FROM JAIL TO JAIL
Take away the sign
Add to it
Take the head-particle from the sign
That gives the word
Add the sign
That gives the word
Take away the bamboo top
That gives you
People who come out of prison can build up the country.
Misfortune is a test of people’s fidelity.
Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.
When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.
Ho Chi Minh, “Word Play,” in Ho Chi Minh on Revolution: Selected Writings 1920-66, edited and introduced by Bernard B. Fall (New York: Signet, 1968), p. 137.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Malaka, Tan.
[Dari pendjara ke pendjara. English].
From jail to jail / by Tan Malaka ; translated, edited, and introduced by Helen Jarvis
p. cm. — Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 83
Translation of : Dari pendjara ke pendjara
Includes bibliographical references
ISBN : 0-89680-150-0
1. Malaka, Tan. 2. Revolutionaries—Indonesia—Biography. 3. Communists—Indonesia—Biography 4. Indonesia—Politics and government—20th century. I. Title II Title: Dari pendjara ke pendjara III. Series.
DS643.22.M3A3 1990
324.2598’ 075’ 092-dc20
[B]
90-47586
CIP
FROM JAIL TO JAIL
by
Tan Malaka
translated, edited, and introduced by Helen Jarvis
In three volumes
VOLUME ONE
Ohio University Center for International Studies
Monographs in International Studies
Southeast Asia Series Number 83
Athens, Ohio 1991
CONTENTS
1. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN TWO FORCES
3. THE RIGHT TO SELF-PRESERVATION
10. EN ROUTE TO THE PHILIPPINES AND CANTON
14. WHERETO NOW?
NOTES TO VOLUME ONE
GLOSSARY
INDEX TO VOLUME ONE