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  • 7 - Workers and Citizens

  • from Part Two - The Tiananmen Protests
  • Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book:
    June Fourth
    Published online:
    01 April 2021
    Print publication:
    01 April 2021, pp 82-88

  • Summary

    The imposition of martial law on May 20 sparked panic buying in addition to motivating citizens to block military convoys attempting to enter Beijing. Martial law also motivated more workers to join the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation. An umbrella organization called the Capital Joint Liaison Group tried to create an alliance of intellectuals, students, workers, and other Beijing residents but maintained a hierarchy that kept workers at the bottom. But the protest movement was slowly getting more inclusive in late May 1989.