Is there a risk that Malaysia's racial mixture and its weighted political and economic structures could again explode into the kind of violence which, in 1969, was only just prevented from setting the whole country on fire? And has Singapore's success been bought at a price in civil liberties too high for its health in the future?

Preface -- Introduction -- Urban Revolution - Singapore -- The First Attempt at an Urban Revolution - 1945-8 -- The Communist Party Structure in Singapore - 1946-50 -- The Survival of the Student Organization - 1950-4 -- Subversion in the Chinese Middle Schools 1954-6 -- Self-government -- The Riots of October 1956 -- The Struggle for Political Control -- Rural Guerrilla Revolution - The Emergency in Malaya -- The First Years of the Emergency -- Organization for Survival -- The Development of a Successful Technique -- The Final Pattern -- Operation Cobble - 1956-7 - An Example of a Federal Priority Operation Based on Food Denial -- The Crumble and the Hard Core -- The Aftermath and the Prospects for Malaysia and Singapore -- The Balance Sheet in 1963 -- Malaysia and her Neighbours -- The 1969 Riots in Kuala Lumpur -- Malaysia's New Economic Policy and Future Prospects -- Singapore - The Social and Economic Miracle -- The Price of Success