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Taiwan Democratic Workers Party

台灣民主工黨 (Taiwan Minzhu Gongdang)

image by Tomislav Todorovic, 9 October 2016

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The Taiwan Democratic Workers' Party (Chinese, pinyin: Taiwan Minzhu Gongdang; Chinese, Han script: 台灣民主工黨) was founded in 2002 after a split in the original Workers' Party (Chinese, pinyin: Gongdang; Chinese, Han script: 工黨) and renamed into the Taiwan Workers' Party (Chinese, pinyin: Taiwan Gongdang; Chinese, Han script: 台灣工黨) in 2003, the name under which it was registered later same year and which it still uses [1].

Its flag is green, charged with a simplified yellow Chinese character 井 spread throughout the whole field. As in several other Chinese and Taiwanese flags, this stands for the ancient "Well-field system" [2], which was traditionally respected as the ideal of social justice; yellow color stands for the three thousand years of its history, while green stands for the social justice itself [3, 4]. Green field may have actually been borrowed from the Democratic Progressive Party from which the original Workers' Party broke away in 1987 [1].

Sources:
[1] Taiwan Workers' Party at Wikipedia (in Chinese): https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E5%B7%A5%E9%BB%A8
[2] Well-field system at Wikipedia (in English): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-field_system
[3] Old party website - Party flag: http://crngroup.myweb.hinet.net/main.htm
[4] New party website - Party flag: http://www.taiwan-labor-party.org.tw/flag/

Tomislav Todorovic, 9 October 2016

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image by Ivan Sache, 17 April 2004

The flag version with the yellow star in central green area may have been an earlier variant.
Tomislav Todorovic, 9 October 2016