When Labour ‘Banned’ May Day (1947-48)

It is a peculiar fact that the Labour Government of 1945 – which would introduce a Welfare State and National Health System (NHS), would also apply the far-right racist policy of rounding-up and deporting over a thousand Chinese people living in London (due to a sense of xenophobia and racist euphoria that had swept the land following the victory over Hitler), and ‘ban’ the Communist Party of Great Britain marching for workers’ rights on May Day 1947, and 1948.

Nationalist China at the Berlin Olympics (1936)

Of course, Master Kou Yun Xing accepted the challenge on behalf of the honour of China and a referee was chosen to administer the fight (in public). Master Kou Yun Xing adopted pre-emptive footwork that baffled his flat-footed and one-dimensional opponent. Then with a flurry of lightning fast punches, the Finnish boxer was knocked to the floor and could not continue.

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