The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

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Details are below: (1) Tactics of the MCP The tactics of the MCP at various stages of the struggle were decided without sufficiently considering the concrete international and local situations. Almost all the important political slogans of the CCP were mechanically transferred to the MCP. For instance, like the CCP, the MCP struggled for the establishment of the Worker-Peasant Soviet Republic until 1935. Since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, similar to the CCP, the MCP entirely devoted itself to the war against the Japanese Imperialists. When Britain was opposed to China, MCP’s slogan, “No support for Britain”, prevailed. And finally in January 1940, “Expulsion of the BI from Malaya” was made the task in the resolution of the Second Plenum of the CC. As long as slogans were given without taking Malayan characteristics into consideration, the Party’s objectives occasionally could not be attained in practice. Deploying strenuous activities to support the people of China, many Party members replaced the slogans proposed by the Party with their own. “For Party’s legal activities” was replaced with “For abolition of all illegal activities” and “United front with participation of national bourgeoisie” was replaced with “Collaborative work with bourgeoisie”, “Secure peace and security of Malaya” was replaced with “Collaboration with Britain”, and so on. (2) Work with Malays and Indians The MCP virtually relies only on the interests of overseas Chinese; yet it formally claims it takes the interests of all the repressed people of Malaya into consideration. In practice, therefore, the MCP cannot demonstrate the true essence of the colonial policy of the BI. It could barely point out to the Malays and Indians the consistent intentions of the Japanese invaders toward Malaya. The Party has greatly contributed to raising its influence among overseas Chinese. It led such organizations as the MCAEBS and the China Relief Fund. But it has barely worked among the Malays, Indians and other Malayan nationals. (3) Serious shortcomings of the MCP The resolutions of the MCP do not reflect the demands of peasants. The tactics for handling the national problem ( 民族问题 ) were not sufficiently probed. 124
Even among the overseas Chinese, the Party's influence was not extensive. In many factory areas (Terengganu, Selangor and Johor), Party organizations were extremely weak. The member recruitment activities among the Malays and Indians were very inadequate. Among the cadres of various organizational levels, those from the worker class were extremely few. Cadres were principally Chinese. The Party virtually did not tackle the problem of appointing, nurturing and deploying non-Chinese cadre-candidates. The Party did not make an effort to raise the ideological and political standard of the members. Propaganda and agitation work based on the fundamental principles of Marxism- Leninism among the Chinese was weak. Among the Malays, Indians and other nationals, it was entirely insufficient. 13 3. What policies were criticized by the reviewers here? (1) Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1937, the MCP had merely concentrated on the Anti-Japanese struggle. To that extent, the decisions of the Third SC Conference of 13 June 1939 might have been targeted. (2) Important slogans were erroneously replaced with others such as “Abolition of all illegal activities”, “Collaborative work with bourgeoisie”, and “Collaboration with Britain”. In this context, the SC Conference of 13 June 1939 might again have been targeted. 4. Probing the change of viewpoints since 1938 The viewpoints of the Comintern and the MCP can fundamentally be classified into three: ○1 revolutionary class line and Anti-BI (leftist line); ○2 moderate conciliatory line (rightist line); and ○3 Chinese nationalistic, anti-Japanese line. The Chinese nationalistic viewpoint might be comparable to the non-class line and, therefore, be classified as the rightist line. But this line was in fact regarded as the most effective revolutionary line immediately before the Pacific War. The above viewpoints may also be distinguished by reference to their source or origin, as follows: 125
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2016 NO. 1 The Malayan Communist Pa
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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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It seemed rather strange that the u
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code; it was neither translated nor
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Details are below: (1) Socio-econom
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Page 101 and 102: was founded in early 1928, 11 the M
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Page 121 and 122: assembly, organisation, belief and
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Page 125: (2) Middle-level cadres: Chi Cheng?
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Page 141 and 142: Table 1. Membership of Trade Unions
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