Thailand’s political Crisis Workers Democracy Publishing 2007 Giles Ji Ungpakorn Distributed by Chulalongkorn University Bookshop www.chulabook.com ISBN: 974-88225-5-9 200 Baht Author Giles Ji Ungpakorn National Library of Thailand Cataloging in Publication Data Chapter 2 Inventing Ancient Thai Traditions 47 Chapter 1 The Taksin Crisis and the Coup for the Rich 7 Chapter 3 The Peoples Movement and the “October People” 69 Introduction 4