On this day, 21 March 1927, the Shanghai insurrection took place as 800,000 workers walked out on general strike and a 5,000-strong workers’ militia seized arms and attacked police stations and army barracks. By the next morning the whole city, apart from the foreign concessions, was in the hands of the working class. They held the city until the arrival of the nationalist Kuomintang army, who were supported by the Chinese Communist Party and Soviet Union, who proceeded to massacre the communists and militant workers. This is a short history of the uprising: https://ift.tt/2l3gyGE
Pictured: Shanghai workers, 1927 https://ift.tt/2TOoxgo
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