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Never knew the massacre of the Indonesian Communist Party was to a great degree precipitated by their peasant mobilisation for land reform. Time and time again the agrarian question turns out to be the leitmotif in communist ascendancy, not labour struggles.

During these years there was in Papua New Guinea a great deal of interest in Tanzanian precedents. These reached their peak in March 1978 when, in direct replication of Nyerere's Arusha Declaration, the Papua New Guinea government at Somare's insistence proposed to put into operation a 'Leadership Code' that would require national leaders to give up their business interests.

These traumatic years were eventually brought to an end by the mid 1980s when Yoweri Museveni, brilliantly following Mao's advice for the mobilising of a peasant army with the support rather than at the expense of the peasantry, successfully dragged Uganda from the abyss. ... the mid-century upshot of a well entrenched, relatively well-to-do rich peasant regime in Uganda remained very much alive and well.