From David Lockwood, an associate professor and visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide, comes The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948, which details the rapid rise of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) from its formation to the resistance against Japanese colonisation and the later onset of the Malayan Emergency.

Lockwood attempts to explain why the CPM was launched into the “collective act of self-destruction” on that fateful day in 1948, and questions assumptions that post-WWII politics led inevitably to armed struggle, as well as the accepted narrative of chairperson Lai Teck’s treachery.

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The Politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948

David Lockwood
NUS Press
2024