North Korea: why are unions silent?
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The week leading up to May Day is commemorated each year around the world as “North Korea Freedom Week”, though you’d hardly know that if you were active in the British labour movement.
North and South Korea
How the "left" mourned Kim Jong Il
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On 17 December 2011, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was announced to the world. As with the death of any major political figure, the world turned to examination of his “legacy”.
Resisting bosses' greed in China and South Korea
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China’s people and its media have defied state censorship to condemn the government’s development drive, which is coming with a terrible cost.
Protests in North Korea?
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According to Asian news agencies, small scale demonstrations have sprung up in parts of North Korea.
South Korean state persecutes socialist workers
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Life in Kim's kingdom
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By the entrance to the British Museum’s Korea gallery is a case displaying a stone dagger dating from 1000-300 BC and a collection of stone arrow heads from 6000-2000 BC.
Stalinist succession in North Korea
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The North Korean regime has taken a significant step in ensuring that power will be handed down to Kim Jong-il’s 28-year-old son, Kim Jong-sun.
Workers of the world: Zanon and other reports
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Zanon victory; US union recognition law setback; Korean occupation ends; Chilean miners' strike
Korea: “Will workers continue to live as the slaves of the capitalists?”
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600 workers have been occupying the paint shop at the Ssangyong Motor plant in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, for over two months to protest over massive job cuts that are part of a restructuring plan.
Korean unions call general strike in support of Sanggyong Motors' Occupation
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Report from worker in solidarity 21 July