April Fifth Action
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April Fifth Action
四五行動 |
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| Convenor | Leung Kwok-hung |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Ideology | Socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-democracy camp |
| Colours | Red and black |
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| District Councils |
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| Website | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 四五行動 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Sei ńgh hàhng duhng |
| Jyutping | Sei3 ng5 hang4 dung6 |
April Fifth Action or AFAG (Chinese: 四五行動) is a Hong Kong left-wing group named after the first Tiananmen incident of 5 April 1976. While the organization's Chinese name translates as "April Fifth Action", English-language media in Hong Kong usually refer to it as the April Fifth Action Group.
The April Fifth Action Group was formed on the basis of the Trotskyite vanguard party Revolutionary Marxist League which was disbanded in 1990. Legislative Council members "Longhair" Leung Kwok-hung and Leung Yiu-chung were the founding members of the April Fifth Action Group.
The group believes that without a democratic China, it would be impossible to have a democratic Hong Kong. The group is aligned with the pro-democracy camp in its opposition to the governments of China and the HKSAR.
The group calls for universal suffrage in Hong Kong, opposes unemployment and poverty, eliminates pro-government parties, terminates one-party dictatorship in China, sets up unemployment benefits and minimum wage and strives for the right to hold plebiscites in Hong Kong. It also calls for release of all dissidents in mainland China and accountability for the Tiananmen massacre of 1989.
The group is well known for its aggressive and civil disobedience-style actions to protest against the governments of China and Hong Kong during celebrations and visits of state leaders, often resulting in confrontations with the Hong Kong police. They usually carry a coffin as their trademark protest prop. Its members have also been prosecuted for disrupting meetings of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo).
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