Anti KMT Demonstration

11-8-13 6:37am Fri. (1)

      Sunday in Taichung at the new baseball stadium, there is going to be a KMT convention. Demonstrations are expected.

11-10-13 9:28pm Sun. (*2)

      I made 100 IWW business cards. I handed out 10 yesterday at Mr. Lim’s café in Miaoli. I have 77 left which means I handed out only 13 at the anti-KMT demo today. It seemed like I handed out more.

      I had a nice day today. I rode to near Taichung Port via Wen-Xin Road and route #12, Taichung Port Road, soon to be renamed ‘Taiwan Road.’ The Dadu mountain in-between Taichung proper and the port is formidable. I had to walk the bike up the incline halfway there and back. Of course, going down the mountain is a breeze.

      I arrived after 1 1/2 hours at a Family Mart and was lucky to meet three of the young men and ladies from Lim’s café the day before. They welcomed me in their car and drove around the blockaded area where the KMT was having a meeting (guarded by 2000 police) to a small area far from the action. Only about 300 people were there, throwing shoes again; that’s what they’ve been reduced to doing as the government chips away at their livelihood to satisfy a Chinese takeover.

The workers in Taiwan are doomed to KMT/CPP corporate/government oppression but it doesn’t mean they can’t still organize informal unions. Like the IWW does, they must fight their boss one workplace at a time, and eventually industry wide, whether in Taiwan or China. In neither place are independent unions legal, not that having legal business unions in the USA has helped workers much, anyway. Mr. Lim It-Hong must realize a boss is a boss from anywhere and stop saying it is urgent that something be done now to stop the inevitable; he could be preparing his protégées for a lifetime of union solidarity organizing and struggle in the workplace instead. The peaceful revolution offensive will happen in the workplace and we defend ourselves when they attack, which they will.