Historian Jason Ng Sze Chieh teams up with journalist Murray Hunter for Narratives From Piyamit: Life Stories at the End of the Revolution, which tells the tale of 12 young people who joined the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, years after the end of the Malayan Emergency in 1960.

These guerrillas signed up for CPM against the backdrop of several course-changing events in the history of the newly-formed Malaysia—the racial violence of the May 13 incident and the ensuing New Economic Policy; the lesser-known Communist Insurgency (or Second Malayan Emergency), in which CPM waged war against Malaysian security forces from southern Thailand; as well as the eventual splintering of CPM into three.

The surviving guerillas, now settled in the Friendship Villages in the south of Thailand, tell their stories in this often-overlooked chapter of Malaysian history in Narratives From Piyamit.

Narratives From Piyamit: Life Stories at the End of the Revolution is available for pre-order on the Gerakbudaya site.

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Narratives From Piyamit: Life Stories at the End of the Revolution

Jason Ng Sze Chieh and Murray Hunter 
2024
SIRD and New Era University College