Category: Malaysia in the Dangerous 80s

Malaysia in the dangerous 80s

Book: Malaysia in the dangerous 80s
by Lim Kit Siang
First Edition: April 1982
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Malaysia in the dangerous 80s: Prologue (27 March 1982)
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ON NATIONAL UNITY

  1. Racial Polarization (9 March, 1982)
  2. Racial Polarization (13 October 13, 1978)
  3. Dap ‘Obstacle To National Unity’? (29 March, 1979)
  4. A Decade Of Unity And Reconciliation (18 March, 1980)
  5. The Meaning Of Malaysian Nationality (22 March, 1979)
  6. The Fourth Malaysian Plan (30 March, 1981)

ON DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION

  1. Removal of security of tenure of government servants (8 December, 1978 )
  2. Dictatorship by state of permanent emergency (17 January, 1979)
  3. The four proclamation of emergency (28 June, 1979)
  4. Abdication of parliamentary responsibility (29 June, 1979)
  5. The final usurpation of powers (10 April, 1981)
  6. Societies amendment bill (8 April, 1981)
  7. Voting rights for the young (16 October, 1978)
  8. Conditions of detention (3 April, 1979)

ON A CLEAN, EFFICIENT AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT

  1. On A Clean, Honest And Incorrupt Government (18 October, 1977)
  2. Freedom Of Information (26 October, 1979)
  3. The Undemocratic Ban (23 October, 1978)
  4. The Puchong Mine Landslide (26 March, 1981)
  5. Cult Of Government Secrecy (9 April, 1981)

ON NEW ECONOMIC POLICY

  1. Fundamental NEP Defects (22 October, 1979)
  2. Role Of A Budget (22 October, 1980)
  3. State Revenue Growth Gains (11 October, 1979)
  4. The Bank Rakyat Betrayal (1) (24 June, 1979)
  5. The Bank Rakyat Betrayal (2) (26 June, 1979)
  6. Domestic Investment Shortfalls (21 June, 1979)
  7. Lop-Sided Pay Increase For Public Servants (12 June, 1980)
  8. State Advance Fund (16 October, 1981)
  9. Sugar-Coated Election Budget (27 October, 1981)
  10. Bintulu-Isation Of NEP (18 March, 1982)

ON PARLIAMENT AND PARLIAMENTARIANS

  1. Parliamentary Reforms (17 june, 1980)
  2. 100% Increase Of Parliamentary Allowance (18 June, 1980)
  3. Call For Cuts In Minister’s Allowances (4 December, 1981)
  4. Parliamentary Standing Orders (30 October, 1981)
  5. A Biased Report Of Committee Of Privileges (29 September, 1981)

ON EDUCATION, HEALTH AND LABOUR

  1. The Mahathir Report On Education (1) (9 June, 1980)
  2. The Mahathir Report On Education (2) (10 June, 1980)
  3. Private Universities And Colleges (10 October, 1978)
  4. On Chinese And Tamil Primary Schools (20 June, 1980)
  5. Medical Places For Non-Malay Students (8 June, 1981)
  6. Royal Commission Of Inquiry Into Health Services (17 June, 1980)
  7. Restoration Of Workers’s Political Rights (11 June, 1979)
  8. Security Of Work (13 June, 1979)
  9. Employment (Amendment) Ordinance (20 June, 1980)
  10. Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 1981 (4 April, 1980)
  11. MAS-AEU Industrial Confrontation (20 March, 1979)

Malaysia in the dangerous 80s: Prologue

This collection of parliamentary speeches, including one made in the Malacca State Assembly, from October 1978 to March 1982 is a record of the political developments in the country during the last four years.

Its publication is aimed at informing Malaysians of what the DAP had been saying and fighting for in Parliament, as the ‘free and democratic’ press in Malaysia had consistently blacked out DAP speeches in Parliament.

Since 1978, the nebulous ‘press freedom’ in Malaysia had come under a serious onslaught from a new direction, with more and more local newspapers falling under the ownership and control of one or other of the Barisan Nasional component parties. Continue reading Malaysia in the dangerous 80s: Prologue