Capitalism: Dictatorship of the Rich By Kimlong Ly

The United States functions as a dictatorship, though most people do not realise it. As with many issues, the United States presents itself as a champion of democracy and freedom, while criticising socialist countries such as China, Cuba, and the DPRK as “authoritarian dictatorships” with “oppressive governments”. In truth, it is U.S. itself that operates under a form of dictatorship, but the key question, as Marxists ask, is “a dictatorship for whom?”. Under Capitalism, power rests with the wealthy people, whereas socialism seeks to establish the rule of the working class.

 A frequent assertion made by critics of socialist states is the mistaken belief that these nations are “authoritarian dictatorships” simply because a single individual may occupy the top leadership position for an extended period. Figures such as Joseph Stalin or Xi Jinping are often cited as examples. Yet Xi Jinping’s recent selection for a third term as General Secretary by the 20th National Congress, marking the beginning of his eleventh year in that particular role, reflects internal communist party processes, not an inherent characteristic of a dictatorship. Similarly, Joseph Stalin’s thirty-one years as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (USSR) are frequently invoked to support the same claim. But if longevity in office is the defining criterion of dictatorship, then many prominent U.S. politicians would fall under that label as well. Prominent American politician like Joe Biden have held political roles for almost fourty years. The U.S. Supreme Court presents an even starker example: its justices are not elected at all but appointed for life. Whereas pre 1970 justices served an average of fifteen years, the average tenure has nearly doubled to twenty-eight years since that time. These examples are only a small selection from a long list of American political figures and institutions characterized by extended and sometimes virtually indefinite periods of authority. Thus we encounter a clear contradiction: when a socialist leader remains in office for many years through party mechanisms, it is labeled “dictatorship,” yet when capitalist politicians or unelected officials do the same within the U.S. political system, it is framed as democratic governance. 

 A dictatorship cannot be accurately defined simply by the length of time a single person occupies a leadership position. Rather, it is more precisely understood by examining the broader ruling bloc as a whole, who holds power collectively and whose interests that power structure serves. In an ironic twist, the United States’ own Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), widely recognized as a principal instrument of U.S. imperialism and covert intervention abroad, can actually help illuminate how this concept should be understood. 

 The portrayal of Stalin as an all-powerful “dictator” is a deliberate strategy aimed at depicting communists as inherently driven by a lust for power. This narrative has been applied not only to every socialist nation to date but also to numerous non-socialist states that fall out of favour with the United States. It is reasonable to assume that future examinations of declassified CIA materials will reveal similar characterisations of the Chinese Communist Party’s General Secretary Xi Jinping. In practice, however, leadership in a socialist system does not revolve around an isolated individual who somehow rises arbitrarily to the position of Chairperson or General Secretary. Rather, the Communist Party functions as the organised institution of the people, with its leadership emerging from decades of commitment, political development, and service. The Party embodies the interests of the proletariat; there is no inherent contradiction between the two, as the most advanced and politically conscious layers of the working class constitute the Party’s core membership. Historical setbacks in socialist movements have frequently stemmed from failures to maintain this essential relationship between Party leadership and proletarian representation. Contemporary socialist states, such as China, Cuba, the DPRK, Laos, and Vietnam, are acutely aware of these past errors and take deliberate measures to avoid replicating them. 

 Whereas leadership of a Communist Party is rooted in the interests of the actual working class, political leadership in capitalist states is fundamentally disconnected and distanced from workers. As Vladimir Lenin famously observed, the oppressed are merely permitted, at long intervals, “to choose which representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.” The United States offers a clear illustration of this dynamic: although the Democratic and Republican parties differ on certain issues, such as the Republicans’ aggressive assaults on abortion rights and transgender rights, and their increasing alignment with openly fascistic and reactionary currents of finance capital, these distinctions do not alter the underlying reality that both parties ultimately serve capitalist elites interests. Even when Democrats are not the primary agents attacking women’s rights or LGBTQ+ communities, they rarely advance substantive protections either. Both parties rely heavily on corporate financing, are entangled in private wealth through extensive investments, and lack meaningful connections to the working class. Consequently, elected officials in the United States do not function as representatives of labouring people; they operate as political instruments of the capitalist class. 

 Therefore, the United States, and indeed most capitalist states, operate as dictatorships of the bourgeoisie, in which political power is concentrated in the hands of the wealthy, ruling capitalist class. This domination is hidden behind ideological appeals to democracy, freedom, and historical tradition, along with a host of narratives designed to mask the shared interests of those who govern.

 Given the extensive propaganda surrounding terms like “dictatorship,” communists must communicate these concepts carefully. Words such as dictator, authoritarian, and totalitarian have become rhetorical weapons, routinely deployed against socialist movements and leaders who actually enjoy broad democratic support, while rarely applied to the capitalist class that wields disproportionate and unaccountable power. The task, then, is to educate and organise our working and oppressed communities so they can move beyond the false consciousness shaped by bourgeois domination and toward the class consciousness necessary for a proletarian or people’s democratic form of governance. 

Comrade Kimlong Ly: Cambodian Socialist Voice For International Solidarity

  

Comrade Kimlong Ly, born on 28 March 2003 in Phnom Penh, is a rising Cambodian socialist activist and student of International Relations currently studying at the University of Suffolk in the United Kingdom. Emerging from a new generation of politically engaged youth, he has become active in international solidarity campaigns, particularly those cantered on national sovereignty and the rights of smaller nations within the global system.

Raised in Cambodia’s capital, Kimlong developed an early interest in global politics and questions of justice between nations. His academic focus on international relations has complemented his activism, shaping his engagement with debates around imperialism, development, and geopolitical power dynamics. He has often argued that powerful states should respect the sovereignty and political systems of smaller nations, a principle he views as essential to global peace.

Kimlong is known for his outspoken support of socialist states and movements. In particular, he has publicly expressed support for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including its position that nuclear weapons serve as a deterrent to external intervention. He frames this stance within a broader argument about self-defense and national sovereignty, contending that international norms should be applied consistently to all countries rather than selectively.

In his organizational work, Kimlong serves as the head of the Cambodian–Korean Friendship Group, which he describes as dedicated to fostering mutual understanding and solidarity between the Cambodian and Korean peoples. The group maintains friendly relations with DPRK diplomatic representatives in Cambodia and promotes cultural and political exchange initiatives.

He also leads the “Cambodian Group for Friendly Relations with Socialist Nations,” an organization aimed at building connections between Cambodia and countries that identify with socialist principles. Currently residing in the United Kingdom, Kimlong has become an active voice within segments of the international socialist community. He participates in events, discussions, and campaigns focused on peace, anti-war advocacy, and global equity. His work has recently gained attention in the socialist communities of countryside Britain.

Comrade Kimlong Ly represents a distinct current of contemporary socialist activism, one which is grounded in anti-imperialist thought, anti-hegemony sentiment, and cross-border political organizing in an increasingly interconnected world.

Statement from Cambodia about the conflict between Cambodia and Thailand

 

Let the International Court of Justice Decide, Not the Guns

A serious conflict between two nations should always be resolved through peaceful and legal processes, not by the use of arms, this is what responsible leadership demands. In the case of the current Cambodia – Thailand border conflict, one side is requesting cooperation to take issue to the International Court of Justice, while another side is rejecting the offer.

On Monday, June 16, 2025, Mr. Prak Sokhonn Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cambodia reported that the Royal government of Cambodia had officially submitted an official letter to the ICJ, which was received by ICJ Registrar Phillipe Gautier. This move came after weeks of Cambodia urging Thailand to cooperation in resolving the border dispute through peaceful and legal means. On the other hand, Thailand does not recognise the ICJ’s compulsory jurisdiction and continues to insist on resolving the dispute through bilateral negotiations and mechanisms such as the Cambodia-Thailand Joint Boundary Commission (JBC). This refusal of international arbitration shows that Thailand fears international ruling as its claims over the disputed territory lack strong legal grounding. Thailand aims to keep the matter within the bilateral framework where it can leverage its greater economic and military power to pressure Cambodia into compromises. Perhaps, Thailand sees bilateral negotiations as opportunity to dominate and extract territorial concessions from Cambodia. Therefore, relying solely on bilateral mechanisms such as the JBC only prolongs the issue further, leaving it unresolved for future generations.

On 24 July 2025, deadly clashes broke out between the two nations, and although there are third-party efforts, both countries remain locked in a conflict which has resulted in heavy casualties and the displacement of thousands of civilians. While both countries have reaffirmed their desire for peace, it is clear which side is more committed to it, as Thailand continues to reject calls to settle the matter through legal and peaceful means. Thailand, with its more powerful and modern military, appears to believe it has unfinished business and probably seeks to inflict maximum damage on to Cambodia.

Thailand’s relationship with the ICJ is not a smooth one. In the past, when the International Court of Justice has ruled in favour of Cambodia over the Preah Vihear Temple, Thailand dragged its feet in implementing the decision. However, Thailand continues to question the legitimacy of the international court, and such defiance not only disrespects the international law, but it also threatens peace and stability both nations.

Cambodia’s decision to refer the issue to the ICJ is an honest and respectful effort to uphold international principles of law and peace. In 2025, war should not be an option for border disagreements. The International Court exists for a reason, it serves to deliver justice to all nations, regardless of their size and political stance. The International Court should be an international mechanism respected by all nations of the world, as it represents the entire international legal order.

The Influence of Marxism on the Ideology of Class Struggle in East Asia-from VKPB.ru

The Influence of Marxism on the Ideology of the Class Struggle in East Asia - GCPB

On February 21, 1848, the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" was published

The ideas of Marx and Lenin – Marxism-Leninism – had a significant impact on the development of the class struggle and the establishment of socialism in East Asia, including the emergence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The class struggle raged in East Asia even before the penetration of Marxist ideas there. Someone aptly remarked that the history of China is a history of peasant wars and uprisings. However, the class battles of the oppressed from time to time ended in defeats, a return to "normality". This was largely due to the fact that the rebels adhered to utopian views – even when they spoke out for the idea of universal equality.

The most well-known and studied (due to the proximity in time) are the views of the Taipings – peasants who rebelled against the oppressors, which grew into a peasant war in China in the XIX century.

At that time, in Europe – at the other end of the Eurasian continent – Marxism proclaimed that the goal of revolutionary transformation was to improve the lives of the working people; "from each according to his ability – to each according to his needs" as the goal of the struggle. The Taipings in China, on the other hand, held utopian and even reactionary views. They preached the idea that a person should be "content with the minimum."

The Taipings believed that a portion of rice is enough for a person to live, and he does not need anything else. They destroyed beautiful things - precious stones, for example, were crushed into powder. If they came across machines or complex machinery, they would break them. And all because "you need to live the minimum"...

(In the 20th century, Pol Pot's supporters in Kampuchea tried to repeat the ideology of the Taipings, who also believed that man did not need "excesses.")

A different view of things – the idea of development and progress, the constant improvement of human life after the victory of the revolution – brought Marxism to East Asia. This ideology was adopted by the Chinese Communists under the leadership of Mao Zedong and the Korean Communists under the leadership of Kim Il Sung. On the basis of the progressive ideology of Marxism-Leninism, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il formulated the ideas of Juche, the ideas of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.

This ideology made it possible to break the chain of defeats of the working people in the class struggles in East Asia, the chain of constant "returns back to exploitative society". The victorious Korean communists founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which is building socialism and building a better future on the path of progress.

Material of the Rostov Society for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilis

A Marxist Perspective on the Phnom Penh Walking Street

The much anticipated ‘Phnom Penh Walking Street’ was launched on February 1, 2025, and it is a one-of-a-kind pedestrian area in the Kingdom’s capital (Khmer Times, 2025). While almost every Cambodian applauds the government’s initiatives, I have made some observations and couldn’t help but write on this problem in detail. This is a Marxist perspective on the Phnom Penh Walking Street. 

 The Phnom Penh’s walking street, like many other urban areas, perpetuates the current social and economic inequalities. Although promoted as a space for all, in reality, the street’s function as a consumer space that highlights the wealth gaps between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat in contemporary Khmer society. The bourgeoisie, with high income and free time, come to the walking street to exercise and indulge in consumerism. Some, come to relax and enjoy the view of the Mekong, the Sap, and the Bassac Rivers as they intersect with one another, and to admire the historical Khmer architecture of the Royal Palace, the Chaktomuk Conference Hall, and other beautiful surrounding buildings. 

 The proletariat, in contrast, experiences the walking street as a space where their labour is commodified. Essentially, the walking street is just another place where they can gain extra income in the evening on the weekends after a long week of working for minimum wage. I, Kimlong Ly, asked an old uncle who is a Tuk-tuk driver, he mentioned that he only comes to the areas near the walking street to wait or look for riders. So, essentially, he is not getting the same walking street experience as others (the bourgeoisie).

 This divide, where the bourgeoisie benefits from the labour (and service) of the proletariat, mirrors the larger capitalist system of exploitation. The walking street thus serves as a clear illustration of the contradictions in Phnom Penh’s social structure, where the bourgeoisie’s leisure is enabled by the invisible labour of the working class. The proletariat’s role in the walking street is ultimately one of being in a lower position. 

 As one walks along the street, they should know that they are fortunate if they are there for exercise and relaxation rather than looking for extra income. Two people walking on the same walking street will, therefore, experience the street differently depending on their level of economic and social status. This is a Marxist perspective on the Phnom Penh Walking Street. 

 Phnom Penh, 23rd February 2025 

 Kimlong Ly

Reference: Khmer Times, (2025), Phnom Penh ‘Walking Street’ trial to launch on February 1st, Available at: https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501631932/phnom-penh-walking-street-trial to-launch-on-february-1st/

Book " Unpresented Principles " by Nina Andreeva

 

Motherly Party

 The Workers' Party of Korea is praised as motherly Party by the people in the DPRK.

The motherly Party!

The WPK is the only party in the world that has won such a title.

The motherly Party-this call reflects the boundless veneration and absolute trust of the Korean people in the WPK and is the honorary title peculiar to it.

The WPK has made a long journey of devoted service for the people's wellbeing from the outset of its founding to this day.

Thanks to the loving care of the WPK that serves all the people with sincerity, taking full responsibility for their destiny and future, the Korean people could pull through hardships and ordeals with smile and enjoy happiness and honor.

The past decade that went by under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un is a clear proof.

Lots of dwelling houses and structures have mushroomed and all sorts of popular policies have been executed in the Juche Korea.

The appearance of farm villages underwent a total facelift and the Korean people lead a life with nothing to envy in the world in new homes of happiness.

That is why the Korean people sincerely call the WPK the motherly party.

The Party takes care of the people with maternal affection and the latter absolutely trust and follow the former.

Herein lies the might of the WPK and the source of invincibility of the Korean people.

The WPK is winning a series of victories and glories with the call of a motherly Party presented by the people.

Led by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the WPK will remain etched in the mind of the people as a benevolent mother.

Posted by juche007 at 00:50  

'The shame of housing disaster of capitalist's UK, and the proud housing success of socialist People's Korea'(article originally from " The Revolutionary Thought "

  'The shame of housing disaster of capitalist's UK, and the proud housing success of socialist People's Korea' ( An article from the quarterly magazine 'The Revolutionary Thought' issue 4, of the Internationalist Revolutionary Communist Party ) 

 Housing, the need for space for personal living is one of the most basic and fundamental human needs. In the housing system that is in capitalist countries, for example in the UK housing is one of the areas of operation of capitalist competition. 

In the past decades, the UK state, and above all local councils, built apartments. Immediately after World War II, entire cities were built, 30 of which were built from scratch. This was done only to make apartments available. And what is important, these were not just any flats - flats erected in the first period after the war were built with the assumption that they were to be desired by an ordinary citizen. So, they had a higher standard than those that were available on the market at the time. But all of this effort was wasted, back in the days when the neo - liberal gang of Margaret Thatcher, did not only destroy the weak but existing social relations in the housing sector, but also disrupted and remodelled council housing sector in functioning for ordinary citizens as more hostile and shut for their issues and needs, for development. 

The first building in London that was built as a communal rental building is in the East End. It was built for workers. Today, flats in it cost so much that if the British prime minister came to the bank with his earnings, he would not get a loan for even two rooms of that flat ... Except that this building was built much earlier. In 1901. This example illustrates well what catastrophic effects is of liberal politics on the housing sector. All promises of liberal politician class of bourgeois ruling classes have a short - term character of 'electoral sausage' - so it is just empty promises. In the long run, the market and this will lead to horrendous price hikes and it will stifle investment and deprive the poorest of the poor of any chance of housing.

 Follow to 50s and 60s, almost anyone who needed one could apply for an apartment. Even in the 1970s people complained that the waiting time for public housing was long, as much as two ( ! ) years. Today the waiting time in the UK is at least 20 years, but unfortunately there are also places where it is known that you will never get social housing.

 In 1979, when Margaret Thatcher began her rule, she decided to 'give away' council flats. In principle, everyone could get a flat in which they lived for a fraction of the value ( a similar solution existed in Poland a few years ago ). The whole operation was carried out perfectly in terms of Public Relations. For example, it was said that anyone could become a landlord. And in England, being a landlord in the bourgeois terminology is almost like nobility.

 Even in this decision, political considerations were paramount. They wanted to weaken support for the Labour Party. When someone in Britain became the owner of their own house with a garden, they automatically moved to the middle class. And when you are middle class, you do not vote for a working class party. Attacking everything that was an element of community life - trade unions, municipal housing, even local governments, whose competencies were limited. And one of the tools was the distribution of flats for ownership. 

However, almost half of the flats bought by the owners were quickly resold at a profit to investors who bought several dozen flats at attractive prices. And then, the problem began. 

Not best, but still well - functioning system has been destroyed. Successive generations must pay for Thatcher's handouts. The combination of privatization and the abandonment of public housing has led to a situation where the state had to do something to save those who had no place to live .

So, it introduced rent subsidies. That it would solve the problem of housing shortage, but it did not happen, it only caused the prices and wages of landlords to increase. 

With the privatization of the real estate market, rent subsidies were introduced - for those who cannot afford a flat, the state will pay the difference. Admittedly, there are some limitations, e.g. the rental price cannot be significantly above the average for this place, because then the state will not pay extra. After 2008, a ban on co - financing was also introduced when there are more rooms in the apartment than people occupy it. There are age limits that exclude young singles from the system. But in most cases, there are surcharges. Currently, the housing allowance is received by about 20 - 25 percent and still continues to shrink. through ever - increasing budget cuts in spending and deliberately complicating and hindering the application, for these credits by making the requirements more difficult and bureaucratic the application process. 

But because of these subsidies, prices are constantly rising. And at a pace that state aid cannot keep up with. The effects can be seen in the statistics. While in the 1960s, the average household spent about 20% of its income on housing maintenance today it is already 40 percent or more. This causes less money to go to other sectors of the economy than real estate. It is estimated that after deducting the contribution to the change in housing prices, the British economy would grow by only approx. 0.2 per cent. annually. 

In addition, in 1988, a law was introduced that in practice completely deregulated the rental sector. The principle was introduced that the landlord has the right to increase the rent or terminate the contract, guided only by his own whim. The only limitation is the requirement of two months' notice. Social housing provided stability. These properties were rented for life, and often even with the right to inherit the lease by children. Today, it is very difficult for tenants to feel safe. The changes began in 1979, when a new housing model appeared. 

Although it sounds paradoxical, in the UK it is not valuable to build flats or houses. More can be earned in a situation where the supply is practically non - existent. And communal construction came to a standstill. 

A decade ago, the British government introduced the 'Help to Buy' program - and it was nothing more than a down payment for people who want to buy their first apartment. Sounds familiar? As a result, there are no more flats, but the prices of those that would have been delivered anyway, immediately become higher. 

It is a general rule that such mechanisms do not change the situation on the market, because they do not affect the supply. In London, in 2002, you had to pay five average annual salaries for an average - sized apartment, and in 2022, it was already fourteen. What is more, in Great Britain, the largest banks do not grant, for example, housing loans to people who receive any benefits. 

Today, even a British professor cannot afford to buy a flat. 

It used to be estimated that the income from four or six years of work should be enough to buy a flat, and it was. Currently, in London, Winchester or Oxford, housing already costs an average of 16 years of income from work and that is the average income for the area. This makes it virtually impossible to buy real estate. The problem is increasingly affecting people with fixed incomes - even professors at the University College of London or Richmond University have a problem with it.

 However, the increase in real estate prices is accompanied by a deterioration in construction standards. In a new building in the UK, it can be difficult for two people to pass each other on the stairs. The area is falling - the apartments are miniature, but they are also crowded and overcrowded. 

The standard is that singles who cannot afford to buy anything of their own nest in apartments intended for families. 50 percent over the course of a decade. the number of twenty - year - olds who do not have their own place has increased. In the 1980s, the average age of a buyer of a new apartment was 26 years old, now it is 32 years old. University graduates who start work often cannot even afford to rent an apartment, so it is common for parents to subsidize housing expenses. 

In the British urban space, local councils look in vain for larger projects of building new premises for municipal purposes. Mostly, the already available resource is used - increasingly destructive and degrading. An example is the project widely popularized in the local press and considered a success by the local council of liberal idiots for the design of the old and part damaged building of the former police station in Taunton Somerset. The police were moved to the local council building, due to the poor technical condition of the building, dampness, mould and mildew and destruction. Now, the council under pressure of thousands of citizens awaiting on council housing list decided try to adapt former police station to housing needs instead of invest to a new project. Of course, easier is just sold urban areas from taking into construction activity for the city and its citizens. 

In the housing policy of local councils in the UK distorted by liberal idiots, the overriding goal of urban space is not to benefit and meet human needs, but to generate immediate income, profit. Thus, all provisions and opinions contained in local documents, stating that the basic duties of local authorities include providing housing to all residents, are treated as an ornament of the document and a text without any coverage in reality, the real goal is the so - called: 'normalization' of relations between local government and development companies in a commercial way, i.e. 'negotiating' local government officials with those business representatives who have to offer as much money as possible for the purchase of municipal land. Cases of corruption are not rare here. Thus, local government authorities become de facto political representatives of business. Simultaneously with the sale of premises, the process of mass sale of municipal land is underway. 

The desire to commercialize every area of life is one of the pillars of capitalism. It is no different in the housing sector.

 As a result of well - paid bribes, local authorities generously transfer all land and real estate to private operators, private business. In line with Margaret Thatcher's maxim that 'there is no such thing as society', no one thinks about the social costs of such measures. It is similar with the housing sector, which is treated like any other commodity, a resource that should not be included in the additional costs of the local council budget or, if necessary, should be as small as possible and limited, like the local budget, to a minimum of expenses for general social purposes, but plus bonuses and maintenance costs for civil servants. All in line with the anti - social ideas of liberal idiocy. 

Completely opposite to the priorities and goals of the state, or rather the lack of it in relation to the housing needs of the society, as is the case in the socialist system, the liberal economy, or rather their sector of private parasites, who have mastered the housing sector and which occurs, among others, in UK. Data on the housing sector and the needs of the public in the UK in relation to the provision of housing that are published in the press are tragic and alarming. The ideas of liberal free - market idiots at the helm of power, as usual, are aimed at protecting their interests and profit for them, not for the benefit of the average citizen. These ideas are designed to pump public money into the private pockets of the financial elite. In this case, the money from the budget is to go to private banks, developers and idlers who live in luxury from the mere fact of having apartments for rent. Of course, ordinary people will be most affected, because big business - including real estate developers, housing trade brokers and speculators - is quite successful in evading taxes. For the class of parasites - landlords and private businessmen investing in the UK housing market, it is more profitable to hold vacant, empty luxury flats than to allow price reductions, which would inevitably be caused by that is speculatively turned from owner to owner with interest and profit. Buying flats ''for investment' is a pathological behavior, which results in an increase in housing prices and exclusion of more and more people from any possibility of 'living on their own'. People who cannot afford loans today often pay more for renting an apartment than the loan instalment. A roof over your head is the basis for a dignified life and as a society we should guarantee it to every family, regardless of the interests of parasitic elites! 

Housing should be considered a right of every citizen, not a tool for multiplying profit. In a socialist economy, there is no place for idlers who live in abundance from other people's work and effort. Just as workplaces will be taken from the capitalists in one way or another and handed over to the workers, so will any 'owner' of large numbers of apartments be simply expropriated. For private owners of apartments renting for huge rents, as reality shows, quality and ensuring good conditions for landlords are not important, only profit for the smallest financial outlay counts. 

 The reality of catastrophic lack of not only flats, but also their technical condition show UK press. Mostly in the local and low - circulation, and therefore closer to the truth about the living conditions of the British society, there are articles about the catastrophic living conditions of the British society. As example one of article of local press of the Bristol City increase in supply. These apartments are built not to serve people, but as an investment of capital .

                                                     

Revealed: renters living in mouldy art deco flats

handed steep rent hike by millionaire London landlords'

An article about the problems of the residents and the ignorance of the owners

[ source: 'The Bristol Cable'. Issue No 34 - summer 2023 

The article is full of complaints from residents and examples of building destruction and poor technical condition that threatens the health of people living there, and also shows the ignorance and disregard of owners who make fortunes from renting in such conditions. As we read in this article, the residents of the exclusive Queen's Court in Clifton building in Bristol have to accept the terrible conditions in which they live with huge rents and have no influence to change it. They are afraid to even speak and do anything in their defense so as not to be evicted.

 '’There always been mould and damp in our flat - it's never been sorted’, Stuart continues. He's had to do without key appliances for months, and had water pouring down his walls during stormy weather... ... ’We thought we were the only flat had [mould and damp]’, Stuart says. ’But people are in far worse situations than we are’'

 Unfortunately, despite the fact that they experience nuisance as a result of living in disastrous conditions, there is still a deeply ingrained idea in the minds of these people that in a free and liberal real estate rental market companies should provide them with good housing conditions: 'If they are going to be charging market value, they should provide market value' Unfortunately, this is only a wish. In addition, not to be fulfilled at all. Because the capitalist owners of this building are not interested in incurring expenses for necessary repairs and maintaining good technical condition for the residents. They are only interested in profit. Filling their bank accounts with rent money without disturbance - it is their attitude.

 City Estates was advised by contractors to waterproof the roof first. This advice was ignored to save money, the sources say, causing flooding into flats below.' '’The main issue has been lack of response’, Oliver says.’ There was a lot of rain in the new year, it started leaking here’, he adds, pointing to the stairwell. ’There was a massive puddle, we have a bunch of cracks and mould in our living room’. I ask when it was sorted out. ’It hasn't been’, he replies with a chuckle. ’It stopped raining’

Residents who pay high rents and live in unhealthy conditions. In conditions that do not care at all, owners who are responsible for ensuring good housing conditions in the quoted example from Bristol tried to fight for their rights. However, they quickly died down. The capitalist system in the housing sector does not work for the benefit of the inhabitants but for the benefit of capital owners. 

'’A lot of people accepted [the rise] straightway out of fear of being kicked out of their flats’.' Oliver says. '’Many people I spoke to feared revenge evictions if they pushed too hard against the lack of maintenance, and felt pressured to accept rent increases they didn't want'’ Sad story indeed.A sad example of many in the UK

 . Now let's see how the country, where the socialist system is at a high level of development, manages to cover the housing needs of the society. A country where human needs come first - the socialist Korea of Juche, so Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 

 In the DPRK capital of Pyongyang, huge projects have been undertaken in the past and present to build thousands of apartments. On construction sites, apart from employees for whom it is a matter of honour to have flats available for everyone as soon as possible, there are also soldiers from Korean People's Army. 'The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, attended the inauguration ceremony of the first - stage 10 000 flats ...' ' ... Officials of the construction headquarters for 50 000 flats in Pyongyang city, commanding officers of the Korean People's Army, who took part in the housing construction, officials of the Party and power organs in the city and military -civilian builders congratulated working people, who moved into the modern houses given by the Party and the state free of charge.' [ source: Korean Central News Agency ]

 Also in rural areas, housing construction managed with careful care and supplied with funds from the central budget of socialist planned economy, is flourishing and developing on a large scale. As example, in July this year, another part of planned houses has been handed over for settlement in the rural area ( villages of Phungjon - ri in Chonnae County, Sunhak - ri in Kosong County, Hyon - ri in Sepho County and Jiam - ri in Phyonggang County ). All of the new and modern houses of various and peculiar styles were built to provide convenience of the residents free of any charges as part of Juche based pro - social politics of the socialist state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 

' ... The Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK Government vigorously pushed ahead with the project of building 50 000 flats in Pyongyang in 2022 even under the harshest situation. A modern street with 10 000 flats was set up in the Songsin and Songhwa area as part of the project. The Eighth Congress of the WPK held in January 2021 had designated the building of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang as one of the important tasks to be accomplished during the five - year plan period. The groundbreaking ceremony for the building of 10 000 flats in the Songsin and Songhwa area as part of the project to build 50 000 flats in Pyongyang was held in March 2021 ...' ' ... Construction of 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area was promoted at its last stage in 2022. It was a reflection of the steadfast will of the WPK not to suspend for a moment to do something it has aspired to do even in the face of trials and difficulties. The year 2022 witnessed ushering in of a new era of rural rejuvenation in the country...' ' ... Building houses has also been promoted vigorously in the Komdok area in the northern part of the country. In this area, a large - scale mineral producer, a biggest - ever mountain gorge town, with 25 000 houses and neighbourhood - serving amenities, will be built in five years, beginning from the year 2021, with 5 000 houses each year...' [ source: '2022 DPRK Raising Its Profile' ]

                                                                   

New public buildings for society,

in Songhwa and Hwasong Streets,

and the Pothong Riverside Terraced Residential District of Pyongyang, 

capitol city of the DPRK

[ source: Korean Central News Agency

New houses free of charge for DPRK citizens, of the rural area of the Kangwon Province [ source: Korean Central News Agency ]

 How the socialist government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea looks after and cares about housing needs, providing housing for every Korean family is shown in one of the many articles by the communist party - the Workers' Party of Korea - central press organ - 'Rodong Sinmun' Rodong Sinmun on Popular Character of WPK's Policies Seen through Housing Construction Pyongyang, August 2nd 2023 ( Korean Central News Agency ) ' ... in an article says that the Workers' Party of Korea ( WPK ) set at its 8th Congress it as the core of its construction policy to make the DPRK the first country which solved the housing problem in the world, and has launched a series of gigantic projects for its realization. People move into new houses in different parts of the country. This is the outcome of the people - first principle peculiar to the WPK, which gives top priority to the interests and convenience of the people, deeming them absolute in working out and implementing all policies, the article says, and goes on: It is only the WPK which makes sure that all dwelling houses are built as intended and demanded by people, respecting the people as Heaven. Today our Party is pushing ahead with the rural construction. Thanks to it which has taken best care of the people in the face of severer difficulties and made selfless, devoted efforts for the good of them, regarding all hardships as pleasure, the people enjoy more benefits under socialism and their great cheers of hurrah for the Workers' Party and socialism resound throughout the country. As it encourages people to cherish new dreams and ideals, work hard to realize them, acquire such enterprising work style as to discover, create and innovate more new things, our Party’s construction policy has become a popular policy run through with warm love for the people, which thoroughly embodies the people - first principle. It is the steadfast will of the WPK to radically improve the living environment of the people across the country in 20 to 30 years and thus turn the country into an ideal socialist country admired by the world and a socialist paradise where the people enjoy the highest civilization in comfort and harmony' [ source: 'Rodong Simmun', Korean Central News Agency ]

 A comparison of the effectiveness and level of ensuring the housing needs of the capitalist society in the UK in relation to the socialist system of planned economy in the DPRK, where the housing sector is permanently included in the areas of investment activity of the state, shows the difference as huge as the pride of such a pro - social policy in the state, where man and his needs are in the first place in DPRK, in relation to the enormity of the decline and continuation of the pathetic and anti - human activity of imagined the so - called 'invisible hand of the market' which, according to liberal fabulists, was supposed to solve all the needs of society. And as a result, deepens misery and creates chaos, and reinforces social inequality in the exploitation of the poorest classes. who cannot obtain housing due to their low social status and income. The number of homeless people on all city streets in the UK is growing. i.e. those whose cost of rent and rent exceeded the possibility of income. 

They are often young people in their prime who are able to work. But the cost of living is so high that working just does not pay off anymore. In the field of housing policy, the UK and the DPRK are not even comparable. There is just no housing policy or exist loose and contradictory, not coordinated housing policy - created to make profit not for housing needs for society in the UK.

 Actually. What is there to compare? Lack of flats and those that are used for exploitation for the profit of the owners in very bad condition, compared to thousands of comfortable and newly built, beautiful flats given free of charge to the working class in the socialist DPRK system?

(This article was originally published in ' The Revolutionary Thought ' the journal of the Internationalist Revolutionary Communist Party and is reproduced by their kind permission)

Let us break up south Korea-US nexus!

 On October 1, the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front issued an appeal under the title of "Let us resolutely smash the aggressive yet submissive south Korea-US alliance through a nationwide campaign!" on the threshold of 70th anniversary of the conclusion of the south Korea-US mutual defense treaty.

The appeal revealed that the south Korea-US mutual defense treaty made up in the 1950s is the most shameful document of servitude as well as a sycophantic one singular in history, by which south Korea has been reduced to not only an advance nuclear base of the US for invading north Korea and a bridgehead for realization of the US supremacy over the world, but also the worst desert of human rights, and the south Koreans have been forced into unbearable misfortune, pain, damage and death without elementary freedom, dignity, democracy and civil rights, being shackled by the chain of the south Korea-US alliance for centuries.

Moreover, south Korea has been pushed deeper into the bottomless quagmire of a present-day colony and the people have suffered a permanent colonial slavery of the foreign forces since Yoon Suk-yeol took power, it went on to censure.

He made a "new record" of the greatest pro-American sycophancy to put the successive pro-US stooges in the shade after he sat on the "throne".

Traitor Yoon buckles himself to being filial to the US, clean indifferent to this land and people from the outset.

He, who settled all issues arising in all fields including politics, military, diplomacy and economy under the approval of the US, committed the treacherous crime of signing the Washington Declaration and the Spirit of Camp David.

He is an idiot who does not hesitate to fly to the NATO, Ukraine or anywhere at the request of the master styling himself a vanguard for realization of the US strategy for world domination.

Yoon takes up a positive attitude in fence-mending with Japan who is moving heaven and earth to fabricate the south Korea-US-Japan trilateral military nexus and establish the "Asian-version NATO", not content with his connivance at Japan's discharge of wastewater.

What should not be overlooked is the fact that warmonger Yoon Suk-yeol, leaning on the south Korea-US alliance, is pushing ahead in a big way with nuclear war provocation against north Korea with the aim of stifling compatriots.

It arouses great indignation.

Traitor Yoon added main subjects of north Korea to the target of attack and made drastic revisions to north Korea-targeted operation plans including the furthermore detailed "OP-2022".

A large amount of US strategic triad including the nuclear strategic bomber and the nuclear-powered flattop are now at liberty to move freely in and out of south Korea drumming up war fever under the cloak of provision of the US extended deterrence means.  

War clouds hang over the Korean Peninsula by the south Korea-US alliance and people are in constant grip of uneasiness and fear due to the ever-increasing war danger and instability.

Owing to tributary and submissive "alliance" between the US and south Korea which is in bondage to the former through and through, the people's livelihood and economy are plunged into recession.  

The south Korea-US mutual defense treaty is the worst subordinate document rare to be found in the world and the south Korea-US alliance is the root of evil causing every kind of misfortune and humiliation, south Korea is still chained to the unequal and servile south Korea-US mutual defense treaty, it is in itself a national disgrace as well as a worldwide ridicule, the appeal pointed out.

It called for a nationwide crusade against the US for putting a period to the disgraceful history of the US occupation of south Korea that has continued century after century and for recovering freedom and dignity, stressing that no longer can the people bear and tolerate such submission and humiliation and only when the US colonial rule is brought to an end and the south Korea-US alliance demolished, can the people lead a life worthy of human being.

 

54 years under the Rays of Juche

 

54 years have elapsed since the AINDF was founded under the guidance of the great sun of the nation. With the foundation of the Revolutionary Party for Reunification (RPR) on August 25, 1969, the south Korean people could have an invincible vanguard party truly representing the interests of the people and resolutely carry on a righteous struggle for the social change. The RPR was renamed the National Democratic Front of South Korea, later to become the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (AINDF) in keeping with the demands of the developing situation and the times. The AINDF has developed into the ranks of national salvation and a militant vanguard in which the monolithic ideology and leadership are firmly established. The AINDF made more strenuous efforts to imbue south Korea with the ardent reverence for the peerlessly great men who are possessed of extraordinary intelligence, distinguished leadership and noble virtues. Led by the great Juche idea, it has encouraged the patriotic people from every background to turn out in the struggle for independence, justice and democracy. The AINDF has even experienced heart-rending pains and hardships caused by the fascist clique and the outside forces for the sake of its historic cause. However, led by the peerlessly great persons revered by the entire Korean nation, the AINDF has made a sustained advance along the road of Juche. The AINDF will steadily accelerate the struggle to realize the national independence under the leadership of the respected President of the State Affairs Kim Jong Un, holding President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in high esteem as the sun of Juche in the future. For the present, we will decisively hold in check the north-targeted war maneuvers of warmongers at home and abroad in a bid to plunge the Korean nation into a nuclear disaster and will kindle the fierce flames of a massive struggle to ensure the peace and security on the Korean Peninsula. Meanwhile, we will more energetically conduct a nation-wide campaign for ousting the traitorous Yoon's regime from the presidency which reduces south Korea to the tundra of democracy, public welfare and civil rights with the unparalleled fascist despotism and anti-popular misrule. The cause of the AINDF will for sure emerge ever-victorious as long as we are led by the banner of Juche idea under the wise leadership of the peerlessly great man.

 

'What does it mean to defend People’s Korea, with ‘no ifs or buts’? by CNY Rao -Article first published in "People's Korea Today"

'What does it mean to defend People’s Korea, with ‘no ifs or buts’?

                                   

' Here in the West, Socialist Korea is under constant attack from the mainstream media. The most ridiculous lies are manufactured and spoon-fed to people so they might regurgitate them on command. As principled communists - this, I hope is understood by us all - it is important we counter misinformation: claims that people in the DPRK are starving, that they are brainwashed, that they are oppressed, etc. etc. Throughout history, many countries have been given harsh treatment by western news outlets, but none today as much as the DPRK. 

 During the civil war which succeeded the October Revolution, many British communists ( including Willie Gallagher and Harry Pollitt ) were active in a campaign named 'Hands off Russia', aimed at opposing Britain’s support for the Whites and its eventual intervention against the Bolsheviks. A well-known action of the campaign was the refusal by dock workers to load arms - arms which were going to Polish soldiers in the Polish-Soviet war - onto a boat ( the SS Jolly George ). Practical actions such as these are very necessary and are in fact still carried out today ( albeit mostly at a smaller scale ) by organisations formed to defend socialism. Many groups have been formed in the UK with the purpose of showing solidarity with the victims of imperialism: the British-Soviet Friendship Society, the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, the Britain - Vietnam Solidarity Front ( active in the 1960s during the Vietnam War ), the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and of course the Korean Friendship Association. The KFA is particularly unique in that it must fight an unusual battle: it must promote solidarity with a country which has been so extensively lied about that most people’s conception of it is entirely different to its true nature. 

 Unsurprisingly, different battles require different tactics. This is where the idea of defending People’s Korea with 'no ifs or buts' comes in. Essentially, in order to successfully combat the propaganda spread about the DPRK, a much more thorough approach to solidarity work is required: holding the DPRK at 'arm’s length' will not do.

The few revisionists who don’t reject the DPRK entirely ( normally those who, when push comes to shove, are social - democrats ), can be divided into two categories in terms of their attitudes towards both People’s Korea as a whole and Kimilsungism - Kimjongilism. 

 Firstly, there are those who try to ignore the DPRK, as if it’s some minor attempt at socialism which failed forty years ago. I see members of communist parties doing this a lot: they will talk about solidarity with Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and China, but stop there, and when confronted, they might timidly admit they support the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 'critically'! 

 The British left loves to rattle on about Cuba but can not spare even a minute to acknowledge the great achievements of the socialist system in Korea. 

 The other grouping of those only willing to hold People’s Korea 'at arm’s length' are those who oppose sanctioning ( and on a good day, maybe even the division of Korea ), but feel the need to condemn the DPRK as a 'totalitarian regime', one which must be put an end to. 

 The similarity we can see between these two camps is that neither understands what the real incentive for defending People’s Korea is. It is neither out of some Kantian obsession with telling the truth nor out of 'critical support against US imperialism': the reason we have to defend People’s Korea and the reason this defence must take place with no ifs or buts is the socialist construction currently taking place in the DPRK under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un. 

 You see, the phrase 'defending People’s Korea with no ifs or buts' can be interpreted as referring back to the KFA’s much more radical and confident stance. Many organisations which exist today to promote solidarity with the DPRK either: 

1) Do not attribute the DPRK’s success to Juche or Songun; 

2) Claim that Juche is an adaptation of Marxism - Leninism ( like Mao Tse - tung Thought or Kaysone Phomvihane Thought ), instead of an original philosophy, or:

3) see the Juche Idea as inapplicable outside the DPRK. The Korean Friendship Association recognises the originality of Juche - style socialism and its contributions to Korean independence: this recognition is absolutely necessary for the dispelling of anti - DPRK propaganda to have any serious weight. 

 In the West today, the mainstream media not only attacks the DPRK as a country but also the Juche Idea, falsely comparing it to a 'religion' or a 'brainwashing tool'. Some revisionists seem to think that we needn’t spare a second for the DPRK post-reunification; principled communists should look to the DPRK as inspiration for how we can build socialism in Britain. To comprehensively defend People’s Korea - when most won’t have the opportunity of refusing to load boats with weapons destined for the Korean Peninsula - we must stand by the Leadership, the Workers’ Party and the Juche Idea. 

[ Author: CNY Rao ]

Human scums with multiple sins

 

Nowadays, the defectors to south Korea are getting overheated at the van of anti-DPRK confrontation.

In its lead are Park Sang-hak, Lee Min-bok and Kim Seong-min. It is to be noted that they are identical in vileness.

They committed serious crimes in the DPRK and defected to south Korea to escape punishment for the crimes and wallow in luxury turning back upon their kinsmen and friends.

Park was an idler from his childhood and has given himself up to money even going further to steal a precious cultural treasure.

Kim stole state property and has committed various vile sins to live in wealth.

It is for this reason that they defected to south Korea where crimes stalk and money matters only and so they don't hesitate to make confrontational schemes while getting money from the US and conservative groups.

It is said that even this year again the Ministry of Unification has launched a plan to give funds to the anti-DPRK organizations to "improve human rights in the north".

It is extremely pathetic that they have a sad lot in trying to gain something from good-for-nothing human scums worse than a beast.

AINDF issues statement of indignation

   

On May 10, the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front released a statement of indignation under the title "We vehemently denounce the biggest crimes of Yoon Suk-yeol during his one year-long term" as regards the lapse of one year since he took power.

Yoon's one year-long term has reduced south Korea into a theater of prosecutory and fascist rowdyism and a living hell, inter-Korean relations are bogged down in catastrophe owing to nuclear war maneuvers in conspiracy with outside forces and the south Korean authorities' moves of confrontation with north Korea and the national dignity has been seriously violated by the pro-US and Japanese proclivities, the indignation statement said. It branded his one year-long term as the heinous crime running counter to the times and public feelings and engaging itself in all sorts of evils.      

The statement of indignation subtitled "one year of anxiety and fear which drove the danger of nuclear war with heinous inter-Korean confrontation and provocation" said: Yoon spent one year during which he, swimming against tendency of the times and public feelings, pushed the situation of the Korean Peninsula to the brink of nuclear war and froze national division by conducting joint military exercises with different missions with foreign forces and persisting in inter-Korean confrontation.      

Soon after he took office, Yoon initiated the "bold initiative", a replica of "no nukes, opening and 3 000 dollars" devised by Lee Myung-bak to clamor for prior denuclearization of north Korea. It is a revelation of the dream of "unification through absorption" based on war provocation against north Korea.    

He, clamoring for improvement of north Korean human rights, as his basic duty, appointed international cooperation ambassador for north Korean human rights and ensured stipulations of "north Korean human rights act" fabricated in 2016 were revised for the worse. He has persisted in the abolition of "anti-leaflet law" and offered equipment for scattering the leaflets to the north Korean defectors. It is sleight of hand to push the bedeviled inter-Korean relations to a more uncontrollable catastrophe.   

In a joint statement to commemorate the 70th anniversary of south Korea-US alliance issued during his junket to Washington, he reeled off a string of groundless sophism that north Korea has violated its people's right and put its money into development of weapons of mass destruction, laying bare his inherent sense of disapproval towards north Korea.

He saw to it that the phrase "the north Korean administration and the Korean People's Army are the principal enemy" was stipulated in the white paper of Ministry of National Defense and guideline for the army to inoculate the officers and soldiers with idea of the principal enemy.

Yoon, who declared "a preemptive nuclear attack upon north Korea" when he was on a stumping tour, reaffirmed reactivation of extended deterrence strategy and consultation group, extension of scale of joint military exercises and deployment of the US nuclear strategic assets in a joint statement made public with US President Biden.  

Whenever an opportunity presented itself, he stressed "peace through strength" and "security through strength", while paying lip-service to early completion of north Korea targeted "south Korea's three-axis defense system". He has made frantic efforts to carry out the reorganization of the strategic command for establishment of combined command system and the future combined special operation command. He started the first year of his office with provocative war maneuvers while trumpeting about the tripartite military cooperation between south Korea, the US and Japan.  

What should not be overlooked is that he paid a visit to Washington to keep south Korea as a nuclear pledge and reduce the Korean Peninsula into a permanent exhibition hall of the US strategic nuclear weapons.  

"Rapid development of north Korea's nuke and missile threat" and "north Korea's unprecedented frequency of provocation" are statements touted by Yoon during his junket to the US. His earnest request was the US extended deterrence.   

Now the US three nuclear strategic assets would be deployed and the Korean Peninsula is on the eve of nuclear war by a military layman Yoon.   

The biggest crimes committed by Yoon, who threw inter-Korean ties into nadir and put the Korean Peninsula on the chopping board of nuclear war with his policy of inter-Korean confrontation and war maneuvers against north Korea, are bound to come under accusation and rebuff of the Korean nation.

The indignation statement under the subtitle "A disgraceful year during which national dignity and interests are sacrificed for the sake of foreign forces by flunkeyism and treachery" bitterly reprimanded Yoon who traded away the nation's dignity and interests to the outside forces.

Before the presidential inauguration, Yoon dispatched a delegation for consultation of south Korea-US policy to the US for reconstruction of the south Korea-US alliance to be a tool of the US. He met a US delegation that had participated in the presidential inauguration ceremony to curry favor with the US, praising the south Korea-US alliance as a linchpin.  

After eleven days of inauguration, he invited US President Biden to Seoul and vowed to be filial to him. He saw to it that direct dialogue channel was newly set up between the presidential office and the White House and all problems arising in all fields including politics, security and economy were settled under the approval of Washington.   

The south Korean presidential office in Yongsan had been wiretapped by the US intelligence agency, however, it failed to utter even a word of protest against the US. It made a string of poor excuses that the eavesdropping was harmless to the south Korea-US alliance. Yoon was jeered by worldwide condemnation.

During his visit to Washington, Yoon expressed his thanks to his master, speaking highly of the south Korea-US alliance as the most successful one in 70 year-old history, he visited Arlington cemetery that enshrines the soldiers killed in the Korean War, awarded commemorative medals and decorations to those who took part in the Korean War and sang an American song before his master.

Yoon dispatched a delegation for consultation with Japan composed of pro-Japanese elements who had studied in Japan to beg for bilateral ties.  

He hushed up the hideous crimes committed by Japan in the past and extolled Jap as "cooperative partner" in his speech at the March First Popular Uprising meeting. He paid a visit to Tokyo to withdraw a lawsuit of the World Trade Organization as regard to Japan's restrictions of export.   

Buoyed by his master's encouragement, he showed his will to exert himself to promote security cooperation between south Korea, the US and Japan during his stay in Washington.

Some days ago, he humbled himself before the Japanese Prime Minister who was on a visit to Seoul to paint a black picture of the national dignity.

Yoon's crime is a never-to-be-condoned one.

The indignation statement under the subtitle "A year of tyranny during which democracy and civil rights are seriously trampled down by prosecutory despotism" sharply criticized Yoon who reduced south Korea into a wasteland of democracy and civil rights with fascist tyranny and misrule.

He resuscitated the era of dictatorship under prosecution eclipsing the preceding military fascist despotism after he came to power.

Despite the public criticism, he made the prosecution service as a watchman for the regime, put the police under his control and put forward the National Intelligence Service as a shock brigade for maintaining dictatorial clique. Scandals related with his wife Kim Keun-hee and relatives were found innocent and his confidants and culprits involved in the illegal interference in "state affairs" were released.      

The Yoon group let the police search the building of opposition party and threw those who had raised an objection to him and who served in the ex-regime behind bars.  

From the beginning of his inauguration, Yoon formulated pro-conglomerate against laborers and has ruthlessly trampled down the workers' campaign for defending the right to live, branding the unionists including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions as the "pro-north Korean elements".  

Branding the progressive activists as the "Juche idea group", the Yoon group let the police search all their offices and residences across south Korea and arrested them on charges of violation of the "National Security Law".  

This is the true identity of "impartiality", "common sense" and "freedom" much touted by Yoon.

The south Koreans will surely settle their accounts with Yoon who reduced south Korea into a dark society and the worst tundra of human rights.  

His one year-long term has been riddled with crisis of war, security, democracy, economy and people's livelihood by his ignorance and incompetence.  

It is shame on the south Koreans that they recorded an unheard-of disgraceful history as they had cast ballots to Yoon.

We will not allow Yoon to go scot-free and his four year-long tenure of office is intolerable.

Retirement of Yoon from his office is the way to preserve peace, restore the national dignity, realize democracy and the peoples' rights and revive the economy.    

The south Korean people should give a stern punishment to Yoon, a pro-US and Japanese sycophantic traitor, inter-Korean confrontation fanatic, strangler of democracy and civil rights and disturber of public welfare by waging an obstinate struggle against his regime.

 

On the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the signing of the Pyongyang Declaration

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STATEMENT

Secretariat of the Central Committee of the AUCPB (Nina Andreeva)

On April 20, 1992, during the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Comrade Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, with the participation of leaders and representatives of political parties from different countries of the world, the Pyongyang Declaration "Let's protect and advance the cause of socialism" was adopted . Among the first signatories of the Declaration was the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKPB), headed by Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva, whose role in the communist movement in the USSR was valued by Comrade Kim Il Sung. Today, this most important document of the world communist movement has been signed by more than 270 political parties and movements.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, socialism was temporarily destroyed in the USSR and a number of countries in Europe and Asia, as a result of the departure of the leading communist parties there from the Marxist-Leninist positions, the world socialist system was liquidated, which was immediately used for its predatory purposes by world imperialism.

But on earth, the outpost of socialism on the planet continues to exist and operate successfully in the person of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which was created and then headed by Comrade Kim Il Sung. The socialist ideas of Juche created by him - relying on one's own strength and independence - did not allow to undermine the ideological foundations of the leading Workers' Party of Korea, which ensured the reliable functioning of the socialist system in the DPRK.

Comrade Kim Il Sung initiated the adoption of the Pyongyang Declaration "Let's Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism" in 1992 by the leaders of the communist, workers', revolutionary and socialist parties and movements. This Declaration gave a powerful impetus to the socialist movement in the world and its development in a new direction, confirming the idea that socialism is the ideal of mankind, calling on the progressive parties of the world to unite and fight for the revival and new upsurge of the socialist movement.

After the temporary defeat of socialism in the USSR and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe, the world communist movement was going through a deep crisis, ideological confusion and vacillation. The VKPB, analyzing the reasons for the temporary victory of the counter-revolution in the USSR, repeatedly emphasized that historically it was not socialism that was defeated, but its opportunistic distortion and perversion by the post-Stalinist leadership of the party and state.

Today, in the face of the threat of imperialism, the problem of the unity of the communist movement and anti-imperialist forces is becoming more and more urgent. As noted by N.A. Andreeva: “The first, most difficult step on this path was made by the Pyongyang Declaration of 1992… The Pyongyang Declaration indicated the main path to unite the progressive anti-imperialist forces on Earth. Today the situation demands to go further, to clarify and deepen the initial provisions as the basis for further unification, to attract new parties and movements to it. Numerous meetings of representatives of workers' and communist countries in different regions of the world create the basis on which the possibility of international unity of the exploited and oppressed arises. The adopted declarations, platforms and other documents become stages in the common front of revolutionary unity.”

 Moscow city,

April 20, 2

On the occasion of the Day of the Sun

 

 

The Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front sent a congratulatory letter to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on April 15 to mark the Day of the Sun.  

The congratulatory letter titled "To the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the peerlessly great man born of Heaven and patriot" said that in the morning of the Day of the Sun the AINDF pays the highest tribute to President Kim Il Sung, the eternal sun of Juche, in reflection of the unanimous desire of the south Koreans and offers the greatest glory and warmest congratulations to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the peerlessly great man born of Heaven and the symbol of Juche Korea's mightiness.  

The birthday of the President was the great auspicious event for the Korean nation which put an end to its distress-torn history stained with flunkeyism and disgrace and signaled the beginning of new Korea and was the event of worldwide significance heralding the dawn of the age of mankind independence.

With his birthday, the spring of national resurrection had come and the era of independence started in which the Korean people who had been subjected to ill-treatment and oppression became the masters of their destiny and the country.

The President, with clear insight into the requirement of the age and people's intentions in his teens, propounded the Juche idea holding the highest and the most brilliant position in the human history of thinking, clearly indicated the most correct way to be followed by the Korean nation and humanity and defeated the US and Japan, two formidable imperialist enemies, in one generation with his original war methods, strategy and tactics.    

The President, regarding the people are my God as his lifelong motto, founded the Workers' Party of Korea as the motherly party, set up the government and founded the Korean People's Army serving the people. He had built a socialist power that is independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in defense, evoking the world admiration.   

The President, taking to heart more than anyone else the tragedy of national division, singled out Korea's reunification as the supreme task of the nation to put forward the most fair and aboveboard reunification formula such as the three principles of national reunification, the 10-point program for the great unity of the whole nation and the proposal for founding the Democratic Federal Republic of Koryo. He led the Korean people in their efforts to achieve the movement for independent reunification to lay a solid groundwork for the country's reunification.

The President, an elder statesman of the world politics, gave a strong impetus to the human cause of independence with his steadfast political creed and energetic external activities and held all the people to his broad bosom out of boundless generosity and magnanimity, enjoying boundless reverence of all peoples.

The President, who penetrated the prospects of the nation and the protractedness of the revolution with his far-sighted acumen, gave perfect solution to the issue of succession to the revolutionary cause of Juche to provide a sure guarantee for happiness and prosperity of the nation.

His imperishable achievements performed on behalf of the nation, era and history for over eighty years in the 20th century will be glorified for all ages along with the victorious advance of Juche Korea.

The revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered from Mt. Paektu had been carried forward by Chairman Kim Jong Il, the illustrious commander born of Mt. Paektu. Now it enjoys the greatest heyday of it under the judicious leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, another great person born of Heaven, the congratulatory letter continued.   

Kim Jong Un, regarding completion of the cause of the preceding leaders as his lifelong mission, has led Juche Korea, which is associated with the whole life and motto of the President, to victory and prosperity.   

He perfectly realized the cause of perpetuating the memory of the preceding leaders with his noble loyalty and moral obligation and made sure that a steady continuity was given to the history of the sun by defining the revolutionary ideologies of the President and the Chairman as Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the great revolutionary idea that reached the acme in the history of human thoughts.  

Under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un, possessed of rare wisdom, scientific insight, inflexible faith and will and warm love for his people, the DPRK has demonstrated its dignity and national power throughout the world and laid a robust foundation for rosy future of the country for over ten years.  

The facts of legalization of state policy on the nuclear force, rapid development of the national defense industry and successive birth of Juche-based weaponry which displayed its inexhaustible strength before the world: These are precious fruition of bold decision, adamant will, outstanding leadership and unbounded devotion of Kim Jong Un who carries out desires of the preceding leaders without an inch of deflection.

Thanks to energetic leadership and politics for the people of Kim Jong Un, monumental projects reflecting the people-first principle have been built and high civilization and happiness are being witnessed across the DPRK envied by the south Koreans and world people.  

He, the ever-victorious iron-willed brilliant commander and a great master of independent politics, put the US and its followers on the defensive with his toughest stand and immediate countermeasures. He has demonstrated the national prestige of the DPRK throughout the world by steering international political trend to independence and justice.  

Kim Jong Un, who leads the Juche revolution to triumph true to intentions of the preceding leaders and makes every endeavor to bring happiness and prosperity of the sun's nation and sun's Korea, is the greatest man and the sun of the 21st century.

The south Korean people have kept the truth that the dignity of a nation is displayed only when a nation is led by a prominent leader through the image of Kim Jong Un. They renewed their determination to accelerate the victorious advance of the cause of national independence under the guidance of Kim Jong Un.

Led by Kim Jong Un, April jubilee is everlasting and the future of Juche Korea is rosy, the congratulatory letter said. The south Korean vanguard fighters and people sincerely wish good health of Kim Jong Un, the sun of the nation and the symbol of all victories and glory, for the prosperity of Kim Il Sung's and Kim Jong Il's Korea and for the day when the whole Korean nation enjoys happiness and comfort to posterity. 

Unfading exploits with immortal Juche idea

Unfading exploits with immortal Juche idea

 

With the approach of the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, the Korean people and world progressives highly revere the President who fathered the Juche idea to provide the guiding principle in the era of independence.

The Juche idea is the eternal banner of the Korean revolution and the revolutionary banner in the era of independence created and applied in the revolutionary practice by President Kim Il Sung.

After reviewing historical lesson of Korean national liberation movement, the President, at the Kalun meeting held from June 30 to July 2, Juche 19 (1930), declared the principle of Juche idea that the masters of the Korean revolution are the Korean people and the Korean revolution should be by all means carried out by the Korean people themselves in a way suited to the actual condition of the country.

The Juche idea, in short, is the idea that the popular masses are masters of the revolution and construction, and they are also the motive force of revolution and construction.

In other words, man is the master of his destiny and has the power to carve it out.

Thanks to the Juche idea, the Korean revolution have made a vigorous advance along the road of independence and the Juche era, a new era of historical development of mankind in which the popular masses hew out their own destiny independently and creatively has been opened up.

The President, holding aloft the banner of the Juche idea, defeated the Japanese imperialist aggressors to liberate Korea. He had built a powerful socialist country independent, self-sufficient and self-reliant in defense by applying the Juche idea throughout his leadership over Korea.

It is the DPRK government's invariable principle to adhere to Juche in the ideology, independence in politics, self-sufficiency in the economy and self-reliance in defense.

The Juche idea propounded by the President had been enriched by outstanding ideological and theoretical activities and sagacious wisdom of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, thoroughly embodying the Juche idea in building a rich and powerful nation, has built the DPRK as a socialist power with independent politics, self-defense capacity and self-supporting economy.

The credit for the brilliant successes being scored in the DPRK goes to the Juche idea.

The Juche idea is the most reasonable, universal and viable revolutionary idea easily acceptable to whoever aspiring after independence as it is man-centered world outlook and the revolutionary theory and method centered on the popular masses.

The Juche idea captures the hearts of all people as it is encyclopedic revolutionary thought representing the popular masses' cause of independence and the whole course of implementing the cause of socialism and the idea guiding the future of mankind.

Today many countries including the UK, Switzerland and Spain have the Juche idea study groups and lots of followers of the Juche idea wage dynamic activities to study and disseminate the Juche idea.

The immortal feats of President Kim Il Sung, who originated and developed in depth the Juche idea, the guiding idea of the Korean revolution and the era of independence, will last forever along with the Day of the Sun.