“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

- American activist Elie Wiesel

COMMENT | Recent events in Tambun, Perak have briefly shined a spotlight (again) on the work PSM does for disenfranchised Malaysians all over the country.

I never get cynical or depressed when writing about PSM because, in a country where the progressive forces have capitulated to the racial and religious agendas of the mainstream political establishment, PSM continues its lonely struggle.

What is happening to a group of Tambun farmers is the kind of corporate and political malfeasance which defines politics in this country.

The sight of PSM chairperson Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj, its committee member R Karthiges, Perak PSM Youth member P Kesavan, and a farmer identified as Ho Pon Tien, being carted away by police and then released is a reminder of how the progressive forces in this country - the force which was supposed to bring “harapan” (hope) to a certain section of the public - have completely failed the people who voted for them.

A PSM operative once told me...