This critique, of Aftermath by Michael McColgan and Martin Jordan, dissects John Pilger and Anthony Barnett’s pro-Vietnamese propaganda, exposing its distortions of Kampuchea’s struggle. The authors challenge Pilger’s portrayal of Vietnam’s 1979 invasion as a 'liberation,' highlighting his dismissal of Kampuchean self-determination in favor of Hanoi’s colonial ambitions. They reveal how Aftermath ignores Vietnam’s military occupation of Kampuchea, its suppression of nationalist forces, and its failure to justify its own economic crisis and internal purges. This analysis dismantles Western leftist narratives that whitewash Vietnamese expansionism, reaffirming the right of the Kampuchean people to resist foreign domination and chart their own revolutionary path.