René Mederos’s portrait of the Vietnamese leader calls us to that moment when the politician sat by a riverbank, theorizing and analyzing a world he wanted to change.

Tings Chak
Tings Chak 翟庭君 is a Beijing-based writer and artist, art director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and author of Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention. Her work focuses on the art and culture of national liberation and socialist struggles, and the horizons that this history gives to today’s popular movements. Twitter: @t_ings