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A hartal is a mass protest, often involving a total shutdown of workplaces, offices, shops, and courts of law, and a form of civil disobedience similar to a labour strike. In addition to being a general strike , it involves the voluntary closure of schools and places of business.
Hartal called by Reason Casualties and damage Notes 1962 – 1971: 15 [1] then East Pakistan: 1972 – 1975: 5 [1] 1981 – 1987: 59 [1] 1991 – 1996: 266 [1] Awami League, called for hartal of unknown number of days: 1996 – 2001: 215 [1] BNP, called for 59-day hartal [2] 2001 – 2007: Unknown: Bangladesh Awami League, called for 173-day ...
The House Tax Hartal of 1810–11 was an occasion of nonviolent resistance to protest a tax in parts of British India, with a particularly noteworthy example of hartal (a form of general strike) in the vicinity of Varanasi.
For many years Hartal Day was an occasion for rousing speeches by the Left. [13] It was an application of the classic Marxist thesis of the general strike but those who called the hartal never intended to take it beyond that stage, whereas in the Marxist playbook a general strike ought to lead to the overthrow of the government in power. But ...
Hartal Doktor Kontrak (HDK) was a nationwide workers' strike organised by medical officers in Malaysia on 26 July 2021 in protest against the government's contract system in appointing medical officers which was implemented at the end of 2016.
The Biratnagar Jute Mill Strike (Majdur Hartal) of March 1947 was a labor strike in Biratnagar, Nepal, by workers and laborers of Biratnagar Jute Mill, Ltd.The strike was initially part of a dispute between mill workers and management regarding labor rights, but gradually the strike grew into a nationwide anti-regime movement.
The 1967 Penang Hartal riot (Malay: Hartal Pulau Pinang 1967) happened on November 24, 1967 in response to the devaluation of the Malayan dollar against the British pound sterling and the newly established Malaysian dollar.
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