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The battle for equality, justice and freedom would be lost if Malaysians dare not stand up and speak out against discriminatory government policies which treat them as second-class citizens

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the official opening of the Selangor DAP State Convention held at TWU Hall, PJ on Sunday, 28.6.1987 at 10a.m.

The battle for equality, justice and freedom would be lost if Malaysians dare not stand up and speak out against discriminatory government policies which treat them as second-class citizens

In the recent Penang State Assembly meeting, Penang Chief Minister Dr. Lim Chong Eu, attacked the DAP Aeemblymen for Jawi, Chin Kwee Toon, for protesting against Barisan Nasional policies which divided Malaysians into first-class and second-class citizens. Continue reading The battle for equality, justice and freedom would be lost if Malaysians dare not stand up and speak out against discriminatory government policies which treat them as second-class citizens

DAP calls on Labour Minister to set up a special task force to visit all the contract workers in the Negri Sembilan-Pahang border land development schemes to end to slave labour conditions

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Malacca on Wednesday, June 11, 1986:

DAP calls on Labour Minister to set up a special task force to visit all the contract workers in the Negri Sembilan-Pahang border land development schemes to end to slave labour conditions

All Malaysian must be shocked by the revelation in the local press (NST front-page) that several hundred contract workers in land development schemes in and around Negri Sembilan-Pahang border are working as bonded labourers, subjected to the most primitive system of serfdom. Continue reading DAP calls on Labour Minister to set up a special task force to visit all the contract workers in the Negri Sembilan-Pahang border land development schemes to end to slave labour conditions

Call for the government to scrap the third weekly additional Empat Ekor draw as inimical to public interest

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Friday, June 28, l985.

Call for the government to scrap the third weekly additional Empat Ekor draw as inimical to public interest.

The Malaysian press gives prominent coverage to Magnum Corporation’s police report of suspected rigging of the first prize number – 1214 – in the June l5 Empat Ekor draw. Continue reading Call for the government to scrap the third weekly additional Empat Ekor draw as inimical to public interest

Call on all ISA condemned families to urgently contact the DAP so that a national campaign to save the lives of the condemned could be launched

Press Conference Statement by DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at PJ DAP Headquarters on Friday, August 13, 1982 at 2 p.m.

Call on all ISA condemned families to urgently contact the DAP so that a national campaign to save the lives of the condemned could be launched

The Kuala Lumpur High Court yesterday struck off the application on behalf of five ISA condemned convicts for a stay of execution of the mandatory death penalty, dismissing the argument that the mandatory death sentence is unconstitutional. Continue reading Call on all ISA condemned families to urgently contact the DAP so that a national campaign to save the lives of the condemned could be launched

Deplores the high-handed Petaling Jaya Municipality attitude which forced the 126 stall-holders at Section 52 market to stage a mass walk-out in protest of the PJ Municipality briefing

Press Statement by DAP Member of Parliament and Adviser to Petaling Jaya Hawkers’ Association, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Tuesday, 27.7.1982:

Deplores the high-handed Petaling Jaya Municipality attitude which forced the 126 stall-holders at Section 52 market to stage a mass walk-out in protest of the PJ Municipality briefing

I am shocked by the most unreasonable and high-handed attitude and action of the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council this afternoon, which resulted in the 126 stall-holders of Section 52 market to stage a mass walk-out in protest at Petaling Jaya Municipal Council briefing. Continue reading Deplores the high-handed Petaling Jaya Municipality attitude which forced the 126 stall-holders at Section 52 market to stage a mass walk-out in protest of the PJ Municipality briefing

How a million dollars could be made from supplying ‘instant mee’ to the armed forces

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, at the Simpang Ampat DAP Branch Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, 23rd June 1981 at 8 p.m.

How a million dollars could be made from supplying ‘instant mee’ to the armed forces

Malaysia is aflush with money – especially with the new wealth coming from petroleum, which has overtaken rubber as the No. 1 income earner. Continue reading How a million dollars could be made from supplying ‘instant mee’ to the armed forces

Call on Home Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie, to explain why Far Eastern Economic Review magazines are being held up for about three weeks before release

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Friday, 8th May 1981:

Call on Home Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie, to explain why Far Eastern Economic Review magazines are being held up for about three weeks before release?

The April 17-23 issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review was released by the Minister of Home Affairs yesterday, 20 days after being held up by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Continue reading Call on Home Affairs Minister, Tan Sri Ghazalie Shafie, to explain why Far Eastern Economic Review magazines are being held up for about three weeks before release

Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when officially declaring open the Raub DAP Branch premises in Raub, Pahang, on Sunday, 22nd March 1981 at 4.30 pm

Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang, where a tarred road has become a dirt road.

Yesterday, together with the National Deputy Chairman, Sdr. Ibrahim Singgeh, CEC Member Sdr. Lau Dak Lee, Pahang State DAP Chairman, Sdr. Lim Yin Hong and Special Assistant to Secretary-General, Sdr. Tai Sin Piaw, I visited Mengkarak new village in Pahang for the first time. Continue reading Call on Malaysians to be politically committed to defend and safeguard their constitutional, political, economic, educational and cultural right from being eroded away or like in Mengkarak new village in Pahang

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

DAP calls on private sector to give minimum 10% salary increases to workers to help them keep in step with inflation and match recent government salary increases

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at the Cameron Highlands DAP Branch Dinner held at Hotel Merlin, Cameron Highlands, on Friday, 8th August 1980 at 8 pm

DAP calls on private sector to give minimum 10% salary increases to workers to help them keep in step with inflation and match recent government salary increases

The Government recently awarded a $600 million salary increase to some 75,000 public employees, which though announced as aimed to help cushion government servants from inflationary spiral, have fuelled further inflationary price increases. Continue reading DAP calls on private sector to give minimum 10% salary increases to workers to help them keep in step with inflation and match recent government salary increases