Union sues IMF

[Sam Pawlett]

Patrick Bond wrote:
> 
> I was with those comrades in Taegu last Friday, when they made the
> announcement. Although at first blush it appears a legalistic
> distraction from the class struggle that is still playing out in
> very forceful ways in Korea, the particular context was an extremely
> interesting, still-nascent, anti-IMF alliance of petit-bourgeois
> nationalists (harking back to a "national debt redemption movement"
> based on a 1907 anti-Japanese IMF-type squeeze on living standards),
> plus the old National-Liberation (pro-N.Korean) student movement,
> plus a few of the People's Democracy class-struggle militants.

  By pro-N.Korean, do you mean pro-unification under the auspices of the
north? Also 'Peoples Democracy', is that a take off on the popular front
that ruled Korea in the immediate post-WWii years or is it a new
phenomenon?

sam Pawlett