Flags of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the DPRK along a higway in Vietnam in 2019 -- image via X Various Sources The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is constructing a memorial and refurbishing a cemetery to honour soldiers from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) who died supporting North Vietnam in the 1960s during the Vietnam War, offering a public recognition of Pyongyang's role in the liberation struggle. During the war, the DPRK secretly sent an estima

By Randolph Oechslein, People's World The final sequences of Kenneth Bowser’s moving 2011 documentary Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune are painful. Family members, artists who were friends of Ochs’, such as Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, and others, speak about the last phase of his life. He was only 35-years-old. It was a suicide with some warning. Beforehand, he revealed to the writer Bruce Pollock why it had become increasingly difficult for him to write songs. The reasons were h