In 1938 Thakin Po Hla Gyi led one of the largest anti-capitalist / anti-colonial worker actions in Burma’s history. Nicknamed The Ogre, PLG wrote Strike War to raise funds for the strikers but also to incite the rest of the country’s workers and peasants to revolution.

The text is provided in Burmese and translated into English by ရဲေဘာ္ Stephen Campbell, whose own work on worker movements and daily life in Myanmar is clearly inspired by Thakin Po Hla Gyi. The translation is part of a broader series called the Myanmar Literature Project that includes translations of other old, but hopefully not forgotten, Burmese texts.

See here for the PDF and for our entire series.