Tag: Vietnam war
A reminder of what is possible in community empowerment – ‘survival pending revolution’
This book launch speech was delivered today for Ponsonby People’s Union: At the Frontline of Community Activism in the 1970s, by Roger Fowler, whānau...
From Resistance to the Ponsonby People’s Union, a courageous tale of struggle for justice
REVIEW: By David Robie
The seeds of resistance and later community empowerment began in Tāmaki Makaurau in a humble but lively bookshop in a rundown...
50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to Trump
Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series.
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...
The fall of Saigon 1975 – The Quiet Mutiny and US army falls apart
Part Two of the three-part Solidarity’s Vietnam War series: The folly of imperial war
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Vietnam is a lesson we should have...
The fall of Saigon 1975: Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten
Part one of a three-part Solidarity series: On the courage to remember
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
The first demonstration I ever went on was at the...
Ben Bohane: Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door
ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane
This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates...