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THE FINAL(??) BATTLE #1

Well, it was just a matter of time:
Today in the morning (10:00 KST) - actually unsurprisingly - thousands of riot cops moved into the SsangYong Motor plant in Pyeongtaek under a court order to disperse laid-off and resisting unionized workers who have occupied the factory for exactly two months.

But until now (late evening, KST) the riot cops - once again(!!) - failed to end the strike/occupation(below you can see some impressions about today's "activities" by the cops and the resisting workers)..

More then 800 workers are still in the plant and they’ll resist "in the face of death" if the cops are trying to forcibly disperse them, SsangYong Metal Workers Union spokesman Lee Chang-geun said by phone.

Related reports in English and Korean (more detailed infos about the latest developments you'll get here tomorrow!):

☞ Yonhap "report"
☞ K. Times "report"
☞ Bloomberg "report"
☞ AFP "report"
 

Korean (independent) reports: ☞ cMedia  ☞ KCTU  ☞ OMN  ☞ VoP  ☞ NewsCham TV

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Sunday's Migrant Workers Culture Festival in Ansan:

PS:
And please don't forget tomorrow's YONGSAN STRUGGLE DAY...

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Today's Guardian (UK) reports about a new (and very interesting!!) form of class struggle in France:

French workers threaten to blow up

New Fabris car parts factory

First there was boss-napping, now angry workers at a factory in France have come up with a new tactic in their battle against mass redundancy.

Staff at bankrupt car parts maker New Fabris are threatening to blow up the plant if they do not receive compensation from the companies that provided most of the firm's business.

The 336 workers at the factory at Châtellerault, near Poitiers in central France, want Renault SA and PSA Peugeot Citroen to pay €30,000 (£25,850) to each of them, or some €10m in total, in return for the company's remaining stocks of equipment and machinery. The workers, who are currently occupying the factory, have given Renault and Peugeot Citroen until 31 July to come up with the money.

"If we get nothing, they get nothing at all."

Guy Eyermann, a CGT trades union official, told France Info radio: "The bottles of gas have already been placed at various parts of the factory and are connected with each other. If Renault and PSA refuse to give us that money it could blow up before the end of the month."

The (gas)'bombs' are ready: everything has been planned for it to blow up

A delegation of workers will meet officials from Renault on Thursday. Both Renault and the police declined to comment.

New Fabris went into liquidation in April, which means the workers are unlikely to get any redundancy money.

The industrial unrest is the latest in a series of radical responses to the financial crisis. Earlier this year, staff from at least eight companies took their managers hostage in return for demands such as proper jobs, better pay and fewer redundancies.

France has a history of boss-nappings dating back to May 1968 and the 1970s, when executives were held hostage in the struggle for rights.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/13/france-workers-car-factory

Related report: 

☞ French workers threaten to blow up factory (France24, 7.12)

PS:
With this contribution I wanted to give an 'advice' for the striking SsangYong workers in Pyeongtaek?? Hmm.. I don't know?(^^) Well, just choose for yourself!!!

 투쟁!

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1. Struggle News #8 is "on air" since Tuesday, 7.07 (the script you can read here)!

2. Tomorrow's Protest Rally to Support the Yongsan Struggle

3. Tomorrow's Solidarity Night for Homeless People

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