Year of Worsened Social Inequality and Contradictions for Capitalist World

Pyongyang, January 8 (KCNA) -- Last year witnessed worsened social inequality and contradictions in the capitalist world.

An average of 411 500 people were registered as new unemployed in every week of October last year in the U.S.

The U.S. Labor Department quoted a survey as saying the number of jobless people across the country stood at 13.3 million as of early in November.

Japan had 2.92 million unemployed and EU member countries 23.554 million toiling people jobless as of October last year.

The deepening unemployment crisis brought pain and poverty to the majority of toiling masses.

Early in November last year, the Census Bureau of the U.S. announced that the number of the poverty-stricken people reached 49.1 million. The needy people of them were about 20 million.

More than 12.6 million and 8 million people are spending every day in despair and pain below the poverty line in Germany and Italy.

The horrible crimes committed in the capitalist world last year brought deep-rooted social contradictions and antagonism into bolder relief.

The hideous crime that happened in a city of Belgium on December 13 clearly showed the reality of the capitalist world which saw in and out a year amid social evils.

The waves of demonstrations which swept the capitalist countries were an eruption of the people's anger at the worsening social contradictions as evidenced by the jobless rate growing due to the deepening economic crisis and the widening gap between the rich and poor.

People from all walks of life in the capitalist countries are still on sit-in strikes in tents in plazas and parks in cold, becoming increasingly critical of social inequality festering due to the limitless greed of the capitalists.

As the protest of the popular masses gained momentum, police in different parts of the U.S. rushed to brutally suppress the anti- capitalism demonstrations.

They removed all the tents of the demonstrators, while indiscriminately arresting protestors.

This goes to clearly prove that the "freedom of speech" and "freedom of demonstration and assembly" touted by the capitalist countries are no more than hypocrisy.

Social contradictions and antagonism are the incurable diseases of the capitalist system. Due to this malignant cancer, the capitalist world is plunging deeper into a bottomless abyss of ruin day by day. -0-