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==Revival==
With the conciliation of the charismatic and independent revolutionary figure of [[Nguyen An Ninh]], the collaboration was revived in October 1934. The editorial line agreed between the Party group and the Trotskyists entente was
The [[united front]] formed around ''La Lutte'' ran various campaigns and participated in elections. In the March 1935 [[French Cochinchina|Cochinchina]] assembly election, albeit with restricted suffrage and government interference, leftist candidates obtained 17% of the votes. There was a joint ''La Lutte'' candidate slate for the May 1935 municipal election, and Tran Van Thach, Nguyen Van Tao, Ta Thu Thau and Duong Bach Mai were elected. The election of the latter three was, however, invalidated.<ref name="al"/> Moreover, the election was preceded by a controversy within the ''La Lutte'' alliance regarding the candidature of Duong Bach Mai, a Communist Party leader. He was labelled 'reformist' by Trotskyists, but defended by Ta Thu Thau.<ref name="tr9">Trager, Frank N (ed.). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=9DusAAAAIAAJ Marxism in Southeast Asia; A Study of Four Countries]''. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1959. p. 139</ref> In late 1936 and 1937 the grouping organized various strikes.<ref name="al"/>
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With the outbreak of World War II in September 1939 Communists of every stripe were repressed. The French law of September 26, 1939, which legally dissolved the French Communist Party, was applied in Indochina to Stalinists and Trotskyists alike. The Indochinese Communist Party and the Trotskyist groups were driven completely underground.
In the general uprising in Saigon against the restoration of the French in September 1945, ''lutteurs'' formed a workers militia. The Trotskyist Ngô Văn records two hundred of these being "massacred" by the French, October 3, at the Thi Nghe bridge. Caught between the French and the Communist [[Viet Minh]], there would be few survivors. Tạ Thu Thâu had been captured and executed by the Viet Minh some weeks before.<ref>Ngô Văn, ''In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary''. AK Press, Oakland CA, 2010, p. 131, p. 162</ref>
==References==
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