Today in Labor History September 23, 1945: Vietnamese workers rose up against French and British troops to create the Saigon commune. Fed up with racism and violent harassment by the French colonialists, they shot and killed police, officials, and at least 100 French colonialists living there. They built barricades with overturned cars and trees, chopped down from the outskirts of town. The official resistance, the Vietminh, stayed out of the direct conflict, limiting their support to providing food and supplies to the insurgents, to show the British they supported “law and order,” in hopes of winning recognition as the true leadership of Vietnam. #workingclass #LaborHistory #vietnam #rebellion #uprising #colonialism