Confrontation between rioters and the police during the 1967 Riot, 1967, Hong Kong. (Photo: 香港舊照片Old Hong Kong photo) Last year was the 50-year anniversary of one of the most controversial and turbulent moments in the history of colonial Hong Kong – the 1967 riots. The mainstreamaccount of the violent disturbances is that the San Po Kwong labour dispute triggered a series of strikes and demonstrations, which rapidly snowballed into a bloody “anti-British struggle” of the Hon