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Winds of Change Blowing in the Countryside

Winds of Change Blowing in the Countryside

The National Front’s general elections victory in the August 1974 general election cannot hide the fact that the winds of change are beginning to blow in the countryside.

The student demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur at the end of last year stemmed basically from socio-economic factors, and illustrated a growing swareness of the fundamental.

Unless the National Front government make radical changes in its socio-economic policies, and aim at the elimination of poverty among all Malaysians and not the creation of a new rich class, class differences and antagonisms will deepen and increase.

1974: An Eventful Year

1974: An Eventful Year

1974 had been an eventful year for the DAP. We fought the 1974 general elections and emerged as virtually the only Opposition in West Malaysia. In Malacca, we are the sole Opposition, and although we have only four Assemblymen in an Assembly of 20, we have proved that we are capable of speaking up for the hopes and fears of the people. The Malacca State Assembly will be very lively for the next five years, and we hope that the Malacca State Assembly will be convened regularly so that it can perform its function and role as the highest legislative chamber and forum in the Malacca State. Continue reading 1974: An Eventful Year

Re-election of Malacca State Sub-Committee

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Malacca DAP State Chairman, Lim Kit Siang, M.P.. to the Malacca DAP State Sub-Committee meeting on Tuesday, 14th January 1975 at 8 p.m.

Re-election of Malacca State Sub-Committee

This is the last meeting of the present Malacca State Sub-Committee, which was responsible for organising and achieving the general elections victories in august last year. A new Malacca State Sub-Committee will be elected to plan the party’s programme of activities for the next few years. This new Malacca DAP State Sub-Committee will be formed within a month.

Communist successes in Indo-China and why Malaysian Government must reform labour laws

Speech by Sdr. Lim Kit Siang, DAP Secretary General and MP for Kota Melaka, at a May Day reception organised by the Malacca DAP Labour Bureau at its premises at 33A Jalan Munshi Abdullah, Malacca, at 8 p.m. on 1.5.1975

Communist successes in Indo-China and why Malaysian Government must reform labour laws

Malaysian workers celebrate May Day this year against a backdrop of great historical changes and development, not only in Indo-China – with the recent fall of Phnom Penh and the triumph of the GRUNK of Cambodia and the total collapse and surrender of the Saigon regime to the provisional revolutionary government of Vietnam – but also the whole of South East Asia. Continue reading Communist successes in Indo-China and why Malaysian Government must reform labour laws

Agricultural Institutes status should be raise and graduates of the Institutes should be permitted to go for diploma course at Universiti Pertanian

Speech by DAP Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat during the debate on the 1975 Committee of Supply on Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on 9.12.1974

1. Agricultural Institutes status should be raise and graduates of the Institutes should be permitted to go for diploma course at Universiti Pertanian

In recent months, there had been student trouble in one Institute after another. There was the student unrest in MARA, at Universiti Kebangsaan, the Agricultural Institutes, and now, in all the campuses. Continue reading Agricultural Institutes status should be raise and graduates of the Institutes should be permitted to go for diploma course at Universiti Pertanian

Motion by M.P. for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang

Motion by M.P. for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on 9.12.1974

I rise under Standing Orders 18 (1) to apply for the adjournment of this House to discuss a matter of urgent, definite public importance, namely:

“That this House expresses regret at the mishandling of the student demonstrations concerning the legitimate grievances of tear gas which provoked various incidents, the arrest of university lecturers of Malaya, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaya, Institute Technology MARA (ITM), Institute Teknologi Kebangsaan (ITK) and CALL on the government to set up a commission inquiry to investigate into the student demands and to release immediately all the arrested university lecture and student leaders” Continue reading Motion by M.P. for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang

Speech by DAP Member for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the 1975 Supply Bill

Speech by DAP Member for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the 1975 Supply Bill

I wish firstly to congratulate the new Finance Minister on the presentation of his first budget. He said that the Budget would be used as “an active and dynamic instrument of government’s economic, fiscal and monetary policies, so as to effectively achieve our country’s socio-economic aspirations.”

His predecessor in this final budget speech last year said that the budget was “an instrument for the attainment of the people’s aspirations for a more just and equal society. Continue reading Speech by DAP Member for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the 1975 Supply Bill

Parliamentary Services Consultative Committee (PSCC) should review salaries, conditions and allowances of parliamentary staff

Speech by DAP Member of Parliament for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, 3rd December 1974 on the 1975 Committee of Supply Debate on the Prime Minister’s Department

Parliamentary Services Consultative Committee (PSCC) should review salaries, conditions and allowances of parliamentary staff

When the House adjourned yesterday, I was talking about the need for immediate government action to revise upwards the allowances of the parliamentary staff because of two main reason: firstly, the disparity between the allowances paid to government employers outside the Parliamentary service, and secondly, because of the increased work-load of the parliamentary staff following the increase of the number of Members of Parliament from 144 to 154. Continue reading Parliamentary Services Consultative Committee (PSCC) should review salaries, conditions and allowances of parliamentary staff

Income tax reforms

The DAP welcomes the long overdue separate income tax assessment for working wives and the removal of the absurd arrangement whereby a married couple pays more tax than two single persons with the same earnings. We are particularly happy because this had been one of the issues in the DAP 1974General Elections Manifesto.

However, the income tax laws need a thorough overhaul if it is to serve the objective of creating a more just and equal society through a fairer distribution of wealth and income. Continue reading Income tax reforms

The Batik Curtain in Malaysia

I rise to associate myself with the Motion of Thanks to His Majesty for his Gracious Address on the official opening of the First Meeting of the First Session of the Fourth Parliament.

I wish also to congratulate your election as Speaker. I am sure that under your guidance, this Chamber will be able to fulfill it is triple tasks, firstly, to pass laws, secondly to vote monies to meet governmental expenditures and thirdly and most important of all, as the highest political forum in the country. Continue reading The Batik Curtain in Malaysia