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Act to Stop Repression against MTU! 

-The South Korean Immigration Office has cancelled MTU President Michel Catuira’s visa and ordered him to leave the country by March 7.
-This is yet the last in a long series of acts of repression against MTU!

Please tell the South Korean government to repeal the cancellation of President Catuira’s visa and refrain from deporting him, and to stop repression against MTU and recognize its legal union status by:
 

-Sending letters of protest to the relevant South Korean government agencies (addresses at the end of this email)
-Organizing protests in front of a local South Korean Embassy or Consulate
 

All actions should take place before 7 March 2011. Please send reports of any actions and pictures if possible to migrant@jinbo.net. We will announce international actions at a protest in front of the Seoul Immigration Service building on 4 March 2011.
 

Please contact Wol-san Liem (82-10-5003-8419, limwolsan@gmail.com) with any questions.
 

Background

In 2009, Michel Catuira was elected president of the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants Trade Union (MTU), a union established for and by migrant workers in South Korea. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to improve the working and living conditions of migrant workers in South Korean society. He has spoken out against restrictions placed on migrant workers’ freedom to change workplaces and other problems in Employment Permit System (EPS), which make migrant workers subservient to their employers. He has also fought for the repeal of the South Korean government’s policy of arrest, detention and deportation of undocumented migrant workers, which has led to countless injuries, deaths and other human rights abuses.
 

Because he has been a vocal critic of unjust policies, the South Korean government has made President Catuira the subject of an unfair investigation with the ultimate goal of making him deportable. The nature of the investigation, which began in July 2010, is as follows:
 

By law, President Catuira, a documented EPS Filipino migrant worker, must be employed in order to maintain his legal residence status. President Catuira was lawfully employed by D company in fulfillment of this requirement. In July 2010, however, the Ministry of Employment and Labor summoned him and his employer for questioning, raising suspicions about the validity of their employment relationship. Finding no legal problem, the center continued to pressure President Catuira through his employer by sending a notice to the employer telling him to file to have President Catuira transferred to a different company.
 

Pressure increased in the wake of MTU activities protesting the death of the Vietnamese migrant worker as the result of an immigration raid. On 23 November 2010, President Catuira received a summons from the Seoul Immigration Service telling him to appear before the Immigration Service’s investigation team to be questioned based on “suspicion of violations of the Immigration Control Law in the course of applying for a workplace transfer and with relation to actual performance of work duties at present.” Inquiry by a lawyer working with MTU revealed that the investigation team was also considering raising suspicions that President Catuira was conducting political activities in violation of the Immigration Control Law. On 2 December 2010, the Ministry of Employment and Labor sent a fax to President Catuira’s employer, notifying him that his permit to employ migrant workers had been cancelled. On 22 December 2010, President Catuira appeared before the Immigration Service investigation team, who question him for roughly 5 hours on the nature of his employment.
 

On 14 February 2011, the Immigration Service informed President Catuira through his lawyer that his visa had been cancelled as of 10 February 2011 at that he was required to leave the country by 7 March 2011. The grounds given for the cancellation of the visa are as follows: that the company where President Catuira was employed did not in exist; that President Catuira was not in fact working at the factory and that, therefore, he was in violation of Article 89.1 of the Immigration Control Act. Article 89.1 states that a visa can be cancelled if it is found to have been obtained in a deceitful or other unlawful manner.
 

Facts of the Case

Contrary to the Immigration Service’ claims, President Catuira went through all of the necessary legal procedures before being employed at D company. As required, President Catuira received a list of companies registered to hire migrant workers from a Ministry of Employment and Labor Job Center. D company was on this list. After being hired, President Catuira against followed the correct legal procedures, registering his employment status with the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Immigration Service.
 

The claim that D company does not exist is also not true. D company had little work after President Catuira was hired, and thus had to shut is door temporarily. However, this cannot be said to be President Catuira’s fault. In fact, during the original investigation in July 2010, the Ministry of Employment and Labor found no violation of the law and could respond only with a memo suggesting that President Catuira move to another workplace. Nonetheless, the Immigration Service went out of its way to find grounds for cancelling President Catuira’s visa so as to make it possible to deport him.
 

The Ministry of Employment and Labor and Immigration Service’s investigations of President Catuira were carried out in a manner completely outside these agencies’ normal mode of operation. If the South Korean government routinely investigated the companies where migrant workers are employed in such detail, it would find widespread violations including unpaid wages, sexual harassment, failure to submit proper documents, etc. If such investigations were made, perhaps the situation of migrant workers in South Korea would actually improve. Instead of doing this sort of work, however, these government agencies have used their time to target MTU’s president. 
 

Another act of Labor Repression

The investigation and cancellation of Catuira’s visa are nothing more than an attempt to attack MTU and stop its rightful union activities. This attempt is similar to past acts of repression against MTU, in which the South Korean government used the vulnerable immigration status of migrant officers to prevent their union activities, in particular through arrest and deportation. Since MTU was founded in 2005, the government has arrested 6 of its officers, supposedly for violations of Immigration Control Act. Of these 6, 5 were deported. In addition, the South Korean government has refused to recognize MTU’s status as a legal union, claiming that its founders, who were undocumented, do not have the right to freedom of association granted all workers under the South Korean Constitution.
 

The situation is so severe, that the ILO has issued several recommendations recognizing the arrest and deportation of MTU officers as acts of labor repression and suggesting that they be stopped immediately. The ILO has also affirmed the right of all migrant workers, regardless of visa status, to freedom of association and recommended that the South Korean government recognize MTU’s legal union status.
 

Our Demands:
-Repeal the cancellation of Michel Catuira’s visa and guarantee his secure residence status!
-Stop repression against MTU officers and recognize MTU’s legal union status! 
-Stop racist and discriminatory measures taken against migrant workers such as arrests and deportations!
 

A sample protest letter follows.
Protest letters can be sent to addresses below:
 

Chief Commissioner of the Korea Immigration Service
Seok Dong-hyeon
Korea Immigration Service
New-Core Building, 8th Floor
Byeolyang-dong
Gwacheon City
Gyeonggi Province 427-705
Republic of Korea
Fax: +82-2-500-9097
 

Minister of Justice
LEE Kwi-nam    
Ministry of Justice
Gwacheon Government Complex, building 5
Jungang-dong 1
88 Gwanmoon-ro
Gwacheon City
Gyeonggi Province 427-720
Republic of Korea            
Fax: +82-2-503-7023
webmaster@moj.go.kr
 

Minister of Employment and Labor
Bahk Jae-won    
Ministry of Employment and Labour
Gwacheon Government Complex, building 1
88 Gwanmoon-ro
Gwacheon City
Gyeonggi Province 427-718
Republic of Korea
Fax:+82-2-3679-6581
Molab506@moel.go.kr
 

----Sample letter----
 

Dear:
 

We recently learned that the Seoul Immigration Service has cancelled the visa of Michel Catuira, President of the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants Trade Union (MTU), and ordered him to leave South Korea by 3 March 2011. The Immigration Service gives as grounds for these measures that Catuira entered into a false employment relationship with a company that does not in fact exist. Therefore, it says, Catuira is in violation of the Immigration Control Act, which requires migrant workers to be employed by a registered company in order to maintain their residence status. Contrary to the Immigration Service’s claims, Catuira went through all of the necessary legal procedures before being hired at the company in question. There is nothing false or unlawful about his employment relationship.
 

The fact is that the company in question had little work after President Catuira was hired, and thus had to shut is door temporarily. However, this cannot be said to be Catuira’s fault and is not grounds for cancellation of his visa.
 

The investigation of President Catuira was completely contrary to the Immigration Service and Ministry of Employment and Labor’s normal mode of operation. If the South Korean government routinely investigated the companies where migrant workers are employed in such detail, it would find widespread violations such as unpaid wages and sexual harassment. If such investigations were made, perhaps the situation of migrant workers in South Korea would actually improve. Instead of doing this sort of work, however, these government agencies have used their time to target MTU’s president. 
 

The cancellation of Catuira’s visa is nothing more than an attempt to attack MTU and stop its rightful union activities. This attempt is similar to past acts of repression against MTU, in which the South Korean government used the vulnerable immigration status of migrant officers to prevent their union activities, in particular through arrest and deportation. The situation is so severe, that the ILO has issued several recommendations recognizing the arrest and deportation of MTU officers as acts of labor repression and suggesting that they be stopped immediately. The ILO has also affirmed the right of all migrant workers, regardless of visa status, to freedom of association and recommended that the South Korean government recognize MTU’s legal union status.
 

We urgently make the following demands:
 

-Repeal the cancellation of Michel Catuira’s visa and guarantee his secure residence status!
-Stop repression against MTU officers and recognize MTU’s legal union status! 
-Stop racist and discriminatory measures taken against migrant workers such as arrests and deportations!
 

Sincerely,

http://migrant.nodong.net/?document_srl=90152#2

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Related article:
☞ Migrant union leader balks at departure order (Korea Times, 2.18)

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Two days ago the S. Korean ('left-liberal') Hankyoreh published the following piece, written by George Katsiaficas(*):

The Real Egyptian Revolution Is Yet To Come

Around the world, people are enthusiastically greeting the “Egyptian Revolution”-the astonishing victory won by the historic 18-day People Power Uprising. As events move more rapidly than anyone can anticipate, not only has Mubarak been deposed, his corrupt parliament has been dismissed and new elections promised within six months. People‘s ecstasy in the aftermath of these great victories belies the fact that Mubarak’s authoritarian system remains intact-nay, strengthened-by the ascension of Suleiman and the military to supreme power in Cairo. While the world hails the Egyptian “revolution,” a more sober assessment of recent events would question the accuracy of that label, at least for now.

If we look at other countries for comparison (and there are many recent examples of People Power Uprisings suddenly ending the reign of longstanding authoritarian regimes), I am especially struck by parallels with Korea‘s 1987 June Uprising, when for 19 consecutive days, hundreds of thousands of people illegally went into the streets and battled tens of thousands of riot police to a standstill. On June 29, the military dictatorship finally capitulated to the opposition’s demands to hold direct presidential elections, thereby ending 26 years of military rule.

As in Egypt on February 11, 2011, the man who made the announcement in Seoul on June 29, 1987 was none other than the dictatorship‘s No. 2 leader. Roh Tae-woo went on to become the country’s new president after elections marked by both a bitter split between rival progressive candidates and widespread allegations of ballot tampering. People‘s high expectations and optimism after the military was forced to grant elections turned into bitter disappointment. Throughout the country, new massive mobilizations were organized, during which more than a dozen young people committed suicide to spur forward the movement for change.

Like Suleiman, Roh was a long-time US asset with ties to a list of nefarious deeds. In 1996, Roh and his predecessor Chun Doo-hwan were convicted of high crimes, sent to prison, and ultimately ordered to return hundreds of millions of dollars they had illegally garnered. (Roh eventually returned around $300 million; Chun deceitfully pleaded poverty and, although thereby dishonored, he absconded with even more than that amount of Korea’s wealth.)

Roh was never linked to any direct act of sadism, but Suleiman is known to have personally participated in the torture of CIA rendered terrorist suspects. As “the CIA‘s Man in Cairo,” he helped design and implement the American rendition program through which dozens of suspected terrorists were kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured. Suleiman took a personal hand in the torture of Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib. In his memoirs, Habib recounted one torture session of electric shocks, broken fingers and being hung from meat hooks that culminated in being slapped so hard that his blindfold flew off--revealing Suleiman as the purveyor of the violence.

While Habib was innocent, another rendered suspect, Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, confessed to participation in training anti-US fighters and famously asserted under torture that ties existed between al-Queda and Saddam’s government in Iraq. That lie became one of Colin Powell‘s most significant assertions to the UN Security Council when the US convinced much of the world to attack Iraq. When al-Libi later recanted and threatened to expose his lie, he “committed suicide” in a Libyan prison-coincidentally at the same time as Suleiman made his first ever visit to Tripoli.

For his extraordinary efforts on behalf of the US, Suleiman found his fortunes rise. Thanks to WikiLeaks, we know today that almost three years ago, the US was prepared to elevate him to the top slot in Egypt. According to a US diplomatic cable of May 14, 2007, entitled “Presidential Succession in Egypt,” Suleiman was to be named vice-president (as occurred on January 29, 2011).

The chief of the Egyptian armed forces, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, like Suleiman and Mubarak, is a regime insider with long ties to the Pentagon. One U.S. Embassy cable released by WikiLeaks noted that, “Tantawi has opposed both economic and political reforms that he perceives as eroding central government power.” While Suleiman and Tantawi are clearly cut from the same cloth as Mubarek, my objection is not simply to these men but to the system they embody. For a genuine revolution to take place, Suleiman and his kind must be driven from power-even punished for their crimes-not elevated to the highest levels of government.

What the masses of Egyptians want is freedom from dictatorship and foreign domination. They want the right to participate in their own government and to do so freely, with a free press, and in a society where civil liberties are guaranteed. They want an end to the country’s poverty and to take back the mountain of wealth stolen by the super-rich.

As it seems that Korea‘s democratization might hold possible lessons for Egypt, so might the Philippines in 1986. Less than a year after the first “People Power Revolution” sent long-time dictator Ferdinand Marcos into exile, Corazon Aquino’s new government shot to death 21 landless farmers who marched in Manila to demand she keep her promises for land reform. The Philippines today is plagued by increasing hunger, and more than three million children are underweight and underheight. In 1973, students in Thailand overthrew a hated military dictatorship after 77 people were gunned down in the streets of Bangkok. After a two-year hiatus, one of the most free periods in the history of Thailand, the military bloodily reimposed dictatorship and killed dozens of students. In Nepal in 1990, fifty days of popular protests during which 62 citizens were killed won a constitutional monarchy, but within a few years, the royal family again seized absolute power. A 19-day People Power Uprising in 2006 ended the monarchy altogether, but only after 21 more unarmed civilians had been killed by the forces of order.

No one can anticipate the outcome of what has been set in motion in Egypt, but historical antecedents may provide insight into possible outcomes. Will the blood of the 300 murdered citizens in Egypt, like the hundreds of martyrs of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, water the tree of liberty? Or will their sacrifice grease the wheels as US banks and global corporations rush to replace “crony capitalism” with ever more profitable arenas for wealthy investors?

Young activists in Cairo remain camped in Tahrir Square-for now at least-where they have already had to stand up to the army‘s attempt to clear them out. Remaining steadfast, they are calling for substantive reforms-for a new system and democracy worthy of the name. Even with Mubarak gone, so long as his military commanders and chief of intelligence remain in power, nothing like a revolution can be said to have transpired in Egypt.

For that to be said, rather than celebrating their victory from high positions of power, Suleiman and his buddies should themselves be guests in the very prisons where they were previously hosts. The full turning of the wheel of justice-a revolution in the true sense of the word-demands nothing less. The sites where Suleiman tortured Habib and al-Lidi should become public museums open to ordinary Egyptians to sadly recount the country’s decades of suffering under the US-backed dictatorship of Mubarak. Instead, unless the movement continues to propel the country forward, Suleiman‘s torture chambers may be destined to be used against young activists whose only crime is to insist upon making reality what is today claimed by nearly everyone-a revolution in Egypt.

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_opinion/463472.html

* G. Katsiaficas (whose mother was born in Cairo) is a professor of humanities at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston. He is currently completing Asia’s Unknown Uprisings, a study of recent People Power uprisings.
 

Related articles:
☞ Egypt protesters remind army who is really in charge (Haaretz, 2.16)
☞ Waiting for a 'real' revolution (al-Jazeera, 2.16)
☞ Is the revolution being co-opted? (Asia Times, 2.15)

 

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Stop the Deportation Process Against MTU's President

MTU issued y'day the following statement:

Denunciation of the Cancellation of the Migrants' Trade Union Chairperson's EPS Visa Status

 
The order for departure for Migrants’ Trade Union Leader Michel is the cutting off of the tongue of the migrant worker who speaks out and the tying of the hands and feet of the fighting migrant worker and is a clear oppression of the activities of workers unions!! This order must be cancelled and his stay guaranteed.

The Seoul Immigration Office, on the 10th of February, has cancelled Migrants’ Trade Union Chairperson Michel’s EPS visa status and ordered him to leave the country, as per a February 14th official statement given to his lawyer. The Seoul  Immigration Office stated that “despite what is stated on the papers submitted when the work permit was given, the company of that address does not exist” and “it has been confirmed that activities undertaken during his stay was not work labor as a foreign worker and therefore does not adhere to the content submitted at the time of requesting change of work place” and was therefore cancelling his visa status and requiring him to leave before March 7th.

However, we denounce these official measures as oppression against legitimate Labor Union activity and in particular a targeted crackdown on its chairperson Michel. The government, in order to oppress the activities of the Migrants’ Trade Union, has already targeted, arrested by force and deported past union chairpersons, vice-chairpersons and secretariats. There have been no exceptions in these oppressive measures among any of the past Migrants’ Trade Union chairpersons or officers.

The Ministry of Labor exercised undue pressure several times on the company that hired Chairperson Michel, and  in the end canceled the employment permit of the business owner on December 1st. The Ministry of Justice then alleged the Chairperson had broken Immigration Law, and summoned him for questioning on December 22nd. The Ministry of Justice’s Office of Immigration claims Chairperson Michel falsely claimed employment.

This however is not true. The Ministry of Labor has already carried out an investigation under the same allegation (July 13th of last year) but could not come up with any proof of legal wrongdoing. At the time the Ministry of Labor sent official notice requesting the business owner to request a change in work place for the worker as the company was in de facto suspension of business. It was only much later in December when they one-sidedly canceled the company’s employment permit for the inadequate reason that it could not maintain labor relations because the business was in long-term suspension. This is in extreme contrast to the Ministry of Labor’s failure to investigate the pains suffered by migrant workers from unjust treatment from business owners and limitations on their rights.

It is not true that the company of the address does not exist, nor is it true that he did not engage in work labor. Chairperson Michel legally obtained recommendations and lists of businesses from the Ministry of Labor Job Center and after being hired, registered himself at the Job Center as well as at the immigration office. It only turned out there was not much work to be done at the workplace, and it was clear when being hired the business existed. It is not the laborer’s responsibility that the company has suspended business for not having enough work to do.

Therefore we think these allegations are an excuse to attack Chairperson Michel’s legitimate labor activity. He legally obtained a job without any wrongdoing, and to speak of labor union activity done on downtime as false employment is clearly an act of oppression. If the government applies as much scrutiny to workplaces, the labor conditions of migrant workers would be greatly improved.

We can only think their taking away of the Chairperson’s work permit by throwing these allegations at him is because the Migrants’ Trade Union Chairperson entered through the employment permit system(EPS) and has the legal right of stay, and therefore they cannot use the target crackdown investigation tactics they had on past officers of the Migrants’ Trade Union, and we condemn these acts as crude and shameful.

To not acknowledge even this much union activity is to cut the tongues of all migrant workers who speak out for their rights and to tie the hands and feet of those who act. The government seems to have shown they want “silent” and “obedient” slaves who “tolerate every exploitation and abuse.” This is also a great international humiliation for the Korean government which calls itself a human rights-abiding state.

Chairperson Michel has acted for the legitimate rights of migrant workers, as well as for the rights of various oppressed people such as irregular workers, people displaced by development, and sexual minorities. This is another kind of contribution to the advancement of Korean society.

The Seoul Immigration Office of the Ministry of Justice must cancel its order for departure and its cancellation of the Chairperson’s work permit and guarantee his stay in this country!

2011. 2. 15
Migrants’ Trade Union/Korean Confederation of Trade Unions(Seoul Regional Council)

http://migrant.nodong.net/?document_srl=89286#0

Related statement:
☞ 이주노조 표적탄압 중단하고, 그 정성으로 인권보장에 나서보라 (KCTU, 2.16)

Related news reports:
☞ 출입국사무소, 미셸 이주노조 위원장 체류허가 취소 출국명령 (KHSM)
☞ 시민 노동계, 이주노조 위원장 출국반대 성명 연이어 (VoP)
☞ 이주노조 위원장되면 무조건 쫓겨난다? (Redian)
☞ 이주노조 위원장 출국반대 성명 잇따라 (SBS)
☞ 미셸 이주노조위원장 출국명령 (Hankyoreh)
 

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The (bourgeois) Korea Times published y'day the following report:

Hanjin Heavy locks factories

Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) imposed a lockout at its main shipbuilding yard and factories Monday, in reaction to a strike against a layoff plan by its union that started on Dec. 20. The company plans to make 190 employees redundant today as it previously announced.

The union pledged to continue their fight for the abolition of a massive layoff plan. On the same day, two more union members also joined a female protestor on a 50-meter-high crane in a shipyard in Busan, who has been there for over a month.

HHIC reported to the provincial labor authorities Monday that it had locked the Yeongdo shipyard and Dadaepo factory in Busan and its Ulsan factory to protect them from the union’s strike and protests.

The company and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) have been struggling against the layoff plan since December.

“Since they started the protest, they have caused financial and other damage to the company and related subcontractors,” an official from the company said. “It’s an inevitable decision to protect the company from illegal protests.”

Following the lockout, the company will only allow limited union members to enter the company’s properties on days of negotiation. It also ordered some 600 laborers to leave worksites immediately, and is considering calling the police to crackdown on illegal protestors.

Union members were in shock on hearing of the lockout, due to the unexpected move by the company.

“It’s too sudden. The company has not informed us of the decision yet. We learned it from news reports,” an official from the Busan office of the KCTU said. “We’re discussing necessary steps regarding the decision, but we’ll continue the strike until our demands are met.”

Kim Jin-suk, a member of the direction committee for the Busan office of the KCTU, has continued a protest from the 50-meter high driver’s seat of a crane at the company’s Yeongdo shipyard since Jan. 6.

She refused to stop the protest even after the court ruled she must leave the site and prohibited her from entering again. She now has to pay a one million won ($890) fine each day she continues the illegal protest.

She was joined by union members Moon Chul-sang and Chae Gil-yong on Monday.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/02/117_81390.html

Related reports:
☞ 한진중, 172명 해고 통보...노조 “끝장 투쟁이다” (NewsCham, 2.15)
☞ 한진중공업 '정리해고' 법정 간다 (OMN, 2.15)

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Egypt, last Friday afternoon:

After 18 days of mass protests (at least 300 people were killed and thousands injured), finally it took just over 30 seconds for Egypt's "vice-president", Omar Suleiman (aka the "Sheikh al-Torture"), to announce that dictator-president Hosni Mubarak was standing down and handing power to the military.

   "In the name of Allah the most gracious the most merciful," Suleiman read. "My fellow citizens, in the difficult circumstances our country is experiencing, President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak has decided to give up the office of the president of the republic and instructed the supreme council of the armed forces to manage the affairs of the country. May God guide our steps."

Well, that's a great victory for the pro-democratic movement in Egypt!!!

But the party - and what a party - is over. Now it's hangover time - and what a hangover.

The young democratic movement in Egypt is far from to be victorious: For now, it has resulted in a paradox. The dictator-president has indeed stepped down, but the protesters who demanded democracy are now getting a state under control of the military, an institution that by its very nature is far from a civilian democracy...(*)

Today's top figure in Egypt is Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, the country's defence minister who is not a known reformer (resp. he's well-known for his ant-reformist attitude: In 2008 he told senior American officials he was opposed to economic or political reforms in his country, claiming it would weaken Mubarak's regime, according to a leaked diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks).

And his main goal is to "restore law and order", demanded by the Egytian ruling class and supported by the so-called "int'l community", i.e. the ruling class in the U.S., the E.U. and the rest of the "civilised" world.

 
In a sign that the army will only tolerate a limited challenge to its power, al-Jazeera reported a short while ago that the "Egypt's military leaders are preparing to ban strikes and any act against 'chaos and disorder'..."

Today's Asia Times(HK) writes: At this stage, no one knows whether Mubarakism will survive with a minimal facelift; whether Mubarakism will co-opt the next elections while the army stays in the shade; or whether a real social and political revolution will radically, eventually reorganize all the structure of wealth and power in Egypt.

Mahmoud Nassar, one of the organisers behind the Tahrir Square protests, said the demonstrations would go on. "The revolution is continuing. Its demands have not been met yet," he said. "The sit-in and protests are in constant activity until the demands are met. All are invited to join."

Here some pieces about the armed forces' role (in behalf of the Egyptian dictatorship/ruling class) during the days of uprising:
☞ Military tortured, “disappeared” thousands of demonstrators (LibCom, 2.12)
☞ Egyptian army tortures protestors (Yedioth Ahronoth, 2.10)
☞ Egypt's army 'involved in detentions and torture' (Guardian, 2.09)

Related articles:
☞ Army orders last protesters to leave... (Haaretz, 2.14)
☞ Under the (Egyptian) volcano (Asia Times, 2.14)


 

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Egypt, Feb. 11, 2011:

...of Mubarak's Dictatorship

Related reports:
☞ Hosni Mubarak resigns – and Egypt celebrates a new dawn (Guardian, 2.11)
☞ Egypt's arduous road to freedom (al-Jazeera, 2.12)
☞ Protestors pressure Egyptian army (Yedioth Ahronoth, 2.13)


 

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‎*MTU Korean Language Class: Every Sunday in Yanju (11:00am), Dongdaemun (11:00am) and Seongsu (4:00pm)

*MTU Computer Class: Every Sunday 1:00~3:00pm.
All migrant workers interested in learning about computers (hardware, software, internet, etc.) may... participate whenever they like.

 
*MTU Drama Class: We are preparing a class through which migrant workers can learn how to express their ideas and stories through acting. All interested are welcome.

 
If you are interested in any of the classes above (resp. for more detailed info) please call MTU at 02-2285-6068!