Aidit's International Women's Day letter urges women cadres to join poor-peasant women
Xinhua report in Renmin Ribao (9 Mar 1964, p. 4) on D.N. Aidit's International Women's Day letter, via the PKI Press Bureau. He urges urban revolutionary women cadres to go to villages and unite with poor-peasant women to enforce the Basic Agrarian and Crop-Sharing Laws, argues that women cannot be emancipated without rural women, and lists solidarity causes (North Kalimantan, Vietnam, Black Americans, Cuba). Key PKI line on women's work; Gerwani not named.
Laporan Xinhua di Renmin Ribao (9 Maret 1964, hlm. 4) tentang surat D.N. Aidit pada Hari Perempuan Internasional, lewat Biro Pers PKI. Ia mengajak kader perempuan revolusioner kota turun ke desa dan bersatu dengan perempuan tani miskin menegakkan UUPA dan UU Bagi Hasil, menegaskan perempuan tak bisa bebas tanpa perempuan desa, dan menyebut solidaritas (Kalimantan Utara, Vietnam, kulit hitam AS, Kuba). Garis PKI soal kerja perempuan; Gerwani tidak disebut.
“Aidit: 'It is impossible for revolutionary women to win emancipation without the participation of rural women ... revolutionary women in the cities should go to the countryside' (p. 4).”
FBIS-monitored Xinhua excerpt (10 Mar 1964) on the four resolutions adopted at the International Women's Day rally in Jakarta addressed by Sukarno: crush 'Malaysia' and aid North Kalimantan; help implement agrarian and crop-sharing laws against food difficulties; resist imperialist cultural infiltration; condemn US agg
shared: South Vietnam, North Kalimantan (North Borneo), international women's day, land reform
Snippet-only Renmin Ribao item (9 Mar 1964, p. 4): per the PKI press bureau, Aidit's International Women's Day letter urges revolutionary women cadres to go to the countryside and unite with poor-peasant women to struggle for the Basic Agrarian Law and Crop-Sharing Law; truncated. Full text is in the next record.
shared: D.N. Aidit, international women's day, land reform, peasant women
Sulami's reflective essay (written 1992, posted 9 Nov 2006) on why revolutionary women founded Gerwis on 4 June 1950, its rejection of 'man-hating feminism', its actions such as Tanjung Morawa and International Women's Day. First-person account by a Gerwani secretary-general.
shared: international women's day, land reform, peasant women
Gerwani national leadership (DPP) brochure of the National Seminar on Peasant Women, Jakarta, 17-20 January 1961 (published 1962). Contains the DPP keynote on peasant-women's emancipation against imperialism and feudal remnants, speeches by BTI, ministers and D.N. Aidit, regional delegates' land-tenure reports, a Mudig
shared: D.N. Aidit, land reform, peasant women
Gerwani DPP brochure of the first National Seminar of Women Peasants (Jakarta, 17–20 January 1961), with the DPP working paper, a BTI paper, speeches by officials and D.N. Aidit, regional delegate reports and resolutions. Centres poor and landless women in Gerwani's class analysis of the village.
shared: D.N. Aidit, land reform, peasant women
Api Kartini (1964) publication of the conclusions of the Gerwani National Seminar on Housewives. Four commissions set out positions on solidarity (Vietnam, China's nuclear test), Dwikora and 'crushing Malaysia', landreform and the UUPA/UUPBH, rat-eradication campaign under Aidit and Asmu, anti-corruption demands, a dem
shared: D.N. Aidit, land reform, peasant women
JPRS translation of a Harian Rakjat piece (4 Jan 1964) by Suwati Trimo (Sutrimo) on Gerwani's plans after the 1961 Fourth Congress, plus the end of another National Front speech and an Aidit message to prison personnel. Reports membership growth (Surabaya 14,434 to 16,231; Jakarta trained 45 cadres), peasant and anti-'
shared: D.N. Aidit, North Kalimantan (North Borneo), peasant women
De Vrije Pers report (19 Nov 1954), citing Pedoman, on the PKI central committee plenum (8-10 Nov) chaired by Aidit and attended by Pemuda Rakyat, SOBSI, Gerwani and Perbepsi representatives. It decided to seek a place in the Ali cabinet, delegating MPs Sakirman and Mrs. Mudigdo, and not to make the agrarian portfolio
shared: D.N. Aidit, land reform