Alex de Jong

1 month ago | jacobin.com | Alex de Jong

On May 4, 1945, British field marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, almost exactly five years after Nazi Germany invaded the country. Around a quarter of a million Dutch people died in the war. Its memory became a political and moral touchstone in Dutch society. Few questions were more important than whether someone had been “right” or “wrong” — whether they had resisted the occupation or collaborated with the Nazis.

1 month ago | jacobin.com | Alex de Jong

In Communication against Capital, Rianne Subijanto tells the story of how socialists in 1920s Indonesia mobilized against colonialism. With rallies and journals, strikes and education, their movement introduced new ways of looking at the world and helped to bring the Indonesian nation into being. Communication against Capital focuses on the first half of the 1920s and what Subijanto calls the pergerakan merah, the “red movement” that spread across what was then called the Dutch East Indies.

1 month ago | internationalviewpoint.org | Alex de Jong

The Indonesian army used mass violence to crush the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and effectively destroy the Indonesian left for generations. The destruction of the party and it mass movements allowed the army to push aside president Sukarno and alter the course of the country. It is known that the intelligence agencies of Britain and the United States helped the coup by spreading propaganda.

2 months ago | internationalviewpoint.org | Alex de Jong

Duterte came to power in 2016 after a resounding election victory. He was often mentioned in the same breath as Trump and Brexit as expressions of the right-wing breakthrough that year but, early in his presidency, Duterte formed an awkward alliance with part of the Philippine Left. Much of Duterte’s success was due to specific domestic circumstances. After popular protests overthrew dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, ‘democracy’ was restored in the Philippines.

Jan 8, 2025 | vientosur.info | Alex de Jong

Tempest Liderando una de las insurgencias más grandes del mundo con decenas de miles de miembros, el Partido Comunista Maoísta de Filipinas (CPP) sigue siendo un punto de referencia para varios sectores de la izquierda radical internacional.