Workers Autonomous Federation

Workers Autonomous Federation

Workers Autonomous Federation is a category of illegal trade unions of China. Some took part in the Tiananmen movement of 1989. Changsha and Yueyang in Hunan were among the cities, where a Workers Autonomuous Federation was active in 1989. Other Workers Autonomuous Federations existed in Shanghai and Beijing.

External links

* [http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA170151998 Amnesty international on a trade unionist leader in prison]

Video

* [http://www.cerium.ca/article3997.html#Video When will we have Free Unions in China ?] Online video of speech given by Chinese labour activist Han Dongfang in February 2007 in Montreal.


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