May Day - Tokyo and Seoul
No Ordinary Sun brings us exclusive pictures of the May Day rally in Tokyo:
(I do like the way that Japanese activists manage to use cute cartoon characters even on their union banners.)
While Pressian was on the scene for today’s events in Seoul:
(It’s interesting to note the difference between the events held by the two Korean union federations on May Day - while the more radical KCTU held a big rally against the privatisation and pro-conglomerate policies of the Lee Myung-bak government and promoted the rights of the casual workers who now make up the majority of the South Korean workforce, the conservative FKTU organised a May Day marathon… which will surely do much to promote the rights and livelihoods of its members.)
Meanwhile, here in London we just went to vote with heavy hearts… Not even the anarchists managed one of their attempted riots.
