by Dan La Botz
South End Press
2001
SKU: 9780896086429
In one of the opening acts of today's global justice movement, a dynamic new labor movement emerged in Indonesia in the 1990s, helping to bring down the brutal Suharto dictatorship in 1998. Through rare personal interviews with the activists who are leading the rebirth of struggle for democratic rights in the world's fourth-largest country, Dan La Botz draws valuable lessons for workers in the United States seeking to build international labor solidarity.
La Botz brings us inside organizations such as the People's Democratic Party, the new unions battling sweatshops and multinationals like Nike, NGOs, and student groups attempting to forge links with the working class. These forces, he argues, offer the best hope for a truly democratic future for Indonesia.