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China and insurgency in Malaysia / Suryanarayan, V

Suryanarayan, V	Journal Article
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Insurgency ; Military Power ; China ; Malaysia ; Malayan Communist Party

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ID: 146535

Cold War scripts: comparing remembrance of the Malayan emergency and the 1965 violence in Indonesia / McGregor, Katharine

McGregor, Katharine	Journal Article
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This paper contributes to a growing field of literature on Cold War culture by comparing struggles over memory in Indonesia and Malaysia of anti-communist repressions. It demonstrates the enduring legacies of the Cold War in these neighbouring countries where the war overlapped directly with experiences of colonization and decolonization. I show how and why anti-communism in both countries became a core foundation of both Malaysian and Indonesian nationalism and related religious identification and how this largely explains successive governments’ attempts to memorialize and defend these repressions. I argue that recent attempts by both survivors of the repression and younger Indonesians and Malaysians to reexamine the history of the political left or experiences of repression constitute important efforts to rethink the postcolonial predicaments of both countries in different ways.

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Memory ; Emergency ; Anti-communism ; Indonesian Communist Party ; Malayan Communist Party ; 1965 Violence

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ID: 120883

Women in the Malayan communist party, 1942–89 / Musa, Mahani

Musa, Mahani	Journal Article
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2013.

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Women's involvement in the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) since its establishment in 1930 until they laid down their arms in 1989 contributed much to the strength of the party. Women in the MCP have been presented largely as nurses, cooks, seamstresses, couriers, and wireless/radio operators, but they went through hardship and danger and fought the same battles as the male guerrillas. A few even climbed to the top party posts through hard work, intelligence and personal sacrifice. This paper recovers the role of women in the Malayan communist movement during the Second World War, the Emergency and after by tracing the careers and lives of party heroines / female role models as well as some ordinary cadres. Major questions include the motivations of women who joined the MCP and the challenges they faced in their roles as propagandists, comrades, guerrilla fighters and in the communist villages. This investigation provides more insight into how the revolutionary struggle transformed these Malayan women.

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Women ; Malayan Communist Party ; Male Guerrillas ; Malayan Communist Movement ; Malayan Women

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