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2011, Jan. 14: A first great victory(*) for the...
TUNISIAN PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION
For the first time in the modern Arab history a popular uprising toppled a dictatorship!!
Massive street protests - incl. almost daily fierce street battles resisting the bloody state terror(more than 80 protesters were killed by the "security forces") - over unemployment, mass poverty, corruption and political oppression forced (ex)President Ben Ali to flee the country Friday night after 23 years of iron-fisted rule.
Here just a few impression from Tunis, last Friday afternoon:
* An activist of the Tunisian Communist Workers' Party said y'dy: "We, the people of Tunisia, won a battle! But the war against exploitation and oppression isn't over! The revolution must continue until we'll achieve a liberated society!!"
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N. Korea celebrates the New Year("Juche 100") with a new stamp, issued last Sunday...
...and the "Joint New Year's Editorial"(*) with 'brandnew'(^^) propaganda posters:
"Let Us Thoroughly Implement the Joint New Year Editorial!"
"Exert Every Effort Once Again for Improving the People′s Standard of Living!"
* The same bullshit has been celebrated y'day with a mass rally at Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung Square "held to vow to implement Militant Tasks for 2011", according to KCNA:
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Last Friday (New Year's Eve) S. Korean newspapers (JoongAng and Chosun Ilbo, but also Hankyoreh etc.) favoured us with a very special feat of journalism:
"The Dear Leader Opens a Wardrobe"
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is pictured comfortably opening a closet with his left hand, despite reports that he had difficulty using his left hand after a stroke, in video footage released by the Korean Central Television, Dec. 29. On this day during a formal visit to a construction site along the Daedong River of apartments for artists in Pyongyang, Oct. 8, Kim examined their closets. (Yonhap News Agency via Hankyoreh)
Related trash"documentary":
☞ Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un are visiting families (KCTV, Nov. 2010)
Related article (actually also TRASH!!):
☞ N.Korea Releases Footage of Kim Jong-il Using Left Hand (Chosun Ilbo, 12.31)
The Korean Peninsula by Night
A shot of the Korean peninsula captured by an U.S. satellite, Oct. 29.
North Korea(*) is covered in complete darkness. (source: Hankyoreh, 12.11)
* aka the "Paradise of the Int'l Working Class" led by the "Sun of the 21st Century", i.e. the "Dear Leader"...(!!!)
Sounds like a f*cking great idea to maintain the "peace" on the Korean Peninsula(!!):
11.29: Conservative "civic group" members during a rally in Paju near the N.K. border
Related stuff:
Dr Leonid Petrov, an expert on North Korea at the University of Sydney: "Conservatives in Pyongyang and Seoul are driving the situation to a new extreme", according to Guardian (12.01).
☞ Anti-North sentiment increasing... (JoongAng Ilbo, 12.01)
☞ Civic organizations call for dialogue with N.Korea... (Hankyoreh, 12.01)
Saturday(11.27) afternoon in Ulsan: 5000 workers (well, a few days ago KCTU called for a "national workers rally"!!) and some supporters demonstrated their solidarity with the strike of Hyundai Motor's 'irregular' workers...
More reports (incl. pics) you can check out here:
☞ 전국노동자대회 "이번만큼은 반드시 승리하자" (NewsCham, 11.28)
☞ 현대차 비정규직 정규직화 쟁취! 전국노동자대회 (KCTU, 11.27)
☞ 울산에 모인 노동자 연대의 함성 "비정규직 철폐하라!" (VoP, 11.27)
Related article:
☞ Union leaders decide to start dialogue with Hyundai Motor (K. Herald, 11.28)
Y'day evening/night(*) and today afternoon thousands of S.K. (incl. migrant)workers celebrated their struggle against exploitation and opression in 2010... Simultaneously the rallies marked the beginning of the Anti-G20 Struggle Campaign.
Yonhap reported a short while ago the following: Just days ahead of the G-20 summit in Seoul, tens of thousands of South Koreans rallied in the capital on Sunday, opposing the ratification of a free trade deal between their country and the United States and urging the government to improve labor rights. The rally, which marked the 40th anniversary of the death of a prominent labor activist, drew 40,000 workers and activists according to organizers...
Yesterday evening/night in front of Seoul Stn. The 'warm up' rally for the coming (anti-G20)struggle:
Related reports:
☞ 전태일열사 정신계승! 전국노동자대회 (KCTU)
☞ 전태일 열사 40주기-G20회의 앞두고 7일 노동자대회 열려 (TIN)
☞ "우리 다시 전태일 열사가 되자" VoP
☞ “노동자가 희망이다, 연대하면 승리한다” (NewsCham)
Last Sat.(10.30), right after the "Nat'l Mass Rally of Irregular Workers", the "Jeon Tae-il Culture Festival" took place in front of Seoul's City Hall and hundreds of activists and citizens joined/enjoyed the event. Here some impressions(*):
* source: 노동의소리
Despite the ongoing - and ahead of the G20 Summit (Nov. 11~12 in Seoul) partly increasing - repression against trade union/strike activities(*) only a small number, according to KCTU 4000 workers, followed a call for the "National Mass Protest Day" of irregular workers, held y'day afternoon/evening in downtown Seoul:
Related reports:
☞ 서울광장서 전국비정규노동자대회 열려 (NewsCham, 10.30)
☞ 비정규직철폐 전국노동자대회...2부 전태일 40주기 기념문화제 (KCTU, 10.30)
☞ "공정사회 원한다면 전태일을 기억하라" (OMN, 10.30)
☞ 전태일 40주기 추모 문화제...공연 및 부대행사 마련 (VoP, 10.30)
* Today's Yonhap reported about a current disturbing example the following:
A branch leader of the Korean Metal Workers' Union (KMWU) is in critical condition after setting himself on fire to protest against the police's attempt to arrest him amid a sit-in strike at the Korea Electronics (KEC) factory, police said Sunday.
Kim Jun-il, a KEC employee and the KMWU branch chief of Gumi, 261 kilometers southeast of Seoul, poured inflammables onto his body Saturday night when police officials stormed into the factory to arrest him with a warrant soon after the union and KEC management failed to narrow differences over the new union payment system.
FRANCE: Today's General strike/mass protests against Sarkozy's pension "reforms"
Burning Barricades, Mass Demonstrations, Tear Gas against Students...
Related stuff:
☞ [10.19] French strikes and protests: live updates (The Guardian, UK)
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