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MSSC (Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective),
Today’s Struggle Report (04/02/06)
Today were really busy, because of two successive rallies. The first in front of Seoul’s Labor Office in Shindang-dong: we protest against unpaid wages and bonus payments. Here we got support from several solidarity groups, like Peoples Solidarity for Social Progress/사회진보연대, Democratic Labor Party/민주노동당 and Labor Liberation - Student Solidarity/노동해방 학생연대. After all it was a small, but powerful rally.
In the afternoon we joined an anti-war rally on Yeoui-do. The main issue here: struggle against government’s plan to send additional 3000 combat troops to Iraq to support the ongoing US led aggression there. After our arrival we’d to learn, that beside the sit-in strugglers at least 300 KEB card unionists were also joining the rally. This fact and our presence were the rescue for the rally, because if we, the KCTU unionists would be not on the spot the organizers would be alone – it mean just 20 activists would rally there. On the second part of the event, the rally in front of Han-nara dang’s headquarter some members of Hanchongryeon/한총련 arrived.
This shows us the sad reality: the date of troop dispatching comes more and more closer and where is the resistance? Again, if we continue like that, we’ll lose and the South Korean anti-war movement will be heavy hurt.
Today we got the first solidarity letter from Germany. We want to document this here.
Bundesvertretung
Grabenstrasse 89
D-47057 Duisburg
Bürozeit: Mittwoch 18–20 Uhr
Tel.: 00 49 (0203) 60 45 790
Fax: 00 49 (0203) 60 45 791
E-mail: buero@solidaritaet-international.de
Internet: www.solidaritaet-international.de
Spendenkonto: 6100 800 584
BLZ 501 900 00, Frankfurter Volksbank
Duisburg, 06.02.04
Dear colleagues of the Equality Trade Union – Migrants Branch (ETU-MB),
we are following your fight against mass arrests, police unpredictability and the deportation of migrant
workers, with feelings of great sympathy. For almost three months now, you have occupied the grounds of the Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul. With this action you rightly defend your interests, to organize yourselves in a union and to work in South Korea under humane conditions.
We find the struggle co-operative, that you've built-up with the colleagues of the union's umbrella
organization, the KCTU, to be especially valuable.
Proper wages, sensible working hours, agreed-on work contracts –humane work places are being eliminated all over the world, above all, by large concerns working worldwide.
Governments issue laws which make the unrestricted use of out-sourcing- and temporary agencies for
entrepreneurs possible. They use the millions of jobless workers to blackmail the colleagues working in
their companies.
Poverty without a work-place - poverty in spite of a work-place, these experiences are now common to people in all the countries of the earth.
Native workers are pushed-out of the labor market, migrant workers take their places and are, on account
of their situation, easily exploited as work slaves. The governments also prove to be helpful stooges in
the import of such work slaves.
What's needed is the unity of native workers, the unemployed and the migrant workers. More and more people understand this. An good example of this is the Workers Advice Center (W.A.C.) in
Israel which developed a common position paper along with the"Hotline for migrant workers" this past
summer. In it W.A.C. makes clear, that migrant- and native workers bear the sorrow of the large companies
and their politics.
Unity that goes beyond all national boundaries is also required.
It is therefore necessary that we organize, nationally and internationally. The controlling class fears this.
Our organizations cause them to panic. That makes it all the more important that we build-up unity that
crosses the borders of all countries. Your fight sets a very courageous example.
As an international solidarity- and help organization we stand united with the fights of colleagues
worldwide against increasingly unreasonable demands for workers flexibility, job cuts and wage robbery.
We will do our part to inform people of your fight, and to organize their support here in Germany. We
will also keep our partner organizations in various
other lands informed.
We ask you to continue to keep us informed of the status of your struggle and to look for-, and let us
know of, ways in which we can further support you now, and in the future.
The politics of the prevailing class is division, our politics is international solidarity.
With greetings of solidarity,
The Executive Board of Solidarity International, Germany
After tomorrows rally: 2 pm, Jongmyo Park
강제추방저지! 미등록 이주노동자 전면합법화!
사업장 이동의 자유 쟁취!를 위한 수도권 결의대회
일시 : 2월 8일 (日) 오후 2시
장소 : 종묘공원
LET'S FIGHT TOGETHER FOR A WORLD WITHOUT
EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION!
투쟁!
Please don’t forget our PROTEST CAMPAIGN
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now the gov't is happy? 
