Final APEC post
An update to the last post: I’ve solved the problem of the huge discrepancy in demo numbers. Predictably, this appears to have been one of those confusions over the Sino-Korean number system. The article in this week’s 다함께 newspaper evaluating the APEC protests, reports that there were 30,000 protestors in Pusan last Friday (3만명), not 300,000 as reported in Socialist Worker. Oh dear, one of those mistakes that seems to be so easy to make. It’s now been corrected, at least on the web edition of the paper.
The 다함께 paper also has a reply to the article from 참세상 that I linked in the last post, taking issue with some of the points made by the writer 라은영 (that the radical left was too weak within the organisation of the anti-APEC protests; that there was an overemphasis on the anti-Bush aspect of the protest and concern about the role of the left in the movement against neoliberal globalisation). There follows, among other things, an interesting discussion of the tactic of focusing on the ‘anti-Bush’ aspect of the protest and whether this is the same as a simplistic anti-American stance.
I promise to stop going on about the APEC protests now… The anti-WTO protests in Hong Kong will be coming up soon anyway.
It seems to me that we should try to condense some of our posts into press articles for some alternative media, mainly because nothing has been printed, at least on ZNET for example. I’m going to try to get something out soon, maybe as a summary and lead up to the WTO protests, let’s coordinate on this, perhaps, via email.
Comment by jamie — November 26, 2005 @ 7:12 pm