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Workers' Party (Chinese, Han script: 工黨; Chinese, pinyin: Gongdang; Chinese, Wade-Giles: Kung-tang) was founded in 1987 by a group of dissidents from the Democratic Progressive Party and was actually registered before it, becoming the first party officially registered after the full multi-party system was introduced in Taiwan [1].
The party flag is green, with a seven yellow stars, a large one placed in the
center hoist and six smaller ones arranged in an arch below, rotated so that
their top points all point towards the center of large star. The large star
symbolizes the workers and smaller ones stand for the farmers, fishermen, women,
ethnic minorities, small and medium enterprises and intellectuals - the groups
whose interests party seeks to represent [1, 2, 3]. The design, as well as its
symbolism, is clearly inspired by that of the flag of China, thus representing
not only the struggle for social justice, but also the party's other important
goal - peaceful reunification of Taiwan and China. Currently there are no photos
of the party flag on the Web, but there are photos of the items which display
its image, such as a table flag charged with image of party flag at the top, the
rest of field covered with inscriptions in Chinese [2], or a document which
displays the flag image at the top, combined with the frame for the text in a
way which looks like the official format of party documents [3]; those sources
[2, 3] also give the identical description of the party flag and its symbolism,
and the latter of the sources also shows a large image which displays the design
of the table flag shown by the first of the sources.
Green color of the
flag field might have actually been borrowed from the flag of Democratic
Progressive Party, being one of its main distinctive features. Green and yellow
colors were later borrowed for the flag of the Taiwan Workers' Party, which
broke away from the Workers' Party in 2002 under the name of Taiwan Democratic
Workers' Party (see message #211579).
Sources:
[1] Workers' Party at
Wikipedia (in Chinese):
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/
[2] Photo of a table flag charged with the image of Workers' Party flag:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5fae75e10102wkpy.html (image:
http://s10.sinaimg.cn/orignal/001KDxMRgy70vK8DrRva9)
[3] Photo of a
Workers' Party document:
http://www.ipciae.org/info.php?mod=detail&id=128
(image:
http://www.ipciae.org/data/attachment/201602/25/f2ac684077e2c5010e6b48a8ed4eb4d1.jpg)
Tomislav
Todorovic, 15 October 2016