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Resolutions of the 11th Congress of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)

Socialist Party of Malaysia - June 8, 2009

On the final day of the three days Congress, the party adopted the following resolutions:

1. A peaceful, whole composing political action - A one-day Hartal in the state of Perak to demand for the dissolution of the State Assemble of Perak and to conduct state-level elections.

2. PSM demands that the Federal Government exercise the following seven steps to handle the economic crisis as outlined in the memorandum submitted by PSM to the Human Resource Minister on 25 February 2009:

Set Up a Fund for workers laid-off or retrenched - Retrenchment Fund
Implement a Minimum Wage Act and oppose cheap labour policy
Create job opportunities in public sectors
Food rations and food hampers for families for are in dire need.
Restructure bank loans for housing and small businneses.
Temporary land license for farming in state and private land, in urban and rural areas.
Preserve the corporate tax at the current level. Oppose the implementation of GST

1. PSM opposes the privatisation of water, healthcare, education and other public services. We also oppose any plans to increase the fares of public transport, oil and the recent move to stop the subsidy for flour, sugar and bread. We demand for the immediate halt of building private hospitals and demand that the quality of services at public hospital be upgraded.

2. PSM demands that PPSMI (Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris) be abolished and allow mother tongue languages to be used in schools.

3. PSM demands the Federal Government to establish the IPCMC to stop abuses by the police, misuse of police power and unlawful arrests by the police. The police must be used for its true purpose a?? to fight crime and protect the people, not to stifle the peoplea??s democratic rights. PSM also calls for the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to show more integrity in handling corruption and bribery cases.
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PSM demands that the Federal Government abolishes all unjust acts including the ISA, Sedition, AUKU, OSA and the others. We call for the immediate closure of the Kamunting Detention Centre and to convert the building into a historical site to expose the draconian use of the Act.

5. PSM demands that laws preventing peoplea??s representatives from contesting in elections for 5 years after hopping parties be abolished; and to enact a law on party hopping when a seat is vacated once an assemblyman hops party.

6. PSM opposes all forms of oppression and encroachment of rights in war including those fought in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Palestine and other parts of the world.

7. PSM demands that the rights of the natives to their land be respected as well as other marginalized groups. PSM demands for the enactment of a law to allow automatic recognition of trade unions.

8. We call for the historical perspective of our independence to be rewritten and to give due recognition to the contributions made by leftwing parties. We also urge the Government to respect the Peace Treaty between the Malaysian Government, Thai Government and the Communist Party of Malaya (PKM) in 1989, allowing all former PKM members to be allowed back into their homeland.

9. PSM rejects all race-based policies and calls for all such policies to be replaced by policies based on needs. And to heal ethnic relationships harmed by the May 13 tragedy in 1969, PSM calls for the Selangor Government to investigate into the losses, injustices, injuries and deaths experienced by the people of Selangor during the May 13th incident.

10. PSM demands that local government elections to be reinstated immediately and demands that the Federal Government carries out the BERSIH demands:

The use of indelible ink
Comprehensive cleanup of the electoral roll
The abolition of postal voting
Equal media access

1. PSM calls for the abolition of the National Service (NS) programme.

2. PSM calls for both Federal and State Governments to take environmental protection and climate change issues seriously by taking proper measures.

3. PSM is in solidarity with all peoples of the world struggling against capitalism, which has forced the working class to pay for the economic crisis created by capitalism itself.