communism



STORY OF THE DAY • Apr 21, 2022 • 8 min read

History Revisiting a chemical crime against humanity

By Stein Tønnesson • Apr 21, 2022
Accusations of outlawed weapons in Russia’s attack on Ukraine recall a historical dispute over deadly defoliants used in the Vietnam War

STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 26, 2021 • 3 min read

Governance Secretive Vietnam congress to begin under cloud of ‘repression’

By Agence France-Presse • Jan 26, 2021
The Vietnamese Communist Party is poised to select its future leaders, who will have to contend with an increasingly assertive China and ramped-up trade tensions with the US, as the country's secretive, twice-a-decade political transition begins on January 26

STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 19, 2020 • 8 min read

History The Jakarta Method: How US-backed communist purges shaped our world

By Shanti du Rocher • Oct 19, 2020
Recently released book The Jakarta Method documents the deadly game of trial and error practiced by the CIA in 1960s Indonesia, as the Southeast Asian nation's US-backed mass killings would become the model for anti-communist purges around the globe

Oct 01, 2019 • 6 min read
Opinion

Red flags

Seven decades on from the founding of the People's Republic of China, the inequalities that laid the foundation for years of socialist struggle across Southeast Asia remain rife across the region
By Paul Millar • Oct 01, 2019

Nov 11, 2018 • 13 min read
World War I

The Great War’s impact on Southeast Asia

World War I introduced nations around the world to deadlier weapons, bloody battles and each other. Though Southeast Asia was left relatively unscathed by the war, the reverberations of the conflict were felt in the region for decades
By David Hutt • Nov 11, 2018

Jan 07, 2015 • 7 min read
Vietnam

Custody battle

Within the police force, communist ideals trump education and inflicting pain is the preferred interrogation technique, adding up to a deadly environment inside the nation’s prisons
By Laila Drake • Jan 07, 2015

Aug 19, 2013 • 5 min read
Propaganda

Massacring the truth

A visit to Jakarta’s Museum of Communist Treachery, one of many institutions that present government propaganda at its finest
By Philip Jacobson • Aug 19, 2013

Jan 01, 2007 • 17 min read
Fall of the Berlin Wall

The People’s PLC

From our print archive: 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the death rattle of communism in Europe, we take a look back at China's socialism with capitalist characteristics – and how it has influenced governments across Southeast Asia
By Paul Brisby • Jan 01, 2007