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. After the military coup of 1965, the…