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The Results of the Rembau-Tampin by election: An analysis

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Banda Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to Malacca State Sub-Committee on Tuesday, 11th July 1972 at 7p.m. at 33A Jalan Munshi Abdullah , Malacca.

The Results of the Rembau-Tampin by election: An analysis

The main objective of the DAP’s participation in the Rembau-Tampin Parliamentary by-election was to begin the long political struggle to win over the Malay rural masses to democratic socialist Malaysian Malaysia. Continue reading The Results of the Rembau-Tampin by election: An analysis

DAP welcome the joint communiqué between North and South Korea on reunification

DAP welcome the joint communiqué between North and South Korea on reunification

The DAP welcomes the joint communiqué by North and South Korea which agreed to the reunification of the country by peaceful means and not by the use of force, and through independent Korean efforts without external imposition or interference.

It is another step in the lessening of tension in Asia and the world. Continue reading DAP welcome the joint communiqué between North and South Korea on reunification

Final revised programme of constituency tours

Final revised programme of constituency tours

The programme of constituency tours for the rest of the unvisited Parliamentary and State seats has to be further revised in view of recent developments.

The revised programme for the unvisited constituencies are as follows:

Sept. 2, 3 : Batang Padang
Sept.9 : Gunong Lambak
Sept. 10 : Bukit Rambai
Oct. 7, 8 : Kampur
Oct. 21, 22 : Penang Utara
Nov. 4, 5 : Seremban Barat
Nov. 18, 19 : Port Dickson
Dec. 2, 3 : Penchala
Dec. 3 : Bukit Raja
Dec. 9 : Jelutong

Members of Parliamentary Assemblymen please make a note of the above changes, and make the necessary arrangements for my tour.

DAP draws up a blue-printed for a new series of political and organisational initiatives for the next 18 months

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at the First Anniversary Dinner of the Bukit Bintang DAP Branch on Tuesday, 4th July 1972 at 10 p.m.

DAP draws up a blue-printed for a new series of political and organisational initiatives for the next 18 months

Many of you who had subscribed to this dinner before June 18 must have thought on that date, when the DAP Central Executive Committee took drastic action to purge the Party of destructive and disruptive elements, that you would lose your subscription and miss your dinner. Continue reading DAP draws up a blue-printed for a new series of political and organisational initiatives for the next 18 months

DAP calls for immediate government recognition of Nanyang and Formosan degrees and qualifications

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking at a Rembau-Tampin Parliamentary by-election public rally at Rembau on Tuesday, 4th July 1972 at 7.30 p.m.

DAP calls for immediate government recognition of Nanyang and Formosan degrees and qualifications

In the 1964 General Elections campaign, the present Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Ismail, promised that when the Alliance is returned to power, the Government would immediately study the question of the government recognition of Nanyang and Formosan degrees and qualifications. Continue reading DAP calls for immediate government recognition of Nanyang and Formosan degrees and qualifications

A new impulse to the expansion of the DAP

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, to the meeting of DAP Members of Parliament and State Assemblymen held in Seremban on Sunday, 2nd July 1972 at 10.30 a.m.

A new impulse to the expansion of the DAP

At the annual dinner of DAP Central Executive Committee members, DAP Members of Parliament, State Assemblymen and State officials in Bukit Bintang on 8th April 1972, I had said: Continue reading A new impulse to the expansion of the DAP

DAP calls for abolition of Internal Security Act

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang at a Rembau-Tampin Parliamentary by-election rally at Bating Melaka on 1st July 1972 at 9 p.m.

DAP calls for abolition of Internal Security Act

The Alliance Government has made use of the Internal Security Act to detain and silence political opponents, and other persons who embarrass the Government. Continue reading DAP calls for abolition of Internal Security Act

Beware of ‘Projects Section’ of Special Branch

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when addressing the Serdang Branches’ Liaison Committee held at Kuchai DAP Branch on Friday, 30th June 1972 at 7p.m.

Beware of ‘Projects Section’ of Special Branch

The Special Branch of the Government has a special unit known as ‘Projects Section’ which has the responsibility to think up and implement projects to infiltrate Opposition parties and create internal party dissensions to split and wreck them. Continue reading Beware of ‘Projects Section’ of Special Branch

DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr Lim Kit Siang, at a Rembau-Tampin Parliamentary by-election rally at Kota on 30th June 1972 at 9 p.m.

DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into standards of Inquiry into standards of education of 1.7 million primary and secondary students in Malaysia.

Over the years, under the Alliance education system, the standard of education in Malaysia has deteriorated gravely. In almost every town, we find Form III students who cannot even make a proper sentence, whether in English or Bahasa Malaysia. This is most shocking when it is remembered that these students have had nine years of schooling. Continue reading DAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry

DAP calls for the abolition of the 5% Sales Tax

Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, at a Rembau-Tampin Parliamentary by-election public rally at Pedas on 29th June 1972 at 9 p.m.

DAP calls for the abolition of the 5% Sales Tax

Year by year, the Finance Minister, Tun Tan Siew Sin, introduces taxes which make the poor groan with hardship, suffering and misery, while the rich relaxes in their wealth and luxury. Continue reading DAP calls for the abolition of the 5% Sales Tax