Sette Giugno is a Maltese national holiday that takes place annually on June 7. This holiday is dedicated to an uprising against the colonial government and the unprecedented overcharging merchants. What many might suggest as the first step towards national Independence, Sette Giugno was mainly initiated due to the extortionate living costs post-war and the political developments transpiring at the time.

The then Maltese colonial government was not providing a sufficient supply of basic food provisions for the islands, causing food to become scarce and prices to skyrocket. Adding insult to injury, the dockyard workers were not getting a sufficient pay wage to keep up with the increase in the cost of living. The dockyard workers formed a union in 1916, organising their first strike for a 10% pay increase a year later. The rapid increase in the cost of living eventually caused riots a couple of years later in 1919, when the Maltese citizens revolted against the British administration. The Maltese workers called for some form of representative government-stipulated for the island. This devastating event caused a ripple effect, with the British soldiers firing at the rioting crowd in Old Bakery Street, resulting in the death of six people, with many others fatally injured.