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Korean factory workers in occupation "fight to the death"

Wildcat | 27.07.2009 10:20 | World

1000 striking South Korean factory workers are occupying their plant against redundancy, as riot police and paid company thugs attempts to evict them. Four people have died in the dispute so far.



Coverage of the struggle in English is available on libcom, including daily updates from the front line:
 http://libcom.org/tags/ssangyong-occupation

Wildcat
- Homepage: http://libcom.org/tags/ssangyong-occupation

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27.07.2009 11:17

You say the workers are occupying 'their' plant. They don't own it. They are merely paid to work there and have no ownership of the facility.

Pete

Who owns anything that they haven't made?

27.07.2009 11:32

If they are in possession of it, and they work there, they effectively own it.

Korean strikers used to adopt extreme pacifist tactics until one incident in the late 80's. Motorola strikers had poured petrol on themselves, seemingly that was a common far-eastern tactic when showing defiance to underline that they were no threat, but then the thugs employed by Motorola to break the strike simply set them alight. The only place for petrol in any modern protest is in Molotovs.

Danny