Self-presentation of the KCTU
, by KCTU
Self-presentation of the KCTU
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, by ROUSSET Pierre
For the right to organize against neoliberal policies
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, by PANG
Korean Organisations held a press conference/protest against the WTO General Council in the morning of 27th July.
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KCTU, Korean Peasants’ League (KPL), KoPA and Korean People’s Solidarity etc. building a new coalition, “People’s Action against Neoliberal Globalisation” to tackle the (...)
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Appeal in defense of KGEU
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, by KDLP
A English language self-presentation of the Democratic labor Party (DLP), from Korea, taken from its website.
Korea, a Brief Introduction:
South Korea, divided from the North since 1948, has a population of about 48 million (North Korea has 25 million). It is a presidential system, where (...)
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Call from the OMCT
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, by KCTU
In defense of migrant workers
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, by KCTU
In defense of Labor & Trade Unions Rights
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, by KGEU
KGEU Celebrates 3rd Anniversary and Inauguration of ‘Special Committee to Fight for Reinstatement of Dismissed Workers’
Various activities planned to struggle against repression of union members
On 23rd March, the Korean Government Employees’ Union (KGEU) celebrated its 3rd anniversary. (...)
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, by DAN Byung-Ho, KDLP
I extend greetings of solidarity from the Democratic Labor Party in Korea,
I would like to start off by thanking the organizing committee for giving me the opportunity to speak among the panelists here. From what I have seen it has been organized superbly, and I commend the organizers for (...)
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From 23rd to 25th August, representatives of governments of Korea and Japan met in Kyungjoo, Korea, for their fifth session of Korea-Japan Free Trade Agreement (hereunder, KJFTA) negotiations.
Various social movement organizations including KoPA, Korean People’s Solidarity and others held a (...)
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, by KCTU
For the first time this year, on July 18, the South Korean government ordered arbitration at LG Caltex Oil by sending in police forces into LG Caltex Oil to suppress workers who were on strike. Also, on July 20, the government remitted Seoul¡¤Incheon Subway and Metropolitan Rail to (...)
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, by WON Youngsu
Militant class struggle has been a feature of South Korean politics for many years. In April there are elections to the National Assembly (parliament) and some workers’ candidates are standing.
This critical assessment is written by Won Youngsu, a member of the South Korean Marxist group, (...)
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, by WON Youngsu
November 9, 2003, downtown Seoul. In the square in front of city hall, 100,000 workers join the KCTU-led national workers rally. Since the great struggles of 1987 this has been a traditional workers’ event, together with May Day. The rally commemorates the late Jeon Tae-il, who, on November (...)
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, by KoPA
Paper presented by the Korean People’s Action against FTA & WTO (KoPA) in May 2003.
1. Background: DDA Negotiations Prior to the Ministerial and the Strategies of the Korean Government
(1) Doha Development Agenda and the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting
A new round of negotiations was (...)
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, by KoPA
According to the decision made at the 4th WTO Ministerial Meeting of November 2001, member countries are required to submit their offers in services by 31st March. To this end, the Korean government has decided upon the its initial offers, in which it has proposed to liberalise legal services, (...)
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, by KCTU
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
KCTU and Korean workers extend warm welcome to all the football teams and all football lovers coming to Korea for the 2002 Korea-Japan FIFA World Cup.
KCTU, however, feels it is important to remind ourselves that not being among the 32 is in no way a (...)
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, by SHEPPARD Barry
AGAINST THE BACKGROUND of a rising militant working-class movement, revolutionary socialists in South Korea are undergoing a process of regroupment. An important force in this development are comrades of the Power of the Working Class (PWC) organization, formed in August of last year.
At a (...)
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, by KIM Iggy
The January Marxism 2000 conference in Sydney hosted the first overseas delegation of South Korea’s newly formed Nodongja-euy Him, the Power of the Working Class (PWC). The delegation’s presence was the first contact between South Korea’s new Marxist movement and other Marxists from the (...)
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, by LAWLESS Terry
Violence has taken centre stage in South Korean student politics, after two suspected police informers were beaten to death by militants of the radical student union Hanchongnyon. Terry Lawless reports from Seoul.
A five day battle between riot police and student supporters of the National (...)
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