Category: Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
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Ted Hill, the Khmer Rouge and Australian Maoism, 1977-1980
This piece was originally posted at my Patreon here. For more content, please subscribe. Throughout the nearly four years of its existence, the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia (which called itself Democratic Kampuchea) invited a number of Western sympathisers to observe the regime and (hopefully) provide eyewitness accounts back in the West. Infamously, this ended…
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Sydney, London, Moscow, Beijing: Schisms in the international communist movement, 1947-61
The following forms part of a forthcoming book chapter on the relationship between the Communist Parties in Britain, Australia and South Africa. It builds on previous posts (here and here) and will also be worked into the manuscript that I am currently developing from my postdoctoral research. As per usual, any feedback is most welcome!…
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New post at The Conversation: ‘Student Protests Won’t Be The Last’
The Conversation has just published this piece by myself on yesterday’s demonstrations across Australia against the Liberals’ cuts to higher education and the introduction of higher fees, arguing that the Liberals have been fearful of student radicalism since the late 1960s. Incidentally, I am giving a paper tomorrow at Flinders University on the same topic.…
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Persons of Interest? View the digitised ASIO files from the NAA
The first two episodes of the SBS documentary Persons of Interest have been aired, portraying to a wide audience the level of surveillance undertaken against potential ‘subversive’ people in Australia by ASIO between the late 1940s and late 1970s. The documentary, by Hadyn Keenan, uses a lot of recently opened ASIO files from the National Archives…
New Historical Express 