Parti Sosialis Malaysia
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Socialist Party of Malaysia
Parti Sosialis Malaysia 马来西亚社会主义党 மலேசிய சமூகக் கட்சி |
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| Abbreviation | PSM |
| Leader | Mohd Nasir Hashim |
| Secretary-General | Sivarajan Arumugam |
| Founded | 30 April 1998 |
| Legalised | 19 August 2008 |
| Headquarters | 140, Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad, Brickfields, 50470 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Youth wing | Pemuda PSM (Socialist Youth) |
| Ideology |
Democratic socialism Secularism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Colours | Red, white |
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| Dewan Rakyat: |
1 / 222
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| Dewan Undangan Negeri: |
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The Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM, Socialist Party of Malaysia), is a socialist political party in Malaysia and an offshoot of Parti Rakyat Malaysia, which originally upheld the same ideology. In its first ten years following its founding in 1998, the party was denied registration as a political party by the Federal Government of Malaysia. The original reason given was that PSM is a threat to national security. However, the Home Ministry gave them the green light in June 2008.
As of 1 November 2009, the party has one seat in the Dewan Rakyat, the Sungai Siput seat, which its candidate Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj won under the banner of Parti Keadilan Rakyat.
The last socialist party to exist in Malaysia, Parti Sosialis Rakyat Malaysia (PSRM), reverted their name to Parti Rakyat Malaysia in 1990 before merging with Parti Keadilan Rakyat in 2003.
In 1991, several grassroots based organisations working with the urban and rural poor in Malaysia started to form an alliance. In 1994, they staged a massive demonstration at the heart of Kuala Lumpur surprising many people. The last major demonstration called by the working class in the capital city goes way back two decades ago.
In 1995, these grassroots organisation who already had their strong bases among the plantation workers, urban poor slums and industrial workers formed an alliance and together the idea to form a political party to represent the aspirations of the poor and the marginalised was mooted. The election results in 1995 hastened this process and after years of discussion and consolidations, it was finally agreed that a party with socialist ideology was imminent to liberate the masses from their current conditions.
With this in mind, the groups took more than two and the half years to draft the party's constitution, which was ready by the end of 1997. After further consultation with the masses, on 1 May 1998, the new party known as the Socialist Party of Malaysia was officially put for registration.
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