Vol.62/No.19           May 18, 1998 
 
 
May Day from south Korea to Cuba  
Above, south Korean toilers celebrate May 1 with a national strike, protesting government plan to sell Kia Motors to private investors. May Day in Havana (right) drew more than 500,000 Cuban workers and others into the streets with signs defending their revolution. "We are reminding the world that this is the socialist and democratic revolution of workers, and no one or nothing will ever strip us of our status as owners and masters of our own lives," said Pedro Ross, the head of the Central Organization of Cuban Workers. Cubans dedicated the workers' international holiday to Jesús Menéndez, an Afro-Cuban trade union leader assassinated in 1948 by the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship.  
 
 
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