[DEBATE] : Repression of Workers in Communist Vietnam

[glparramatta]

 From Mike Karadjis:
> The URL supplied, however, did not lead me to actual analysis/es of 
> labour
> protest and labour rights in Vietnam. It reports a conference at the end
> of 2008 where such were to be presented.
Here's a few articles I have written on the question of labour and Vietnam:

VIETNAM: Workers fight foreign bosses and win
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/656/656p20.htm

The Big Strikes: Did the Government "Cave In" to Workers or Did it Lead 
Them?
http://www.aseanfocus.com/asiananalysis/article.cfm?articleID=984

VIETNAM: Unions fight to restrain `market forces'
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2003/565/565p21.htm

VIETNAM: Workers in winning streak
(under name Michael Khanh)
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2000/423/423p27.htm

Discussion: Vietnam and the Question of "Sweatshop Wages"
http://mihalisvn.blogspot.com/2006/11/discussion-vietnam-and-question-of.html 


Also, I have lots of other articles up on an unused 'blog' if yu search 
the archives at http://mihalisvn.blogspot.com/, but don't expect any up 
to date 'blogging'or anything like that, he blog is just an url-creator.

peter waterman wrote:
> Thanks, Mike and Norm, for this response to the original on Vietnam.
>
> The URL supplied, however, did not lead me to actual analysis/es of labour
> protest and labour rights in Vietnam. It reports a conference at the end
> of 2008 where such were to be presented.
>
> Can you provide access to the indicated papers?
>
> I am aware that GLW, Links and associated parties have recently hosted a
> conference which was addressed by the Communist Party of Vietnam. This
> party follows the discredited model of the Soviet Union, Poland, China,
> Cuba and North Korea.
>
> I also assume, however, that such Australian socialists do not want to
> follow the old practice of identification with such authoritarian
> labour-repressive regimes at the cost of a relationship with any social
> movements and developments of civil society in Vietnam.
>
> In the case of China (the major pro-capitalist authoritarian Communist
> regime) we see foreign and international unions and NGOs both following
> and supporting independent labour initiatives. See the site of the Asia
> Monitor Resource Centre in Hong Kong.
>
> We certainly cannot rely alone on what might be coming out of human rights
> bodies in the USA.
>
> So we do need information and opinions on what is actually going on at the
> level of labour, worker movements, of worker support groups and other
> social developments in Vietnam.
>
> An exchange of information and opinions on the matter would help the Left
> in the rest of the world develop a balanced and effective internationalist
> strategy towards labour under such regimes.
>
> Pw
>
>