Christopher John

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the PKI didn’t think it had to take orders from anybody.7 It was now the third-largest communist party in the world, the largest outside China and the Soviet Union, and its strategy of nonviolent, direct engagement with the masses had led to impressive results. The PKI now had three million card-carrying members. The organizations affiliated with the party—including SOBSI (the Central All-Indonesian Workers Association), LEKRA (the People’s Cultural Institution), BTI (Farmers Alliance), Pemuda Rakyat (People’s Youth), and Gerwani (Women’s Movement)—had at least twenty million members. This ...more
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
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