The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

SMPF of 1934 shown above. Could the SMP not remember it? It appears this letter did not reach
the Comintern because it was not recorded in its files.
III 1937
The reviewers’ brief history of the MCP noted that the Chinese National Liberation Vanguard
Corps (CNLVC, 中 华 民 族 解 放 先 锋 队 ) was set up in 1937. Its leaders were Cheong Choo Kun
(Zhang Chu-kun, Чжан Цу-кун, 张 楚 琨 ), Liu Tao-nan (Лю Тао-нан. 刘 涛 南 ?) and Si Hong-peng
(Shi Fang-pin, Ши Фан-пин, 施 方 平 ). Cheong was an editor of the Nanyang Siang Pau, Liu was a
teacher in a girls’ secondary school, and Si was a KMT member. 26
This document was not written in 1937 but in February 1942. Apparently the communications
between the MCP and the Comintern had not been sufficiently restored yet.
IV 1938
No document was available.
V 1939
The Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the Party was held in April 1939. The Comintern Files contained
various documents relating to this plenum. In the documents entitled “Resolutions, circulars,
appeals to the people by the CC of the MCP and analyses of the Singapore City Committee of the
MCP on local situations as well as on the impending tasks of the Party: 13 November 1939 – 13
June 1940” (Russian-language title), the decisions adopted at the 6th enlarged plenum were
recorded and reviewed.
1. Ten-point Programme of the MCP in the Comintern file.
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