The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

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3. Anti-Japanese national salvation organizations ( 抗 援 组 织 )
Our Party recognizes that the Anti-Japanese national salvation organizations have an
anti-imperialist character and their own independent stands. Some districts made a
mistake of abandoning the work of these organizations. Districts which had no such
organizations should make an effort to restore them soon. The Center calls upon
various branches and all comrades to strengthen and extend these organizations.
4. Each branch should recognize that backing up the 8th Route Army movement ( 援 八
运 动 ) is one of the important types of work to revolutionize masses. Take
responsibility of it by ourselves and extend its fund-raising work and propaganda.
(4) Three main tasks
1. To secure our Party’s Bolshevikization within the process of the national liberation
movement.
2. To strengthen and extend mass organizations especially in the material-producing
sections. Strengthen united organizations of the lower strata. To secure the Party’s
leadership.
3. To extend the anti-war and anti-imperialist movements, protect USSR, and protect
the Chinese revolution. To continue leading the economic struggle of workerpeasant
masses and urban petit bourgeois. To raise the spirit of national liberation
struggle among the people of each nationals’ ( 各 民 族 人 民 的 ).
(5) Serious shortcomings
1. The policy line is not concrete. Examining work reports, it is discerned that
comrades never left alone ( 没 有 放 掉 ) various types of organizational work (open,
semi-open and illegal). Many comrades, however, were not concerned with the
backwardness of the masses and their concrete way of development and did not go
among the masses to understand them. Some comrades even assessed the masses
from the viewpoint of revolution. They hastily feared that the masses might follow a
reactionary path. (For example, Perak retracted legal societies’ work. And comrades
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