After a 29-hour confrontation with police, the tractors and trucks of the farmers and workers 전봉준투쟁단 (Jeon Bong Joon Fight Brigade), made up of the Korean Peasants League and Korean Women’s Peasants League, got past the police to Seoul’s Hannam-dong where Yoon’s residence is located. They were quickly joined by none other than the support of the “light stick brigade” made up of mostly young women.
Again, it was glorious.
The namesake of the workers’ brigade is a deep bow to our revolutionary ancestors.
Jeon Bong Joon, after whom the group is named, was a peasant revolutionary in the late 1800s in the Jeolla province. He led uprisings and revolts for labor and working class struggles and justice.
He was also a leader in the Donghak movement, which pushed back against Western colonial values.
Movements around the world are coalescing around poor people’s movements, workers’ and labor rights, the Global South, class struggle, and anti-imperialism. These are and have always been the pulse of radical change.
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