South Korea fights against FTA and war

Farmers, workers, students and migrant workers [because of security reasons only one delegate Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective (related article you can read here: http://www.base21.org/) was fighting there] are struggling against a new troop dispatching bill and the possibly devastating consequences of the new “Free Trade Agreement” between South Korea and Chile (‘cause here they, special the farmers, are worrying, that’s only the beginning of their end).

In the case of troop dispatching: many South Koreans are seeing the US troops here as occupation forces, most of the population are complete against the war against Iraq, as well against the occupation there.

In the beginning of last year hundreds of thousands were demonstrating against the presence of US troops here and planned aggression against Iraq.

Because of some strange tactics of some political organizations the movement was on the brink to break into pieces.

But before y’day the anti-capitalist/anti-war movement showed that they are still alive. Tenth of thousands demonstrated against the National Assembly’s (South Korean parliament) planned decision to send the troops and ratify the FTA. Yesterday 0:15 the news agency Yonhap reported, that the voting about the bills is delayed (of course of technical problems, but we know that the MP’s only are worrying about the reaction of their voters).

(The comments to the pictures were written before