: How a Hong Kong law passed by the British to combat strikers is being used by China 100 years later #IndiaNEWS Following last year’s centenary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, 2022

How a Hong Kong law passed by the British to combat strikers is being used by China 100 years later #IndiaNEWS
Following last year’s centenary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the first general strike to shut down a British colonial territory – Hong Kong.The strike began with the grievances of the British territory’s seamen, but rapidly spread to other sectors, effectively shutting Hong Kong down. It represents the first major episode of industrial unrest in the territory, to which the colonial authorities responded with emergency anti-strike legislation. The law introduced by the colonial authorities, which allowed the governer to pass “any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest???, was used in 2019 to ban the use of face masks by protesters.The CCP was founded only a few months before the strike began, but there is little evidence that the strike was led by the party. But many militants later joined the CCP and were very influential in much larger strikes in 1925 and 1926. It was the militancy of the strikes of 1920 to 1925 in China that shaped the formative years of Chinese communism rather than the party being in the vanguard of revolutionary activism.The General Industrial Federation of Chinese Seamen (Zhonghua Haiyuan Gongye Lianhe Zonghui) had been established in March 1921 and its grievances were largely about...Read more

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