations.

Sponsored by the Logan Square International Socialist Organization. The ISO publishes Socialist Worker: www.socialistworker.org

For more information contact 773-370-4575 or e-mail chicago_socialists (at) yahoo.com