July 1, 2024
Iqra Angurah elucidates the strategic role in the Indo-Pacific in the context of the New Cold War and, in particular, the country’s close ties to the forces of multinational capital and Western imperialism. The alignment of the Global North and local elites underscores the need for a popular, socialist, and anti-imperialist movement among the Indonesian working class.
December 1, 2022
Arianto Sangadji is a researcher at Celebes Institute in Palu and a research advisor at Aksi Ekologi dan Emansipasi Rakyat in Jakarta, Indonesia. Historically, considerable amounts of mineral deposits have… READ MORE
June 1, 2022
Sarah Raymundo is assistant professor at the Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines. She is the international liaison officer of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (New Patriotic Alliance) and chairperson… READ MORE
December 1, 2019
Justin Theodra is a master’s student at SOAS University of London. Geoffrey B. Robinson, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), 456… READ MORE
December 1, 2015
In this issue we feature two articles on the 1965–1966 mass killings and imprisonments in Indonesia. The army-led bloodbath was aimed at the near-total extermination of members of the Indonesian… READ MORE
December 1, 2015
Intan Suwandi is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Oregon. Introduction: The September 30th Movement, 1965 In the early morning of October 1, 1965, self-proclaimed left-wing troops… READ MORE
December 1, 2015
This article was adapted from Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960–1968 by Bradley Simpson. © 2008 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University…. READ MORE
October 1, 2015
Fifty years ago this month, beginning in early October 1965 and extending for months afterwards, the United States helped engineer a violent end to the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)…. READ MORE
November 1, 2013
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of The Great Financial Crisis (2009) and What… READ MORE
March 1, 2002
In January, with no public discussion and little fanfare, Washington began the first major extension of its “war on terrorism” beyond Afghanistan by sending U.S. troops into the Philippines. The… READ MORE
