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The Dog Beating Brigades - How Class Composition Defined the May 30th Movement
12:31 - 16:06 (03:35)
The May 30th Movement in China saw the rise of the Dog Beating Brigades, a group of organized working-class individuals who beat up scabs and those who did not support labor movements. The movement showed a real alliance of everyone in Chinese society, thus defining the class composition of the movement.
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The May the 30th movement marked the time in China when the general strike became popular in the vocabulary of the country's working class.
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The May the 30th movement marked the time in China when the general strike became popular in the vocabulary of the country's working class. There was a coalition of workers, business owners, and organized crime jointly fighting against British influence, with little shared interest other than hatred for the British.
ChapterThe Dog Beating Brigades - How Class Composition Defined the May 30th Movement
EpisodePart Two: The Well Hung Warlord Who Tried to Conquer China
PodcastBehind the Bastards
The Dog Beating Brigade was a group of workers in Shanghai who ran around beating up scabs and non-supporters of labor movements with axes, which is a lesson people should take for today's general strike.
14:49 - 16:06 (01:17)
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The Dog Beating Brigade was a group of workers in Shanghai who ran around beating up scabs and non-supporters of labor movements with axes, which is a lesson people should take for today's general strike.