The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

Notes
1. Nandao zhi Chun (Spring of South Island. 南 岛 之 春 ), Singapore, Malaya Publisher, 1946,
p.8.
2. C.F.Yong, The Origins of the Malayan Communism, Singapore, South Seas Society, 1997,
pp.67-99.
3. Kurihara Hirohide, Comintern System to Indochina Kyosantou (Comintern System and the
Indochinese Communist Party, コ ミ ン テ ル ン ・ シ ス テ ム と イ ン ド シ ナ 共 産 党 ),
University of Tokyo Press, 2005, pp.55, 56, 103, 104.
4. This description is quite similar to “The History of the Malayan Communist Party” quoted
by McLane. It was published in 1945. It runs: [The SSCP] held a Representatives’
Conference in 1927, which set up a temporary committee, but due to the “inadequate
knowledge” of its members and “lack of leadership from the Comintern” little was
accomplished. (see Charles B. McLane, Soviet Strategies in Southeast Asia, New Jersey,
Princeton University Press, 1966, pp.132, 133, 535).
5. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.30.
6. C.F.Yong refers to the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat Conference held in Shanghai in
September 1929. (Yong, op. cit., pp.97, 98, 104, 105, 120, 138). But he does not refer to
this conference of 1928.
7. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.11.
8. The Far Eastern Bureau had been set up in 1926 in Shanghai to guide originally the
communist parties of China, Korea and Japan. Its real activities started in 1929. In 1930,
territories under its jurisdiction extended to Taiwan, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaya and the
Philippines. See Kurihara, op., cit., pp.48, 57, 133, 134.
9. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.6.
10. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.1
11. In this section, question marks attached to names in ( ) were original question marks. Those
in [ ] are put by Hara.
12. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.1
13. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.3. On Russian contents, noted ‘Ⅸ 1930’ and on English contents, ‘May
1, 1930’. Inside the document itself, date of May 1, 1930 is noted down. Therefore the latter
should be accurate.
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