Aaron Monopoli visits the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and discovers the story of the Vietnam War 鈥 as told by a people resisting colonialism and imperialist invasion.
Vietnam War
Lifelong activist听Harry van Moorst will be remembered for his generosity in helping working-class communities fight听bureaucrats, politicians听and companies, writes Sue Bolton.
Jim McIlroy argues that the lesson of Saigon in 1975 and Kabul in 2021 is that imperialist invasion and domination lead to disaster.听
Jim McIlroy reviews a new anthology of lively interviews with prominent figures in the Australian radical youth scene of the 1960s.
On May 8, 1970, one of the greatest mass mobilisations in Australia's听history took place 鈥 the first Vietnam Moratorium against the country鈥檚 involvement in the murderous US-led invasion of Indochina. Participant听Jim McIlroy reflects on the political lessons.
At the height of the US invasion of Vietnam,听about听500,000 United States military personnel were involved in the conflict. Of those, more than 50,000 lost their lives 鈥 and the US lost the war.
Greta Thunberg delivers her thoughts on next steps for the School Strike 4 Climate movement with precise accuracy. Her call for a "concrete plan鈥 and 鈥渘ot just nice words鈥 reveals how all climate activism should be rooted in mass action, rather than rhetoric.
August 18 is Vietnam Veterans鈥 Day in Australia. Every year we can rely on right-wing commentators to trot out the now-familiar听stories of Vietnam vets being abused when they returned to Australia.
Friend and comrade John Ellis, who died suddenly on June 15, was a life-long social justice activist and an active unionist.
Doug McEachern鈥檚 novel follows the progress and regress of the two friends living in the 1960s as 鈥渆ndless acrimonious debates over militancy鈥 pepper their student group house in inner-city North Adelaide.
Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese resistance turned the tide against the United States war on their nation.
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One of the most hyped "events" of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of his Vietnam films, "They will inspire our country to begin to talk and think about the Vietnam war in an entirely new way".
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