Communist Party of Malaya/Revolutionary Faction

The Communist Party of Malaya/Revolutionary Faction was a splinter group of the Communist Party of Malaya. The CPM/RF was engaged in armed struggle. It was founded in September 1970, when the 8th regiment at Sadao Camp broke off from the Communist Party of Malaya, under leadership of Huang Yijiang.[1] In 1983, merged with the Communist Party of Malaya/Marxist–Leninist to form the Malaysian Communist Party in 1983.[2]

Communist Party of Malaya/Revolutionary Faction
AbbreviationCPM-RF
Founded1970
Dissolved1983
Split fromMalayan Communist Party
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism
Political positionFar-left
ColoursRed
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References
  1. Montesano, Michael John; Jory, Patrick (2008). Thai South and Malay North: Ethnic Interactions on a Plural Peninsula. NUS Press. p. 192. ISBN 9789971694111.
  2. Chin, C. C.; Hack, Karl (2004). Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Communist Party. NUS Press. p. 24. ISBN 9789971692872.


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