A Hong Konger who called himself a teacher immigrated to the UK and criticised the London Rail union’s strike action for disturbing the people, saying workers “can fight for your freedom, but don’t affect others”.
The remarks of the new immigrant to London show that he lacks the most basic knowledge of British political culture, because strikes are part of the British political tradition, and British workers have been fighting for freedom for two hundred years.
In the middle of the 18th century, Britain took the lead in the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution, which produced a new social class, the workers. Workers refer to the labor force produced by machines, which is different from the craftsmen of ancient traditional handicrafts.
By the 19th century, British workers began to demand political rights and began a ten-year charter movement, but it did not eventually evolve into a violent revolution that overthrew the entire system, because British politics always had options for compromise.
At that time, Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert, had a close-knit image and were by no means notorious tyrants. The constitutional monarchy was effective at this time. Queen Victoria wrote letters to relatives in Europe, and she never worried regarding her personal safety, and the British people never There is no such hatred. Marx wrote Das Kapital in London, but it is strange that Marx’s ideas, which influenced Russia thousands of miles away, failed to take root in England.
British workers successfully fought for political rights and interests, established the Labour Party, and later entered the ruling class. Today, it is one of the most important major parties in the UK. The power of trade unions in the United Kingdom is growing, and the railway union is only one of them. During Mrs. Thatcher’s reign, one of the political enemies was the British miners’ union.
According to Marx, workers are a progressive class, and the original intention of the Chinese government today is to overthrow capitalism. According to this immigrant Hong Kong teacher, the ignorance exposed is all-round and multi-layered.
Tao Jie