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industrial centres. (6) The All Malaya Party Conference, the All Malayan Federation of Labour and the All Malayan Anti-Imperialist League are necessary. (7) Malayan CP must be one that includes all nationalities, Malays, Hindus and Chinese. Details are below: We read the material we got from one of your comrades. Your opinion about the tasks and the work is generally correct. But your method is not correct. You must not begin your work with the armed uprising or with the general strike, but basing it on the concrete conditions of life of the toiling masses, peasants and the urban poor, explain to them how the imperialist rule (sic) their country. Among the workers, you must develop economic struggles for higher wages, for shortening the working day and for one rest day weekly. Even if there is no R Tus [Red Trade Unions], it is possible to organise and lead economic struggles. Only through their economic struggle, the workers can be organised into R Tus. and our neucleus (sic). Slogans must be different depending on concrete situation. According to the informations (sic) from your cd, there are three different nationalities between the workers in the Malaya (sic) States – 50% are Chinese, 30% are Hindu, and only 20% are native workers. For them, you must penetrate with different slogans. For instance, for the Chinese workers; “The imperialists, that (sic) are fighting against the rev. mov. of the peasantry in South China, oppress also the Malayan State. Chinese workers together with the M (sic) workers must fight for the emancipation of the MS.” To the Hindu workers; “The same British imp., that (sic) shot tens of thousands of the workers in Bombay and Calcutta, oppress also the MS. Fight against the B imp. in M is at the same time fight for emancipation of India.” To the native workers; “The emancipation of workers can be realised only through the united front of all toiling masses of the MS regardless of nationality.” Although we have no information about conflict or trouble between the native workers and the H. or the Ch. workers. Nevertheless, H and also a part of Ch. workers might live under much better 50
conditions than the native workers. This is the work of the imp.ts and cap-ts in order to weaken the united front. The native workers must fight for conditions equal to these demanded by the H and Ch., and not for the worthening [worsening?] of the latter. The Hs and that part of the Chinese must help the native w-s in their fight for the better conditions. It is impossible to use the slogan of armed uprising, or even general strike when the org-s of the workers and peasants are very weak. However, when there is an armed uprising of spontaneous character, resulted by the very hard living conditions, then the party must make all efforts to participate in and to lead the uprising. Also, in case of impt’s intervention against USSR, must the party organise the uprising to fight against the impts and to defend the first proletarian country. Such slogans as “To carry out red terror to kill the labour traitors and running dogs” mentioned in the inf. of your cd., or “Individual terror against our class enemies, against imp-ts” are slogans of P- B [petty bourgeois] anarchist and have nothing in common with Communists. We Comts org. and prepare the masses for the rev. war and during the war we are destroying our class enemies. Work among the peasants must start from the fight against high taxes, rent payments and other burdens laid by imp-ts and feudal landowners. Peasantry in your country participated very often in armed uprising against their oppressors. You must make every possible effort to get the leadership in these spontaneous actions in order to lead them into the correct rev. channel. Seeing readiness in certain villages, you should not think that all the peasantry in the whole is ready for the armed uprising. Slogan to use among the handicraft workers and artisans and the small merchants, you can demand the reduction of [or?] even the total abolition of government charges. From the fight for these immediate demands, you can go on to the use of political slogans, such as the overthrow of the imp-st. We must always explain to the masses that their demands can be realised only under the leadership of the working class and its vanguard, the CP. The main attention must be upon the industrial centres, especially the port and the military base of Singapore. 51
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Page 3 and 4: ISSUE: 2016 NO. 01 CONTENTS Preface
Page 5 and 6: I would also like to thank Professo
Page 7 and 8: List of Tables Table 1 Membership o
Page 9 and 10: Yong contended that the MCP’s ant
Page 11 and 12: While continuing my research at ISE
Page 13 and 14: 13. Nandao zhi Chun (Spring of Sout
Page 15 and 16: document, dated 15 January 1942, si
Page 17 and 18: 1. Establishment of the Nanyang Pro
Page 19 and 20: PC members, Wen Xin Ruo (Вень
Page 21 and 22: The CCP’s instruction was also sa
Page 23 and 24: In May 1930, under the guidance of
Page 25 and 26: (15) Tan Tiu-jeng, alias Tan Jui-se
Page 27 and 28: 6. Changes in the Comintern’s Str
Page 29 and 30: (1) Name of the Party: for several
Page 31 and 32: Presidium (GC). From the Comintern
Page 33 and 34: Notes 1. Nandao zhi Chun (Spring of
Page 35 and 36: 26. US National Archives & Records
Page 37 and 38: January 1931 (Ф. 495 оп.62 д.3)
Page 39 and 40: Soon after this conference [before
Page 41 and 42: Yong wrote that the MCP was founded
Page 43 and 44: imperialist can be driven out and t
Page 45 and 46: With regard to ((3)-(b)), “people
Page 47 and 48: and Indians, participated in a demo
Page 49 and 50: entitled “The principal demands o
Page 51: implemented. It is indispensable to
Page 55 and 56: The MCP’s resolutions quoted abov
Page 57 and 58: 4. Letter from Wang Yung Hai to the
Page 59 and 60: October 1929. In April 1931, the Co
Page 61 and 62: (4) Wang Yung Hai wrote in December
Page 63 and 64: and workers and peasants’ uprisin
Page 65 and 66: We are expecting, after the above m
Page 67 and 68: they had no connections with the Co
Page 69 and 70: It seemed rather strange that the u
Page 71 and 72: code; it was neither translated nor
Page 73 and 74: Details are below: (1) Socio-econom
Page 75 and 76: vii) Create opposition groups in th
Page 77 and 78: quotation marks] of the CCP and rem
Page 79 and 80: 6. Sophie, op., cit., p.169. This p
Page 81 and 82: CHAPTER V THE MCP AND THE COMINTERN
Page 83 and 84: 1932, demonstrations against the Bi
Page 85 and 86: We already have considerable organi
Page 87 and 88: Membership has not changed since si
Page 89 and 90: ecorded the arrest on 22 June 1934
Page 91 and 92: organisations should also participa
Page 93 and 94: Cruxes are shown first: (1) One del
Page 95 and 96: As to MCP’s delegates in Shanghai
Page 97 and 98: Extraordinaire: Lai Teck, Secretary
Page 99 and 100: CHAPTER VI THE MCP AND THE COMINTER
Page 101 and 102: was founded in early 1928, 11 the M
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(2) Shanghai Municipal Police Files
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The most important decision taken a
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workers were mobilized, the Chinese
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to “cooperate with Britain”. Th
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We should eliminate the danger of r
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turn favorable. Even though they ha
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of North Malaya insisted that only
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9. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.30. / In its
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CHAPTER VII THE MCP AND THE COMINTE
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assembly, organisation, belief and
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(2) Characteristics of present stru
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(2) Middle-level cadres: Chi Cheng?
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Even among the overseas Chinese, th
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8. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.28. 9. C.F. Y
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Conclusion of the Third Congress of
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MCP and the so-called “Comintern
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the Japanese Army. Immediately afte
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when Lai Teck could not convince th
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Appendix List of Documents of the R
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Table 1. Membership of Trade Unions
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Wang Yung Hai (no Russian) 王永
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Table 3 Membership of the Communist
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Table 5 Leaders of the NPC & the ea
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1-1 From the Comintern Table 6 Exch
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24) 13 Jun. 1939 SC, MCP Resolution
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