Sistem belum ubah selepas 9 bulan perintah, pengundi muda mungkin alih sokongan

Sistem belum ubah selepas 9 bulan perintah, pengundi muda mungkin alih sokongan

Source: Free Malaysia Today

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SHAH ALAM: Golongan pengundi muda berpotensi bertukar haluan atau sokongan parti politik kerana jaminan kerajaan untuk mengubah sistem belum terlaksana, kata calon Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).

Nik Aziz Afiq, 25, calon pilihan raya kecil (PRK) DUN Semenyih berkata, masalah yang dihadapi negara perlu dibetulkan pada puncanya, iaitu sistem.

“Sudah 9 bulan Pakatan Harapan (PH) memerintah tetapi anak muda dan pengundi yang beri undi kepada PH tidak nampak sistem berubah,” katanya dalam satu forum hari ini.

Sementara itu, penganalisis politik dari Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Prof Mohd Azizudin Mohd Sani berkata, mengubah sistem bukan sesuatu yang mudah dilakukan.

“Saya sendiri, sebagai pemerhati politik, lihat banyak perubahan yang hendak dilakukan seperti sistem pilihan raya dan isu dana politik,” katanya.

Jelasnya, kerajaan masih memerlukan sokongan 2/3 di Parlimen untuk merubah sesuatu dasar dan sistem dalam pemerintahan. Atas sebab itu, kerajaan mampu untuk mengubah beberapa elemen yang dibenarkan sahaja.

Sebelum ini, media melaporkan, jumlah pengundi muda bagi PRK Semenyih merangkumi 45% dengan selebihnya berumur 40 tahun ke atas.

Namun, kata Azizudin, 10% daripada 45% pengundi muda itu penentu kepada sentimen golongan muda pada pilihan raya itu.

Jelasnya, 10% itu anggaran pengundi muda yang keluar membuang undi Sabtu ini kerana dijangka peratus keluar mengundi akan jatuh.

“Tidak macam pilihan raya umum ke-14. Mungkin sebab banyak pengundi muda berada di luar kawasan, bekerja dan sebagainya,” katanya.

PSM: Putrajaya’s position on healthcare for B40 contradictory

PSM: Putrajaya’s position on healthcare for B40 contradictory

Source: Free Malaysia Today

Putrajaya’s healthcare policies for the bottom B40 income group are contradictory because it was allowing the private medical services providers to expand and recruit specialists from the public sector, said PSM’s Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj.

In a statement today, Jeyakumar (photo, above) said although Putrajaya, on the one hand, had arranged for the MySalam insurance scheme for the underprivileged, the Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng was a major proponent of “health tourism” which only concerned the private sector.

“In Penang itself, Lim approved the expansion of Island Hospital by granting them 6.4 acres of government land to develop ‘Island Medical City’.

“Does he not see that expansion of existing private hospitals undermines the government health sector by siphoning off even more specialist doctors from government hospitals?

“Does he not know that only 10 percent of the specialists with more than 10 years of experience post-specialisation are currently still in government service?” asked Jeyakumar.

When contacted for more details today, Jeyakumar said the right policy was for Putrajaya to expand the capacity of public healthcare to make it the first choice of the B40 and M40 group.

“There should be a moratorium on the expansion of private health care and hospitals, especially in the west coast,” he said.

This was PSM’s response to Lim’s latest explanations regarding the MySalam insurance scheme arranged by the Finance Ministry.

Insurance giant Great Eastern had contributed RM2 billion to the fund which would entitle eligible policyholders to an RM8,000 one-off payment should they contract 36 critical illnesses.

Policyholders will also be able to claim RM50 for each day they are hospitalised, up to RM700 a year. However, the policy was only applicable if treatment was sought from public hospitals.

Lim had explained that this was a form of safety net for vulnerable groups.

 

Kerajaan tiada aspirasi perkasa institusi awam

Kerajaan tiada aspirasi perkasa institusi awam

HULU LANGAT 25 Feb. – Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) menganggap kerajaan Pakatan Harapan (PH) tidak mempunyai aspirasi untuk membina lebih banyak institut pengajian tinggi awam dan meningkatkan kapasiti pengambilan ke dalam universiti itu.

Ketua Biro Pendidikan Pemuda PSM, N. G. Gandipan berkata, hal berkenaan membuatkan ramai pelajar terpaksa memilih melanjutkan pengajian ke universiti swasta yang kebanyakannya menawarkan kursus dengan harga mahal.

Katanya, pelajar kemudiannya terpaksa berhutang untuk membayar semula kos pengajian walaupun belum lagi mendapat pekerjaan.

“Kalau kita lihat pelajar yang tamat pengajian Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) dan Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) semakin bertambah setiap tahun, namun adakah universiti awam dapat meningkatkan kapasiti pelajar?

“Malah, ada beberapa institusi pendidikan tinggi yang dimiliki kerajaan menerusi syarikat milik kerajaan (GLC) pula dilihat masih berfungsi dan bermotif keuntungan dengan menawarkan kursus sehingga ribuan ringgit,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita dalam sidang akhbar di pejabat PSM Semenyih, di sini hari ini. Yang turut hadir, calon PSM bagi Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK) Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Semenyih, Nik Aziz Afiq Abdul. – UTUSAN ONLINE

 

PBT perlu ambilalih penyelenggaraan rumah pangsa untuk kurangkan beban penghuni

PBT perlu ambilalih penyelenggaraan rumah pangsa untuk kurangkan beban penghuni

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SEMENYIH, SELANGOR – 24 FEBRUARI 2019: Penduduk-penduduk rumah pangsa kos rendah di kawasan Semenyih mengulang tuntutan mereka yang ditujukan kepada Kerajaan Negeri Selangor supaya mengurangkan beban penghuni rumah pangsa kos rendah dengan mengambilalih penyelenggaraan rumah pangsa kos rendah. Seruan ini dibuat dalam satu sidang akhbar khas yang diadakan pada hari ini di rumah pangsa Bangi Jaya bersempena dengan Pilihanraya Kecil (PRK) kawasan DUN Semenyih.

Wakil daripada rumah pangsa Bangi Jaya, Sri Haneco, Bukit Semenyih dan Taman Sri Mawar telah meluahkan kekeluhan mereka terhadap masalah yang dihadapi mereka, khususnya kutipan bayaran penyelenggaraan yang membebankan dan masalah penyelenggaraan disebabkan kesukaran mengutip yuran penyelenggaraan.

Turut hadir dalam sidang akhbar hari ini ialah Nik Aziz Afiq (calon PSM untuk PRK Semenyih) dan S. Arutchelvan (Ahli Jawatankuasa Pusat PSM yang juga merupakan bekas calon pilihanraya PSM untuk Semenyih).

Menurut Rogaya dari Rumah Pangsa Bangi Jaya, badan pengurusan bersama (JMB) sebelum ini mengutip yuran penyelenggaraan RM 33 sebulan, tetapi selepas Majlis Perbandaran Kajang melantik satu ejen untuk mengambilalih penyelenggaraan dengan kutipan sebanyak RM 66 sebulan, tetapi penyelenggaraannya lebih teruk walaupun kutipan sudah berganda dan lebih membebankan penghuni.

S. Arutchelvan berkata, “masalah utama yang dihadapi oleh penghuni-penghuni rumah pangsa ialah pendapatan mereka yang sudah rendah menjadikan mereka dibebani oleh bayaran penyelenggaraan”

“Penduduk di rumah teres kos rendah hanya bayar dua jenis cukai, iaitu cukai tanah dan cukai taksiran. Penghuni rumah pangsa kos rendah pula perlu membayar yuran penyelenggaraan selain dua jenis cukai. . Walaupun Kerajaan Selangor mengecualikan cukai taksiran yang dibayar dua kali setahun untuk penghuni rumah kos rendah sejak tahun 2016 sesuatu yang baik, tetapi mereka masih mengalami kesukaran untuk membayar yuran penyelenggaraan yang dikutip berbulan-bulan dan kadarnya lebih tinggi. Penghuni-penghuni rumah kos rendah lebih rela membayar cukai taksiran dua kali setahun supaya pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) mengambilalih penyelenggaraan dan bayaran penyelenggaraan dihapuskan.”

Penduduk-penduduk rumah-rumah kos rendah terdiri daripada golongan berpendapatan rendah. Jadi, adalah tidak wajar untuk golongan ini dikenakan bayaran yang lebih tinggi dan tidak mendapat perkhidmatan yang diberikan kepada penduduk rumah teres kos rendah. Keadaan ini amat membebankan JMB di rumah-rumah kos rendah. Akibatnya keadaan di rumah kos rendah adalah rata-rata tidak terurus, kotor dan tidak sesuai untuk dihuni.   

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Jawatankuasa Bertindak Pangsapuri-pangsapuri Kos Rendah Hulu Langat yang ditubuhkan oleh PSM Semenyih telah menyerahkan satu memorandum kepada Kerajaan Negeri Selangor pada 14 April 2017 dengan tuntutan kepada pihak yang berkenaan untuk menyelesaikan masalah-masalah mereka. Jawatankuasa Bertindak tersebut mewakili penduduk dari lebih 30 buah perumahan pangsapuri di kawasan Hulu Langat, termasuk Semenyih. Namun, sehingga sekarang, Kerajaan Negeri Selangor masih belum memberi apa-apa respon terhadap tuntutan-tuntutan yang dikemukakan dalam memorandum tersebut.

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Tuntutan-tuntutan yang dibawa oleh Jawatankuasa Bertindak Pangsapuri-pangsapuri Kos Rendah Hulu Langat termasuk:

1. Penghuni rumah pangsa kos rendah hanya perlu membayar dua jenis cukai, iaitu cukai tanah (setahun sekali) dan cukai pintu ( 6 bulan sekali) sepertimana rumah teres kos rendah.

  • Bayaran harus dibuat terus kepada Majlis Perbandaran dan Pejabat Tanah.
  • Bayaran harus meliputi kutipan sampah, pembersihan koridor, pembersihan longkang, taman permainan, lampu jalan dalam kawasan rumah pangsa dan jalanraya dalam kawasan rumah pangsa.

2. Kutipan untuk bayaran bil bagi pengunaan lampu koridor rumah pangsa dan air yang digunakan secara bersama harus dimasukkan dalam bil eletrik dan air secara purata dalam bil masing-masing (semua penghuni).

3. Satu peruntukan tahunan seperti yang diterima Rukun Tetangga diberikan kepada JMB untuk membolehkan mereka melakukan aktiviti sosial dan kebajikan untuk semua penghuni rumah pangsa demi untuk mewujudkan masyarakat yang lebih bersatu padu. JMB juga harus dibuka kepada semua penghuni termasuk mereka yang menyewa unit rumah, untuk membolehkan mereka memainkan peranan yang penting dan menyumbang kepada pembangunan rumah pangsa tersebut.

4. Setiap rumah pangsa kos rendah wajib mempunyai kawasan dewan serbaguna atau bilik aktiviti untuk masyarakat di mana dewan itu boleh diuruskan oleh JMB. Jika tiada, maka kerajaan perlu membina kemudahan tersebut.

5. Mewujudkan tempat perniagaan dan peluang perniagaan di kawasan rumah pangsa secara tersusun untuk membolehkan masyakarat di rumah pangsa tersebut terlibat dalam aktiviti mikro-ekonomi. Sewa boleh dibayar kepada JMB dan wang ini boleh digunakan untuk menyelenggarakan pejabat dan mengupah kakitangan sepenuh masa.

6. Insurans tahunan dan audit tahunan adalah terlalu tinggi dan pihak JMB tidak boleh membiayainya. Maka dicadangkan proses audit dilakukan melalui satu syarikat audit yang dilantik oleh Pesuruhjaya Bangunan (COB) dengan bayaran yuran yang terendah. Syarikat insurans juga diletak di bawah pengawasan COB agar perkhidmatan mereka adalah baik dengan bayaran yang munasabah.

 

Harga rumah mampu milik sepatutnya RM100K dan ke bawah

Harga rumah mampu milik sepatutnya RM100K dan ke bawah

SEMENYIH, SELANGOR – 21 FEBRUARI 2019: “Memanggil rumah berharga RM 250,000 hingga RM 300,000 itu Rumah Mampu Milik adalah sesuatu yang tidak masuk akal. Rumah sebegini amat jauh daripada kemampuan golongan pekerja,” begitu katanya A. Sivarajan selaku Setiausaha Agung Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) pada hari ini dalam satu sidang akhbar khas yang diadakan bersempena kempen Pilihanraya Kecil (PRK) di kawasan DUN Semenyih.

Sivarajan berkata, “PSM menyeru pada Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan membuang klasifikasi perumahannya dan mengkategorikan semula Rumah Mampu Milik sebagai rumah berharga RM 100,000 dan ke bawah. ”

Turut hadir dalam sidang akhbar ialah Nik Aziz Afiq selaku calon PSM untuk PRK Semenyih dan R. Karthiges selaku Penyelaras Biro Perumahan PSM.

PSM juga membangkitkan isu pokok bahawa bukannya pembekalan rumah yang tidak mencukupi, tetapi pendapatan rakyat yang menjadikan mereka tidak mampu membeli rumah dengan harga yang jauh tinggi daripada kemampuan mereka walaupun digelar “rumah mampu milik”.

PSM berpendirian bahawa perumahan adalah hak asasi rakyat, dan kerajaan memang mempunyai tanggungjawab untuk mensubsidi pembekalan rumah mampu milik kepada rakyat biasa supaya rakyat tidak dibebankan dengan hutang perumahan.

Dalam kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh PSM pada hari, telah digariskan 10 langkah yang dicadangkan untuk menyelesaikan kemelut perumahan mampu milik yang dihadapi rakyat biasa pada masa kini. Langkah-langkah ini termasuk menetapkan harga rumah mampu milik pada kadar tidak melebihi RM 100,000, menubuhkan jawatankuasa teknikal kos untuk mengkaji kos rumah, peruntukan tanah kerajaan untuk projek rumah mampu milik, penglibatan terus syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) dalam pembinaan rumah mampu milik, kuota pembinaan rumah mampu milik untuk pembangunan bercampur, perumahan mampu milik berorientasikan transit pengangkutan awam, inovasi baru dalam pembinaan rumah mampu milik, pembiayaan rumah yang bebas daripada cengkaman bank dan hentikan pengusiran paksa terhadap peneroka bandar.

Baca kenyataan penuh PSM tentang perumahan dan 10 langkah penyelesaian: Perumahan mampu milik atau mampus milik? Rasional PH terputus dari realiti rakyat

PSM sees Harapan as BN 2.0, calls for alternative to two-party system

PSM sees Harapan as BN 2.0, calls for alternative to two-party system

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SEMENYIH POLLS | PSM central committee member S Arutchelvan has claimed that Pakatan Harapan has become “Barisan Nasional 2.0”.

In a press conference today, he described the fight between BN and Harapan in the March 2 Semenyih by-election as “BN1.0 vs BN2.0”.

“The voters were always asked to look at big picture – (mainstream political pacts and not small parties or independent candidates).

“The ‘big picture’ here in fact is BN 1.0 vs BN 2.0.

“So there is no big picture, it is a small picture. Same party but (it has) changed its shirt, like Pepsi and Coca Cola,” he said.

Arutchelvan said his party sensed that some voters were fed up and generally the people on the ground seemed indifferent.

“For many years, people wanted to overthrow BN. That has been achieved in the last general election.

“The people thought many things would be changed and there would be silver lining tomorrow.

“But, the people realised it is not happening. That’s why (former Prime Minister) Najib (Abdul) Razak is so popular today – it’s because people are fed up (with Harapan),” he said.

Arutchelvan then urged the voters, who are disappointed in both BN and Harapan, to consider voting for PSM candidate Nik Aziz Afiq Abdul.

“In the long run, you need an alternative from the two-party system,” he said.

PSM is eyeing 45 percent of voters aged 40 and below, and constituents residing in townships such as Bandar Kesuma and Bandar Rinching, as they had swung to Harapan in GE14, according to him.

Besides this, Arutchelvan said the party is also targetting the Chinese voters as well as PAS supporters who are disapointed and confused whether PAS is supporting BN in Semenyih by-election.

“Generally, we see a mood of protest in Semenyih this time,” he said.

He told the voters to look at the candidate instead of looking at the party.

He also claimed that the discourse of the by-election would be focused on race and religious sentiments if not for PSM, which champions major issues faced by the people.

“The government supports privatisation of healthcare, PSM supports public health, the government supports third national car, we support public transportation,” he said.

The Semenyih by-election is called following the death of Harapan state assemblyperson Bakhtiar Mohd Nor.

The state constituency witnesses a four-corner fight between Harapan’s Muhammad Aiman Zainali, BN’s Zakaria Hanafi, independent candidate Kuan Chee Heng and Nik Aziz.

Debate cancellation unfair, lost opportunity for smaller parties

Debate cancellation unfair, lost opportunity for smaller parties

Source: Malaysiakini

SEMENYIH POLLS | PSM is upset by the decision to cancel the proposed debate between Semenyih by-election candidates.

In a statement today, its election director S Arutchelvan said it was unfair for electoral watchdog Bersih to call off the event just because BN and Pakatan Harapan had turned down the debate invitation.

“Why do you need to cancel it just because BN and Harapan candidates declined to join? The PSM and independent candidate are ready to debate.”

In allowing the big parties to dictate whether or not a debate occurs, Bersih was denying democratic space to other voices, he contended.

“This shows that only big and powerful parties can influence whether a debate happens or not,” he said.

“The debate would have given smaller parties and the independent candidate a fairer chance to communicate their views to a wider audience,” Arutchelvan added.

Yesterday, Bersih had thanked PSM candidate Nik Aziz Afiq Abdul and independent candidate Kuan Chee Heng for agreeing but explained that it “would not be meaningful” to hold the debate and air it on national television if candidates from the country’s two main coalitions did not participate.

BN’s Zakaria Hanafi had turned down the offer citing he wanted to focus on solving the people’s problems, saying that a debate was merely a popularity contest among individuals.

Harapan’s Muhammad Aiman Zainal said no apparently because Zakaria, his main contender, would not be debating.

It’s not just BN and Harapan contesting

Arutchelvan said he was disappointed in BN and Harapan’s stance, but contended that Bersih should have allowed the debate to continue among “the brave”.

“By cancelling it, this means those who turned down the debate have won.

“This by-election is not just between Harapan and BN, alternative parties should also be given the chance to debate.

“Perhaps this can teach Harapan and BN a lesson,” he said, adding that a debate would have shown the ability of candidates to represent their constituents in a state assembly.

With this, Harapan could not longer claim the higher ground when it came to debates, Arutchelvan also said.

“With Harapan’s decision to not debate, they do not have any legitimacy to criticise or berate any Opposition parties who refuse to debate them on any issues in the future,” he quipped.

During the Cameron Highlands by-election last month, Harapan candidate M Manogaran had criticised BN’s Ramli Mohd Nor for excusing himself from their debate, questioning his ability to raise issues in Parliament.

PSM boleh menerajui ‘Kuasa Progresif Ketiga’ dalam PRK Semenyih – oleh Kua Kia Soong

PSM boleh menerajui ‘Kuasa Progresif Ketiga’ dalam PRK Semenyih – oleh Kua Kia Soong

Pada 9 Mei 2018, rakyat Malaysia telah memilih untuk mengundi Pakatan Harapan (PH) kerana Manifesto PRU-14 mereka telah berjanji untuk melaksanakan reformasi secara meluas, menyebabkan mereka kelihatan amat berbeza daripada pemerintahan yang dialami di bawah BN. Selepas masa berlalu, PH seperti telah menjadi BN 2.0, terutamanya apabila ahli parlimem UMNO memasuki Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM). Adakah ini pembaharuan yang kita undi dalam PRU-14? PH sudi untuk bekerjasama dengan Perdana Menteri, semasa pemerintahannya 22 tahun, yang bertanggungjawab menswastakan hampir semua industri Malaysia dan memusnahkan demokrasi kita. Lebih serius lagi, PH telah mendorong PAS untuk bekerjasama dengan UMNO.

Tiada komitmen terhadap manifesto PRU-14

Lebih mengecewakan lagi adalah komitmen lemah terhadap pelaksanaan beberapa janji manifesto mereka. Kita telah melihat kerajaan sela-menyela terhadap janji mereka untuk memansuhkan institusi dan undang-undang yang toksik seperti Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (SOSMA) dan undang-undang penahanan tanpa bicara yang lain dalam negara ini. Malah, janji mereka tidak berfokus terhadap pembaharuan yang paling mendesak dan menyeluruh yang telah lama dihujahkan oleh masyarat sivil sebagai keutamaan tertinggi. Lebih-lebih lagi, kita telah mula melihat dasar dan proses pembuatan keputusan yang autokratik, seperti semasa dalam era Mahathir 1.0.

Walaupun manifesto PH melarang Perdana Menteri daripada memegang portfolio Kewangan, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad dalam 100 hari pertamanya telah mengambilalih syarikat berkaitan kerajaan (GLC) pilihannya, seperti Khazanah, PNB dan Petronas, di bawah kuasa Pejabat Perdana Menteri. Ini merupakan pengembalian kepada autokrasi Mahathir yang lama. Adakah Kabinet Menteri dibawa berunding untuk menubuhkan Proton 2, menswastakan Khazanah, Malaysia Incorporated dan menghidupkan semula litar F1 yang gagal? Perlantikan Perdana Menteri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad dan Menteri Hal Ehwal Ekonomi Azmin Ali dalam lembaga Khazanah Nasional Berhad juga bertentangan dengan janji manifesto PH untuk mengharamkan ahli politik daripada pelaburan awam, kerana ini akan menyebabkan kebertanggungjawaban yang lemah. Hanya dengan ahli lembaga profesional dan kewujudan sistem semak dan imbang yang kukuh dapat kita memastikan tahap ketelusan dan akauntabiliti yang tinggi.

PH telah menjadi BN 2.0

Sekarang, kerajaan PH baharu tidak menunjukkan perbezaan ketara dalam dasar ekonomi mereka daripada rejim BN yang lama. Selepas kegagalan Proton 1.0 yang menyebabkan kos yang tinggi terhadap pembayar cukai Malaysia, sistem pengangkutan awam dan pengguna Malaysia, memang susah untuk mempercayai bahawa projek yang gagal ini akan disokong oleh pemimpin-pemimpin PH yang sebelum ini ialah pengkritik terhadap projek Proton pertama. Satu lagi projek kereta kebangsaan akan tentulah gagal dengan kerugian selanjutnya terhadap kerajaan dan kita sebagai rakyat akan menanggung kerugiannya.

Kerajaan PH yang baharu telah berjanji untuk menghapuskan kleptokrasi. Janji itu merupakan satu kunci kepada kemenangan mereka dalam PRU-14. Mereka telah mengecewakan rakyat Malaysia, terutamanya orang Sarawak yang dapat melihat kekayaan negeri mereka dihisap sepenuhnya oleh ketamakan kleptokrat di situ. Kerajaan PH belum lagi memaksakan mantan Ketua Menteri Abdul Taib Mahmud untuk mengisytihar semua hartanya dan juga isteri dan keluarganya. Dengan melepaskan sekutu lamanya di Sarawak, Taib Mahmud, yang dikatakan sebagai orang terkaya di Malaysia, Perdana Menteri telah menjalankan kempennya terhadap bekas PM Najib Razak seperti dendam peribadi.

Penggunaan alasan hutang kerajaan untuk melambatkan pilihanraya kerajaan tempatan yang telah digantung di negara kita sejak tahun 1965 memang tidak boleh diterima. Ini merupakan satu perkara yang mudah dilakukan dengan memansuhkan peruntukan di bawah Akta Kerajaan Tempatan 1976 dan memulihkan semula Akta Pilihan Raya Kerajaan Tempatan untuk memperkenalkan pilihan raya tempatan. Jika pendapatan per kapita kita pada tahun 1957 hanya US $800 dan kita mampu menjalankan pilihan raya majlis tempatan, janganlah kata bahawa kita  tidak mampu menjalankan pilihan raya tempatan apabila pendapatan per kapita kita kini AS$ 10,000.

Ia juga tidak masuk akal untuk memberitahu pada graduan Sekolah Menengah Persendirian Cina bahawa sijil UEC mereka hanya boleh diiktiraf dalam masa lima tahun. Ini adalah pelanggaran serius terhadap manifesto PH PRU-14 kerana lebih daripada 80 peratus pengundi Cina mengundi PH berdasarkan janji ini.

Ramai peguam telah membawa perhatian bahawa pemansuhan atau kajian semula undang-undang kita yang melanggar hak asasi manusia boleh dilakukan dengan cepat dalam tempoh 100 hari pertama kerajaan PH yang baharu. Ini termasuk pemansuhan undang-undang yang membenarkan penahanan tanpa perbicaraan, iaitu Akta Kesalahan Keselamatan (Langkah Khas) 2012 (SOSMA), Akta Pencegahan Jenayah 1959 (POCA), dan Akta Pencegahan Keganasan 2015 (POTA) 2015. Kegagalan in satu tanda pengunduran yang tidak beretika terhadap manifesto PH PRU-14.

Tiba masanya untuk membina Kuasa Progresif Ketiga untuk 99%

Setelah melalui “Sistem Dua Barisan”, kita mendapati autokrat yang sama cuba untuk melaksanakan dasar yang sama yang diperkenalkan pada tahun 1981. Tambahan lagi, PH telah berjaya memaksakan PAS untuk mendekati UMNO, terutamanya selepas PRU-14. Sudah tiba masanya untuk semua orang yang mengharapkanpembaharuan sebenar di Malaysia untuk membina ‘Kuasa Progresif Ketiga’ untuk masa depan yang benar-benar adil, demokratik dan mampan yang gagal disampaikan oleh BN dan PH.

Oleh itulah, dalam PRK di Semenyih, PSM boleh menerajui ‘Kuasa Progresif Ketiga’ yang telah lama diperlukan untuk menawarkan pilihan yang bersifat bukan-perkauman, progresif dan mampan yang berbeza daripada BN 1.0 dan BN 2.0 untuk generasi masa depan rakyat Malaysia:

Menghapuskan perkauman dan diskriminasi perkauman di Malaysia – Mungkin sebab yang paling kuat untuk keluar daripada Sistem Dua Barisan, adalah hakikatnya kedua-dua BN dan PH didominasi parti-parti politik berasaskan kaum untuk mendapatkan undi dan populariti. Komponen baru PH adalah PPBM berdasarkan kaum semata-mata yang menganggap dirinya sebagai pejuang ‘sebenar’ untuk ‘Agenda Bumiputera’ berbanding dengan UMNO. Akibatnya, tiada satu pun parti politik dalam kedua-dua pakatan sekalipun itu menimbulkan persoalan bilakah Dasar Ekonomi Baru yang bersifat mendiskriminasi kaum yang dijadualkan berakhir pada tahun 1990 akan berakhir. Perikatan Progresif memanggil untuk dasar berasaskan keperluan dan bukan dasar berasaskan kaum. Akta Kesaksamaan akan menjadikan dasar diskriminasi perkauman sesuatu yang kuno dan kesaksamaan akan menjadi bahagian intrinsik Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Manusia. Alternatif Progresif yang kita cuba untuk membina akan mengambil kira hak asasi manusia dengan serius dan menghormati hak-hak semua warganegara Malaysia tanpa mengira etnik, kepercayaan agama, jantina ataupun seksualiti supaya kita boleh maju sebagai sebuah negara.

Pengagihan semula kekayaan untuk 99% – Kedua-dua BN dan PH bersaing untuk menunjukkan pakatan mana yang boleh mengalahkan yang lain untuk melaksanakan dasar paling neo-liberal yang menawarkan pelabur peluang menarik yang mereka tidak boleh tolak, melaksanakan projek ‘pembangunan’ yang melibatkan pemusnahan hutan, menuntut semula tanah dan mengambilalih aset-aset awam lain. Kita tidak melihat pakatan-pakatan ini mengemukakan dasar yang baik untuk mengagih semula kekayaan di negara ini. Adakah mereka mencadangkan dasar fiskal progresif untuk mengenakan cukai terhadap golongan 1% teratas yang memiliki lebih banyak kekayaan daripada 40% terbawah dan 40% pertengahan di negara kita, seperti kadar cukai marginal atas pendapatan mereka, cukai keuntungan modal, pewarisan dan kemewahan yang lebih tinggi? Kekayaan 50 rakyat Malaysia yang terkaya (teratas 0.00017%) berjumlah hampir RM300 bilion merupakan satu perempat daripada jumlah keseluruhan KDNK negara bernilai RM1 trilion!

Perumahan awam, kesihatan, pengangkutan dan pendidikan dengan hargaberpatutan – Satu alternatif yang adil, demokratik dan progresif memberikan upah dan hak untuk semua pekerja; pencen yang munasabah semasa bersara untuk semua; perumahan awam dengan harga berpatutan dan selesa didiami; kesihatan dan pengangkutan awam yang berpatutan dan cekap; pendidikan tinggi percuma (menjalankan uji upaya untuk orang kaya), dan lain-lain. Kita hendak menuntut semula aset awam daripada penswastaan, menghentikan apa-apa penswastaan aset awam, memiliknegarakan kemudahan awam seperti air dan tenaga, dan mendemokrasikan GLC; membahagikan lebih banyak pendapatan daripada sumber minyak dan gas kepada negeri pengeluar minyak dan gas dan memastikan pengeluaran minyak dan gas dan rekod pelaburan Petronas adalah telus dan bertanggungjawab kepada parlimen dan orang ramai.

Percubaan PH untuk menyelesaikan isu-isu perumahan dan kesihatan selalu melibatkan syarikat-syarikat swasta kroni yang biasa mengambil bahagian dengan rancangan ini seperti yang telah berlaku bawah BN. Namun, masalah perumahan dan kesihatan kita perlu diselesaikan melalui penglibatan sektor awam.

Oleh itulah, dengan kerajaan PH yang kian menjadi versi BN 2.0, hanya dengan membina Kuasa Progresif Ketiga, kita boleh membawa negara kita ke arah masa depan yang lebih cerah berdasarkan kesaksamaan, keadilan, demokrasi dan hak asasi manusia.

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Kua Kia Soong ialah Penasihat kepada Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM).

24 families of estate workers given new homes in Semenyih

24 families of estate workers given new homes in Semenyih

Source: The Star
SEMENYIH: After nearly two decades of struggle, 24 families from the Ladang Bangi estate have finally been offered keys to their new homes – thanks to assistance from Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM).

The 24 families were handed over the keys to their new homes last Thursday (Feb 14), just two days before the nomination day for the Semenyih by-election.

For 19 years, the 24 families faced court trials, constant harassment by gangsters to vacate their homes, and some were even thrown into jail by the authorities for fighting for their rights.

C Krishan, 64, who led the action committee for the Ladang Bangi estate workers, said he was touched by the occasion, as it has been an arduous journey.

“The house even came equipped with a refrigerator, TV, cabinet, and air-conditioners,” he said during a press conference, accompanied by PSM central committee member S. Arutchelvan at the Putra apartments on Wednesday (Feb 20).

Arutchelvan described the occasion as a victory for the people and expressed joy.

“Their units are special, they have free cabinets, TVs and fridges. Even I am staying in a low-cost unit and I don’t have such facilities,” he quipped.

Arutchelvan said that similar cases such as the families in the Ladang Bangi estate will keep on happening in future if the state government does not address the issue by enacting laws to protect estate workers.

He pointed out that in 1973, former premier Tun Abdul Razak had initiated the Estate Workers Scheme to ensure that workers were protected once they are evicted when development starts in an estate.

However, he lamented that because it’s merely a policy instead of a law, it had caused many developers to skip their responsibilities of providing homes for estate workers.

“99% of the time, estate owners don’t do it, simply because it’s not a law, but just a policy,” he added.

According to Arutchelvan, PSM had asked the state government to introduce laws to ensure that developers build houses for estate workers before evicting them.

“Most importantly, we must have laws to protect the marginalised communities. Of course, many other estate workers went empty-handed.

“But those who fought such as the Ladang Bangi estate workers ended up with a free house. So that is a big victory,” he said.

All the families will now be relocated by developer Trans Loyal Development Sdn Bhd to their new homes in Putra apartments in Taman Impian Putra Bangi, Kajang in March this year.