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Op-eds

The following remarks were delivered by Bhuchung K. Tsering, VOC’s 2023 Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom recipient. Under the leadership of His Holiness the Dalai Lama (and his North America Representative Dr. Namgyal Choedup is here among us today) all Tibetans… Read More

Ken Pope, VOC’s CEO, and Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, representing Florida’s 27th District, argue that Congress should act on the growing communist threat in America’s backyard. Read their joint op-ed published by Fox News below: “The Cuban regime has allegedly… Read More

For the free world, 1989 is remembered as the Year of Miracles as the Berlin Wall fell and the facade of the Soviet Union began to crumble. But in China, 1989 went in a tragically different direction.

Captain Witold Pilecki was an intelligence officer, a cavalry officer, a gentleman, farmer, a community activist, a talented artist, a loving husband, and a doting father. Oxford’s M. R. D. Foot, a British historian and military intelligence officer, called him… Read More

In a new Foreign Policy op-ed, VOC’s Dr. Adrian Zenz argues that China’s use of coercive labor is getting less visible, but more intense. As Dr. Zenz writes, “Beijing has repeatedly claimed that there is ‘no forced labor’ in Xinjiang…. Read More

Read the latest from VOC’s Chairman Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, and VOC’s CEO Ken Pope in Fox News on why are our children not being taught the truth about the deadliest ideology the world has ever known.

This year, 2023, the Communist Manifesto turns 175. It was hatched in February 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Why then, and what did it say? What has been its impact? What is its relevance today?

Jianli Yang, a VOC Truman-Reagan Freedom Medal laureate,  is a Tiananmen Square protester,  former political prisoner of China, the founder and president of Citizen Power Initiatives for China, and the author of “For Us, the Living: A Journey to Shine… Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin first took power in 2000. He succeeded Boris Yeltsin in Russia’s first peaceful transition of power from one democratically elected leader to the next — ever. It was a historic moment for Russia. Putin, however, had… Read More

He was unable to preserve the Soviet ideological structure, but it wasn’t from lack of trying. Mikhail Gorbachev’s goal, according to his associates, was “socialism with a human face.” The belief that communism was reformable was what led him to… Read More