James Alexander Malcolm Caldwell was a Scottish academic and a prolific Marxist writer.
17 Facts About Malcolm Caldwell
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Malcolm Caldwell was a consistent critic of American foreign policy, a campaigner for Asian communist and socialist movements and a supporter of the Khmer Rouge.
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Malcolm Caldwell was born in Stirling, Scotland, the son of an architect.
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Malcolm Caldwell was educated at Kirkcudbright Academy where he was Dux in 1949.
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Malcolm Caldwell obtained degrees from the University of Nottingham and the University of Edinburgh.
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Malcolm Caldwell completed two years' national service in the British army, becoming a sergeant in the Army Education Corps.
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Malcolm Caldwell was chair of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1968 to 1970.
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Malcolm Caldwell was dedicated to criticising Western foreign policy and capitalist economics, paying particular attention to American policy.
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Malcolm Caldwell was a founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Asia, a journal concerned with revolutionary movements in Asia.
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In 1978 Malcolm Caldwell was one of the Labour Party candidates in St Mary's ward in the local elections for the Bexley London Borough Council.
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Malcolm Caldwell was one of the staunchest defenders of the Pol Pot regime.
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Malcolm Caldwell frequently attempted to downplay reports of mass executions by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and was widely criticised by numerous authorities for doing so.
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In December 1978, Malcolm Caldwell was a member, along with Elizabeth Becker and Richard Dudman, of one of the few groups of Western journalists and writers invited to visit Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge had taken power in April 1975.
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Malcolm Caldwell stepped out of her bedroom and saw a heavily armed Cambodian man who pointed a pistol at her.
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Malcolm Caldwell ran back into her room and heard people moving and more gunshots.
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Malcolm Caldwell had been shot in the chest, and the body of a Cambodian man was in the room, possibly the same man who had pointed the pistol at Becker.
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Three days after Malcolm Caldwell was killed, the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia and soon put an end to the Khmer Rouge government.