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The Open United Front: The Communist Struggle in Singapore 1954-1966
By: Lee Ting Hui
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Communism was first introduced into the Malayan Peninsula and Singapore in about 1925 In the years that followed the Communist struggle developed in pose to the changing political climate: colonialism, capitalism, the move towards self rule, independence and democracy. Malayan Communism shaped by the forces of international Communism, re-orienting itself from Leninist to a Mao Tse-tung path and mutating its methods of struggle in order to achieve its goal of a new democratic revolution.The book the struggle of the Communist Party of Malays in the year 1954-1966, when the Party utilised the technique of the "open united front" political instrument. Their aim, author T.H Ler argues was not to overthrow the British and seize power by armed force in the island, but to regather and rebuild their strength which had been greatly depleted in jungle fighting during even the earlier years of the states of Emergency. with great attention to detail Lee traces the chronology of events that shaped the initially successful operation of the open united front, and its ultimate failure after 1961.
