Author
Phan Văn Hùm
Vietnamese Trotskyite, 1902–1945
Their life
Phan Văn Hùm was born on 9 April 1902, and the reference does not give his birthplace. He was a Vietnamese journalist, philosopher, and revolutionary active in French colonial Cochinchina. In 1930, while a student in Paris, he joined the Trotskyist Communist League, influenced by Tạ Thu Thâu's opposition to the Comintern's united front policies. He thereby sided with the left opposition against the Communist Party led by Nguyen Ai Quoc, better known as Ho Chi Minh.
Hùm first drew public attention in 1929, when an account of his imprisonment, along with Nguyen An Ninh, for agrarian agitation circulated among patriotic youth. He later worked with the Communists on the Saigon paper La Lutte, but the partnership was uneasy. In the 1939 elections to the Cochinchina Colonial Council, he and Thâu defeated the Communists on a platform opposing defense collaboration with the French.
After the Japanese occupiers surrendered in August 1945, Hùm took part in the independent Trotskyist resistance to a French return to power. He was captured by the Communist Viet Minh and executed in early 1946, which the reference gives as his year of death.
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