workingclasshistory:

On this day, 28 April 1958, workers in Malta launched a general strike against British colonial authorities. Primarily workers were angry at low wages and poor conditions, but many people also opposed British plans to close the Malta dry docks, which employed over 13,000 people.
Protesters used stones and oil to block roads and stop the transport of goods and British military vehicles, while riots broke out across the colony. Around 100 people were arrested and subsequently imprisoned.
The strike call, by the General Workers Union, came a week after the protest resignation of the Maltese prime minister. Direct rule from Britain was subsequently established, but the rebellion sowed the seeds for independence which eventually came in 1964. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1704759953042481/?type=3