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Analysis of Responsibility: Sudisman's Defence Speech before the Mahmillub, 1967

Analysis of Responsibility: Sudisman's Defence Speech before the Mahmillub, 1967 (Pamphlet, 1975)

English pamphlet (Melbourne, 1975, trans. Benedict Anderson) of PKI General Secretary Sudisman's final Mahmillub speech of 21 July 1967, 'Analysis of Responsibility'. A leader's self-critical account of the PKI and the 30 September Movement.

Pamflet bahasa Inggris (Melbourne, 1975, terj. Benedict Anderson) pidato akhir Sekjen PKI Sudisman di Mahmillub, 21 Juli 1967, 'Analysis of Responsibility'. Penjelasan otokritik pimpinan tentang PKI dan G30S.

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Date: 1967
Creator: Sudisman
Document type: trial record (trial defence speech (pledoi) before the Extraordinary Military Tribunal (Mahmilub), in English translation, published as a pamphlet with an unsigned introduction, biographical note, translator's footnotes and glossary)
Language: English; Indonesian; Dutch; Javanese; German
Perspective: Gerwani/PKI-aligned voice
Source role: primary
Country: Australia
Period: 1967–1979
Source archive: marxists.org · source link
Access: Scanned PDF in Nath's Gerwani corpus (folder 1.7); original printed pamphlet, The Works Co-operative, North Melbourne, 1975. Provenance of the scan not recorded in the file [verify: likely an online archive of left pamphlets or a library digitisation]; treated as an open-access digitised pamphlet. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Open access source: file can be shown on the website.
Citation (APA): Sudisman. (1975). Analysis of responsibility: Defence speech of Sudisman, General Secretary of the Indonesian Communist Party at his trial before the Special Military Tribunal, Jakarta, 21 July 1967 (B. R. O'G. Anderson, Trans.). The Works Co-operative. (Original speech delivered 1967)
File: 01 Primary Sources/1.7 New Order Trials, Propaganda and Museum Materials/Sudisman (1967) - Analysis of Responsibility, Defence Speech before the Mahmillub (scan).pdf
OCR / text: Good (0.933) · proof-reading: no (script-cleaned only) · translation: not needed
Collection: 01 Primary Sources › 1.7 New Order Trials, Propaganda and Museum Materials
Summary basis: condensed from full annotation

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