Red Flag Labour Unions

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The Red Flag Labour Unions was a trade union movement in Burma, linked to the Red Flag Communist Party. On 3 July 1946, the British governor of Burma Sir Henry Knight banned the Red Flag Labour Unions and the related Red Flag Cultivators Unions. [1]

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