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Update (Thursday, 8.06, 10:00 a.m. CET):
"Ssangyong's fired workers end plant occupation", as today's Yonhap reports.

While today(8.05) the cops once again failed to conquer the entire SsangYong plant (for more about the latest developments please check out LabourStart, where you find the possibly bulkiest collection of news reports about the S.K. class struggle) the situation at the front line is approaching a very critical point...

The current balance of power at the front line: 4,000 riot cops, incl. special forces(SWAT/anti-terror units) and additional at least 2,000 privat "security guards" (i.e. organized criminals, hired by the SsangYong management) are confronting/attacking between 500 and 600 striking workers...

In this situation only a strong and uncompromising MASSIVE PUBLIC PROTEST (movement) can protect the striking workers and prevent a disater (i.e. must force the SYM management back to the negotiation table)!

Otherwise - when the "conflict" will be "settled" on the battlefield the striking workers will end like that..

..or possibly even worse!

Many activists but also relatives of the striking workers are fearing already a "remake" of the Yongsan Massacre, but this time with more fatalities!!

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