Post by Pro-WP on May 12, 2006 9:47:33 GMT 7
[ 5 Decades of Service to the People ]
The survival of Workers' Party for the last 5 decades, since the Party was set up by David Marshall in 1957, had been no small feat...
[ 1957 to 1963 ]
The Workers' Party was formed in November 1957 by David Marshall, a lawyer and the first Chief Minister of Singapore. Marshall was elected Chief Minister in 1955 when Singapore became a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom and elections were held to elect members to the first Legislative Assembly of Singapore. Marshall was then in the Labour Front...
[ 1964 to 1970 ]
After the resignation of Chairman David Marshall and the detention of Vice Chairman Sam Chong Meng and Secretary-General Chua Chin Kiat, the Party carried on under the leadership of Chiang Seok Keong...
[ 1971 to 1980 ]
In 1971, the Party was revamped with J. B. Jeyaretnam, age 45, a senior lawyer, graduate of University College London, former First District Judge, Registrar of the Supreme Court and tutor in legal philosophy and criminology in the University of Malaya in Singapore, assuming the leadership of the Party...
[ 1981 to 1986 ]
On 31st October 1981, a by-election was held in Anson Constituency in which J. B. Jeyaretnam, the Secretary-General, won 7,012 votes or 51.93% of valid votes after contesting six elections since 1972...
[ 1987 to 1990 ]
In 1987, the PAP government detained 22 highly educated and intelligent young citizens under the Internal Security Act on the grounds that they were party to a "Marxist" conspiracy...
[ 1991 to 2000 ]
The term of Parliament elected at the 1988 general elections did not expire until 1993. But PAP called for elections in 1991, just two months before the Secretary-General's period of disqualification ran out...
[ 2001 to Present ]
In September 2001, the Court of Appeal threw out Secretary-General J. B. Jeyaretnam's appeal to strike out a defamation suit filed against him by Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew...
The general elections in November 2001 was a new beginning for Workers' Party. It was the first general elections to be led by the newly elected Secretary-General Low Thia Khiang...
The survival of Workers' Party for the last 5 decades, since the Party was set up by David Marshall in 1957, had been no small feat...
[ 1957 to 1963 ]
The Workers' Party was formed in November 1957 by David Marshall, a lawyer and the first Chief Minister of Singapore. Marshall was elected Chief Minister in 1955 when Singapore became a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom and elections were held to elect members to the first Legislative Assembly of Singapore. Marshall was then in the Labour Front...
[ 1964 to 1970 ]
After the resignation of Chairman David Marshall and the detention of Vice Chairman Sam Chong Meng and Secretary-General Chua Chin Kiat, the Party carried on under the leadership of Chiang Seok Keong...
[ 1971 to 1980 ]
In 1971, the Party was revamped with J. B. Jeyaretnam, age 45, a senior lawyer, graduate of University College London, former First District Judge, Registrar of the Supreme Court and tutor in legal philosophy and criminology in the University of Malaya in Singapore, assuming the leadership of the Party...
[ 1981 to 1986 ]
On 31st October 1981, a by-election was held in Anson Constituency in which J. B. Jeyaretnam, the Secretary-General, won 7,012 votes or 51.93% of valid votes after contesting six elections since 1972...
[ 1987 to 1990 ]
In 1987, the PAP government detained 22 highly educated and intelligent young citizens under the Internal Security Act on the grounds that they were party to a "Marxist" conspiracy...
[ 1991 to 2000 ]
The term of Parliament elected at the 1988 general elections did not expire until 1993. But PAP called for elections in 1991, just two months before the Secretary-General's period of disqualification ran out...
[ 2001 to Present ]
In September 2001, the Court of Appeal threw out Secretary-General J. B. Jeyaretnam's appeal to strike out a defamation suit filed against him by Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew...
The general elections in November 2001 was a new beginning for Workers' Party. It was the first general elections to be led by the newly elected Secretary-General Low Thia Khiang...