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Asia-Pacific Socialist Organisation Conference in Sydney

Asia-Pacific Socialist Organisation Conference in Sydney

The DAP will attend the Second Asia-Pacific Socialist Organisation Conference to be held in Sydney on Fed. 6 – 8, 1981. The DAP will be represented by DAP Deputy Secretary-General, Sdr. Lee Lam Thye, and National Organising Secretary,Sdr. P. Patto.

The main themes for the Conference will be:

• Relations Between the Developed and Developing Nation in the Region;
• Future of the Asia-Pacific Socialist Organisation and the Scope for membership. Continue reading Asia-Pacific Socialist Organisation Conference in Sydney

Project 1983 in Penang will depend on the emergence of a discipline, united and cohesive DAP in Penang

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, DAP Secreary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, to the Penang DAP State Committee in Penang on Saturday, 3rd Jan. 1980 at 7 p.m.

Project 1983 in Penang will depend on the emergence of a discipline, united and cohesive DAP in Penang

The DAP’s narrow defeat in the Pengkalan Kota by-election, and the events preceding and following the by-election, should be a costly lesson to the DAP, particularly in Penang, of the harm we can inflict on ourselves when we allow our internal difference and problems to run riot, in utter disregard of Party interests. Continue reading Project 1983 in Penang will depend on the emergence of a discipline, united and cohesive DAP in Penang

The DAP to expose and oppse deviation of the NEW Economic Policy in the last 10 years

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, at the DAP Selangor/Feredal Territory State Committie meeting held in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 2nd January 1981 at 8 p.m.

The DAP to expose and oppse deviation of the NEW Economic Policy in the last 10 years

Early this year, the Barisan Nasional Governement will present the Fourth Malaysia Plan to Parliament for adoption. At this mid-term period of the 20-Year Perspective Plan of the New Economic Policy, there has been many deviation from the New Economic Policy which has undermind national unity and inter-racial harmony in the country.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, and the other UNMO leaders had claimed that the NEP objective to help raise the economic standard of the bumiputras is not a policy to ’rob Peter to pay Paul’. Continue reading The DAP to expose and oppse deviation of the NEW Economic Policy in the last 10 years

DAP to set up a watch-dog committee to oversee and supervise the performance and service of DAP MPs and State Assemblymen

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, DAP Secretary General and MP for Petaling , Lim Kit Siang, at the official opening of the new premises of Petaling Jaya DAP branch at 21A Jalan SS 21/1A, Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 11th Dec. 1980 at 7 p.m

DAP to set up a watch-dog committee to oversee and supervise the performance and service of DAP MPs and State Assemblymen

The opening of the new premises of the Petaling Jaya DAP Branch marks the resumption of the DAP’s march forward towards our political objective of mobilising greater number of Malaysians to our causes of building a just, equal and genuinely multi-racial Malaysia. Continue reading DAP to set up a watch-dog committee to oversee and supervise the performance and service of DAP MPs and State Assemblymen

Call on DAP States and branched to get on with the DAP’s Work and Plans for the Future

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, DAP Secretary General and MP for Petaling , to a meeting of DAP National Publicity Committee in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 9th December 1980 at 7 pm

Call on DAP States and branched to get on with the DAP’s Work and Plans for the Future

All DAP States, Branches and members should now get on with the DAP’s Work and Plans for the Future, and not allow the campaign of our political enemies and the Barisan-controlled press to distract us from our primary objective, which is to ever-expand and increasing support from the people of Malaysia for the DAP’s objective and ideals of a Malaysian Malaysia. Continue reading Call on DAP States and branched to get on with the DAP’s Work and Plans for the Future

Resignation as Party Secretary-General

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, DAP Secretary General and MP for Petaling , Mr. Lim Kit Siang, to DAP youth officials at DAP Hqrs at Petaling Jaya on Friday, 28th Nov. 1980 at 8 pm

Resignation as Party Secretary-General

The Party’s defeat at Pengkalan Kota by-election in Penang had been most disappointing, and there had been sorts of reasons advanced to explain the DAP’s defeat, and all sorts of theories advance to find a scapegoat for the DAP’s defeat, in particular people outside the Party. Continue reading Resignation as Party Secretary-General

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association officials surprised by Malacca Barisan National interpretation of provision that a Assembly Member could begin to be absent when the Assembly is in recess

by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders, DAP Secretary General and State Assemblyman for Kubu, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, on Friday, Nov. 21, 1980:

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association officials surprised by Malacca Barisan National interpretation of provision that a Assembly Member could begin to be absent when the Assembly is in recess

The chief Minister said that the Malacca Barisan National move to declare my Kubu seat vacant is based on law and not personal.
He said that the Kubu seat could be declared vacant because I had been absent without permission from the Speaker for six months. Continue reading Commonwealth Parliamentary Association officials surprised by Malacca Barisan National interpretation of provision that a Assembly Member could begin to be absent when the Assembly is in recess

Call on the voters of Pengkalan Kota to vote the DAP candidate

Press Conference Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leaders and DAP Secretary-General Lim Kit Siang at the Pengkalan Kota state assembly by-election nomination on Thursday, Oct. 30, 1980 at 11.30 a.m

Call on the voters of Pengkalan Kota to vote the DAP candidate to lay down the basis for the DAP’s 1983 Project to capture Penang State Government

This is the second by election the DAP is contesting in Penang since the last general election in 1978, when the DAP won four Parliamentary and five State Assembly seats. Continue reading Call on the voters of Pengkalan Kota to vote the DAP candidate

Role of a Budget

The annual budget should be an instrument of unity to unit Malaysians

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the 1981 Budget on October 22, 1980)

The finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, in his 1981 Budget, prides himself for presenting a ‘smallman’s budget’

Compared to previous budget, the 1981 Budget has given more thought to the plight of the smallman, for which I commend the Finance Minister. However, the 1981 Budget has not gone far enough to give the smallman his rightful place under the Malaysian sun. Continue reading Role of a Budget

Kit Siang calls on Malaysian authorities to mend fences with Malaysian students in New Zealand

Kit Siang calls on Malaysian authorities to mend fences with Malaysian students in New Zealand

Parliamentary Opposition Leaders and DAP Secretary General, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, has called on the Malaysia High Commission and the Malaysia authorities to mend fence with Malaysia students in New Zealand and to re-establish a relationship of trust and confidence with Malaysian students there.

Mr. Lim said he was surprised to find that the Malaysian High Commission had been banned by the Students’ Union both of the Victoria University of Wellington and the Auckland University. The relationship between the Malaysia High Commission and the Malaysia Student unions with effective representation of the majority of Malaysian students in the various New Zealand universities were also very strained if not ruptured. Continue reading Kit Siang calls on Malaysian authorities to mend fences with Malaysian students in New Zealand