| dc.description.abstract | In 1930,Comintern reformed the Nanyang Communist Party as the Communist Party of Malaya in Johor,taking over the authority from CCP about communist active in Southeast Asia. Under the guiding of Comintern, the CPM endeavored to recruit the Malay and the Indian, but they were failed before the Japanese occupation. During the World War II, CPM gained great support from the mass including the Malay in Singapore and Malaya, and cooperating with Brith’s Allied Force for South East Asia in end of 1943.CPM couldn’t establish communism authority after the war, although they gained a large number of militant resoures from Britsh and got much assistance in materials from people during the war. When the conflict was risen between Brith Military Adiministration (BMA) and CPM, the 12 years of Emergency war was occurred.Nither the Authority nor the CPM was the winner in the Emergency war when CPM developing its revolutionary forces in South Thailand in late 1950s.In South Thailand,CPM successfully utilized the two-way stratege-- “united front from above”and “united front from below”to penetrate the student,labour and political societies in Singapore and Malaysia.Despite of the Chinese being the major member in CPM’ army, the Malay
The dissertation in this study is to discuss the CPM ‘s partyline, leadership,organisation and propaganda in Singapore and Malaya/Malayasia.During this discussion, the researcher selects West Malaysia and Singapore as this study range by the reason of no relationship between the CPM and NKCP(North Kalimantan Communist Party).In order to understand the mode of CPM’s actives,the researcher exercises the concept of social movement theory to analysis this subject and construct the programe of this theme.
This study has two contributions for academic circle in the field of Southeast Asia Historiy: (1)It provides an comprehensive observation about the CPM.(2)It gives a clear statement about mass mobilization methods of CPM.(3)It not only explaines the relationship between CPM and other Communist Party,but also the relationship between the CPM and its Malay members. | en_US |