The Malayan Communist Party as Recorded in the Comintern Files

You must choose a trustworthy group of any nationality and create the city and village
organizations. Give them concrete tasks. They must keep you informed about the progress of their
work. You must call on meeting or conference for each and elect its Party committee. Afterwards
you must immediately call on the All-Malaya Party Conference to discuss the tasks and elect the
CC.
It is necessary to publish a party organ in three languages, Malayan (sic), Hindu and Chinese. The
money needed for this organ must be gathered from among our own cds, sympathisers and the
broad toiling masses.
As our trade union movement is too much split up, a centralised organisation, the All-Malayan
Federation of Labour, is necessary.
We must also organise Anti-Imperialist Leagues first in factories, towns and villages and afterward
in the whole country, that is, the All-Malayan Anti-Imperialist League.
(Hereafter, filed in a different place)
You have already an organisational basis in the Chinese Communist group. Now it is necessary to
make every effort that these Chinese communist no longer exist like a group of Chinese emigrants
living with their minds and hearts solely upon events in China. (It is possible that among the
Chinese comrades are such comrades, who are under the influence of liquidator Chen-dusiu [sic],
as under the influence of Li-Li-Sian’s [sic. should be Li Li San] “left” phraseologic [sic]. You must
fight against this very energitacilly [sic]). The slogan should be—the Malayan (sic), Hindu, and
Chinese workers into the party organization of Malaya! In Malayan State there must exist but one
CP including all nationalities. The idea of creating several CPs based on the nationalities must be
energetically combated. The Party must pay attention to the difference of nationality, languages,
customs, etc.
This is a concrete and detailed comment cum instruction. Although the author seemed not to know
that most Indians in Malaya were Tamils who spoke not Hindi but Tamil, we can discern that this
FEB staff member was well acquainted with Malayan affairs. Unlike many other Comintern
documents, moreover, this letter generally distinguished Malaya from Malay.
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