I read with frustration the views by Mitra officers in Malaysiakini and would like to add on the plight of three generations of plantation workers. On 13th August, hundreds of plantation workers gathered at Parliament urging the government to enact a sunset law that would legally compel plantation owners including government-linked companies (GLCs) like Sime…
Tag: Housing
PMX’s Lopsided Defense of the Urban Renewal Act
PMX’s statement regarding the Urban Renewal Act (URA), as reported in Malay Mail 19/3/2025, has several significant inaccuracies. The first is that there are no clauses in the URA mandating that the original residents will beresettled in the new property developed at that site. Neither are there any specific clauses statingthat the ethnic composition of…
PSM’s manifesto for the 15th General Election
Vote for Parti Sosialis Malaysia!
Housing is not a commodity. Remove it from the free market!
by A. Sivarajan. The government should take over the responsibility of providing first homes
Windsor Estate workers protest forced evictions by Malakoff Corp
Plantation workers picket in Brickfields
Targeted Loan Moratorium Extension – Tribunal required to save families from the predatory instincts of banks!
by Dr. Jeyakumar Devaraj On 27/7/2020, the Finance Minister Dato’ Sri Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz clarified the Government’s position on loan moratorium when queried by Lim Guan Eng during Parliamentary question time. The Finance Minister announced that banks operating in Malaysia have agreed to extend the loan moratorium for another three months (October to December 2020)…
Prevent tenants from being thrown out, urgent intervention needed!
We must make sure no family is made homeless by Covid-19
Balan’s Unfulfilled Wish – When Our Support System Fails
by S. Arutchelvan Just before 10pm, the health condition of Balan deteriorated. They had barely rushed him out of his house when, it appeared to family members that he had breathed his last. This was later confirmed by the Seremban General Hospital when they certified that he died of germs infection at 10pm. Tina, PSM’s…