Thirty years later, the legacy of the Tiananmen protests is more complex than ever

Chairman Mao lives on in my parents’ strange fondness for communism

While the history of Chinese communism is complex, a little polishing makes the parallels with contemporary Australian political life shine through. A few years ago, I was walking down Eastern Avenue with a senior journalist from a major Chinese news organisation when we were approached by a couple of Socialist Alternative (SA) leafleteers. The SA…