File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1997/97-01-19.073, message 14


Date: Mon, 13 Jan 97 17:23:44 UT
From: "James Hillier" <Jim_Hillier-AT-msn.com>
Subject: M-G: Korean workers demand: We need Solidarity !!!




I'm forwarding this to the list. If anyone knows anywhere else it 
could/shouldbe posted, please let me know.

Jim
Communist Action Group
BM Box 4473
London WC1N 3XX

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From: 	Lee Hyeok
Sent: 	13 January 1997 07:41
To: 	James Hillier
Subject: 	We need Solidarity !!!

Want for Your Solidarity!!!

Dear, Friends

------ Spread this mail widely ---------

The workers in South Korea have been struggling against the arrogance
of government and employers for over 20 days. At dawn of December 26,
when the most of people were still in bed, the ruling party passed new
labor laws and a National Security Planning Agency (NSPA) act that
had been in the public debate for a long time, in the absence of
opposition parties.

The newly amended labor laws allow the employers to lay off the workers
more easily, with the workers' right of association not fully 
guaranteed.
Also, the revised NSPA act makes a lot of Korean recall the ghost of
dictatorship, which has given great pain to a Korean for almost
40 years.

Right after the anti-worker, anti-labor action of the government and
ruling party, nationwide organized workers took the strong 
countermeasure.
That was the first ever Genaral Strike after the Korean War of 1950.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(KCTU), which a de facto
representive organization of the Korean workers and the crystallization
of the long labor struggle, directed the members to go on a strike
immediately. Since that time, the general strike has been kept on
in spite of the severe coercion of the government. More and more
workers and labor unions has joined the rank of the strikes.
The struggle of workers protesting against anti-labor laws is spreading
to the nationwide resistance like wildfire.

The homepage named "The General Strike in South Korea"
(URL : http://kpd.sing-kr.org/strike/index-e.html) was made to
support the workers' struggle through the Internet. This page was
initiated by the Alliance of Progressive Network Groups(APNG) just
after the KCTU's declaration of the Genaral Strike. The member
groups of APNG and a few volunteers applying through the online
established the Telecommunication Task Group for the General Strike
(TTGS). This task group takes responsible for the all activities
supporting the strike through all kinds of networks, i.e. BBS, WWW,
Newsgroup, etc. They have registered the urgent report on the
struggle situation to the major commercial BBS every hour, so
that all the participants and supporters of this strikes are
well informed everytime.


Leave the message of warm solidarity !

Until now from the first appearance in the Net, a lot of people
>from all over the world has visited this page, signed their name
and left the message of warm solidarity. We want you to share this
solidarity. It must be of tremendous help to the workers fighting
even in the severe cold of winter. So, please make sure link
this General Strike homepage to your one. And don't forget to
encourage your comrades to do the same thing. It might look like
a trivial thing to you, but it is absolutely not. Your small
support can make a great thing. And that is the power of solidarity.


Join BLACK RIBBON CAMPAIGN !

The task group also has played a leading role for Black Ribbon
Campaign. The Black Ribbon means the death of Democracy in this
country. But, it also means world-wide threats to the workers and
all the nations. So, We want you to express your impeachment
of the anti-labor action of the Korean government and the ruling
power all around world, by diffusing this black ribbon through
the Net.
You can get the ribbon in our homepage with ease.
(http://kpd.sing-kr.org/strike/blackribbon.html")

You are strongly recommended to link this image file of the black 
ribbon to your pages.
And also don't leave your colleagues alone.
Just click your mouse over the Black Ribbon and put it on yours.
That's so easy! but must be powerful.

Finally, We ask you to make sure inform us via e-mail, in case that you
take any action we request above.

We really appreciate your concern and support.
Please keep on doing it. WE WILL WIN!


In Solidarity

12 January 1997

The Telecommunication Task Group for the General Strike(TTGS)
e-mail : rys-AT-member.sing-kr.org
homepage : http://kpd.sing-kr.org/strike/index-e.html
mailing list : jinbo-AT-mail.sing-kr.org




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