General Political Background

The listing of these papers and publications here in no way implies a connection between the authors and this blog. Nor does it imply that Political Prisoners in Thailand endorses everything stated in each publication.

This page was last updated in October 2022.

• 1932 revolutionist Pridi Banomyong  interviewed by Anthony Paul of Asiaweek.
• Pridi on Pridi
• 60 Years of Oppression and Suppression in Thailand: a compilation of political assassinations and extra-judicial killings since 1947.
• Critical Asian Studies, then the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, has a Special Supplement on “October 1976: The Coup in Thailand” in Volume 9, Number 3, July-September 1977. It includes several notable articles by Ben Anderson, E. Thadeus Flood, Carl A. Trocki, and Puey Ungphakorn. PPT adds a “letter” Puey wrote following the 1976 military coup, published as a pamphlet by The Union of Democratic Thais in the USA.
• Over thirty years ago, a group of academics outside Thailand wrote a letter to then-PM Thanin Kraivichien and printed it in the New York Review of Books. Read it here.
• European Co-ordinating Committee for Solidarity with the Thai People (c1978) Political Repression in Thailand
• Piansiri Ekniyom and G.R. Peterson (1974) Participation. A Constitutional History of Student Involvement
• Andrew Turton, Jonathan Fast and Malcolm Caldwell eds (1978) Thailand Roots of Conflict
• US Government declassified documents about the King and Queen’s  visit to the U.S. in 1967. Of primary concern for the royals was opposing Communism.  In contrast, the spending patterns of the royal family were seen as slightly contentious by their U.S. hosts. We will leave it to our readers to make the connections:  “Couture and Communists”

Interface: a journal for and about social movements Action Note
Volume 1 (2): 233 – 237 (November 2009) Ungpakorn, Thai NGOs
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Why have most Thai NGOs chosen to side with the
conservative royalists, against democracy and the
poor?
Giles Ji UngpakornInterface: a journal for and about social movements Action NoteVolume 1 (2): 233 – 237 (November 2009) Ungpakorn, Thai NGOs233Why have most Thai NGOs chosen to side with theconservative royalists, against democracy and thepoor?Giles Ji Ungpakorn