Category: Coalition Politics

Challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon and all MCA Ministers to contest in constituencies which are overwhelmingly Chinese in electorate to demonstrate that they have the mandate of the Malaysian Chinese to represent them

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when officially declaring open the one-day seminar for Johore DAP state and branch leaders held at Kluang DAP premises in Kluang on Sunday, 10th May 1981 at 9.30 a.m.

Challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon and all MCA Ministers to contest in constituencies which are overwhelmingly Chinese in electorate to demonstrate that they have the mandate of the Malaysian Chinese to represent them

Last Wednesday, at the Malacca DAP State Working Committee meeting, l warned party members and supporters to be vigilant of a two-step Barisan Nasional grand design to destroy the DAP next general elections. Continue reading Challenge to Datuk Lee San Choon and all MCA Ministers to contest in constituencies which are overwhelmingly Chinese in electorate to demonstrate that they have the mandate of the Malaysian Chinese to represent them

Chan Teck Chan has formed a new ‘Gang of Four’ teaming up with extremist UMNO MPs in Parliament to attack the DAP

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to Klang DAP officials and members at Klang DAP Branch in Klang on Sunday, 5th April 1981 at 8 p.m.

Chan Teck Chan has formed a new ‘Gang of Four’ teaming up with extremist UMNO MPs in Parliament to attack the DAP

If there is anyone who must bear the greatest responsibility for causing the turmoil in the DAP in the last five months, it is none other than Chan Teck Chan. Continue reading Chan Teck Chan has formed a new ‘Gang of Four’ teaming up with extremist UMNO MPs in Parliament to attack the DAP

Call to DAP MPs and State Assemblymen to be vigilant of Barisan traps and not to fall for material inducements which will put them in a politically compromising position forcing them to do things which betray the Party, the people and their own conscience

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to a meeting of Perak DAP MPs and State Assemblymen at Perak DAP premises on Thursday, 2nd April 1981 at 7 pm

Call to DAP MPs and State Assemblymen to be vigilant of Barisan traps and not to fall for material inducements which will put them in a politically compromising position forcing them to do things which betray the Party, the people and their own conscience

Events have become clear who are the forces behind the Gang of Four which prompted them in the last five months to carry out a systematic and relentless campaign to destroy the DAP. The DAP leadership has exposed the mixed ulterior motives of the Gang of Four, who act at the beheat of several different forces, seek to destroy the DAP, which poses the most serious threat to the Barisan Nasional in the 1980s. Continue reading Call to DAP MPs and State Assemblymen to be vigilant of Barisan traps and not to fall for material inducements which will put them in a politically compromising position forcing them to do things which betray the Party, the people and their own conscience

The expulsion of the Gang of Four has exposed a Grand Conspiracy involving many forces which sought to destroy the single largest opposition party in the country

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Raub DAP Solidarity Dinner held at Raub Town Hall on Sunday, 22nd March 1981 at 9pm

The expulsion of the Gang of Four has exposed a Grand Conspiracy involving many forces which sought to destroy the single largest opposition party in the country

The expulsion of the Gang of Four has exposed and foiled a Grand Conspiracy involving many forces which sought to destroy the single largest opposition party in the country. Continue reading The expulsion of the Gang of Four has exposed a Grand Conspiracy involving many forces which sought to destroy the single largest opposition party in the country

Party can nationally begin the process of party development and expansion with the expulsion of the ‘Gang of Four’

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in Pahang State Committee meeting held in Raub, Pahang, on Sunday, 22nd March 1981 at 2pm

Party can nationally begin the process of party development and expansion with the expulsion of the ‘Gang of Four’
For the last five months, the Party’s various political and party programmes, involving organizational, publicity and political initiatives, were stalled because of the destructive activities of the ‘Gang of Four’.

Now that the ‘Gang of Four’ headed by Chan Teck Chan had been publicly exposed and expelled from the Party, the Party can get down to our central political tasks of consolidating and expanding party activities, to build ourselves into an even greater political force. Continue reading Party can nationally begin the process of party development and expansion with the expulsion of the ‘Gang of Four’

Expulsion of ‘Gang of Three’ has exposed and foiled the most vicious and destructive in party history to subvert and destroy the DAP from within

Speech Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Kampong Koh-Seitawan DAP Thousand_people Dinner held on Saturday, 14th March 1981 at 8 p.m.

Expulsion of ‘Gang of Three’ has exposed and foiled the most vicious and destructive in party history to subvert and destroy the DAP from within

Expulsion of ‘Gang of Three’ in Penang has exposed and foiled the most vicious and destructive campaign in DAP history to subvert and destroy the DAP from within. Continue reading Expulsion of ‘Gang of Three’ has exposed and foiled the most vicious and destructive in party history to subvert and destroy the DAP from within

Challenges of the Eighties

Message by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, to the Souvenir Programme of the Ulu Langat 15th Anniversary 1,000-People Dinner on Saturday, 21st February 1981

Challenges of the Eighties

Firstly, let me commend the Ulu Langat DAP Liaison Committee and the constituent branches and members for their success in organising the DAP 15th Anniversary 1,000-People Dinner.Challenges of the Eighties Continue reading Challenges of the Eighties

Call on the Government to treble the intake of non-buniputra students for medical places for next year’s academic year

Speech Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when speaking at the Taiping DAP branch Dinner in Taiping on Friday, 30th January 1981 at 8 p.m.

Call on the Government to treble the intake of non-buniputra students for medical places for next year’s academic year.

Throughout the country hospital, the government faces an acute shortage of doctor and in particular, specialists. Every year, Malaysia has to recruit doctors from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh, countries which need doctors even more than Malaysia, to help fill some of the vacancies in Malaysia hospitals. Continue reading Call on the Government to treble the intake of non-buniputra students for medical places for next year’s academic year

Beware of the Barisan and MCA stepped-up campaign to discredit and destroy the DAP through a organised and systematic campaign of smear, lies and malice

Beware of the Barisan and MCA stepped-up campaign to discredit and destroy the DAP through a organised and systematic campaign of smear, lies and malice

I had hope that after the Party Annual Conference in Seremban on Dec, 21, the Party will be able to get on with its work to rebuild itself in conjunction with the Party’s 15th Anniversary along lines designed by the Central Executive Committee since the Cameron Highlands Meeting in August 1980, to infuse the Party and the party leaders and member with a new sense of purpose, and to prepare for the next general elections which could be held within 18 to 24 months. Continue reading Beware of the Barisan and MCA stepped-up campaign to discredit and destroy the DAP through a organised and systematic campaign of smear, lies and malice

From The SG’s Desk

State Committees and Finance

I had asked for new approaches and concepts in organization to better equip the Party for the Eighties. New ideas and approaches should not be confined to Organisation, but must apply to all fields of Party activity.

In F.SG.D. (SG/6/80), I had dwelt on the ‘Responsibility and Challenge of State Committees’. What I said there was only the beginning of new ideas on State Committee’s new responsibilities in the Decade of the Eighties. Continue reading From The SG’s Desk