Speech by DAP Secretary- General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to DAP Perak State Sub-Committee and branch representatives on Thursday, 22nd June 1972 at 8.00p.m.
A new era for the DAP
The Democratic Action Party has emerged stronger, more purposeful and effective following the Central Executive Committee meeting on June18, which decided to purge the Party of disruptive and destructive elements. Continue reading A new era for the DAP
Statement by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, on Wednesday, 21st June 1972
The Goh Hock Guan Affairs
I am today releasing the letter Goh Hock Guan wrote to me on October 15, 1970, after I had withdrawn as Chairman of Selangor State Sub-Committee in his favour, and a few days after my meeting of party leadership and responsibility, as National Vice Chairman. At that meeting, he demanded to become Party Chairman, but I made it very clear to him that it was completely out of the question.
I will leave the public to draw their own conclusions from the letter, for I believe truth speaks louder than falsehoods: Continue reading The Goh Hock Guan Affair (4)
Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to the Penang State Sub-Committee and branch representatives at Penang DAP State premises at Green Lane on Wednesday, 20th June 1972 at 8 p.m.
The Goh Hock Guan Affair (3)
June 18, 1972 will go down in DAP history as one of our landmarks, the day when the DAP put a check to the internal decline by beginning a purge of destructive and disruptive elements in the Party.
When the Central Executive Committee met on June 18, 1972 the stocks of the DAP was at a low ebb. Continue reading The Goh Hock Guan Affair (3)
Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to Negeri Sembilan State Sub-Committee and Negeri Sembilan branch representatives at 3, Wilkinson Street, Seremban on Tuesday, 20th June 1972 at 7.30 p.m.
The Goh Hock Guan Affair (2)
The past 22 months had been a very difficult period for the DAP, not only because of the very limiting and repressive political condition in the country, but also because of the threat to party discipline, morale, unity and image as posed and represented by Goh Hock Guan. Continue reading The Goh Hock Guan Affair (2)
Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to Selangor DAP State Sub-Committee and Selangor branch representatives at 63-D Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 19th June 1972 at 7.30 p.m.
The Goh Hock Guan Affair
Goh Hock Guan has tried to explain the DAP Central Executive Committee decision yesterday to strip him of all party positions, suspend him as a party member, and ask him to show cause why he should not be expelled as a party member, as one of personal differences between him and me. Continue reading The Goh Hock Guan Affair
New DAP Parliamentary Whip appointed
Peter Paul Dason, Member of Parliament for Penang Utara, has been appointed the new DAP Parliamentary Whip in place of Dr. A. Soorian, Member of Parliament for Port Dickson.
Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when speaking to members of the DAP Sitiawan Branch in Pekan Gurney, Sitiawan on Friday, 19th May 1972 at 7.30 p.m.
Call to DAP members and supporters throughout the country to rededicate themselves to the DAP cause for a Malaysian Malaysia.
We meet here tonight not to mourn over the defection and treachery of Richard Ho, who for his own selfish personal interest has dedicate ourselves to the DAP struggle interests and rights, but to rededicate ourselves to the DAP struggle in Setiawan and in Malaysia for a Malaysian Malaysia. Continue reading Call to DAP members and supporters throughout the country to rededicate themselves to the DAP cause for a Malaysian Malaysia
The defections of Walter Loh and Richard Ho
When Lee Beng Cheang defected and joined the MCA last February, I felt sorry for him for he was a victim of circumstances. My colleagues and I in the DAP shed no tear for the defections of Walter Loh and Richard Ho.
Richard Ho has now followed the footsteps of the Yeoh Eng Chyes, and for a comfortable place and life, betrayed the people’s trust and hopes.
Richard Ho has been a political misfit in the DAP. We are aware that for over a year, MCA leaders had been working on Richard Ho. We had thought that Richard Ho would have enough decency, self-respect and sense of honour to stand by his pledge to fight for the people’s interests and rights. We were mistaken. Continue reading The defections of Walter Loh and Richard Ho
Speech by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang, when inaugurating the protem committee of the Simpang Pulai DAP Branch in Perak on Friday, 5th May 1972 at 7.30 p.m. The Simpang Pulai DAP Branch is the fourth branch to be set up in the Ipoh-Menglembu area since the coalition.
DAP – the only genuine people’s party in Perak
When Dato S.P. Seenivasagam was sworn in as the seventh member of the Perak State Executive Council on April 28, leaders of both the Perak Alliance and the PPP spoke of “a new chapter” in the history of the State. Continue reading DAP – the only genuine people’s party in Perak
MAY DAY 1972 Message by DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Bandar Melaka, Mr. Lim Kit Siang
(Issued on 30th April 1972)
May Day 1972 comes at a moment of growing industrial unrest, which will increase in intensity in the coming month.
The basic causes of the mounting labour unrest are: Continue reading MAY DAY 1972 Message