Capitalism Is Bound to Go to Ruin: Rodong Sinmun

Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- The ever-growing ranks of the working people will provide a powerful force for overthrowing capitalism, says Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in a bylined article.
Not only workers engaged in physical labor but those in technical and brain work have not become masters of the production means in the capitalist countries, the article says, and goes on:
White-collar workers have certain differences from blue-collar workers in their technical and cultural levels. But common is that they are all hired by capitalists and live with wages they are paid for their exploitation. So it is natural that in the capitalist countries the working masses of different classes and strata strongly call for independent living and development against exploitation and oppression by capitalists.
Recent years witnessed big demonstrations in the U.S. and other capitalist countries in which the workers protested against the disparity in wealth and financial monopolistic capitalists. Not only the unemployed but the middle classes took part in the demonstrations unprecedented in scale in the history of capitalism.
Capitalism is now plunging into the abyss of ruin in the face of the broad working masses' fight against daily-worsening political and economic crisis and exploitation and oppression.
The capitalist class is trying hard to benumb the independent awareness of the working people and break down their unity in a desperate bid to weather the crisis.
But capitalism is bound to go to ruin. -0-

U.S., Laughing Stock of World People

Pyongyang, April 28 (KCNA) -- In mid-April eleven U.S. Secret Service agents escorting the chief executive taking part in the 6th summit of the Organization of American States held in Cartagena, Colombia were reported to be involved in prostitution scandal, negligent of their duties, to experience a hot agony of shame.
Five U.S. soldiers belonging to them are now under investigation together with them for having gadded about here and there at night. Waitresses testified to the fact that all of them had been heavily drunk for a week.
In February an FBI agent left behind a file at a snack bar in France after taking food and drink. It dealt with the schedule of the U.S. chief executive in the country during the G-20 summit, a detailed sketch of the fifth floor of the hotel where he stayed and assignments for his personal safety. The owner of the bar was awarded a medal for reporting on it.
On April 19, a U.S. secret agency summoned a famous singer Newzent for interrogation. The singer in a speech concerning the U.S. presidential election to be held in November called for fighting in the November election till the present administration is strangled. This was the reason why the singer was taken for investigation.
The singer was also reported to have said in case the present chief executive is re-elected, he will be dead or imprisoned around the time a year later.
An American Brennan appeared naked at the airport in Portland of Oregon State in token of protest against the authorities' humiliating whole body X-ray examination before the airliner's take-off.
Photos of him were posted on U.S. internet homepages all of a sudden, sparking off public uproar.
All facts vividly show the true picture of the corrupt American society. -0-

Wretched Plight of Toiling Masses in Capitalist Countries

Pyongyang, April 28 (KCNA) -- The U.S. Department of Labor, quoting a recent survey, said that the number of the unemployed totaled 12.7 million in March across the country, 42.5 percent of them being long-term unemployed.
By the end of February, jobless people in Japan and Italy reached 2.89 and 2.3 million each. The rate of unemployment in Italy reached all time high since 2004.
Among the member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development grouping Western countries the number of the unemployed in February this year increased by half a million over that in the same month last year to reach about 45 million.
The skyrocketing commodity prices plus serious joblessness are throwing a large number of people into abject poverty.
In the last twelve months ending March this year the wholesale price in the U.S. jumped 2.8 percent. In the same period prices of foodstuff rose 4.6 percent in the UK while the prices of overall commodities leapfrogged 2.3 percent in France.
At a time when poverty is becoming a serious problem in the capitalist countries, the New York City authorities announced on April 17 that the rate of poverty in the city in 2010 increased 1.3 percent over the previous year.
49.1 million poverty-stricken people were registered in the country by the end of last year, 20 million of them suffering from abject poverty.
The number of poverty-stricken people reached more than 12 million in Germany and one of five persons are living below the poverty line in Greece.
All facts go to prove that unemployment and poverty are an inevitable product of capitalist society and the miserable plight of majority of the population in the capitalist countries cannot be otherwise as long as the reactionary and unpopular social system exists. -0-

Racism, Misanthropy Rampant in U.S.

Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Black people in the U.S. are bound to fall victim to killings by whites for the mere reason that they are black but they have no place to complain of this injustice. This is what happens in the U.S.
Teenage black schooler Martin was shot to death on way home by a chasing white policeman in Florida on Feb. 26.
The police authorities pretended to investigate the case by "walking away" the murderer to a police station but finally released him after concluding that the case was "just self-defence".
This inhuman action of the police authorities sparked off curse and denunciation among the black people.
Large protests held in several states including Florida, New York and California spread all over the U.S.
Another case of killing blacks broke out against the backdrop of mounting protest.
On April 8 whites shot three blacks to death and wounded two blacks out of the passers-by while driving a car.
Much upset by the growing protest, a court in Florida held a press conference on April 11 and staged a farce of opening to public the truth about the murder of Martin.
Even at the press conference the court's side shielded the killer of Martin, claiming that he turned himself up to the law. This touched off the people's uproar.
It is the U.S. where killings do not cease under the patronage of law-enforcing elements including police and prosecution. -0-

Rodong Sinmun Slams U.S. Human Rights Abuses

Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- The European Parliament recently opened to public information about the places that housed secret prisons of the CIA and deportation of prisoners. The Supreme Court of Poland ruled that information about secret cooperation between the Intelligence Bureau of its Ministry of Home Affairs and the CIA in setting up secret prisons should be officially handed to its Supreme Prosecutor's Office.
Rodong Sinmun Monday observes in a bylined commentary in this regard:
Human rights abuses perpetrated by the U.S. behind the curtain of "anti-terror war" should be disclosed before the whole world and should face a stern punishment by human conscience.
The U.S. set up such prisons overseas with an aim to commit horrible human rights abuses in secrecy, the commentary notes, and goes on:
Not a few pieces of information about how cruelly the U.S. has treated inmates of its secret prisons overseas so far have been disclosed.
What merits more serious attention is that torture was officially allowed there.
It had been known already that six days after the Sept. 11, 2001 incident the U.S. administration approved the regulations on the operation of secret prisons overseas and, accordingly, the CIA issued an instruction on building the above-said prisons and allowing torture there.
This goes to prove that the issue of the U.S. operation of its secret prisons is a state-sponsored organized crime.
It is only the U.S. that set up secret prisons similar to Nazi concentration camps and legally allowed torture, pursuant to a national policy after the Second World War. The above-said human rights abuses put into the shade the atrocities perpetrated by fascist Germany which won ill-fame in history.
The U.S. has talked this or that about human rights of other countries in its annual "report on human rights" though it took the lead in committing human rights abuses stunning the world. This is a political caricature inviting derision of all people.
With nothing can the U.S. conceal its true colors as the worst human rights abuser. -0

New York′s Poverty Rate Rises

Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- The poverty rate in New York City rose a record high to 21 percent in 2010, according to the latest report released by the city's Center for Economic Opportunity on Tuesday. -0

Pyongyang Declaration Inspires World′s Socialist Movement

Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Pyongyang Declaration "Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism". The declaration has served as an inspiring banner for political parties and people throughout the world aspiring after socialism. In the early 1990s, socialism collapsed one after another in some countries and the imperialists were advertising the "end" of socialism. On top of that, renegade socialists were claiming that the socialist idea itself was wrong. Thereby, many countries desirous of socialism began to harbor doubts about it. At that time, representatives of 70 political parties from across the world, including 48 party leaders, met in Pyongyang to sign the Pyongyang Declaration in the name of their parties. The declaration was inked by more than 150 political parties until the end of Juche 81 (1992). Over the past years, the world's socialist movement has got momentum, inspired by the declaration. The advantages of the socialist system in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea inspire the world's progressives with confidence that socialism is truth and science and it will unfailingly emerge victorious. -