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The FMT article on Sept 17 covering my short presentation at the forum titled “Dark forces towards GE15” has elicited a fair amount of comments and criticisms. As the issues I flagged are important, I think I had better explain a little more about what I actually said that day.
I had said that (...)
PARTI Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) remains skeptical about the opposition putting up a united front during the upcoming 15th General Elections (GE15) as the political landscape is vastly different than before.
Instead, PSM secretary-general A. Sivarajan foresees a repeat of history in the form of (...)
With Najib finally going to jail, liberals are having a field day claiming it was only through voting for them that this great achievement was won. Perhaps it is undeniable that they did play a role in this victory, although a pyrrhic one. Yes, Najib has been found guilty today and is now in (...)
The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) has recently drafted a guideline under the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (UUCA) with the purpose of regulating student involvement in politics on and off campus. This guideline contains many restrictions to which Pemuda Sosialis greatly (...)
We, Parti Sosialis Malaysia, call upon the government to honour the Minimum Wages Order 2022 by ensuring successful implementation of the new monthly minimum wage of RM 1,500 to all workers spreaded across 10,000 schools and colleges in Malaysia. A simple survey covering different parts of the (...)
To have a job in a time of crisis may seem like a blessing, but could the same be said if your employer, for whatever reason, does not pay your salary on time? You may feel morally obligated to accept their excuses in good faith and treat it as a one-off occurrence — seeing that we are in the (...)
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 (...)
When workers were enticed to withdraw their Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) savings to sustain themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic, it resulted in only about 3% of them having adequate savings to afford retirement. Thus, the indisputable fact is that our working population is stranded with (...)
KUALA LUMPUR – 26 APRIL 2022: “Why is the Perak state government so generous towards private developers but harsh in its treatment of the market gardeners in Perak?” This is the question raised by Dr. Jeyakumar Devaraj, Parti Sosialis Malaysia’s (PSM) national chairman, in a special press (...)
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) objects to the recent proposal by the Malaysian Employers’ Federation (MEF) which states that the salaries of workers who choose to ‘work from home’ (WFH) be reduced by as much as 10% to 12%.
This statement clearly reflects the greed of the capitalists who only (...)
PETALING JAYA: The government should provide universal basic income (UBI) to needy workers instead of giving their employers tax cuts or wage subsidies, says Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).
PSM deputy chief S Arutchelvam said while the idea of negative income tax or tax credits for the needy (...)
Warisan president Shafie Apdal recently said his party was willing to work with any political coalition that secured the people’s mandate.
The leaders of Muda and Gerak Independent (GI) have made similar statements. Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), which has the longest lived and developed (...)
(1st UPDATE) Ferrero’s move is a further reputational blow for Sime Darby and for Malaysia, which faces mounting allegations of labor abuses of migrant workers in various industries
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Italian confectionary giant Ferrero said it will stop sourcing palm oil from Sime Darby (...)
PARTI Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) urged the Government to impose additional taxes on the ultra-rich individuals and companies to cross-subside the move to raise minimum wage to RM1,500.
“There must be no compromise in raising the minimum wage across the board but we also understand that some small (...)
Rina Harun, the Women’s Development Minister caused an uproar in Parliament when she asserted that the government has no plans to ban Child Marriages! Marriage before 18 years is clearly expressed as violation of children protection and rights. Why is the government so reluctant? Chong Yee Shan (...)
After years of lobbying, Malaysia finally approved an increase in the national minimum wage to RM1,500. While the government has since delayed its implementation, current economic circumstances require the wage floor to be raised sooner rather than later.
Aminimum wage increase looms in (...)
During the past two years, Malaysians have been allowed to make several rounds of withdrawals from their EPF savings. This was done via the i-Lestari, i-Sinar and i-Citra schemes which resulted in a total withdrawal of RM 101 billion by 7.4 million members. According to EPF, this has resulted (...)
Malaysia’s government and business leaders say they are taking steps to stamp out forced labor amid a flurry of U.S. import bans over the rampant abuse of migrant workers making much of the world’s rubber gloves and palm oil.
Labor advocates and analysts, though, say their efforts still don’t go far enough.
Malaysia is the world’s leading supplier of medical rubber gloves and the second largest producer of palm oil, after Indonesia. Both industries draw overwhelmingly on workers from (...)
COMMENT | On Nov 30, 2021, two incidents took place. In Selangor, Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari announced that the Tanjung Pasir settlers’ issues were being resolved while in Negeri Sembilan, the bus of settlers from Gatco was prevented by police from going to the state assembly to pass a (...)
Marina, the daughter of Malaysia’s longest-serving prime minister, issued an apology for attributing a contentious remark made by her father, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, to the wrong politician.
Writing for The Sunday Star, her column entitled “We need the leaders we truly deserve” also showed the (...)
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