Category: Coalition Politics

Three reasons why Haji Suhaimi wants the Malaysian Chinese to support Barisan parties like MCA and Gerakan against the DAP.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Circular Road DAP Branch dinner to commemorate the DAP’s 15th Anniversary held at the multi-storeyed car park Restaurant, Kuala Lumpur, on Tuesday, 24th November, 1981 at 8 p.m.

Three reasons why Haji Suhaimi wants the Malaysian Chinese to support Barisan parties like MCA and Gerakan against the DAP.

The UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi Kamaruddin, said in Butterworth on Sunday that the Chinese community should not support the DAP, but must support instead Barisan component parties like MCA and Gerakan. Continue reading Three reasons why Haji Suhaimi wants the Malaysian Chinese to support Barisan parties like MCA and Gerakan against the DAP.

Challenge to Haji Suhaimi to demand the sacking of Barisan Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Leaders who by sending their children abroad for education have no confidence in the National Education Policy

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary-General, Lim Kit Siang, at a dinner organised by the DAP Jasin Branch to commemorate the Party’s 15th Anniversary at Jasin, Malacca on 19th November 1981 at 8 p.m.
Challenge to Haji Suhaimi to demand the sacking of Barisan Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Leaders who by sending their children abroad for education have no confidence in the National Education Policy.

Yesterday, in Parliament, the UMNO Youth Leader and Deputy Education Minister, Haji Suhaimi Kamaruddin, tried to criticize opposition leaders for sending their children abroad for education. Continue reading Challenge to Haji Suhaimi to demand the sacking of Barisan Ministers, Deputy Ministers and Leaders who by sending their children abroad for education have no confidence in the National Education Policy

MCA and Gerakan should probably try to compose their differences first before any round-table conference as there is a wide divide between the DAP on the one hand and the component Barisan parties on MCA and Gerakan on the other.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, to the Perak State DAP Committee meeting at Perak DAP hqrs at Jalan Chamberlain, Ipoh on Friday, 11th Sept. 1981 at 8.30 p.m.

MCA and Gerakan should probably try to compose their differences first before any round-table conference as there is a wide divide between the DAP on the one hand and the component Barisan parties on MCA and Gerakan on the other.

Gerakan national vice president, and Gerakan Selangor State Secretary, Soong Siew Hoong, said in a Gerakan function in Petaling Jaya yesterday that the target of the MCA’s attack should be the DAP and not the Gerakan. Continue reading MCA and Gerakan should probably try to compose their differences first before any round-table conference as there is a wide divide between the DAP on the one hand and the component Barisan parties on MCA and Gerakan on the other.

DAP prepared to form a united front with PAS, PSRM and other movements to save democracy by denying the Barisan Nasional the two-thirds majority in Parliament

Winding-Up Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the debate on the Central Executive Committee Report at the DAP 15th Anniversary Congress at Petaling Jaya Civic Centre on Sunday, 30th August 1981.

DAP prepared to form a united front with PAS, PSRM and other movements to save democracy by denying the Barisan Nasional the two-thirds majority in Parliament to change the Constitution and abrogate basic constitutional rights at its whim and fancy.

For the years of the DAP’s history, the DAP had remained in the eye of the political hurricane in Malaysia, establishing a political force to protect and defend the basic rights of Malaysian citizens, and continuously facing Barisan attempts to crush and destroy the DAP by a whole variety of tactics and measures. Continue reading DAP prepared to form a united front with PAS, PSRM and other movements to save democracy by denying the Barisan Nasional the two-thirds majority in Parliament

DAP challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon to pick up any one of the eight DAP constituencies

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP 15th Anniversary Congress Dinner at Petaling Jaya Civic Centre on Saturday, 29th August 1981 at 8p.m
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DAP challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon to pick up any one of the eight DAP constituencies of Kuala Lumpur Bandar, Sungai Besi, Petaling, Ipoh, Menglembu, Tanjong, Seremban and Malacca to have a by-election for him to prove whether he is qualified to represent the Malaysian Chinese
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Last week, the MCA President, Datuk Lee San Choon, suggested that the DAP and Gerakan should dissolve and merge with the MCA and then talk and fight for the interests of the Malaysian Chinese in the country. Continue reading DAP challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon to pick up any one of the eight DAP constituencies

Despite our reservations, DAP prepared to attend round-table conference with Tung Chung, Chiau Chung, Gerakan and MCA to discuss whether it is possible to reach a common front in Cabinet, Parliament, State Executive Committees, State Assemblies and outside to protect and advance the legitimate political, economic, educational, social and cultural rights of Malaysian Chinese

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Malacca State DAP Convention 1981 at the Malacca State DAP premises at 33A Jalan Munshi Abdullah, Malacca on Sunday, 26th July 1981 at 10 a.m.

Despite our reservations, DAP prepared to attend round-table conference with Tung Chung, Chiau Chung, Gerakan and MCA to discuss whether it is possible to reach a common front in Cabinet, Parliament, State Executive Committees, State Assemblies and outside to protect and advance the legitimate political, economic, educational, social and cultural rights of Malaysian Chinese

Recently, various Chinese associations, clans and societies and in particular, Tung Chung and Chiau Chuang, had called for the joining of forces, and in particular the DAP, Gerakan and MCA, to protect, safeguard and advance the basic and legitimate political, economic, educational, social and cultural rights of Malaysian Chinese. Continue reading Despite our reservations, DAP prepared to attend round-table conference with Tung Chung, Chiau Chung, Gerakan and MCA to discuss whether it is possible to reach a common front in Cabinet, Parliament, State Executive Committees, State Assemblies and outside to protect and advance the legitimate political, economic, educational, social and cultural rights of Malaysian Chinese

DAP invites MCA, Gerakan, SUPP and MIC to jointly sponsor a motion in Parliament to condemn UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi, for this extremist and chauvinist speeches which seriously undermine national unity

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when opening the Selangor/Federal Territory State DAP Ordinary Convention 1981 at the Transport Worker, Union Hall in Petaling Jaya on Sunday, 5th July 1981 at 10a.m.

DAP invites MCA, Gerakan, SUPP and MIC to jointly sponsor a motion in Parliament to condemn UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi, for this extremist and chauvinist speeches which seriously undermine national unity.

Although top UMNO leaders had said that despite its being a party of the Malays, UMNO also looks after the other races, the fact remains that every time the UMNO and UMNO Youth hold their General Assemblies, the task of nation building of the different races in Malaysia suffers another setback because of extremist demands and speeches. Continue reading DAP invites MCA, Gerakan, SUPP and MIC to jointly sponsor a motion in Parliament to condemn UMNO Youth Leader, Haji Suhaimi, for this extremist and chauvinist speeches which seriously undermine national unity

Call on Malaysian Chinese to decisively reject the MCA in the next general elections to demonstrate their repudiation of the politics of money of MCA which used the slogan of ‘Chinese unite’ to advance the financial and personal interests of its leaders

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at a DAP tea-party recemtion at Changkat Kruining, on the first day of his visit to Bruas parliamentary constituency on Saturday, 30.5.81 at 8 pm.

Call on Malaysian Chinese to decisively reject the MCA in the next general elections to demonstrate their repudiation of the politics of money of MCA which used the slogan of ‘Chinese unite’ to advance the financial and personal interests of its leaders

Recently, the MCA has again been shouting the slogan of ‘Chinese unite’ and claims that MPs and State Assemblymen from the DAP and even Gerakan are joining it because of the growing realisation among Malaysian Chinese of the importance of Chinese unity behind the MCA. Continue reading Call on Malaysian Chinese to decisively reject the MCA in the next general elections to demonstrate their repudiation of the politics of money of MCA which used the slogan of ‘Chinese unite’ to advance the financial and personal interests of its leaders

MPs and State Assemblymen who are available to the highest bidder should go on a public listing

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, to the Perak DAP State Working Committee meeting held at Perak State premises in Ipoh on Wednesday, 13th May 1981 at 4.30 p.m.

MPs and State Assemblymen who are available to the highest bidder should go on a public listing, like stocks and shares, as to their latest market price.

In the 1969 General Elections, the first general election s contested by the DAP, the DAP won 13 Parliamentary and 31 State Assembly seats. Continue reading MPs and State Assemblymen who are available to the highest bidder should go on a public listing

The future of Malaysian Chinese can only be secured if ‘degenerates of the race’ like those who write and are responsible for Kin Kwok Daily News articles seeking to character-assassinate DAP leaders are exposed.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General, MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when officially launching the DAP’s campaign to get Kin Kwok Daily News readers to boycott Kin Kwok Daily News because of its irresponsible and vicious campaign to character-assassinate DAP leaders at a function held at Perak State premises on Wednesday, 13th May 1981 at 11.30 a.m.

The future of Malaysian Chinese can only be secured if ‘degenerates of the race’ like those who write and are responsible for Kin Kwok Daily News articles seeking to character-assassinate DAP leaders are exposed.

Recently, there have been many calls for Chinese Unity and talk about the future of Malaysian Chinese, but we find that some of those who talk most about Chinese Unity and the future of Malaysian Chinese are also the ‘degenerates of the race’ whose actions gravely damage the position and future of Malaysian Chinese in the country. Continue reading The future of Malaysian Chinese can only be secured if ‘degenerates of the race’ like those who write and are responsible for Kin Kwok Daily News articles seeking to character-assassinate DAP leaders are exposed.