housing shortage in Japan. But, pleading lack of funds, the government cut this goal down to 6,700,000 units. Meanwhile land prices and construction costs are skyrocketing.
"WHO IS ADAM MALIK?"
By Les Evans
The most serious defeat of the world socialist movement in recent years was the crushing of the Indonesian Communist party. The disaster affected not only Indonesia, but the rest of Asia as well. The most pressing need today for Indonesian revolutionists -- and the revolutionary movement as a whole -- is to analyze and understand that defeat so as to bar a repetition when the next opportunity for a socialist victory appears.
The first steps in this direction were undertaken by the surviving leaders of the Indonesian Communist party (PKI) now in exile in China. This was in the form of a message of greetings to the Tenth Congress of the Communist party of Japan and was published in the November issue of the Suara _Pemuda Indonesia, the bulletin of the Indonesian Students Association printed in China. (See World Outlook January 6.)
The current issue of the pro-Maoist Progressive Labor magazine, published in New York, carries an article reprinted from the same source, Suara _Pemuda Indonesia. Unfortunately, the article appears to mark a step backwards rather than an advance in assessing the catastrophe in Indonesia. Under the guise of attacking the present regime, it seeks to divert attention from the real issues facing the PKI.
Entitled: "Who is Adam Malik?" the article is devoted almost entirely to advancing the charge that Adam Malik, chief minister for Political Affairs in the present military government of Indonesia, is an apostle of "Trotskyism." He is described as the "second most important figure in the Presidium" of Nasution's regime.
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