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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Frustrating Imperialists' Ideological and Cultural Poisoning

Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday in an article calls on the countries and people aspiring after the independent development and social progress to have clear understanding of the danger and aftereffects of the imperialists' bourgeois ideological and cultural poisoning and nip it in its bud.
    Dignity of nations is being mercilessly violated and development of their economy is disturbed in some countries and regions, the article notes, and goes on:
    Such abnormal situation is ascribable to the fact that those countries didn't stand resolutely against the imperialists' ideological and cultural poisoning as they failed to keep strict vigilance over it.
    The imperialists have desperately worked to disseminate bourgeois ideology and culture as a single criterion. This is aimed to create illusions about them and dominate other countries at will by letting their idea and culture prevail in the world. This is an ulterior design reflected in "freedom" of idea and culture touted by them.
    The imperialists are abusing the "freedom" of idea and culture as a pretext to deliberately interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and violate and infringe upon their state sovereignty.
    They are accusing the countries not tolerating bourgeois idea and culture of violating "human rights". This smear campaign is a prelude to invasion, as evidenced by the situation in some Mideast countries in recent years.
    Now the main target of the imperialists' ideological and cultural poisoning is the anti-imperialist independent countries and those with rich natural resources or in strategic vantage points.
    Openly trumpeting they can easily topple with bourgeois idea and culture even those countries they find it hard to bring down with nuclear weapons, the imperialists are staging vicious campaign to disseminate their corrupt idea and culture.
    The situation calls on all countries to totally reject the imperialists' bourgeois ideological and cultural poisoning and wage strenuous actions against it. -0

Crimes of Occupation Troops (5) Group of the Depraved

Crimes of Occupation Troops (5)

Group of the Depraved

The tragic incident at a U.S. military base in south Korea on April 5th, 1986 still makes our hair stand on end. That afternoon, a soldier at a U.S. air force base in Songthan tried to take Ho Jong Ae, a 34 year-old woman worker, to his barracks by force. An elderly man named O Tae Gun tried to check him, but the brute hit him on the head with a square bar to faint. Then he tried to rape her. When the woman resisted, he hit her with his fists and kicked with his boots. When Korean workers came to rescue her, he fired a M-16 rifle and flame projector, killing 15 of them brutally and wounding 12 badly.

This incident was only a glimpse of violation of U.S. troops in south Korea against women.

They violate and gang-rape Korean women, whether pregnant or married.

Not contented with it, they do not hesitate to kill them in cold blood.

On October 4th 1981, a soldier belonging to the U.S. 8th Army Corps raped a woman at an inn in Rithaewon-Dong , Seoul, and dropped her out of the window 13m high to death.

On March 5th 1986, several U.S. soldiers kidnapped a pregnant teacher in Pongyang Myon, Jaechon County, North Chungchong Province and killed her after gang-raping. Before this in February 1984, U.S. soldiers committed the similar crime against a high schoolgirl in Inchon.

They even commit sexual abuse against teenage girls.

In January 1991, a U.S. soldier raped a 9 year-old primary schoolgirl in Kasan Myon, Chilgok County, North Kyongsang Province. Such cases are numerous. All of them clearly show that the U.S. army present in south Korea is the group of the depraved whose crimes even make the brutes blush.

It is natural that the U.S. army in south Korea should be cursed and denounced as "raping corps" and "sexual violators' corps" at home and abroad.

Pak Un Kyong

More US crimes in south Korea

Crimes of Occupation Troops (4)

Aggressors' Pillages

The people cannot live at peace in the land where robbers are rampant. So is south Korea. The U.S. forces forcibly deprived south Koreans of their houses and arable land to convert south Korea into a huge military base.

　 On April 16,1957 80 fully armed military policemen belonging to the U.S. 24th division seized and surprised the peasants of 305 families residing in Yongju-dong, Yonphung-ri,Junae Sub-county, Phaju County, Kyonggi Province to take away all their property. The invaders did not hesitate to kidnap over innocent 70 protesters. Only in Phaju County, the aggressors looted 600 inhabitants of their arable land, houses and property, leaving them without shelter.

Later, the U.S. 8th Army corps expelled peasants of more than 300 families in Rimjin, Phaphyong, Chonhyon and Joksong sub-counties of Paju County again under the pretext of the "illegal residence". It was indeed like "the guilty party filing the suit first".

In March 1960 a soldier belonging to the U.S. 7th division jumped into a civilian house in Rithaewon-dong, Ryongsan District, Seoul and ran away with money and goods after raping a woman. In November 1965 in Phaju County a GI knifed in the neck of a taxi driver and stifled him to unconsciousness before driving the car away. Such horrible incidents took place in different parts of south Korea in succession.

On November 12, 1971 15 U.S. intruded into a restaurant in Choryang-dong, East District, Pusan City and picked an unreasonable quarrel with waiters to stab and beat them with bottles at random, wounding 8 employees seriously.

A similar atrocity was committed in a restaurant in Uijongbu, Kyonggi Province in February 1998 by corporal belonging to a field support company 473 of the U.S. forces.

He committed even a crime of setting fire on the building in an attempt to cover his crime.

All these atrocities clearly show that the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops are hordes of brutes and murderers who are imbued with man-hating ideas.

Kim Nam Chol

Crimes of US occupation troops in south Korea

Crimes of US occupation troops in south Korea

Crimes of Occupation Troops (1)

It is 68 years since the U.S. troops occupied south Korea. They landed there, without firing a single shot, on September 8, 1945, to stay on till today.

The U.S. occupation of south Korea and its policy of aggression have caused untold pains of national split and calamities. In the middle of the last century a war broke out on the Korean Peninsula, and in the years that followed there had been constant threat of war owing to the U.S. occupation and its aggressive ambition to conquer the whole of Korea.

The U.S. occupation forces are not the "liberator" or "peace-maker" as they professed themselves to be; they are invaders and peace killers. The U.S. atrocities against Koreans furnish ample proof of this. Here we cite a few examples.

Bombings of Fishing Boats

On June 8, 1948, a horrible incident occurred on the sea near the Ullung Island. A south Korean news agency described the incident as one rarely to be seen even in wartime. The story goes like this. That day some 15 boats home-ported on Ullung Island were in fishing operation. At around 11:40 in the morning, 9 military planes turned up in the air. None of the boaters thought they would be the very targets of air strike. Planes began diving, bombing and strafing. The sea soon dyed in crimson blood; all the 11 boats were sunken and nine fishermen were killed, and more wounded. All this happened at a blink of time. Many drowning men cried for help only to be strafed and bombed. As was revealed later, the criminals of this hair-raising incident were pilots of the U.S. aggressor troops stationed in south Korea.

The pilots spotted the fishing boats as they had been on air training. The American pilots yelled for joy as they sought a way to kill time, and to kill men whom they regarded inferior to them.

A glint in their eyes, they looked at each other before they pounced upon their preys. "What nice moving targets!" Like hungry wolves, the blood-hungry pilots felt they were in good luck. The moment an order came to bomb the fishing boats. Bombs poured down. Some helpless fishermen waved their jackets to the pilots for help. But the merciless devils strafed at the sinking boats. In a minute, bodies of fishermen were seen floating on the surface of the water. The devils returned to their base leisurely. Man-killing seemed most joyful kill time for them.

This was not the first incident of U.S. atrocity in south Korea. They perpetrated bloody suppression of the south Korean people calling for social democracy and withdrawal of the U.S. troops. Bombing and strafing of fishing boats were also committed elsewhere in the seas off south Korea.

Whenever complaints were mounted against their atrocities, the U.S. brass hats just found excuses, saying "the U.S. planes may get involved in the bombing, but it must have been an accidental or the planes might have taken fishing boats for a green rock on the water surface."

All this shows that the U.S. troops are a pack of robbers whose sole pleasure is killing and pillage and the continued presence of the U.S. troops in south Korea will bring nothing good, but greater pains and miseries to the south Korean people.

Choe Hak Chol

Crimes of Occupation Troops (2)

 Genocide in Rogun-ri

The 68 years following the U.S. imperialists' occupation of the south Korea is a history full of murder, plunder and destruction.

It was clearly proved by the terrible genocide the U.S. troops committed in Rogun-ri, Yongdong County, North Chungchong Province of south Korea. Its truth was disclosed in 1990s by the testimonies of participants in the atrocity and the declassified historical data. According to them, the U.S. aggressors massacred guiltless people deliberately.

Toward the end of July 1950 following the outbreak of the Korean war, the ex-GIs testified to the fact that U.S. troops stranded over 700 south Korean refugees, most of them being women and children, under a bridge of a small village in Rogun-ri and slew them mercilessly. 6 soldiers from the U.S. First Armored Division said that they fired at the civilians in Rogun-ri and another 6 said that they witnessed the genocide.

The AP reported about the genocide: This terrible incident began to take place when U.S. aircraft abruptly strafed on the white-clothed refugees in a rest. Corpses were found here and there and terror-stricken women led chair children by hands to a small tunnel under the bridge.

Then other GIs indiscriminately machine-gunned toward them. According to the survivals, hundreds of people lost their lives only there.

The then machine-gunner said, "We annihilated them". As to the crime, another GI confessed, "It was a massacre in the literal sense of the word."

There are many wars, big and small, and homicidal atrocities in history. But it has never seen such bloodthirsty felons.

The world press condemned the U.S., reporting that the incident in Rogun-ri is one of the large-scale massacres of noncombatants perpetrated by the U.S. ground forces in the wars in the current century.

What's the matter is that the genocide in Rogun-ri was organizational and planned one committed by participation and instruction of the U.S. military and field commanding officers.

The historical fact and truth can never be concealed or covered.

With nothing can the U.S. imperialists veil the truth of the deliberate massacre.

The U.S. imperialists are, indeed, bloodthirsty wolves and the most brutal aggressors.

Crimes of Occupation Troops (3)

Murder of Two Schoolgirls by GIs

A shocking incident of killing two south Korean schoolgirls took place in Hyochon-ri, Kwangjok Sub-county, Yangju County , Kyonggi Province on June 13, 2002.

That morning Lance Corporal Mike Walker and his assistant belonging to the engineer corps of the U.S 2nd division present in south Korea deliberately ran their armoured car over two 14-year old schoolgirls, Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, to kill them on the spot.

It was one day before Hyo Sun's birthday. She, together with Mi Son, was going to her mate's house. Over 10 armored vehicles of the U.S. army entered the narrow path, rending the air.

Scared at this, they stood on the roadside.

It was right then when the third vehicle abruptly turned toward the roadside. There was no room on the path for them to avert the danger.

Upon this shocking news, the south Korean people strongly demanded that the murders should be punished severely.

But the U.S authorities were impudent enough to talk such nonsense that "they didn't see the girls because of jamming". What they meant was that "it was an inevitable accident".

As the demand of the public for a thorough investigation grew stronger, the U.S couldn’t but promise a "joint investigation" with south Korea.

They dragged on the investigation for such and such excuses. But all of a sudden, they published so-called findings of the "Joint investigation Team", a sheer fabrication which justified the crimes of the GIs.

Indignant at this, the public and bereaved families asked to meet face to face with the murderers.But the U.S refused it, saying that "the driver is in a serious state of mental shock."

But they applied for a furlough and went barhopping around the barrack, saying "I'm innocent".

The indignant south Koreans people compelled the U.S compelled to hold a "court" in November only to give the murderers a verdict of "not guilty".

This incident exposed the true color of the U.S, the chieftain of man-slaughter and crimes.

Kim Dal Mi

Jong Ryu Ch

Arbitrariness of "International Judge"

Arbitrariness of "International Judge"

Neither a country nor an international organization invested the U.S. with the right of international judge.

But, it likes to act as an international judge defending "law" and "justice" on the international arena.

Is the U.S. entitled to the right? Never.

The U.S. has never done something clean to defend law and justice, but destroyed them.

A recent issue of the U.S. magazine "Foreign Policy" exposed that during the Iran-Iraq war the U.S. had known Iraq's plan to use chemical weapons, but connived at it and even helped.

When Iran established an anti-U.S. independent government in 1979, the U.S., hating it as a thorn in its flesh, ran amuck to stifle it.

In 1980 a war broke out between Iran and Iraq. The U.S. rendered military aid to Iraq.

At the end of the war the U.S. was informed of a plan of Iraq to use chemical weapons against Iran, but connived at it and surreptitiously helping it with an intention to turn the war situation in its favor.

Like this, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran under the U.S. tacit permission, patronage and manipulation.

That is how the U.S. committed unclean practice while styling itself an international judge.

Afterwards, the U.S. became more wicked.

A few years after the end of the Iran-Iraq war the U.S. tempted Iraq to attack Kuwait in a crafty manner. But, when Iraq actually invaded Kuwait, the U.S. suddenly changed its attitude and ignited the Persian Gulf War against Iraq.

The U.S. used Iraq as a shock brigade to realize its strategy against Iran and as a victim to realize its strategy to dominate the Middle East.

In accordance with it the U.S. changed its explanation on international law and justice.

While not accusing Iraq of using chemical weapons, it used international law and the UN in igniting the Gulf War.

In 2003 the U.S. triggered off the Iraqi war under the pretext of preventing Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction.

The U.S. sought to use the UN in attacking Iraq. But, when its attempt failed, the U.S. invaded Iraq together with some Western forces.

Afterwards, it was disclosed that Iraq's WMD was a complete fabrication of the U.S. CIA.

The U.S. leaves no stone unturned to realize its ambition for aggression and domination.

The U.S. ruling quarters and munitions monopoly plutocrats place their country above the international law and the UN and think that justice depends on their desire.

Lesson teaches that any country used by the U.S. as its tool today falls a victim to it tomorrow.

If the world public permits the U.S. to be an international judge in the future, too, there cannot be established a fair international order.

The reality shows that the U.S. dirty behavior should never be tolerated.

Ri Kyong Su

STOP REPRESSION IN SOUTH KOREA!

STOP REPRESSION IN SOUTH KOREA!

Democracy in South Korea is under attack. The ruling Saenuri Party of President Park Geun-hye and the National Intelligence Service have launched a witch hunt to purge progressive voices from the political process.

On August 28, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), formerly known as the Korean CIA, raided the offices and homes of the Unified Progressive Party, which holds six seats in South Korea’s National Assembly. Three members were arrested during the raids, and lawmaker Lee Seok-ki was later stripped of immunity and placed under arrest.

The NIS charged that members of the Unified Progressive Party were plotting rebellion, aiming to take up arms against the government in the event of war with North Korea. The sole evidence for these outlandish claims was a transcript said to be taken from a surreptitious filming by an informer of two meetings held by the Unified Progressive Party in May.

Those arrested say that the NIS fabricated the words that it attributed to them, and an internal investigation by the Unified Progressive Party affirmed that the transcript excerpts the NIS leaked to the press did not correspond to what participants in the meetings heard being said. 

The NIS, like its predecessor, the KCIA, has a long history of inventing and manipulating evidence in order to achieve its political aims. In the last Korean election, it manipulated a transcript from former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. The changes made it appear that Roh intended to turn over South Korean territorial waters to the north. The intent was to paint the liberal and left opposition parties as disloyal and provide a boost to the campaigns of candidates belonging to the ruling party.

The NIS is once again fabricating evidence, this time in order to remove the Unified Progressive Party from the national scene. Lee-Seok-ki and others face the prospect of imprisonment, and the NIS is considering adding the charge of aiding the enemy, which carries with it a potential death penalty.

The Unified Progressive Party spearheaded the ever-growing national protests against abuses by the NIS. Outrage has been mounting over interference by the NIS in the electoral process, and harassment and investigations against individuals for their politics, such as opponents of the Korean Free Trade Agreement. Protests increased in size and militancy, spreading throughout the nation.

The National Security Law, a remnant from the Japanese colonial period and the anti-communist Syngman Rhee regime in the years following the Second World War, is still in effect, and essentially makes it a crime to express thoughts that can be construed as “pro-North” or “pro-communist.” When liberally interpreted, it has often been used to suppress dissent. 

The National Security Law is the weapon of choice for the NIS. Clearly, the attack on the party aims to crush the calls to reform the NIS and provide bogus justification for its continued involvement in domestic affairs.

The ruling Saenuri Party is calling for Lee Seok-ki to be removed from office, even though he has yet to be tried, let alone convicted. The Ministry of Justice has created a taskforce to look into responding to petitions by conservative groups to file a request with the Constitutional Court to dissolve the Unified Progressive Party. 

The South Korean people suffered under many years of dictatorship and military rule. They won a hard-fought victory to bring democracy to their nation. The McCarthyist tactics of the Saenuri Party and the NIS threaten to undo that achievement. They cannot be allowed to destroy South Korea’s democracy.

We, the undersigned, demand the Park Geun-hye administration-

• Free Lee Seok-ki and other members of the Unified Progressive Party arrested under false charges.

• Free members of the Beomminryeon unification organization, arrested in a raid by the NIS in June.

• Halt the effort to remove Lee Seok-ki from office.

• Stop the move to dissolve the Unified Progressive Party.

• Abolish the National Security Law, instrument of repression.

• Ban the National Intelligence Service from engaging in domestic surveillance and investigation of citizens.

• Bring to justice those in the NIS who were responsible for interfering in the last election and in fabricating evidence.

Rodong Sinmun Accuses U.S. of Bugging International Organizations

  Pyongyang, September 13 (KCNA) -- The German weekly magazine Spiegel exposed that the U.S. information-gathering agency wiretapped the head office of the UN in New York.
    The U.S. National Security Agency bugged diplomatic missions to the UN in Washington DC and New York and those of 28 member states of the European Union in Brussels and overheard private conversations, British paper The Guardian reported.
    A commentary on Rodong Sinmun Friday says that it testified to the fact that the U.S. did all sorts of vices including spying to meet its criminal goal, taking no account of the international organization.
    The U.S. does vices in international organizations the same way as in its own country, the commentary notes and goes on:
    The international organizations including the UN and the diplomatic missions have been reserved to be inviolable with their functions protected by Vienna Convention and other international conventions.
    The UN member states are under obligation to assure inviolability for all the diplomatic missions.
    The U.S. is without exception as it is one of the UN member states.
    However, the U.S. set the head office of the UN as the object of wiretapping as it looks down on the body.
    The U.S. often cries out for "freedom" and "democracy" and admonishes other countries over "human rights performances".
    It had better behave itself, not meddling in the internal affairs of other countries. -

Victim of Social Evils

Victim of Social Evils

In south Korea children are falling first victims to corrupt social evils.

The present south Korean authorities put up the eradication of 4 social evils such as sexual outrage, school violence, home violence and bad foodstuffs as a core task of state affairs. Paying a lip service to it, however, they take no substantial steps.

South Korean children live in constant unrest and fear without any social protection.

According to data available, in south Korea last year over 8 000 children were forsaken by their parents and roamed streets.

Most of them are children who were thrown away to streets by maiden ladies or are wandering after their parents' divorce or left their homes unable to endure their parents' ill-treatment.

Some children even commit suicide in despair after being whipped by their parents and scolded or alienated by their teachers and schoolmates for their bad scores in examination.

The traffic of children is prevalent in south Korea under the veil of "adoption".

The south Korean authorities set up "adoption offices" in all parts and openly sell off orphans at home and abroad allegedly to "protect" orphans.

It is said that over 10 000 south Korean children were adopted overseas from 2004 to 2011.

An increasing number of children is suffering from sexual crimes or missing.

According to data available, 4 000 sexual outrages were committed on children under 13 from 2007 to last year, inflicting great mental damage upon them and their parents.

In the same period, over 67 000 children were reported missing.

That is the reality of south Korean society under the loud advertisement of "human rights".

So Nam I

For Bolshevism Inside the Communist and Workers' Movement No 8 (126) September 2013

For Bolshevism Inside the Communist and Workers' Movement No 8 (126) September 2013

Is it possible to build communism? Interview by N.A. Andreeva to Russian newspaper Argumenti i Fakti "AIF" in connection with the 75th anniversary edition of the newspaper

Corr. "AIF": Is it possible to build communism?

N.A. - Of course you can! After all, communism is the objective course of human development. According to Marx, all previous formations is only pre-history and the history of humanity begins with communism, of course, through a transitional period - socialism. Capitalism today is completely exhausted and has brought humanity to the brink of self-destruction. This is evidenced by the global systemic crisis: the global economic crisis (unemployment in European countries increased for too long and in some places over 20% and even 50 percent, with falling production, working mainly for the war. The market as the basis of capitalist production has been exhausted completely. Overproduction of goods - the inability of the population of highly developed European countries with one a billion population to consume what is produced, with abject poverty, hunger, epidemics and lack of livelihood and so forth, among the other nearly seven billion people.)

The global political crisis (Existing system of world order and way of life is no longer valid - the UN Security Council. Etc.);

The global environmental crisis (a result of man-made activities of mankind), and as a result of all is the deepest crisis of the human person - the preaching of same-sex marriage as a norm of behavior rather than illness or perversion, leading to the extinction of humanity, the preaching of violence, cruelty and pornography.

Why is communism the future of humanity? Because communism (its first transition phase is socialism) best reflects the universal values - ethics, morality, Christian precepts, etc., and human interests - harmony with nature, the absence of war (war - an unavoidable aspect of capitalism) international friendship of peoples, etc.

The historic mission of Russia –is to go ahead of the rest - to lead the process of transition to a new formation. Why us? We have a rich experience of building socialism, not perverted opportunism and revisionism of Khrushchev and his followers. Victory in the Great Patriotic War, won thanks to socialism. International friendship of peoples in a multinational country.

Today there is a social explosion in Russian society because of the low standard of living of the majority of the population, mass unemployment due to the collapse of the industry, the poor state of health, the collapse of the system of education, science, and very low wages of the general population (10-15 thousand rubles a month), that is just not enough for life, not to mention the organization of a young family. Wages that do not allow for a normal life and not suffer because of the inability to acquire adequate food, clothing, etc. More than half of Russia's population live below the poverty line - according to sociological research. A trip abroad, of whom you talk about amounts to a tiny fraction of the population, which revolves around so-called business - a typical spec (small and medium business), do not create wealth for society and only fleece the consumer, and the service staff is very swollen in the number of criminals and corrupt officials in all sectors of the economy and politics. Advertising by the mass media about holidays abroad is nothing more than an echo from an empty barrel.

Today in Russia the conditions for a radical change in the social system is not yet ripe (subjective factor) because the people have not yet matured. They are still being duped, drugged. They have been transformed into a state where no one understands, and noone want to understand. That is, they have been brought to a state of frenzy, and stupidity, that besides a feeding bowl under their nose, they see nothing. If the people are brought to such a state, they cannot think about politics. We are now in roughly that situation.

But it will soon be over. Is a difficult, but with the acceleration of an understanding of what happened and why, and what to do it can be done.

There is a fundamental change in the relationship to Joseph Stalin - the organizer of the successful building of socialism in the Soviet Union, and thus to SOCIALISM as such.

August 13, 2013.

Some additions to the author's interview with "AIF"

Great harm to the political maturation of the people has been done by the obviously useless to the cause of socialism role of the pacifier – the participation in election campaigns. These campaigns spent a lot of effort and energy to the masses, and the result is known to be zero for the people in the long run and only the personal enrichment of the "communist" or "people's" representatives, passing through the election of a paying service to the regime, and even for various fraudulent actions for personal purposes. "Communistic" MPs who have reached the coveted chair of the Duma, as a rule, lost, or they have been simply kicked out of parliament.

For the passage of power through elections the party leaders do everything to fit their programs to the requirements of the ruling power and by deception of the people have never implemented in practice their pre-election promises. This leads to the dismay of the population and a missed opportunity to change something for the better, which then leads to apathy, and absorbs the energy of the masses. The dream of changing lives for the better through the election campaign is a dead-end path, and always losing, as demonstrated by life itself.

Therefore we Bolsheviks invite all "voters" to put an end to engaging in the participation in empty elections, and to not believe the deliberately deceptive beautiful assurances and promises of the candidates for their own prestigious places in the government, and to take on the real deal ...

Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva
General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB)

16.08.2013
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IN MEMORY OF OUR COMRADE

On 5 August 2013 after a long and serious illness Comrade Vladimir Houhlyantsev (D.I.Izyumov) passed away. His farewell was held on August 14 in St. Petersburg.

V.I. Houhlyantsev in the AUCPB column during the laying of wreaths at the monument to the Motherland on Piskarevskoe Memorial Cemetery (Leningrad, May 9, 2010).

Vladimir Ivanovich was born on 20 February 1947. His childhood and youth were held in Western Belarus (Brest), where he graduated from high school. After leaving school he worked in Brest in several fields in search of his calling.

In 1968 he enrolled in the Higher Naval Submarine School Lenin Komsomol (Leningrad). He graduated from college with honors. He was sent to serve in the Northern Fleet. His entire service was held on nuclear submarines (more than 15 years of continuous service), and commanded a missile warhead submarine. He tested the latest Soviet submarine equipment, and was leading engineer. The last 4 years of service, he held in Leningrad. He has government awards and retired with the rank of Captain 3rd Rank. A veteran of military service – of 36 years seniority.

By vocation he entered the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and was active in it. With his deep knowledge in various fields, including - of military science, he produced a lot of material on the history of the Great Patriotic War. The last 10 years he was the assistant general secretary of the AUCPB.

In September and October 1993, V.I. Houhlyantsev was the commander of the Leningrad militia who stood up to defend the foundations of Soviet power, which was then, in 1993, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. But, as it turned out, the leaders of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR were more afraid of their own defenders, the militia, who arrived in Moscow from different regions of the country than Yeltsin. (Arriving to defend the Supreme Soviet in September 1993, they were called "the regiment of the Supreme Soviet".) Refusing to issue its defenders with weapons ("minister of defense" was Colonel-General ACHALOV officially in charge of Regiment of the Supreme Soviet), the leaders condemned them to the Yeltsin security forces shooting. Then, in the tragic events of 1993, Soviet officer V.I. Houhlyantsev accomplished the feat by taking only right decision in the circumstances - to withdraw his unarmed militia from the encirclement of the building of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, which he did. He saved people from needless deaths. Those defenders who stayed in the building after the assault were shot by Yeltsinites.

Vladimir Ivanovich had fine human qualities. He had surprising modesty, unwavering loyalty once and for all the chosen of life-communist principles, loyalty and sworn oath of allegiance to Soviet power and the Soviet people. He was distinguished by respect for his comrades not only in the party but to all who knew him, and had great respect by them.

Into the CC of the AUCPB in connection with the death of Vladimir Ivanovich arrived received many telegrams from the Regional Bureaus of the Central Committee of the AUCPB, the Youth Bureau of the Central Committee of AUCPB, the AUCPB party organizations of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, from socio-political organizations of the communist orientation, from former militiamen, from his friends and social networks and individual citizens who knew him, with an expression of deep condolence to colleagues, family and friends of Vladimir Ivanovich.

In bright memory of Vladimir Ivanovich Houhlyantseve - Soviet officer, Communist-Bolshevik, active fighter for Soviet power, for the revival of the Soviet Union preserved in our hearts.

CC AUCPB
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AUGUST 15 MARKS THE DAY OF THE DPRK NATIONAL LIBERATION

On August 15, 1945 under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung, Korea was liberated from Japanese rule. By that date, the Korean people had marched four long hard decades. The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, at age 13 leaving his homeland groaning under the yoke of the Japanese, vowed to go back to a liberated Korea. The future great commander Kim Il Sung (childhood Song Ju Kim) grew up in a family of revolutionaries, and from early childhood absorbed the ideas of the struggle for the liberation of Korea. All the years of his youthful life in exile were years of active preparation for major revolutionary activities and the struggle for the liberation of his beloved homeland. In 1930, he created the first armed organization, made up of Korean communists – a political and guerrilla organization to prepare for the deployment of the anti-Japanese armed struggle. On April 25, 1932, the first armed forces of the people were set up on a permanent basis - the Korean People's Revolutionary Army. Kim Il Sung became its commander.

Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang - the symbol of victory in the fight against the Japanese invaders

On May 5, 1936, Kim Il Sung created the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland - the organization of an anti-Japanese national united front and was elected its Chairman. In the second half of the 30s, Kim Il Sung created the Paektusan guerrilla base (area of Mount Paektu) – the operational base for the development of the Korean revolution to expand nationwide anti-Japanese national liberation struggle.

The entire anti-Japanese struggle was overcoming unprecedented difficulties: hiking in southern and northern Manchuria, a hard campaign ... In this struggle, he formed the backbone of the future revolutionary Workers' Party of Korea.

Comrade Kim Il Sung kept his oath. The tense military and revolutionary struggle ended in a great victory and the great triumph of national liberation. In memory of the greatness of the Victory in the centre of Pyongyang a monument was erected – the Arch of Triumph, which resembles the modern generation of the heroism of those who freed the country from Japanese colonial rule and opened the pages of modern history of Korea - a free and independent country, its people proudly and enthusiastically building their own prosperous socialist future.
Our Party congratulates our Korean friends on the 68 anniversary of the liberation of the country. We wish the people of the DPRK great strides towards building a prosperous socialist nation.
CC AUCPB

On the occasion of this significant date in the name of the First Secretary of the WPK Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB comrade N.A. Andreeva sent a congratulatory telegram to Pyongyang.
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AUGUST 13, 2013 THE LEGENDARY LEADER OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION FIDEL CASTRO CELEBRATES 87 YEARS

More than half a century later, and Cuba is sticking to its guns and adhering to the socialist path and its Commander. "Everything can be bought for money except the souls of people who will not be brought to their knees (Fidel Castro).

Despite the brutal economic blockade by the imperialist United States, regular terrorist attacks and threats, Cuba remains a beacon of socialist transformation of the whole of Latin America.

Fidel Castro has survived 638 assassination attempts. This is some record. He is still willing, but is monitoring the situation in the world, actively and fruitfully.

We congratulate Comrade Fidel Castro on his birthday and wish him good health, long life, courage, and success in work for the good of the motherland.

We believe that the Cuban people under the wise leadership of Fidel and Raul Castro remain faithful to the revolutionary traditions established in the storming of the Moncada barracks.

Editorial

To Member of Parliament of the Republic of Cuba
Legendary Commander
Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz
Havana, Republic of Cuba

Dear Comrade Fidel Castro!
On behalf of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB) and myself, I cordially congratulate you on your birthday! We wish you, Dear Comrade Fidel Castro, YOU, the legendary Commander, good health and a long fruitful years of active life for the benefit of the Cuban people and the struggle of the peoples of the world against the threat hanging over mankind OF World War III.
The victory of the Cuban Revolution, which was headed by YOU and Raul Castro lit a bright torch, heralded the beginning of the liberation of the peoples of Latin America from colonialism, enslavement and plunder of the American national natural resources in other continents. Today in Latin America, and not only there, studying the experience of the Cuban revolution and the building of a new society, more countries are fighting for their independence and won in a fierce battle with the colonizers of the XXI century.
Dear Comrade Fidel Castro! Please accept my sincere wishes for success to you and to the Cuban people to build a free socialist society.
N.A.Andreeva
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB

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OVERVIEW OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT (JULY 15 - AUGUST 1)

Kirishsky bakery workers stage rally

More than 200 workers gathered into a rally against cuts and closure of the bakery and confectionery production at JSC "Kirishsky Bakery" (Leningrad region). About 5 years ago it was bought by the German company Lorenz Sneck-World, which decided this year to reshape it for production of snacks. The result will be about 100 people laid off (two thirds of the state enterprise), formerly employed at the bakery and confectionery industries.

Company employees from 15 companies and organizations inn Kirishsky district, including employees at Kirishskaya TPP came along to support their comrades.

At the end of the rally, a resolution was adopted with the demand to keep their bread - bakery production at the plant, among guaranteeing stable low grain prices in the area.

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Cruise ship crew strike in Moscow

About 80 passengers were not able to take a trip by boat from Moscow. The ship was to sail to Solovki on July 22.

The reason for the delay was due to a strike, announced by the sailors. According to them, the CEO for three months has not paid any wages.

The double-decked ship had 12 days to travel to Russia - into St. Petersburg, Valaam and back to Solovki.
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Yakut drivers protest

On July 30, labor activists took to the picket line at the company's headquarters "JAkutugol" in Moscow. On 10 July, another 220 representatives of labor collectives of convoys number 1, 2 and 4 of ATA held a general meeting, putting forward economic demands to the management. The transport ATA - is one of the largest branches "JAkutugol" (employing more than a thousand people), and engaged in transportation at the coal mine "Neryungrinsky."

Trade unionist Urusov in an interview with the newspaper "Sobesednik", described the working conditions in the region: "In winter, the temperature in the pit falls to minus 72 degrees, with heavy-duty truck frames bursting from the cold. There are serious consequences for health from the fumes and heavy water, which contains the entire periodic table. Year of work in that job is causing irreparable damage to the health of workers. "
When inflated plans (drivers work even during breaks with serious traffic accidents), drivers of heavy trucks now get wages of only 40-50 thousand rubles, which is to the North with its harsh climate and a decent living wage - actually amounts to dole money.

However, a protest on July 24 under the windows of the office building "JAkutugol" in Neryungri brought no results - no one even came out from the management of the company to the workers.

It is known that Neryungrinsky "JAkutugol" belongs to JSC "Mechel" oligarch Igor Zyuzin, who bought the company from the state in 2007. Prior to privatization, wages of local workers was regularly increased, but since 2008 the growth stopped, and in 2012, salaries began to fall (on average, by 10 thousand). However, in this case, the financial state of the billionaire has increased several times.

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A sit-in at "Benteler"

Automotive workers at the Benteler plant in Kaluga southwest of Moscow went on strike on Thursday night demanding higher wages, a trade union spokesman said.
"Now more than 50 workers are on strike at the factory and another 50 from other plants in Kaluga have arrived to support their colleagues at the plant entrance," said Dmitry Kozhnev, the Kaluga coordinator of the inter-regional car industry trade unions.
The plant workers are demanding wages equal to their conterparts at the neighboring Volkswagen plant, which receives Benteler-made car components. The Benteler Automotive managers were not immediately available for comment.
Riot police have arrived at the scene but are watching from a distance, Kozhnev added.
"I've been politely warned that police might start arresting people," Kozhnev said.
The strike committee wants collective negotiations. The plant managers are now discussing the possibility of the talks.
Benteler said it would not be providing information to the media during the strike.
The head of the Kaluga branch of the independent trade union federation, Vladimir Grechaninov, arrived at the factory earlier in an effort to persuade the workers to give up the strike, the inter-regional car industry trade unions said on its website .
The plant workers refused to stop their action and said they would continue until the company's managers sit down to the negotiating table.
Benteler Automotive is a car parts division of the Austria-based Benteler International AG, one of the largest independent automotive suppliers. It employs 24,000 people in 38 countries.

Textile workers in Georgia held a protest

Workers at a textile factory in Khelvachauri recently staged a protest. They demanded higher wages and extra pay for weekend work on Saturday and Sunday.

The company's administration held four hour talks with workers behind closed doors. Patrol police and local security were mobilized on the site. Journalists at the factory are not allowed to enter. The lawyer at "Batumi textile" called the action illegal.

The strikers' demands were not met, said General Manager of Tuilin Dzhambulgu. According to him, this year the company's employees salaries have increased by about 20 percent, and as for Saturdays, this issue is being discussed and will be announced.

From Ed.: What kind of non-compliance with the demands of the strikers in this case, is it? The workers do not interfere with the administration to punish factories for bestial attitudes towards workers.

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EMPLOYEES OF "NAIRIT" HELD A PROTEST AT PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE, DEMANDING SALARY

Employees of the chemical giant "Nairit" held a protest in front of the government building, demanding pay arrears for a year.

The action was attended by about 500 workers. The Armenian government decided to pay the debt for two months, which did not satisfy the protesters, and they in procession marched to the presidential residence.

Workers of "Nairit" were received by the head of the presidential administration Vigen Sargsyan and were promised almost the same as that of the government. We recall that similar events are held periodically, the protesters are paid a salary for several months and then arrears all over again in a new circle.

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RAIL STRIKE IN BUCHAREST

In the Romanian capital of the state company workers went on strike at «CFR Marfa» / rail freight /.

Several thousand workers came marched to the government headquarters with demands to stop cutting staff and provide a decent wage. The demonstrators brought the slogans "We want to work", "Down with the thieves," "Down with privatization."

The workers have warned that if their demands are not met, they will start a general strike to demand the resignation of the government.

Working Turkish subsidiary of OJSC "MMK" on strike

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (OJSC MMK) has reported that the strike organised by the Turkish Trade Union Organization at its Turkish subsidiary has officially ended.

The parties have agreed that the disputed issues, including salary and fringe benefits, will become part of the collective labour Agreement.

The company's production lines in Turkey are currently being put back into regular operation.

Overview prepared by the Department of the Central Committee of the AUCPB relations with the workers' and the trade union movement

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We Are Tireless Fighters for Life

Ramón Labañino expressed this in a message spread through the International Committee for the release of the Cuban Five, apropos of René Gonzalez' 57th birthday.
By: Juventud Rebelde
WASHINGTON, August 14.- Our tireless fight for life is the best way we have for celebrating dates said Ramón Labañino, one of the Cuban Five convicted unjustly to long sentences in the US for fighting terrorism.
Labañino, who is serving a 30-year sentence in a jail in Kentucky, sent a message spread today through the International Committee for the Release of the Cuban Five, on the occasion of René González' birthday, on August 13.
The text highlights that the Cuban Five, as Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González Sehewerert are universally known, will always be committed to the struggle for a better world, and for peace.
He also expressed his hope for their return to Cuba, in freedom and surrounded by all their relatives, their people together with brothers and sisters from different parts of the world. "I'm sure it will be a memorable day", he added.
Labañino confirmed his joy for René who is in Cuba, where he is celebrating "a new year of life and struggle."
René González arrived in Cuba last April 22 with a permit from the US authorities to attend the honours in memory of his late father who died that very month.
Once in Cuba he presented a motion to be allowed to stay in Cuba with his family, in exchange for the waiver of his US citizenship, approved by the judge from the Southern Florida district Joan Lenard. González Sehewerert had left the prison in October 2011 after serving an unjust sentence and as an additional penalty he passed to the regime of supervised released in the US territory.
The Cuban Five were arrested in Miami on September 12, 1998 while monitoring terrorist groups of Cuban origin based there, operating against Cuba with full immunity for more than 50 years.
A UN panel on May 2005 came to the conclusion that these men's arrest was illegal and arbitrary; however the White House has done nothing for their release.
Translated by ESTI

FARC-EP Demands Social Control of Mass Media
President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos begins his last year of office confident that he will achieve peace
By: Yailé Balloqui Bonzón

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia- People's Army (FARC-EP) released Wednesday a new group of minimal proposals aimed at the democratization of information and the mass media in a future scenario of peace in the South American nation.
The rebel group proposes the decentralization of the control of the big media monopolies run by the economic powers and the strengthening of state-run media; it also calls for funding for alternative and community media; as well as the promotion of culture, education and recreation through mass media outlets.
The FARC-EP also demands the right to truthful and timely information without prejudice to the freedom of speech and with right to reply as well as the democratization of the radio spectrum in Colombia, in favour of the opposition and the social media.
Another proposal suggests that the less privileged groups of the population can have access to the new technologies. They also call for an improvement of the working conditions of the mass media workers.
They promote in particular a special program of information and communication that favours social justice and reconciliation targeted to all the citizens. This project will be essentially aimed to spread and explain the agreements stemming from the table of dialogues.
A few days before, the FARC-EP also proposed the State fund the implementation of their mass media, namely a newspaper, a magazine, a radio station and a television network.
On Wednesday, Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos started his fourth years in office. In his speech commemorating his last year in office, he criticized the opposition who discredits the achievements of his Government and the peace negotiations with the guerrilla of the FARC-EP.
In this sense, he lamented that there are some people who prefer more years of pain and death over peace in a clear reference to his predecessor Álvaro Uribe, who has prevailed as a strong opponent to the dialogues and has become a major opponent of his Government.
Without admitting or denying whether he would seek a second term as president, Juan Manuel Santos said he was confident that the administration that succeeds him in 2014 will go on with the policies of his Government.

Translated by ESTI
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U.S.-S. Korea War Exercises Slammed

Pyongyang, August 29 (KCNA) -- The National Peace Committee of Korea spokesman issued the following statement Thursday:
Recently the situation on the Korean Peninsula has turned to the road of detente from that of confrontation. This was thanks to the initiative measures taken by the DPRK for the improvement of the north-south ties and the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and the sincere efforts made by it for them.
But the trend for reconciliation and unity has faced a serious challenge due to the reckless nuclear war moves and confrontational racket against the DPRK being kicked up by the U.S. and the south Korean warmongers.
On August 27, the U.S. imperialist aggressors flew two B-52H nuclear strategic bombers to the sky above south Korea from an air force base in the U.S. mainland to stage a nuclear attack drill targeting the DPRK before their deployment on Guam.
At night on August 15 and during the day on August 21, a few days after they started Ulji Freedom Guardian, they flew Guam-based B-52H to the sky above Jik Islet in south Korea, two planes each, staging DPRK-targeted nuclear strike drills.
The U.S. introduction of the nuclear strategic bombers, one of three nuclear strategic strike means, timed to coincide with the massive Ulji Freedom Guardian which it is staging together with the puppet south Korean warmongers with the involvement of its huge troops, is an open nuclear threat to the DPRK, a revelation of its hideous scheme to ignite a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula at any cost and another unpardonable grave provocation.
The south Korean warmongers kicked up the racket for confrontation with the DPRK, saying that when a war breaks out they have to surely win and full combat readiness should be taken, openly throwing a hurdle in the way for hardly arranged north-south dialogue.
This is an intolerable mockery of the DPRK, which is making big efforts while exercising patience for detente, and an anachronistic act of going against the aspiration of the Koreans for the improvement of the north-south ties and stability and against the trend of the times.
Question is if they have face to talk about "dialogue", "genuine peace" and "stability" while being bent on war moves against the DPRK with the use of nuclear strategic bombers, the dialogue partner.
Moreover, it is the height of folly and brigandish sophism to cry out for "dismantlement of nuclear program" by the DPRK while posing a nuclear threat to it.
The situation clearly proves that it is exactly the U.S. and the south Korean warmongers who are straining the situation on the Korean Peninsula and escalating confrontation.
There is a limit to the patience of the DPRK as it had already clarified.
Peace, stability and advancement of the north-south ties can never be realized with the efforts by one side only.
The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean military warmongers should know that dangerous provocations violating sovereignty of the DPRK and encroaching upon its supreme interests will lead to an irrevocable development.
The U.S. and the south Korean warmongers should behave with discretion, not misjudging the patience and self-restraint exercised by the army and people of the DPRK.