To ten million workers

To ten million workers

Dear ten million south Korean workers!

Now south Korea is indignant over the south Korean authorities and the vicious conglomerate that forced death to Park Jong-tae, a head of Gwangju branch of transportation solidarity headquarter under the Korean Confederation of Trade Union.

He, unable to bear the inhumane measure and suppression of the trade union by the Daehan Tongun that in league with the Lee Myung-bak regime, closed his life on May 3.

His sorrowful death was a murder produced by the present regime and the vicious conglomerate that seriously violates the rights and liberty of the working class and a tragedy of an abnormal reality of south Korea.

Lee, who had advocated “the economy for the people” and “stable employment”, threw away his commitments after he took presidency and stimulated avarice and arbitrariness of the handful conglomerate and the privileged class with policy favorable for them, while ignoring the lives of the working people.

The Kumho group and its underling Daehan Tonghun totally cancelled a raise of transportation fee 30 won agreed with the part-workers and dismissed 78 workers demanding the agreement; moreover, they ruthlessly suppressed them by mobilizing the riot police.

Demanding the higher wages cannot be a guilt and target of suppression.

Park sacrificed his life to indict the abnormal reality of south Korea where the haves violate the haves-not, power and money is rampant and injustice prevails over justice.

The Lee regime, instead of apologizing the crime, impeded his funeral ceremony.

The working masses would suffer misfortune and disaster as long as the Lee regime’s policy against the workers and suppression remain intact.

The Lee regime’s policies against the workers and people are more pronounced as it drove the ten million workers to precipice of death.

Now the Lee clique and the ruling Grand National Party made the millions of workers jobless and tries to fabricate murderous labor law that allows the handful capitalist class to dismiss the workers, cut wages and violate the rights of work at random.

Backed by the Lee clique, the conglomerates dismissed millions of workers under the signboard of the economic debacle by launching “restructuring” and “lay offs”. Consequently, the streets are full of jobless people; family discord and suicide are frequent.

The south Korean workers are on the crossroads of life or death.

Dear ten million workers!

This is no time to give way simply to sorrow. The current situation urgently requests the working class to turn out in the struggle against Lee Myung-bak.

The workers should sternly punish Lee and the conglomerates to make a new country free from capital oppression and to lead worthwhile life.

Take the lead in the struggle against Lee Myung-bak as a creator of history and driving force of the revolution.

Intensify the struggle against policy of Lee who drives the working people to death.

Continue the struggle until the higher wages, the abolition of part-time jobs, guarantee for working rights and reinstatement of the dismissed prove success.

Liquidation of the trade unions is tantamount to a declaration of war.

Turn out in the struggle against the Lee regime and vicious capitalists’ suppression against the working movement.

Dear fellow countrymen!

The death of Park Jong-tae requests the all the working peoples not only the working class to turn out in the struggle against Lee Myung-bak.

Lee’s evil policy shows no mercy to workers, peasants, youth and students, and intellectuals.

Many people fell to victim of anti-national misrule and were executed by barbarous fascist suppression.

The south Koreans should intensify a nationwide struggle to liquidate the treacherous Lee clique, a notorious fascist cutthroat.

The south Koreans from all social standings vehemently denounce the Lee regime that drove Park to death in a national meeting of the workers to be held on May 16 and are full of a determination to make the Lee regime pay dear for his death.

Make the forthcoming meeting, a place of punishment against Lee Myung-bak, by enlarging the struggle against Lee across south Korea.

Make south Korea full of voices against Lee by taking part in the meeting.

The strength is inexhaustible when the entire south Korean is united and the unity is able to smash any formidable forces.

Let us bring about a new country for the working people through the struggle that Park and the south Koreans wish, wiping out the Lee regime by the nationwide drive.

Workers and Peasants’ Department of the AINDF Central Committee

Seoul

May 15, Juche 98