Face it, none in opposition can match PSM’s D Jeyakumar

A day in the life of an ‘unconventional’ MP

Jerit: Sungai Siput MP Dr D Jeyakumar is an MP who is so simple, humble, committed and always there for the people.

The Parti Sosialis Malaysia lawmaker is an exemplary MP for many. Salute to you, Dr Jeyakumar. Your commitment towards empowering and helping the people is awesome.

SuaraRakyat: There is nothing unconventional, Jeyakumar’s day sounds like a typical day for any opposition MP!

David Dass: Jeyakumar is truly a dedicated man of the people. It’s hard to believe that such people exist.

Anonymous: I remember how in the 60s, the great Choy Chee Yew, or CY Choy, of the Pan-Malayan Labour Party (PMLP) won the Pengkalan Kota state seat in Penang uncontested. He always won by a big majority.

At one time when he was contesting, a lot of trishaw pullers willingly came out to ferry voters to the polling station under the Labour Party symbol flag and every time he won big.

Why? Because he was a down-to-earth, dedicated helper and I heard he always had a typewriter by his side and was ready to help at all times. A really great man, who died a poor man.

If Jeyakumar is truly that enthusiastic about his work, there is no point fielding opponents against him in the next general election.

Vent: The racist apparatchiks are out with their knives to get a good man, who could have been pushing medicine in a cosy medical practice instead of pushing against the odds for his constituents.

Fact is, there is no one in the opposition that can match this man intellectually or morally. Guess the truth hurts those vying to defeat him.

Rakyat Malaya: We should vote for PSM to save democracy, and let people’s power kick out politicians in both camps who are just doing lip service and deceiving our voters. PSM is the new hope for Malaysia.

Resisting historical amnesia, youths embrace Left again

Anonymous 568201438363345: When you see the way Youth leaders like Bersatu Youth chief Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman are being nurtured and developed to be our so-called future leaders, you are looking at a serious problem.

Stopping a beer festival will stop gay problems? We already have enough of this kind of problem from our present government, and Bersatu Youth is behaving just like them?

Whatever happened to the talk of “plural societies” with diverse cultures and religions? We are jumping from one cesshole into another if Pakatan Harapan takes over Putrajaya.

The Analyser: Writer Maryam Lee, I want to give you the biggest hug imaginable. If you are the voice of Malaysian youth to counter Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s ultra-conservatism, then speak, speak up loud and clear so that everyone can hear you.

Tear down the hatred of the selfish, greed-driven aged bigots who have dominated Malaysia for far, far too long.

But I beg you, don’t look at the past for direction, because there is nothing about Malaysia’s past worth repeating.

Look to the future and forge the sort of Malaysia that young Malaysians want. Forge the Malaysia you want.

Quigonbond: Maryam is an idealist. For GE14, we need to plant our feet firmly on reality.

You don’t expect Bersatu to suddenly say they are a party for every race. That’s the antithesis of what their leader, former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, has been, and the kind of demographics they are trying to capture votes from.

What we hope is the core parties of the previous Pakatan Rakyat will get most of the parliamentary seats. As a solid block, they will decide on the serious reforms that this country needs. That too, is by a long shot.

Gerrymandering and other forms of electoral fraud, and then the unconstitutional power to declare emergency should the incumbents lose, make people think it is still extremely difficult to dislodge BN from power.

One also hopes that if Harapan does win power, Bersatu won’t do any U-turns on the reforms it has promised. In short, keeping the status quo is unacceptable.

Vgeorgemy: Neoliberal capitalism, withdrawal of the government from the economy and leaving things to the market, has now reached a dead end after the Great Recession.

Adoption of neoliberal market policies has resulted in the reduction in rural income and migration of rural youth to the cities for jobs, which has created the urban poor community due to the lack of skills needed for the market-driven economy.

The failure in the increase in income-earning capacities has produced the current upsurge of far-right nationalist, supremacist and religious ideologies.

These would consist of the right to employment, the right to free and quality healthcare, the right to free and quality education through government-funded neighbourhood schools and the right to adequate old-age pensions and disability benefits.

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