The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

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Membership of the mass organizations: From the 6 th Enlarged Plenum till now, membership in Pahang increased seven-fold, Selangor four-fold, Penang three-fold, and generally doubled in other places. Only Malacca saw merely a one-third increase. North Johor decreased by a few dozens. Party membership tripled in Pahang. During this period, the Party led 200–300 workers’ struggles that drew about 80,000 participating workers. In the second term, Singapore had the best record of more than 120 cases. 3 2. New Ten-point Programme of the MCP in the Comintern file The same file contained both the English and Chinese versions of the New Ten-point Programme. This must be the revised version prepared following the various level discussions. As two kinds of the Reviewers’ Comment of the Comintern quoted above were written in January and February 1942, these might not have been reflected in the revision. The English version (TPP-b), published on 20 February 1940, is summarized below. According to the MCP’s document published recently, this programme was part of the resolution decided at the 2 nd CEC conference of the MCP held on 24 January 1940. This programme was called “Impending Ten-point Programme for the Party to struggle for independent, free Democratic Republic”. 4 Compatriots! We cannot wait for our ruinous fate, we must fight for our living. Our Party has raised before you the following Ten Point Programme as the goal for the common struggle for our Party and yourself. (1) Expulsion of the British Imperialist out of Malaya. Acquiring of national independence. Establishment of a Free, Independent and Democratic Republic. (2) Establishment of an All Malayan Congress and the State Councils, candidates to which are to be elected through a universal franchise in which all the anti-imperialist parties and organisations and the peoples of Malaya will have the right to participate. (3) Realization of democracy. Safeguarding of the right to freedom of speech, press, 118
assembly, organisation, belief and strike. Censure of corrupt officials. (4) General increment of salaries for employees and soldiers. Relief measures for the distressed and the unemployed. Development of industry, commerce, agriculture and national economy. Self-determination of rate of customs revenue. (5) Eight-hour working day. Increment of wages. Abolition of the systems of contractlabour and apprentice. A non-contributory social insurance system. (6) Abolition of all heavy and miscellaneous levies and taxes and high interest moneylending system. Decrement of rents and duties. Improvement of farm irrigation work. Repeal of agricultural control. Right of freedom of tilling. (7) Equal pay for sexes and nationalities. A system of two months’ leave with full pay for female workers during the period before and after their giving birth to a child. Safeguarding of the equality between the sexes in economical, political and social standing. Abolition of the ‘Mooi chai’ system and the women foformatory [sic. reformatory?]. 5 (8) A democratic system in the army and other forces. Equal treatment between officers and common soldiers. Abolition of such regulations for suppressing the ranks and files. Preferential treatment for their family. (9) A system of universal education, using our national language for each nation. Free education for poor students. Development of national culture. (10) Solidarity with all oppressed nations and peace-loving countries and peoples to fight against the Imperialist war, to uphold the peace policy of the SU, and to back-up the War of Resistance of the Chinese nation and the National Liberation Movement of India. 6 The Chinese version referred to “using our national language for each nation” (clause(9)) is “ 用本民族语文实行普通教育 ”. This meant that Malay students should be taught in Malay, Chinese in Chinese (Mandarin), and Indians in Tamil. 3. Manifesto of the Central Executive Committee, MCP An English document, “Forward to a National Anti-Imperialist United Front for Free Independent and Democratic Republic of Malaya”, dated 9 February 1940, is summarized below: 119
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ISSUE: 2016 NO. 01 CONTENTS Preface
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I would also like to thank Professo
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List of Tables Table 1 Membership o
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Yong contended that the MCP’s ant
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While continuing my research at ISE
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13. Nandao zhi Chun (Spring of Sout
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document, dated 15 January 1942, si
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1. Establishment of the Nanyang Pro
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PC members, Wen Xin Ruo (Вень
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The CCP’s instruction was also sa
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In May 1930, under the guidance of
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(15) Tan Tiu-jeng, alias Tan Jui-se
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6. Changes in the Comintern’s Str
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(1) Name of the Party: for several
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Presidium (GC). From the Comintern
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Notes 1. Nandao zhi Chun (Spring of
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26. US National Archives & Records
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January 1931 (Ф. 495 оп.62 д.3)
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Soon after this conference [before
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Yong wrote that the MCP was founded
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imperialist can be driven out and t
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With regard to ((3)-(b)), “people
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and Indians, participated in a demo
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entitled “The principal demands o
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implemented. It is indispensable to
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conditions than the native workers.
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The MCP’s resolutions quoted abov
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4. Letter from Wang Yung Hai to the
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October 1929. In April 1931, the Co
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(4) Wang Yung Hai wrote in December
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and workers and peasants’ uprisin
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We are expecting, after the above m
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they had no connections with the Co
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