One morning in September 1981, Malaysia conducted a financial dawn raid that stunned the British business community and reclaimed hundreds of thousands of acres of Malaysian plantation land for Malaysia.

In this video I want to talk about Malaysia’s strike against the remaining structures of the old colonial state.

Corrections:
5:47: Burma gained its independence in 1948, not 1949. I misspoke

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