The Open United Front: The Communist Struggle In Singapore, 1954 – 1966

This book bones in on the struggle of the Communist Party of Malaya in the years 1954-1966, when the Party utilized the technique of the open united front as a political instrument. Their aim author T.H.Lee argues, was not to overbrow the British and seize power by armed force in the island, but to regather and rebuild their strength which had been greatly depleted in jungle fighting during even the earlier years of the State of Emergency between 1948 and 1960. With great attention to detail, Lee traces the chronology of events that shaped the initially successful operation of the open united front, and then its ultimate failure after 1961. 

Publisher: South Seas Society

Paperback

1996

ISBN: 9789971936181