Peter Boyle’s curious intervention on Marxmail

Bob Gould

Over the past week or so Max Lane has put on his own longstanding blog at Sydney University, and more recently on Marxmail, one of his periodic accounts of developments on the left in Indonesia.

Suharto, a media survey

There’s a bit of a summary of media responses to Suharto’s death at Against the Flow, with some good links. Well worth a look.

 

Indonesia 1965

A power move with far-reaching implications

Clinton Fernandes

On September 1, 1965, the US State Department prepared a Special National Intelligence Estimate for Indonesia. Written by the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organisations of the Departments of State and Defence and the National Security Agency, it assessed the prospects for, and strategic implications of, a communist takeover in Indonesia.