Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan dawowar mulkin Burtaniya, CPM ta ci gaba da tayar da kayar baya, a wannan karon a kan gwamnatin mulkin mallaka ta Burtaniya, ta hanyar sabon reshen ta'addanci, Sojojin 'Yancin' Yancin Malayan (MRLA). Shugaban CPM Chin Peng ne ya ba Rashid damar jagorantar MRLA ta Malays-dominated 10th Regiment. A cikin 1947, yana ɗaya daga cikin wakilan CPM don halartar taron jam'iyyar kwaminisanci na majalisa a London. Wannan taron ya samu halartar jam'iyyun kwaminisanci a kasar mulkin mallaka don tattaunawa game da dabarun yaki da mulkin mallaka don 'yancin' yanci. Tashin hankali na 'yan tawaye na CPM ya sa Birtaniya ta ayyana dokar ta baci
, wanda ya kasance tsakanin 1948 zuwa 1960. a watan Yulin 1948, Birtaniyya ta kama shi a Sungai Manik, Perak. An saka shi a kurkuku na shekara 3 da rabi. A farkon 1952, ya yi nasarar 'yantar da kansa. Bayan haka a ƙarshen 1952, Rashid ya sadu da Abdullah CD a Pahang. Sannan a cikin 1953, tare da 10th Regiment, ya koma kan iyakar Malaysia-Thailand. An ji masa rauni a kafarsa a lokacin yaƙi da 'yan Burtaniya.