A fuller title precedes the play text: Discourse on the progress of the prolonged war of liberation in Vietnam and the events leading up to it as illustration of the necessity for armed resistance against oppression and on the attempts of the United States of America to destroy the foundation of revolution (Discourse on Vietnam).Traces the history of Indo-China from pre-Christian times to the 1960s. Presents the historical causes of the Vietnam War in their political, social, economic and human implications, from a Marxist perspective.