Mark Aarons (born 25 December 1951) is an Australian journalist and author. He was a political adviser to New South Wales Premier

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Biography

Aarons was born in

Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle, also commonly referred to as Greater Newcastle ( ; ), is a large Metropolitan area, metropolitan area and the second-most-populous such area of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the cities of City of Newcastle, Newcastle and Ci ...

, but he was brought up in Sydney. He was educated at Fairfield Boys High School and

North Sydney Boys High School North Sydney Boys High School (abbreviated as NSBHS) is a Education in Australia#Government schools, government-funded, Single-sex school, single-sex, Selective school (New South Wales), academically selective secondary day school for boys, loc ...

. He is the son of the late Laurie Aarons, former secretary of the

Communist Party of Australia The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), known as the Australian Communist Party (ACP) from 1944 to 1951, was an Australian communist party founded in 1920. The party existed until roughly 1991, with its membership and influence having been ...

. Aarons was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1969 to 1978, and a Young Communist organiser in 1977. Aarons' activism started at North Sydney Boys High School in the mid-1960s, especially in organising students to protest the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...

. His 1986 ABC radio documentary series ''Nazis in Australia'' prompted the

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government's inquiry into war criminals and formation of Special Investigations Unit.Excerpt from page 104 of A History of the Democratic Socialist Party and the Resistance, Volume I by John Percy: “........... Alan Tomlinson, one of the more conservative students in HSSAWV, who went to the same school as Mark Aarons, North Sydney Boys High, and .......” (This is accessible on internet) Aarons contends that

right-wing Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property ...

authoritarian Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political ''status quo'', and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and ...

regimes and

dictatorship A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no Limited government, limitations. Politics in a dictatorship are controlled by a dictator, ...

s backed by Western powers committed atrocities and mass killings that rival the

Communist world Communist world may refer to: * Communist Bloc, the Cold War grouping of socialist states aligned with the Soviet Union * Second World, the western political concept from the Cold War for socialist states in the world * World communism World ...

, citing examples such as the

Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66 Large-scale killings and civil unrest primarily targeting members and supposed sympathizers of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) were carried out in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966. Other affected groups included alleged communist sympathise ...

and the killings associated with

Operation Condor Operation Condor (; ) was a campaign of political repression by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America, involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers in South America which fo ...

throughout South America.Aarons, Mark (2007)
"Justice Betrayed: Post-1945 Responses to Genocide"
In Blumenthal, David A.; McCormack, Timothy L. H. (eds)
''The Legacy of Nuremberg: Civilising Influence or Institutionalised Vengeance? (International Humanitarian Law)''

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Bibliography

* * * ''East Timor: A Western Made Tragedy,'' Sydney: Left Book Club, 1992. * ''The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People'', with John Loftus, St. Martin's Press, 1994, * ''War Criminals Welcome: Australia, a Sanctuary for War Criminals Since 1945'', Melbourne: Black Inc., 2001 * * ''The Family File'', Melbourne: Black Inc., 2010. * * * ''The Show: Another Side of Santamaria's Movement'' (co-authored with John Grenville), Melbourne: Scribe Publications, 2017.

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Dynasties
a program on Aarons and his family's history broadcast in January 2006 1951 births Australian people of German-Jewish descent Jewish Australian writers Jewish Australian journalists Journalists from New South Wales Living people People educated at North Sydney Boys High School Writers from Newcastle, New South Wales Communist Party of Australia members {{Australia-writer-stub