Ruth McVey's classic history of the Indonesian communist movement from the ISDV and Sarekat Islam split to the failed 1926-27 uprisings, covering the PKI's early leadership (Semaun, Darsono, Tan Malaka, Musso), its Comintern ties and colonial repression; first published by Cornell in 1965, this copy is the 2006 Equinox
Routledge volume (1997) edited by Alexander and Mohanty proposing transnational feminism against the centre-periphery model of global sisterhood, with fourteen chapters on colonial legacies, identities and organising. Theory background; no Indonesian content.
Lisa Lowe's 2015 Duke monograph arguing European liberalism, Atlantic colonialism, slavery and the East Indies and China trades are interconnected yet kept apart by the colonial archive. Postcolonial theory background; no Gerwani content.