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Despite the plan of the S.Korean ruling class/gov't to increase the oppression against the workers/resistance movement (*) thousands of activists celebrated with rallies and a mass demonstration y'day in Seoul the Int'l Struggle Day of the Working Class:

More impressions from the events you can see here:

☞ "MayDay 2008", photo report (노동의소리)

☞ KCTU Photo Report #1

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And already the night before (4.30) the annual Workers' Struggle Culture Festival took place in Seoul/Sangam-dong, in front of the HomeEver Department Store, where labour union activists are in strike since more than 300 days (E-Land Strike!):

More impressions about the event you can see here:

☞ "430 Struggle Culture Festival", photo story (노동의소리)

* Likely (^^) on the occasion of the Int'l Struggle Day of the Working Class the S. Korean ruling class, here represented by the "National Police Agency", presented  yesterday a very special gift to the resistance/worker's movement! (according to Korea Times, 5.01):

25 Labor-Related Bodies Blacklisted as 'Illegal'
 

The National Police Agency (NPA) has included an anti-FTA alliance, major umbrella labor unions and even a political party on a list of what it called illegal, violent organizations, and will ask the government to discontinue subsidies to these groups.

The NPA said Thursday that it classified 25 organizations as illegal ones for leading violent protests and instigating public unrest.

The list was made at the request of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the police headquarters said.

Among the organizations on the list are the Korean Alliance Against the KORUS FTA, the Democratic Labor Party, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Korean Metal Workers' Federation.

Any organization classified as illegal cannot benefit from national subsidies.

 
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/05/113_23490.html