> Following we publish the call issued by the Power of the Working Class > (Preparatory Group) of Korea on the current struggles in their countries. We, > the Anti-imperialist Camp, express our full solidarity with the courageous > struggle of the Korean workers and invite all serious anti-imperialist to do > likewise. > > ************ > > Solidarity with the Daewoo Motor Workers! > Condemn the Kim Dae-jung Regime! > > A Call for International Solidarity Action by the Power of the Working Class > (Preparatory Group) > > The workers of South Korea have suffered yet another violent and brutal > crackdown at the hands of Nobel Peace Prize-winner President Kim Dae-jung. > > On the afternoon of February 20, over 4,000 armed riot cops stormed Daewoo > Motors Bupyong plant, which was being peacefully occupied by several hundred > striking workers and their families. Many were viciously beaten and 76 were > taken in for questioning. The cops have detained 7 union leaders and are out > to > arrest 29 more. The very next day, on February 21, Daewoos creditor banks > gave > the company a pat on the head for the crackdown by extending the credit > period > and providing it with even more funds. This shows who this is all basically > for, whose interests the whole vile affair is all about. As this is being > written, arrest warrants are also being drawn up for the top leaders of the > Korean Confederation of Trade Unions. > > The Bupyong workers had begun a strike on February 16, in opposition to the > company and regimes mass sacking of 1,750 workers. Whats more, many of this > 1,750 are the key union activists and militant workers in the plant an open > attempt to destroy the union in Bupyong. This sacking comes on top of some > 3,500 that have been laid off since last November, and thousands more since > the > collapse of the Daewoo empire in late 1998. The completion of Daewoo Motors > restructuring and its sell-off overseas is vital for the onward march of the > regimes neoliberal reforms, which are nothing but a desperate bid to > salvage > a deeply crisis-ridden capitalist economy at the enormous expense of working > peoples living conditions and democratic rights. Its result is billions of > dollars of handouts to the corporate robbers, while working people suffer > more > and more unbearable hardships. And when workers resort to mass struggle to > defend even the little they still have, the regime thunders dow! > n with batons and boots. It is nothing short of a war on South Korean working > people. > > However, since the crackdown, the workers have courageously begun to regroup. > They are holding daily rallies in Bupyong and attracting the support of other > workers and organisations. In response, the regime has deployed even more > cops > and are attempting to suppress any attempts at protest. It is almost like a > return to the days of military rule when we had to converge at pre-arranged > locations to hold surprise demonstrations. > > We urgently call on the international workers movement to take immediate > solidarity action to place international pressure on the vicious Kim Dae-jung > regime. We request protests and industrial action to target the South Korean > governments embassies and consulates, Daewoo Motors outlets and service > centres, as well as any other South Korean government representative > institutions and figures. > > * Stop the mass sackings! > * Kim Dae-jung regime Resign Now! > * Release the Arrested Now! > * Nationalise Daewoo Motors! > > --------------- > Please send solidarity messages and information about action being taken to > the > following email addresses: > > Park Seong-In, Gen Sec PWC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Won Young-su mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Iggy Kim mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ************************************ > Antiimperialist Camp > PF 23, A-1040 Vienna, Austria > Tel&Fax +43 1 504 00 10 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.antiimperialista.com/en > ************************************ > > > > > To unsubscribe from: Antiimperialist Camp News, just follow this link: > http://www.antiimperialista.com/cgi-antiimperialista/mojo/mojo.cgi?flavor=unsu > bs > cribe&list=Antiimperialist_Camp_News&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&pin=30310 > Click the link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. > > > > _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
