{"id":3299,"date":"2013-12-23T14:19:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2013-12-23T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T12:20:27","slug":"christmas-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you will all no doubt be aware, the South Korean government has brutally cracked down on the striking railway workers, making over 130 arrests.\u00a0 The unions have decided to call a general strike on 28 December.\u00a0 It is vital that we all do what we can in the next few days to build support for those workers.<\/p>\n<p>Today I posted extensively to social networks, contacted directly the general secretaries of some railway workers unions who could be quite helpful, wrote to the BBC, CNN, Sky News and Al Jazeera to ask why they&#8217;re all ignoring this story, and am just about to send off another mass mailing to our English list.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re up to <strong>12,704<\/strong> supporters for this campaign but it can be and should be many more.\u00a0 Please do what you can to build the campaign &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1aUdMGq\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1aUdMGq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you will all no doubt be aware, the South Korean government has brutally cracked down on the striking railway workers, making over 130 arrests.\u00a0 The unions have decided to call a general strike on 28 December.\u00a0 It is vital that we all do what we can in the next few days to build support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}