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    Vol.61/No.37           October 27, 1997 
 
 
All U.S. Troops Out Of Korea!  
 The U.S. State Department recently announced it was donating $5 million to the United Nations supposedly to provide medicines and other supplies to north Korea. This paltry sum is another slap in the face to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and adds to Washington's ongoing campaign of provocations against this workers state. In early October, U.S. troops conducted maneuvers along with south Korean forces near Seoul, specifically aimed at the DPRK. And on September 23 U.S. secretary of defense William Cohen announced an agreement stating that Tokyo would provide support for U.S. military operations in the event of a military confrontation in the region.

Washington has refused to accept negotiations with the DPRK that would include discussions on withdrawing 37,000 U.S. troops from south Korea, lifting economic sanctions, and sending a million tons of food aid to north Korea. The negotiations would conceivably establish a formal end to 1950 - 52 Korean War. Below are greetings to the Workers Party of Korea by Socialist Workers Party national secretary Jack Barnes on October 8, expressing support for the Korean people's refusal to submit to the dictates of the Clinton administration.

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The National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party sends communist greetings on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the Workers Party of Korea.

The Socialist Workers Party supports the Korean people in face of the continued provocations by U.S. imperialism and its backers in Seoul. The recent war games carried out by Washington in collusion with south Korean forces underline the importance of the demand by the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that any genuine peace must include the withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Korean peninsula.

This month we also celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, the world's first socialist revolution, and the 30th anniversary of the fall in combat of Ernesto Che Guevara, who set an example of proletarian internationalism as part of the central leadership of the Cuban revolution. All these anniversaries are rich in lessons for what toilers the world over will be able to accomplish once again in fighting imperialist domination and capitalist exploitation as we enter the twenty-first century.

The Korean people's refusal to bend their knees in the fight for national reunification and sovereignty is an integral part of this worldwide resistance. We pledge to continue to tell the truth about your struggle, to demand that all U.S. troops and weapons get out of Korea, to demand unconditional food aid, and to work with all those fighting to advance the world struggle for national liberation and socialism.

Comradely,

Jack Barnes

National Secretary

Socialist Workers Party

 
 
 
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