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Dec 22, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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On Sunday, Dec 19th, the Migrants’ Trade Union + the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held an International Migrants' Day rally in Seoul.

"We migrant workers are still being treated like disposable goods.” - Udaya Rai, MTU President KCTU workers march with a b...Migrant workers and civic a...
The rally was held a day after International Migrants’ Day (Dec 18), because the workers couldn’t get time off for that Saturday.

While holding signs that read “abolish racial discrimination,” migrant workers demanded changes to south Korea’s Employment Permit System Rallygoers sit in a plaza. ...More migrant workers holdin...
Under current laws, migrants who change jobs too often become undocumented. Consequently, many migrant workers are trapped in abusive and dehumanizing jobs.

“Because of the Employment Permit System, migrant workers are doing slave labor.” - Udaya Rai A migrant worker holds a si...
A vigil was held to honor Nuon Sokkheng, a Cambodian farm worker who died last winter while being forced to sleep in a greenhouse in subzero temps. One study of south Korean farms found up to 70% of migrant workers are housed in similar conditions. reuters.com/article/us-tha… Migrant workers and civic a...
Chonsawat, a Cambodian farm worker, explained the conditions that killed Sokkheng are still the norm on south Korean farms: “We don’t have any heating or hot water in the container dormitory where I live. When it rains, the water leaks from the ceiling." english.khan.co.kr/khan_art_view.…
This rally was part of the ongoing series of national mobilizations that began with KCTU’s general strike in September. An all-people’s national mobilization will be held on January 15th ahead of the upcoming south Korean presidential elections. Rallygoers holding signs th...
Migrants are a super-exploited strata of south Korea’s working class, and their struggle against exploitation and racism cannot be separated from the working class movement against neoliberalism shaking south Korea.

Translation: "We are not machines or slaves." A rally banner that reads “...
South Korea's right appeals to racism and xenophobia to demonize migrants. The truth is citizen and migrant workers alike have a shared interest in class struggle based on internationalism, anti-racism and solidarity.

Pictured: MTU & KCTU workers singing together Four MTU and KCTU workers t...
We salute the efforts of the Migrant Trade Union. And we will continue to struggle for a world free of imperialism—where workers are not compelled to leave their homelands by the parasitism of other countries, nor persecuted & discriminated against for their race or citizenship.

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Jun 25
PRESENTING: A PEOPLE'S TIMELINE OF THE KOREAN WAR

June 25 marks the "official" start of the Korean War 75 years ago.

In reality, the war began as soon as US troops arrived in Korea in 1945 with the intent to crush our people's anti-imperialist, democratic revolution Image
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Well before 1950, a number of skirmishes along the 38th parallel, the majority initiated by South Korean aggression, had turned the peninsula into a tinderbox.

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US President Jimmy Carter has died.

We do not mourn Jimmy Carter. Today we mourn the 2,000 martyrs of Gwangju, who were slaughtered by the South Korean military regime with the support and knowledge of the Carter Administration.

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Has north Korea abandoned reunification?

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As anti-imperialist Koreans, we stand unequivocally with Palestine, its people and its armed resistance against the Zionist occupation. This is neither a two-sided conflict nor a war: it is an occupation and a genocide.

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Jun 25, 2023
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