Ng Chung-yin

Ng Chung-yin (Chinese: 吳仲賢; 1946 – 21 April 1994) was a Hong Kong Trotskyist activist. He made his fame in the student strike at the Chu Hai College in 1969 and became an influential figure in the 1960s and 70s student movements. He was the founder of the Revolutionary Marxist League, a Trotskyist revolutionary vanguard party in 1973. He also work in the media industry in the 1980s and 90s until he died of cancer in 1994.

Ng was born in Shantou, Guangdong in 1946. He followed his mother to migrate illegally to Hong Kong through Macao to reunite with his father in 1953 and was educated at the S.K.H. All Saints' Middle School. In 1965, he attended Chu Hai College to study Civil Engineering but later transferred to Mathematics.

Ng first participated in social activism in 1969, when he protested the college for manipulating the student union. He organised a school strike which was later called "Chu Hai Incident", which opened up the waves of student movements in the 1970s. In 1970, he co-founded Seventies Biweekly magazine with Mok Chiu-yu which became influential in the social activist circle where he earned his reputation as a political, literary and cultural figure. He was involved in organising the Chinese Language Movement, Defend the Diaoyu Island movements and anti-corruption campaigns among the other youth movements in the 1970s.

In 1972, he went to the Netherlands and then to Paris with fellow anarchists including John Shum. He met with the exiled Chinese Trotskyists including Peng Shuzhi in Paris and switched to Trotskyism by joining the Fourth International upon his return to Hong Kong. In 1973, he founded the Revolutionary Marxist League, a Trotskyist revolutionary vanguard party and published Combat Bulletin. They aligned themselves with the International Majority Tendency of the United Secretariat. In 1975 it became the Chinese section of the Fourth International, together with another long-existing Trotskyist group the Revolutionary Communist Party. In 1980, he organised a labour strike at the MTR construction site against the unfair treatment of the Japanese company and was fired afterward.

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