A short account of the South Korean strike wave of 1987 known as the Great Workers' Struggle. Affecting most major industries and involving over a million workers, the strikes and militant tactics used won significant gains in pay and conditions for many.
I was first introduced to President Cyril Ramaphosa at the founding conference of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in 1982, by the late leader of the Council of Unions of SA, Phiroshaw Camay, to which NUM was affiliated, notes Ebrahim Harvey.