The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), officially known as the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), was a Marxist–Leninist and anti-imperialist political party founded in 1930. It was responsible for the creation of both the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army and the Malayan National Liberation Army. The party led resistance efforts against the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, and later fought a war of national liberation against the British Empire during the Malayan Emergency. After the departure of British colonial forces from the Federation of Malaya, the party fought in a third guerrilla campaign against the Malaysian government in an attempt to create a socialist state, before surrendering and dissolving in 1989.