Burmese Labor Theorist and White Mo

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Dear Ma Aye Aye Soe Win,
	It is really courageous of you.  As you know, if someone is good
at English and clever enough to get fundings by saying words what donors
want to hear or being smart in knowing which kind of proposals will
certainly make money, he becomes leaders.  I don't mean all leaders are
like that but numerous so-called leaders are ---.  One real thing is that
when you talk about it, their supporters and those leaders note that you
are saying because of being jealous.  Or they use some shields to prevent
such revealation.  First of their useful sheilds is accusing you as spy
and another is that they cannot explain the expendicture because SPDC may
know.  Doesn't SPDC or military intelligence know if someone don't post
such points on the lists?  SPDC misuses country's income and it doesn't
reveal country's incomes and uses to the people of Burma.  Is not it
clever to create opportunities to misuse or violate the country's funds?
Not only SPDC cannot report such financial statistics but also some of our
so-called leaders and some organizations cannot either.  Well, it is good
for SPDC and them.  
	In my experience, there is no labour unions inside Burma.  Have
you heard anyone claiming its member?  Oh, no it will not absolutely
right.  Once a group of mine workers in Ban Ai Taung formed it but later
no support was given them anymore and it disappeared.  Now, Nat Ai Taung
is under SPDC control and I believe SPDC soldiers and some Burmese
merchants will not join Labour union by giving up their live for nothing.
In Ranong, there are thousands of Burmese fishermen working in Thai
fishing boats but are they protected by the labour union and are they
organized by it?  No way.  May be the labour union or trade union even
don't heard of horrible stories of those people lives.  I wonder what kind
of labour activities are going on there and what kind of assistance are
given to them.  It will be nice if that organization helps such people.
Oh by the way, millions of illegal immigrants are in Thailand but have you
ever heard of our labour movements help them to ease their lives?  Do we
ever hear about organizing them to fight and protect from the exploitation
by the Thai owners.  May be the organization deems that the labours inside
are more important because no one can monitor it.  Hmm, hopefully, all
work with real commitment and dedication for those people in trouble from
now on.   

Yours sincerely,
Kyaw Zay Ya



On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Aye Aye Soe Win wrote:

> >From where do they come ? Who are they ? Where are they going ?
> 
> Needless to say, there was a moment for numerous unions and associations
> emerging at the peak of the popular uprisings of 1988 in Burma. Prior to the
> military coup on September 18, 1988, very few of such inflated unions, except
> the All Burma Federation of Student Unions, were representative of what they
> had stood for by title.
> 
> Insofar as the political parties inside Burma have approached a way of saving
> their nation from the Burmese military, they have become complete victims of
> SPDC because they live so close to the most brutal military regime on earth.
> However, certain individuals who shamelessly call themselves leaders of the
> democracy struggle of Burma have found it so easy to make money in the name of
> Burma.
> Ko Maung Maung aks Pyi Thit Nyunt Wai would write a labor theory that I assume
> has helped him get quick, easy but too much money for his personal gains.
> 
> In fact, he seems to have no strong political ideology except the fact he
> outsmarts other Burmese politicians, activists and revolutionaries when it
> comes to asking for grants, by wearing the Cloak of Labor  to convince the
> funders that he is the BIG BROTHER who has been watching all the progress of
> democracy movement and other related activities inside Burma. But he knew he
> was lying to the funders and non-Burmese people who support our struggle for
> democracy in Burma every time he assumed, as the leader of FTUB, an air of
> importance he did not feel.
> 
> It is so tragic that individual sacrifices for and committment to the Burmese
> democratic struggle have been overlooked and in some instances transformed
> deliberately into the political products of the non-existent organization,
> namely Federation of Trade Unions, Burma. I do believe that Ko Maung Maung,
> leader of the non-existent labor organization(FTUB), would provide a full
> explanation of why esay money from the white comes to him in his book on
> Burmese Labor Theory of Value and Me. In his book, he will uncover the process
> of political metamorphosis for younger generations to read and become aware of
> the political beasts, and I think if Ko Maung Maung would not omit any of his
> cheats and lies on the Burmese political stage overseas, his political
> metamorphosis would be one tenth as much worth reading as Frenz Kefka's
> metamorphosis. Anyway, it is quite obvious that Ko Maung Maung has no
> intention of forming a labor party similar to the labor parties in Europe once
> Burma achieves democracy one day. In case he is inclined to do so, I would
> definitely want to request him to sing to the younger generation the song
> "International."
> 
> The Cloak of Labor  worn by Ko Maung Maung is large enough to cover himself,
> not large enough to cover the eyes of truth-loving people.These truth-loving
> people are not ignorant of world history as well as what factors and forces
> have been contributing to the democratic movement of Burma. Anyway let the
> fake one(s) play and dance with the only tune they know.
> 
> What is written below is a little poem of satire, dedicated to those Burmese
> freedom fighters who I assume would like to help launch the Fifth
> International with all their hearts---if they had a chance. But they will not
> wear the cloak of labor, because all the way they have carried the hearts of
> the suppressed, which they believe is enough.
> 
> Hijack
> 
> Giving one man all the rights,
> Has labor history left the right,
> At the cost of our fight ?
> 
> Left, right
> Left, right
> The ones that are left
> Are the ones that are right.
> 
> aye aye soe win
>