Socialist Party of Malaysia

PSM MUDA candidates

Socialist Party of Malaysia: 'What did your third-party vote accomplish?'

Darren Ong Chung Lee — Understandably many were skeptical of our election campaign. We were nowhere close to winning, we lost our deposit, and Bersatu ended up gaining our seat. So what exactly did our efforts accomplish?
MUDA PSM

Malaysia: The third force needs more than quality candidates

Arveent Kathirtchelvan — The Socialist Party of Malaysia-Malaysian United Democracy Alliance third force foray in the 2023 state elections failed to garner enough votes for at least one candidate to save their deposit. This was an expected outcome.
PSM

Jeyakumar Devaraj (PSM): A new political culture for Malaysia

Jeyakumar Devaraj — With state elections just around the corner, this is a good time to delineate the main features of the new political culture that the Socialist Party of Malaysia is trying to promote.
Perikatan Nasional

Socialist Party of Malaysia: Perikatan Nasional’s false promises (plus reports on PSM election campaign)

Arveent Kathirtchelvan, Choo Chon Kai and Peter Boyle provide some updates on the Socialist Party of Malaysia's campaign for the coming state elections.
Environmental disaster

Malaysia: Class struggle in the face of environmental disasters

Huei Ting and Audrey Chan — Major floods and other environmental disasters are a call for greater class consciousness and better national policies to mitigate the devastating effects of extreme weather due to climate change.
PSM Ukraine protest

Malaysia: Stop the war in Ukraine! Give peace a chance!

This memorandum was handed over to the Delegation of the European Union to Malaysia and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kuala Lumpur on 15th March 2023.
PSM Ukraine

Socialist Party of Malaysia: The Russian invasion of Ukraine — One year on

Choo Chon Kai — World opinion is divided on the question of war in Ukraine, and so is the Left internationally. Most people on the political Left are against the war, but differ on many questions related to the war and actions that needed to be taken.
Sivarajan Arumugam

Malaysia after GE-15: ‘A government with no direction,’ says Socialist Party of Malaysia

Sivarajan Arumugam, Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of Malaysia, spoke with B. Skanthakumar on the general election, the PSM’s participation in that campaign, its assessment of the new government and the PSM’s plans in the months ahead.
Anwar Ibrahim

Malaysia: Consolidating the reform process

Jeyakumar Devaraj - The incoming government should speedily implement the following 4 programs, which will bring immediate economic relief to almost all of the B40 and M40 families in the nation.
PSM candidate

Malaysia: PSM’s manifesto for the 15th general election

Parti Sosialis Malaysia will be running in the Rembau parliamentary seat and the Ayer Kuning seat in the Perak state assembly. Here is their manifesto for the 15th General Election.
Workers on work site

Malaysia needs a job guarantee scheme

Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) has recently launched a campaign called ‘Pemulihan Nasional’, also known as a ‘National Rejuvenation’, aimed at providing necessary steps in order for Malaysia to rise out of the challenges brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have proposed 5 pillars for this campaign and the second pillar, which focuses on introducing a job guarantee scheme, will be elaborately broken down in this article.
Socialist Party of Malaysia National Congress 2022

Malaysia: Politics of electoral coalitions – No shortcuts, no accomplishing goals by hook or by crook

Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) recently concluded its 24th National Congress and the first one since the start of the pandemic. The event was held in Klang, between 15th of July to 17th of July 2022. It was a refreshing congress with many young people participating — displaying a promising future for socialism and giving us hope that its ideology is not outdated, but without a doubt, brewing amongst the youth. The election for the party’s Central Committee was participated by 49 candidates for 10 Central Committee seats, which for the first time saw woman candidates winning 8 of them.

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