Influenced by the wave of national self-determination that followed on the heels of WWI and by the emergence of a Taiwanese elite educated under the occupation, from the 1920s labor and peasant movements appeared throughout Taiwan, and a communist movement developed.
受第一次大戰後民族自決風潮的影響，再加上日據時代培養的台籍菁英紛紛冒出頭，1920 年代起，台灣各地的勞工、農民運動興起，共黨運動也由此展開。