Editing Politics of Malaysia (section)

====Communist Party of Malaya====
{{main|Malayan Communist Party}}

The first political party to be organised with a pan-Malayan outlook was the [[Communist Party of Malaya]] (CPM) established in 1930. The CPM was originally set up as a branch of the [[Comintern]] supervised by the Far Eastern Bureau of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in 1926, then known as the '''[[South Seas Communist Party]]'''. The fraternal [[Communist Party of Indonesia]] (established in 1924) was forced underground and in exile due to their abortive [[Communist Party of Indonesia#1926 revolt|revolt]] in 1926, which resulted in the CPM becoming exclusively dominated by people of Chinese descent {{cn|date=April 2025}}. Efforts to establish a broader based representation were made especially in the 1935 representative conferences between the CPM and the [[General Labour Union (Malaya)|General Labour Union]] as well as the establishment of contact with Communist cells in [[Communist Party of Thailand|Siam]] and the [[Dutch East Indies]] in 1936. Nonetheless, the CPM remained an organisation that was predominantly Chinese in composition until the [[Japanese occupation of Malaya]] which saw a larger participation of people from other ethnicities.<ref>{{cite book |title=From PKI to the Comintern, 1924–1941: The Apprenticeship of the Malayan Communist Party |last=Cheah |first=Boon Kheng |year=1992 |publisher=SEAP Publications |location=Ithaca |isbn=0-87727-125-9 |pages=143 }}</ref>