Workers Will Deal Sledge-Hammer Blow at War Maniacs: C.C., GFTUK

Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) in a statement Tuesday said the historic statement made by respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un to deal a stern sledge-hammer blow at the U.S. imperialist aggressors is a declaration of Juche Korea which clearly represented the strong spirit and retaliatory will of all the people including the workers.

The U.S. war maniacs like Trump made the open declaration of war, much upset and seized by extreme frustration in the face of the dazzling achievements made by the DPRK in its efforts to reach the final destination in rounding off the state nuclear force, but the declaration is nothing but a last ditch effort of those facing the ruin, the statement said, and went on:

For the sake of independent life of the workers all over the world, such unpopular society like the U.S. which is getting corpulent at the cost of blood shed by the billions of peoples has to disappear from the earth and such popular country as the DPRK has to prosper for eternity.

The workers of the DPRK are full of enthusiasm to supply more Korean-style strategic weapons and ultra-modern war hardware to fronts at a faster speed which are waiting for the order for the final showdown with the U.S. and the order for the grand advance for Korea's reunification so that Trump and his group might not bluff any more.

We will wage increased production drive, creation drive and general charge drive through the great surge of self-reliance to settle accounts with the U.S. imperialists, and demonstrate the stamina of the Korean working class once again to the war maniacs hell bent on anti-DPRK sanctions and pressure.

We, the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class, will turn out in the do-or-die battle with the U.S. in hearty response to the call of the respected Supreme Leader and force with the dignity and honor of Juche Korea the old deranged man to pay a dear price and bring about the final victory without fail. -0-

GFTUK Supports S. Korean Workers' Just Struggle

Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea released a statement on Thursday as regards the general strike getting stronger recently among south Korean workers urging the regime to ensure the right to labor and eliminate conservative evils.

The struggle, launched late in June, has spilled over into the strikes of workers in various sectors, the statement said, and went on:

On June 30, more than 60 000 workers affiliated to the south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions gathered in Seoul and held a rally for launching a general strike. People from all walks of life including teachers demanding the legitimization of the teachers union, youth and students and peasants are proactively joining the struggle.

They are expressing their fixed will to carry on their struggle until the part-time jobs are replaced with full-time jobs, minimum wages are hiked and the unpopular labor policy is retracted, strongly urging the regime to do so.

The on-going general strike of south Korean workers is a just struggle to bring about a new world of workers by eliminating all evils left by the Park Geun Hye regime of traitors which mercilessly trampled down the elementary right to labor and right to existence of workers by persisting in misrule during its tenure.

The Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea extends full support and strong solidarity to the south Korean workers in their all-out struggle for getting rid of all evils against people and gaining their basic rights to labor and existence.

The south Korean public resolutely punished the conservative group of traitors but such evils as inveterate sycophancy toward the U.S., idea of confrontation with the compatriots in the north and fascist dictatorship are still harassing the development of the south Korean society.

The situation clearly shows that guarantee of the right to labor doesn't come by itself despite the regime change in south Korea but the genuine rights to existence of its workers can be ensured only when independence and democracy are realized throughout its society.

To completely liquidate the unpopular evils of the former conservative regime is the unanimous demand of the candlelight demonstrators in south Korea and the workers should do their bit by steering the advance of the era and history. -0-

Build a society for workers!

Build a society for workers!

On May 1, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a meeting in Seoul and other areas of south Korea on the occasion of the May Day, international holiday of the working people in the world.

About 20 000 workers took part in the meeting in Seoul. At the meeting they said that THAAD have been deployed illegally and no presidential candidates uttered a word of suspension or withdrawal of the THAAD as the US is forcing south Korea to pay US dollars as the cost for the THAAD deployment.

The KCTU would enter a general strike on June 30 with broad segments of people right after the end of the presidential election, they noted.

They strongly demanded wage hike, abolishment of part-time jobs, guarantee for right of labor union, incarceration of business tycoons, dissolution of conglomerate, investigation into sunken ferry Sewol and withdrawal of THAAD deployment.

After the end of the meeting, they marched toward the Gwanghwamun Plaza.

The Solidarity for Progress issued a statement on the same day.

With unflinching candlelight action in the face of exploitation and suppression, the candlelight of working people ousted Park Geun–hye from presidency, the statement said. It pointed out that it provided a springboard for liquidation of abuse of power and graft and building of a new society.

However, the wretched plight of workers remains unchanged and the workers across south Korea are carrying on action in demand of the right to live, it noted.

The workers’ struggle would go on and the Solidarity for Progress will stand in the van, it declared. 

7th Congress of GFTUK Held

                                            

  Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- The 7th Congress of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) was held at the People's Palace of Culture Tuesday and Wednesday.
    The Congress reviewed the successes and experience gained after the 6th Congress and discussed tasks and ways for all the trade union organizations to creditably discharge their mission and duty as the reliable assistants and supporters of the Party in thoroughly carrying out the decisions made at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
    Present there were delegates who were elected at conferences of the provincial trade unions.
    Officials of the party, administrative and armed forces organs and a delegation of the Union of Korean Teachers in Japan attended the congress as observers.
    The Congress approved the following agenda items:
    On the review of the work of the Central Committee of the GFTUK.
    On the review of the Central Auditing Commission of the GFTUK.
    On the revision of the rules of the GFTUK.
    On the election of the central leadership organ of the GFTUK.
    Conveyed at the congress was a letter "The Duty of the Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for the Times and the Tasks Facing Trade Union Organizations" sent by supreme leader Kim Jong Un to the participants in the 7th Congress of the GFTUK.
    Introduced there were congratulatory messages and letters sent by trade union organizations and figures of political and social circles of different countries and international bodies on the occasion of the 7th Congress of the GFTUK.
    Also introduced there was a joint congratulatory message sent by the Labor Headquarters of the South Side Committee for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration.
    Ju Yong Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the GFTUK, made a report on the first agenda item.
    The reporter said that Kim Jong Un sent the letter to the participants in the 7th Congress of the GFTUK, thereby brightly indicating the duties assumed by the working class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il before the times and the path to be followed by the trade unions.
    Over the past period since the 6th Congress of the GFTUK, the organization has been further strengthened into the one of the leader and the party and it was the proud days in which the organization successfully performed its mission and duty in the grand revolutionary advance for ushering in the new era of the Juche revolution, the Songun revolution, the reporter noted.
    He called on the GFTUK to play its role as dependable assistant and defender of the Party in the drive for implementing the tasks set forth at the 7th Congress of the WPK true to the letter sent by

Kim Jong Un.
    The head of the delegation of the Union of Korean Teachers in Japan made a congratulatory speech.
    It was followed by speeches on the first agenda item.
    A decision on the first agenda item was adopted.
    Sin Pong Ryol, chairman of the Central Auditing Commission of the GFTUK, made a report on the second agenda item.
    The third agenda item was discussed.
    A decision on the revision of the rules of the GFTUK was adopted.
    Then there was a discussion on the fourth agenda item.
    The congress elected the Central Committee and the Central Auditing Commission of the GFTUK.
    A decision of the First Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the GFTUK was made public.
    Ju Yong Gil was elected chairman of the C.C., GFTUK and Choe Su Dong, Pong Won Ik, Han U Phal, Kim Tong Son, Choe Pong Man, Rim Chang Bok, Ri Chol Jun and Kim Song Su were elected its vice-chairmen.
    Department directors of the C.C, GFTUK and the editor-in-chief of Rodongja Sinmun, the organ of the C.C, GFTUK, were appointed.
    The results of the election of the chairman and vice-chairmen of the Central Auditing Commission of the GFTUK held at the First Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Auditing Commission of the GFTUK were made public. -0-

Apeal of Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front south Korea

Appeal to the fellow countrymen

Dear fellow countrymen!

Now south Korea is vibrant with fiercer actions against the Park Geun-hye regime which has committed thrice-cursed treason and sycophancy unprecedented in history of the Korean nation.

Cheer of actions is resounding across south Korea including Busan, Gwangju, Seongju and Gimcheon as well as Seoul where Cheongwadae, a cesspool of treason, and other government institutions are located. 

Righteous and gallant workers, who would not tolerate the conservative group strangling the lives of the workers with brutal labor policy, are at the head of the actions.

In the wake of general strike in July and September, many unionists and civil servants have launched an indefinite general strike against the introduction of piecework system resulting in sweated labor and massive dismissal.

The actions of the peasant organizations including the Association of Rice Producers and the National Federation of Peasants Associations against the agricultural policy of the Park clique are getting fiercer.

Thousands of peasants from eighty regions of south Korea went up to Seoul to hold rallies in demand of right to live and resignation of the Park regime and marched toward Cheongwadae to make the authorities rigid.

The nationwide action against the government is getting more intense with death of Baek Nam-gi who breathed his last after he was hit by water cannon fired by the riot police.

The emergency measure committee for inter-Korean economic exchange, 1, 140 business groups and people took to the streets to denounce the authorities that bedeviled inter-Korean ties. The actions against deployment of THAAD in Seongju and Gimcheon and other regions are mounting.

The escalating struggle against the “government” in different parts is the brave eruption of resistance and will of all the people not to tolerate the Park Geun-hye regime's unpopular rule, corruption and incompetence, pro-US policy and policy of confrontation with compatriots any longer.

The conservative authorities should know it is none other than the Park group that propelled the people to launch the nationwide campaign.

The murderous labor policy, anti-popular rule, and revival of “yusin” and manslaughter of the Park group kindled the south Korean people’s pent-up wrath.

In retrospect, Park has deceived the public sentiment after she took the presidency by advertising honeyed words such as “Era of people’s happiness”, “Stabilization of the people’s livelihood”and “Unification bonanza”.

The Park regime has reduced south Korea into a veritable hell and turned it into a theater of nuclear war of foreign forces.

The youth unemployment is on the increase and people get low wages and hunt jobs. It is the Park regime that made south Korea rank itself top in poverty and suicide under the signboard of “welfare”.

It is the Park group that has cracked down on the righteous action of people demanding those responsible for the sink of ferry Sewol for thirty months.

Fascist suppression, and illegality and corruption are twin brothers.

The public curse on Park, who mentions“uprightness” and “clean politics”before the public and devotes herself to illegality and corruption behind the screen, has reached a boiling point.

Park, who is the very spit of her father Park Chung-hee, has embezzled billions of money from conglomerates for her retirement when the working people suffer abject poverty. 

The scandal of the MI-R Foundation and the K-Sports Foundation that sparked off public furor reveals that Park is a boss of illegality and corruption and political charlatan without an equal in the world.

The south Korean people would suffer holocaust of a nuclear war, far from peace, if THAAD is deployed.

Nevertheless,the Park clique is making last-ditch efforts to deploy THAAD, clamoring about deceptive “security crisis”.

All the crimes of the Park's regime are a vicious challenge to the mindset of the people desirous of justice and truth and a declaration of a war against the fellow countrymen hoping for peace and reunification.

The history of south Korea has been stained with treachery, sycophancy, anti-popular policy and fascist rule, however, it never witnessed the worst people’s livelihood and volatile situation.

The south Korean people will be driven deeper into the slough of poverty and they cannot escape the miserable disaster of a nuclear war entailed by the evil cycle of the confrontation with compatriots as long as Park Geun-hye, hateful pronoun of arrogance and self-complacency, misunderstanding, arbitrary practices, incompetence and ignorance, stays in Cheongwadae.

The current situation urgently requires the nationwide action against the Park regime, the enemy and the root of evil of the people,

The nationwide action being waged across south Korea is not only for the right to live but the action of punishment and justice to ostracize the Park group which inflicts all sorts of misfortune and pains, war and destruction upon the people.

Now is the time to throw the Park group into the dustbin of history by intensifying the nationwide action.

Dear fellow countrymen!

The duration of the Park clique multiplies the people’s misfortune and pain.

Turn out in the nationwide action to ostracize the Park group!

Decisively smash the system of the piecework system, new slave system, with united struggle!

Smash the anti-workers policy of Park resulting in filling purse of vicious business groups, wage reduction and massive dismissal!

Withdraw Park from Cheongwadae by introducing the piecework system to herself, the good-for-nothing!

Decisively reject “four-point restructuring reform”and eradicate the Park regime!

Dear peasants! Overthrow the Park Geun-hye regime devastating land of life of peasants with unprecedented murderous agricultural policy and build a new world where peasants live as befitting human being by our own efforts!

Resolutely block the import of American rice killing the peasants!

Youth! Take the lead in the anti-Park Geun-hye struggle to get out of disgraceful plight!

Youth should lead the van of democracy and reunification in unity.

Let all women bravely join in the nationwide resistance judging the Park Geun-hye regime which brought the era of disregarding women with sex inequality and wage distinction!

Let all religionists bravely turn out in the just struggle to push into hell the evil group of Park Geun-hye trying to turn religious Holy Land into a military base of outside forces and target of nuclear strike!

The Park clique has made frantic bid to tide over its serious political crisis by escalating inter-Korean confrontation and launching war games against north Korea.

Let all the people throw into the rubbish heap of history pro-US traitorous group of Park Geun-hye trying to deploy THAAD in this land at any cost going against mindset of the people!

Ensure peace and security to check deployment of THAAD by pooling efforts of the nation!

Let us give the Park regime, which is justifying deployment of THAAD by trumpeting “security crisis”,quietus!

Develop the people’s drive for the right to live into a patriotic action for peace and independent reunification!

Resign the Park regime and realize reunification and prosperity by reviving the June 15 era!

The sense of organization and solidarity is a key to victory.

The action to achieve democracy, people’s rights, the right to life and independent reunification is strange to difference of class, strata, party affiliation, political view and religion.

The withdrawal of the Park regime is a shortcut to provide a sure guarantee for democracy and right to life desired by the people and no-deployment of THAAD.

Wage a continuous and strong nationwide drive until the close of the Park group!

The working people of every circle should wage a joint action, transcending affiliation, groups and regions.

Shatter the authorities’ fascist suppression of righteous action by united efforts of the nation!

Victory is in store for the people who turn out as one in a righteous drive in high spirits. 

Let all the people turn out in the anti-Park Geun-hye struggle through death-defying resistance and bring about a new world of a reunified powerful and prosperous country, genuine world of working people free from subordination, submission, exploitation, oppression, flunkeyism and treachery, at an early date!

AINDF Central Committee

October 15, 2016

DPRK GFTU Building Revamped

This is the DPRK's equilavent to the British TUC it certainly puts Congress House to shame. The DPRK has genuine revolutionary trades unions that unlike many trade unions in the capitalist countries are free from bourgeois ideas.
   Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- The Central Hall of Workers located in the picturesque Munsu area in Pyongyang was successfully remodeled and opened to public with due ceremony Tuesday.
    The house is equipped with enough seats for international and internal events, rooms for hobby groups, training and make-up rooms and exhibition hall.
    Present at the ceremony were Choe Ryong Hae, Ju Yong Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, officials concerned, officers and members of the Speed Campaign Youth Shock Brigade who took part in the project, officials concerned, officials and members of the trade unions and workers in Pyongyang.
    Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made an address.
    He said that the hall is a gift Marshal Kim Jong Un provided to the working people and members of the trade unions, and a monumental edifice in the era of the Workers' Party.
    He called upon employees of the hall to eternally glorify the leadership feats of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu and meticulously organize the management and operation in order to make sure that the Party's love and care reach the working people and members of the trade unions. -0-

WFTU Congress Supports Independent Reunification of Korea

Pyongyang, October 16 (KCNA) -- The 17th Congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) adopted a solidarity resolution supporting the independent reunification of Korea. It took place in Durban of South Africa from Oct. 5 to 7.
    The resolution said:
    Korea is one.
    Korea should be reunified by the Korean nation itself at the will and in line with the demand common to the nation. This is the common desire and aspiration of not only the Korean nation but also world progressives.
    Reunification only can provide the Korean workers and other broad masses with genuine peace, happy life, independent development and prosperity.
    The three principles of national reunification-- independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity--jointly agreed by the north and south of Korea, the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo and the ten-point programme of the great unity of the whole nation serve as the three charters for national reunification, the June 15 joint declaration the keynote of which is the idea of By Our Nation Itself is a historic landmark for the independent reunification and the October 4 declaration is a programme for implementing it.
    In solidarity and alliance with progressive trade organizations of the world and international organizations, the WFTU will stage a series of protest actions of diverse forms in succession to put pressure on the U.S. to clearly understand the strategic position of the DPRK and the trend of the times and drop its anachronistic hostile policy toward the DPRK, replace the Armistice Agreement by a peace treaty and withdraw all its aggression troops and war equipment including nuclear weapons from south Korea.
    It strongly demands the south Korean authorities stop all reckless politically motivated military provocations and war drills against the fellow countrymen in the north which are in pursuance of the U.S. policy and are imperiling the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula.
    It expresses solidarity with the workers and other people of the DPRK in their efforts to ensure peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and reunify the country by a federal formula under the uplifted banner of national independence and great national unity, ardently calling on trade union organizations of all countries and international bodies to extend support and encouragement to the just struggle of General Federation Trade Unions of Korea in the future, too. -0-