Waging an Unwinnable War

Chairman Mao Tse-tung declared: "Every Communist must grasp the truth, ''Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun''..." Mao''s dictum provided the guiding principle for the protracted armed struggle of the Communist Party of Malaya/Malaysia over a 40-year period, from the start of its guerrilla war in mid-1948 to the signing of the peace agreement to conclude the futile conflict in early ...