Vol. 74/No. 8 March 1, 2010
The Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists send revolutionary greetings on the occasion of your February 16 national holiday. We reaffirm our solidarity with the Korean peoples intransigent fight to safeguard national sovereignty and achieve reunification. We salute the Democratic Peoples Republic of Koreas demand that the U.S. government begin immediate talks leading to a peace treaty to end the Korean Wara step that U.S. administrations of both imperialist parties have refused to take since the defeat in 1953 of Washingtons murderous war to politically and militarily dominate the entire peninsula.
Just a few days ago, the U.S. Department of Defense released its 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, reaffirming that the DPRK and Korean people remain in Washingtons gun sight. U.S. military commanders announced this month that their troops in Afghanistanon course to reach some 100,000 by this summerare on the verge of launching the largest-ever offensive in that more-than-eight-year-long war. And while as recently as mid-2009 Washington rammed resolutions through the United Nations Security Council tightening sanctions against the DPRK for carrying out defensive ballistic missile tests, U.S. military officialswith typical imperial hypocrisyannounced in late January that the U.S. rulers are stepping up sales of anti-ballistic missiles to the royal houses in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman, while increasing the Pentagons own deployment of Aegis-missile-equipped warships in the Arab-Persian Gulf.
Meanwhile, despite crowing by imperialist politicians and the press about a recovery from capitalisms deep global economic and financial crisis, unemployment continues to climb, new and bigger debt crises stalk the capitalist world, and the expansion of productive plant and equipment remains stagnant. To counter declining profit rates, the capitalists are wielding protectionist measures against each other and against the semicolonial world, escalating nationalist measures and demagogy targeting immigrants, and increasing assaults on the living standards, social wage, unions, and political rights of working people at home and abroad.
As these attacks intensify and spread, they will meet resistance and organization by workers and farmers in the United States and worldwide. The receptivity today among vanguard layers of working people and youth to communist literature indicates that growing numbers can and will recognize the pressing need to build proletarian parties and a revolutionary social movement capable of taking state powerthe power to govern, the power to make warout of the hands of the capitalist ruling families. It is among workers and youth such as these that the Korean people will find allies in the struggle against imperialist oppression.
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