8. The crisis in Asia – Alex de Jong

• "Capital Is a Fickle Lover" (excerpts) Walden Bello, June 22, 2011

• Mindanao (Philippines): “The democratic content in self-determination struggles must be safeguarded” Anzelmo Guerrero, B. Skanthakumar

• The politics of the poor – socialism in Indonesia, Alex De Jong, Paulus Suryanta Ginting

• "Philippines socialists’ long march" Daniel Princen

• Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto (South End Press, 2001) (excerpts from final two chapters) by Dan La Botz

Other suggested reading materials...

Asia:

• Rebecca E. Karl, Mao Zedong and China in the twentieth century. A concise history (Durham and London 2010)
• Jonathan Neale, A people's history of the Vietnam war (New York 2003)
• Tariq Ali, The duel. Pakistan on the flightpath of American power (New York 2008)
• Max Lane, Unfinished nation. Indonesia before and after Suharto (London 2008)
• Kathleen Weekley, The Communist Party of the Philippines 1968-1993. A story of its theory and practice (Quezon City 2001)

On marxism and 'development':

• Teodor Shanin, Late Marx and the Russian road. Marx and the 'peripheries of capitalism' (New York 1983)
• Kevin B. Anderson, Marx at the margins. On nationalism, etnicity and non-western societies (Chicago 2010)

And of course, the ESSF website: http://www.europe-solidaire.org/