Malayan People's Party
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Malaysian People's Party
Parti Rakyat Malaysia மலேசிய மக்கள் கட்சி |
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| Abbreviation | PRM |
| President | Rohana Ariffin |
| Secretary-General | Al Jafree Md Yusop |
| Deputy President | S. K. Song |
| Founder | Ahmad Boestamam |
| Founded | 11 November 1955 |
| Headquarters | 21B(F) Jalan SJ 6, Taman Selayang Jaya, 68100 Batu Caves, Malaysia |
| Newspaper | Suara Rakyat |
| Ideology |
Democratic socialism Left-wing nationalism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
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Malayan Peoples' Socialist Front (1957–66) Barisan Alternatif (1998–2004) |
| Colours | Red, black, white |
| Dewan Negara: |
0 / 70
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| Dewan Rakyat: |
17 / 222
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| Dewan Undangan Negeri: |
0 / 587
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| Website | |
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The Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM, Malaysian People's Party) is a democratic socialist political party in Malaysia. Established on 11 November 1955 as Partai Ra'ayat, it is one of the older political parties in Malaysia and traces its pedigree to the anti-colonial movements from the pre World War II period like the Kesatuan Melayu Muda.
The founder of PRM, Ahmad Boestamam, was an activist of the leftist Kesatuan Melayu Muda (KMM) movement. During the Japanese occupation of Malaya, he had briefly served as with the Japanese sponsored militia known as the Pembela Tanah Ayer (Defender of the Homeland; PETA) and later helped to organise co-operative communes run by the KMM.
With the capitulation of the Japanese in 1945, movements that collaborated with the Japanese like KMM likewise collapsed and the leftist Malay activists regrouped to organise various political movements, such as the Malay Nationalist Party (Malay: Partai Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya; PKMM) led by Burhanuddin al-Helmy, the Angkatan Pemuda Insaf (Awakened Youth Organisation; API) led by Ahmad Boestamam and the Angkatan Wanita Sedar (Cohort of Awakened Women; AWAS) led by Shamsiah Fakeh. Boestamam was part of the PKMM and API delegation that participated in the Pan-Malayan Malay Congress in 1946 and was instrumental in keeping the Malay leftist movements out of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) that resulted out of the congress.
Growing opposition to the Malayan Union confederation led the British colonial authorities to consider an alternative constitutional framework for the country. A proposal known as the "Constitutional Proposals for Malaya" was developed in co-operation with UMNO and representatives of the Malay rulers. This proposal was opposed by a large segment of the non-Malay population of the country who saw it as discriminatory as well as a sizeable portion of the nationalists who saw it as delaying the self-determination and independence of Malaya.
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