Wednesday, 1 September 2010

On the Issue of anti DPRK propaganda

On the issue of anti DPRK propaganda

Much of the horrendous anti DPRK churned by imperialism's media machine is actually simply taken from the propaganda machine of the south Korean puppets.

Desperate to prevent any influence from the DPRK seeping into the south Korean population which will mean the end of the south Korean regime sooner or letter ,the puppets resorted to a 2 pronged strategy-one is simple repression -7 years in jail for "communist" or pro north pro leftist activities.The 2nd prong is much sophiscated it is massive propaganda to discredit the DPRK to portray it as the same or even as worse than south Korea.In fact the south Korean rulers propaganda adopts the tactic of a cunning mental patient that of projecting their own image on their questioner.
South Korea has a huge different between the rich and poor so they peddle stories about "privilieges" and " big houses" in the DPRK.Similarly the DPRK is potrayed as repressive but is south Korea where ideological divergences are suppressed.
Many in south Korea and jobless and live in slums so the puppets vociferate about "starvation" in the DPRK.
Much of Seouls propaganda (including even stupid myths like a ban on women wearing trousers ) is copied directly by major imperialist media outlets and syndicated.This turn is tinged with the usual cynical post modernism and the newer forms of anti communism.With the end of the cold war some forms of anti communist propaganda died or ceased to be relevant(ie Soviet invasion stories) but were replaced by more equally and in some cases more pernicious anti communist ideas (such as simply it is an aberration,cant and wont work etc etc).All these forms a heady mixture of anti DPRK,anti socialist and anti Juche propaganda.
Unfortuneatly ideology has never been the strong point of the left in many imperialist
countries so some so called communists and socialists buy into this propaganda all
too readily.
I can say as some one who visited the DPRK countryside around Sariwon city that there was no famine or starvation.Plenty of food was on sale in Sariwon city.The DPRK countryside is one of the most egalitarian in the world with no big house or big country estates or latifundia.
I leave you with 2 contrasting images

Socialist housing construction on the DPRK
http://www.naenara.kp/en/periodic/korea/index.php?contents+2897+2009-12+95+5
http://www.cpcml.ca/images2010/Korea/PyongyangMansudaeStreetApar

The slums of Seoul due to anti popular puppet rule
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Songun Politics A revolutionary anti imperialist form of politics

SONGUN POLITICS, A REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI-IMPERIALIST FORM OF POLITICS

SUITED TO THE DEMANDS OF THE 21stCENTURY

A Talk presnted by Shaun Pickford

on the occasion of the start of the Songun Revolutionary Leadership

on August 25th 1960

If we analyse the narrative of the Korean Revolutionary process or if we scrutinize the Juche philosophy one overriding theme can be observed, that of innovation. The Korean Revolution due to its extremely unique circumstances had to be a revolution which relied upon originality for its survival and growth.

Creativity is the hallmark of Korean Socialism. From the dawn of the Korean revolutionary struggle in the 1920s to the first decades of the 21st century innovation has been the bedrock of the Korean revolution in dealing with the various challenges which have stood in the way of the forward march of Juche Korea. It was in this tradition of creativity that KIM JONG IL proclaimed to the world the start of the Songun Revolutionary Leadership on August 25th, 1960.

Ten years after the beginning of the Fatherland Liberation War (the Korean War) KIM JONG IL gave indepth guidance to the Seoul Ryn Kyong 105 Guards Division, by providing field guidance to the one of the first Korean Peoples Army divisions to liberate Seoul during the Korean War. KIM JONG IL emphasized the importance of arms in the Korean Revolution to the men and officers of this KPA division and to the Korean people at large. From the early 1960s to the present day KIM JONG IL has consistently stressed the vital necessity of Songun Politics for obtaining the final victory of the Korean Socialist cause.

In the course of ideological development of the Korean Revolution KIM JONG IL's announcement of the beginning of the Songun Revolutionary Leadership on August 25th 1960 was the continuation and consolidation of the positions put forward at the Kalun Meeting by KIM IL SUNG on June 30th 1930, that was where the Juche Idea was formulated. Both these dates are profoundly signficant in the evolution of the Juche Idea and of Songun Politics, which have become the cutting-edge ideology of our era.

The concept of Songun was born on the battlefields of the Korean Revolution during the 1920s, 1930s & 1940s. Since the total annexation of Korea by Japanese imperialism in 1910, Korean patriots were trying to find an effective form of resistance to the occupation.

One fundamental lesson gained by the Korean resistance movement was that fedual Korea was defeated and conquered by Japan due to the weak military potential of the Li Dynasty (1392-1910).Opposition to the cruel Japanese occupation of Korea had many varied forms, mostly spontaneous in nature. Such as the March 1th 1919 uprising, which was crushed by the brutal Japanese military in a sea of blood. Other manifestions of the fightback aganist Japanese imperialism inculded the movement to pay back the debt to Japan in August 1908, appeals to the major powers such as emissary incident in June 1907,the assassination of leading Japanese officials like Ito Hirobumi in October 1909 and the patriotic cultural movement of the early 20s. There was even talk by some defeatist elements of "national reform" & "autonomy of Korea with the Japanese emprie". All these methods failed to secure their objective.

The Korean people faced the choice, independence or extinction? How to achieve independence and social progress for the Korean people under the conditions of the harsh colonialist-feudal regime of Japan?

The decisive answer given to this outstanding question for the Korean people came from the gunshots of the guns of Songun. KIM IL SUNG saw as a cardinal principle of the Korean Revolution the precept of armed struggle.KIM IL SUNG advocated from the mid-1920s that the revolution aganist imperialism, for independence, for socialism and communism must be pioneered and based upon arms. The two pistols which KIM IL SUNG inherited from his father KIM HYONG JIK (June 10th 1884 - June 5th 1926) became symbolic of the modest emergence of the Korean Revolution and its development into a mighty power with misslies and bombs and the two bequesthed pistols illustrate that Korean socialism will be triumphant because it is based on the will and determination of revolutionary arms and soldiers. Chiwon or "Aim High" of the Korean resistance leader KIM HYONG JIK was realised in the formation of the Korean Peoples Revolutionary Army by KIM IL SUNG on April 25th 1932. This revolutioary armed force acted as a focal point for all Korean revolutionaries and patriots in their anti-imperialist liberation struggle long before the party itself was established in 1945. Really it can be said that the KPRA was the main force in the sturggle for independence. After 20 long bloody years of arduous struggle the KPRA commanded by KIM IL SUNG liberated Korea from grip of Japanese imperialism on August 15th 1945. A new democratic Korea was to be build up after liberation but the Korean peninsula was divided into north and south by outside elements. The United States , which emerged as a superpower at the end of World War Two, occupied south Korea with a large army and installed a subservient regime in Seoul.

The glorious revolutioanry traditions of Songun were carried on by the Korean Peoples Army, which was founded on 8th February 1948. The KPRA became a regluar. cadre-based army in 1948. KIM IL SUNG ensured that from the early days of Korea's liberation, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea would have a self-reliant defence industry with Korean made weapons of every sort. It was with great pride that KIM IL SUNG test fired the 1st Korean manufactured submachine gun on December 18th 1948. Today the DPRK produces its own nuclear devices and long-range rockets.

On June 25th 1950 the allied forces of world imperialism led by the United States launched an attack upon the infant and peaceful DPRK. It was during the Fatherland Liberation War (25 June 1950 - 27th July 1953) that KIM IL SUNG with iron-willed determination and felxible tactics repulsed and ultimately defeated the so-called invincible United States, the south Korean puppets and the various foreign mercenaries (like the UK forces) in July 1953. The US imperialist aggressors were forced at Panmunjom to sign an armistice agreement without any kind of victory, this was a demonstration of Songun Politics in action.

The Key to success in both in the Fatherland Liberation War and in the miraculous reconstruction of the DPRK after the war was that all problems were solved with the KPA at the centre. The Chollima movement of overcoming all difficulities in the way of building soicalism in Korea upon the ashes of war,was the perfect embodiment of the revolutionary sentiment of the KPA troops.

KIM JONG IL (born 16th February 1942) was born and raised among the battles of the anti-Japanese war. KIM JONG IL spent His later childhood witnessing the destruction caused by the yankee imperialists to Korea in the Fatherland Liberation War. Even at a young age KIM JONG IL saw the importance of studying military matters as a means of strengthening the Korean Revolution. KIM JONG IL for instance spent 40 days directing an intensive military traning drill at Oun-dong in August 1962. In the early 60s KIM JONG IL had the revolutionary slogan put up "Let us train, study and live just like the anti-Japanese figthers did!" In His actions KIM JONG IL demonstrated the unity between theory and practice by becoming a crack marksman and a accomplished fighter pilot.

The aggressive essence of US imperialism was vivdly shown in the Carribean crisis and with the Gulf of Tonkin incident of the 1960s. It was in this environment that KIM JONG IL began the task of systematizing Songun Politics in the 60s. An early thesis of KIM JONG IL on Songun was the work "THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN IMPERIALISM & ITS AGGRESSIVE NATURE" published in 1962. Many KPA vetrans at the time called KIM JONG IL the Young General or said that Korea had produced another Great General, a brilliant General who is expert of both the Gun and the Pen.

If we take the take a look at the experiences of socialist revolutions and anti-imperialist movements in history, two elements are vital for a revolution's survival, its ideological and military defence. The Paris Commune of 1871 was overcame by superior means, the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin, Ireland was suppressed by British colonialism and the Allende governement in Chile was overthrown by the reactionary military in September 1973, to name just a few examples. The successful revolutions are the ones which are able to defend themsleves by any means necessary, such as the Cuban revolution for instance. Songun Politics can seen as the summary of the background of the oppressed peoples everywhere for independence and peace.

Songun Politics are rooted in the Juche Idea. Juche is the philosophical basis of Songun. As I elucidated eariler on, Songun Politics is based on the experiences of the Workers Party of Korea. Songun Politics starts from the standpoint that man is the master of everything in the world and everything serves him/her. Songun has the underlying features of independence, creativity and consciousness in its world outlook. It is this spirit of novelty that KIM JONG IL devoted His foremost attention to military issues. To build up the KPA as the main force means precisely to build up the Party, State and People of socialist society as powerful subjects. A remarkable feature of Songun Politics is the theory of the main force of the revolution, the strike force for gaining independence. This theory of a main revolutioanry force is a topic not covered by Marxist classics. I have gained an understanding of this essential strand of Songun Politics by studying the work of KIM JONG IL "THE SONGUN-BASED REVOLUTIONARY LINE IS A GREAT REVOLUTIONARY LINE OF OUR ERA AND AN EVER-VICTORIOUS BANNER OF OUR REVOLUTION" published in January 29th 2003 and from my discusssions with prominent DPRK academics during my stay in Korea in July 2009.

To set the record straight Songun views the working class as the ruling class of the DPRK and the WPK as the leading political organisation of Korean socialism. It is the working masses who are the masters of everything in Juche Korea. The theory of a main force is the distinctive contribution of Songun Politics to revolutionary ideology and practice. Now it is the KPA which is the main force of the Korean Revolution, the Peoples Army is in the forefront of the anti-imperialist front in the DPRK and cannot be replaced with another force.

Songun Politics requires a strengthening of the ideological revolution. This task is performed in the shape of the revolutionary soldier spirit, establishing a monolithic ideological system throughout society. An important mission for the Korean Revolution is to make the population of the DPRK emulate the militant fervour of the KPA in their day-to-day lives, to follow the examples of the KPA heroes and heroines with a "match for a hunderd foes" gusto. When the Army and Party decides to do something, anything is possible.

The position and role of the Leader, the decisive part the Supreme Commander plays in the structure of Songun is an imperative one. To ensure always the maintenance of the monolithic unity between the Leader,Party,Army and People for the common revolutionary purpose. As a indication of the significance of military affairs in the DPRK the National Defence Commission was made the leading state organ of the Republic, with General KIM JONG IL as the Chairman of the DPRK's NDC.This consistutional change was carried out by the 10th Supreme Peoples Assembly session in September 1998.

Inceasingly the KPA is defending and developing Korean socialism to new heights. The KPA is at the core of all victories and successes gained by the Korean Revolution. Songun Poilitcs safeguarded the DPRK aganist imperialist and dominationist attempts to isolate and eradicate Peoples Korea, particularly at the time of the "Arduous March" and the "Forced March" of the late 1990s. At this critical moment when the Korean Revolution faced the issue of its survival, KIM JONG IL made the winning declaration of the Songunization of Korea. KIM JONG IL on the first new year's day after the passing away of President KIM IL SUNG gave-on -the spot guidance despite heavy snowfalls on 1st January 1995. In the period of the later 1990s KIM JONG IL visited 480 KPA units, amounting to an amazing 48,000 miles. KIM JONG IL has never stopped getting guidance to the main revolutionary force, KIM JONG IL is always with the officers and men of the glorious KPA whereever the Peoples Army is stationed.

During the time of hardships in the 1990s Korean Socialism became much renewed and stronger due to KIM JONG IL's leadership. Where others would have surrendered and gave in to the enemy, the DPRK upheld the red flag of Socialism and Communism even higher with the weapons of Songun at the front. Now Korea is reguarded as the bulwark of socialism and the beacon of hope by all progressive peoples across the world.

The vitality of Songun Politics has been verified in the vast improvement of the living conditions of the working masses in the DPRK. Over the decade (2000-2010) the DPRK has attained a number of outstanding achievements in the strategic objective of building a powerful and prosperous socialist nation. Songun Korea has set itself the goal of reaching the target of a strong and rich independent socialist country by 2012- the centenary year of the birth of the Respected President KIM IL SUNG. All the Korean people are following the spirit of Kanggye, a town in the extreme north of the DPRK where KIM JONG IL introduced the method of turning adversity into blessings during His on-spot guidance there.

Major factories have been modernized and made more efficient. Large,medium and small sized hydroelectric power stations have been constructed throughout the DPRK. The information technology revolution is being implemented into everyday use, the DPRK manufactures its own computers and has the Koryo mobile phone network. The DPRK launched the satellites Kwangmyongsong No1 & No2 by its own means The infrastructure of Pyongyang and other DPRK cities was improved in the past ten years, in Pyongyang Manusdae Street was constructed in honour of the WPK's anniversary. There has been more productive use been made of the countryside with the land rezoning and realignment initiative. In Kangwon province alone more 1,760 hectares of new arable land have been obtained through realignment. The 150 day campaign in 2009 was a great success for the DPRK with industrial production at a record high of 1-2 fold increase as compare to the rate of industrial growth in 2008.The soldiers of the KPA completed the construction of 100 miles of road, 273 structures, 27 pavilions and many other economic tasks. The KPA have carried out the order of their Supreme Commander to improve the people's living standards.

The ideological content of literature and art has become more revolutionary,innovative and dynamic over the past decade. At the head of this new Songun cultural offensive is the Merited State Chorus of the Korean Peoples Army. Such as rousing songs as "No Motherland without YOU","Hold High The Red Flag"and "Led By YOU,We Will Win" are the emblematic anthems of victory and glory composed in the 1990s. The KPA Chorus produced in 2002 an epic musical suite devoted to the history of Army-First Revolutionary Poitics entitled "A Long Journey of Songun". Indeed the KPA Merited State Chorus is the melodic standard bearer of the Songun Age inspiring the Korean People to greater successes in their efforts to defend and construct Korean-style Socialism.

A spectacular artistic achievement of the Songun Revolution was the production of the mass game "Arirang". This mass gymnastics and artistic performance has gone down in the World Guiness Records Book has being the largest mass game in the international chronicle of such events. In total something like 100,000 artistes and athletes performed in the "Arirang". "Arirang" reached new levels of sophistication with the use of DPRK-made computer graphics and lasers in forming the various wonderful illuminations in the May Day Stadium. Another area where the Songun cultural revolution is making its presence felt, is in the field of documentary and feature films, made by the Korean Film Studios and the April 25th Film Studio. A remarkable DPRK feature film which I viewed recently was about the gold medal winner Jong Song OK at the Women's Marathron Race at Sevilla, Spain on August 29th 1998. From watching this movie I got the impression that Jong Song OK seemed to exemplified the fighting ethos of heroic Songun Korea in her determination to win the race with the Great General always in her mind.

Peoples Korea has stood in confrontation with US imperialism for well over 65 years now. Sometimes this has been a conflict with bullets and at other times a war of words and nerves. The DPRK to put in these terms is facing on a daily basis the threat of invasion, the same sort of threat experienced by Britain in the summer of 1940 from the forces of Nazi Germany.The army and people of Korea certainley have nerves of steel to have dared to resist the empire of terror and greed for so many decades.

The first and foremost accomplishment of Songun Politics was to halt US ambitions to stifle the DPRK and to dominate the world community. After the collapse of the USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies, the US imperialists focused their attention upon the DPRK with the clear intention of destroying the outpost of socialism and independence.With the end of "Cold War Era" US imperialism became more belligerent with interventions aganist Panama,Somalia,Serbia,Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States has had a long bloody catalogue of aggression within something of the region of over 200 invasions in small and developing countries since 1945.

In the 1990s the US military came up with such nuclear war stratagems aimed at the DPRK as Operation 5027 and carried out large scale exercises like "Team Spirit" and "Rimpact". US neo-conservatives spoke with alot of arrogance about the dawning of "A New American Century" and "globalization based upon the US model". The ruling circles of the USA thought that the "peaceful transition strategy away from socialism to capitalism" would work with the DPRK as it did with some other countries.

The semi-war situation announced by KIM JONG IL in March 1993 smashed to pieces these ventures of the US imperialists to destablize the DPRK. Later on in October 1994 the US was forced by the Songun politics to the negotiating table and signed the Framework Agreement on the nuclear issue with the DPRK. The US had to recognize the reality of the existence of Socialist Korea as a independent and dignified nation, as a equal partner in the DPRK-US talks. As a consequence of the Songun Politics of KIM JONG IL the prospects for Korean reunification became brighter with the signning of the north-south statement on June 15th 2000 in Pyongyang.

As KIM JONG IL stressed that the bellicose nature of imperialism does not change. The truth of KIM JONG IL's affirmation inregard to imperialism's essence can be seen in recent developments on the Korean peninsula. To succed in the revolution one must be fully prepared and vigliant.

The United States and the Lee Myoung Bak clique have cooked up the "Chenan" without any form of evidence. Lee Myoung Bak group and its US backers are making new attempts to isolate the DPRK even further by internationalizing Chenan at such bodies as the UN Security Council. The Seoul regime wants to apply more pressure aganist the DPRK in the form of "PSI" and other punitive sancitions.Approximately there are 40,000 US troops stationed in south Korea and about 1,000 US nuclear arms pointed at the DPRK. Despite some expectations for change, the Obama Adminstration has carried on the warmongering attitude of its predecessors inrespect to north Korea with the US carrying out in the spring of 2010 the mock "regime change" exercise "Foal Eagle/Key Resolve".

In the Songun era the weapons of the KPA, the guns of the working class have been perfected under KIM JONG IL's Leadership. The DPRK has acquired a nuclear deterrent by its own means, Korea successfully tested two atomic devices in October 2006 and in May 2009. It is an achievement of the Songun Revolution the the Korean Peoples Army now has a weapons capability equal to the imperialists, with advanced weapons systems ready to be used aganist the aggressor. But the greatest strength of the KPA is in the high ideological and technical quality of its soldiers, who are superior to the class and national enemies of the Korean people.

Songun made the possibility of Korea's peaceful and independent reunification a reality. The north and south of Korea were starting to cooperate in many areas of mutual concern. Many Koreans in the north, south and overseas rallied around the patriotic banner of "By-Our-Nation-Itself", that is to gain the reunification by the efforts of the Korean people as a independent entity free from outside interference. Songun Politics has given the south Korean people the courage and self-respect to struggle for Peace, Reunification and Democracy aganist the tyranny of the Lee Myoung Bak regime.

Songun Politics are an inspiration to the various anti-imperialist nations, movements and parties worldwide. That it is feasible for those who are conflict with imperialism to resist and overcome the hegemonists. Countries which have had contradictions with imperialism such as China, Cuba, Iran,Venezuela,Myanmar,Zimbadwe,Suban,Libya, Syira and Belarussia have devoted much more of their attention to the importance of military affairs in the national life during the past decade.

As a result of Songun Politics many countries which formely hostile to the DPRK have established diplomatic relations with Peoples Korea between the years of 2000 to 2004. A big cluster of EU member states including the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy have now got DPRK embassies in their capital cities. The trend for trade and cultural cooperation with the DPRK from business and aesthetic circles in the capitalist nations have grown considerably in the Songun era.

Songun Politics have become a subject for study and emulation among diverse progressive and anti-imperialist groups across the world. In many countries around the globe ,organisations are being founded committed to the study and dissemination of Songun Politics. For instance there is the UK Association for the Study of Songun Politics, the US Songun Study Group, the Ukrainian Treasured Sword of Songun Association, the Ugandan Songun Study Association and many other groups and associations throughout the world. From the ghettoes of Bogota to the foothills of Kathmandu, the flame of Songun lit on the Mount Paektusan is now illuminating the way forward for all those fighting injustice and oppression, for independence.

The greatest memorial to the brilliant legacy of President KIM IL SUNG has been the persevation and consoildation of Korean style socialism by Chairman KIM JONG IL. Socialist Korea under the Revolutionary Songun Leadership has gained something really distinctive, that is a society which has achieved harmonious unity and a degree of egalitarianism unknown elsewhere in the world. On the Glorious 50th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary Songun Leadership,the future for Korea is a extremely bright one under the guidance of the Great General KIM JONG IL.

11.07.2010

( notes about the author : Shaun Pickford is the Secretary of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea of Britain, he has been a member of the Group for 17 years. Shaun Pickford has visited the DPRK four times in total, the last time being in July 2009)

50 years of Songun revolutionary leadership

50 years of Songun revolutionary leadership

50 YEARS OF SONGUN REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP
by ASSPUK and JISGE Chairman
It is said that the first step of any journey is the most important and Korean people say that well began is half completed.The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il took the first step of the Songun revolutionary leadership on the 25th of August 1960 when he visted the historic Guard Ryu Kyong Su 105 Seoul Tank Divsion. This was the tank unit which liberated Seoul on the 28th of June 1950.The unit smashed down the walls of division,which had been erected by the US imperialists,shattering the domination and oppression of thedepraved and nefarious Yankee imperialists the Korean people’s sworn enemy.It is said that the tank is the central component of modern warfare,it combines operational mobility with tactical offensive and defensive capablities.Thus the visit of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il to the tank unit had profound significance in several different ways.
This first step on the road of Songun revolutionary leadership explemified concept of Songun that miltary affairs should be put before political affairs.The Songun revolutionary leadership was a continuation in a higher form of the Juche revolutionary cause that had been pioneered by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.It marked the start of a new era in the Juche revolution.
This is the whole essence of Songun the guiding idea of the Korean and world revolutions and is an embodiment of the Juche idea.The idea of putting military affairs first came from the experience of the Korean revolution which can be summed up as Arms are the life and soul of the revolution.The Korean revolution can be said to have began in earnest when the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung was bequeathed 2 pistols by his late father Kim Hyong Jik.The Korean revolution advanced through arms during the 20 year long anti Japanese armed struggle and in the fiery crucible of the great victorious Fatherland Liberation War.
When the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il gave guidance to the Guard Ryu Kyong Su 105 Tank division US imperialism,the chieftain of world imperialism and main force of aggression and war was instensfiying its aggressive manoeuvres and domination all over the world.It had intervened in the Congo killing Patric Lumumba the Congo’s first leader.It carried out the Cold War against the socialist countries.In particular in turned its attention to Korea.It shipped in nuclear weapons into south Korea in the 1950s and reinforced its conventional armed forces there.It was inciting its puppets in south Korea to “march north” to attack the DPRK.
Imperialism had also penetrated the international communist movement in the form of modern revisionism.The modern revisionists caused splits and confusion.The socialist camp was split into two creating a dangerous situation.The modern revisionists compromised with the US imperialists and stifled the anti imperialist struggle,.Jabbering about ’peaceful co existence’ they embarked unilateral and one sided disarmament of the socialist camp. In 1962 Khruschov betrayed Cuba to the US imperialists.
Thus the need was for Korea strengthen and consolidate its self defence capablities a revolutionary line in opposition to both US imperialism and modern revisionism. The great leader President Kim Il Sung and the dear leader comrade Kim Jong Il knew that socialism could not be defended by just talking about “peaceful co existence” and other such flowery and effete phraselogy.The whole experience of the Korean revolution showed that the revolution was defended and advanced by the gun .Leader Kim Jong Il thus wisely took stock of the prevailing internal and international situation so gave on the spot guidance at the Seoul Guards Ryu Kyong Su 105 tank division,thus putting military affairs first fully encapsulating the truth of Songun and the experience of the Korean revolution.During
his guidance leader Kim Jong Il emphasised that ideological and political education must be instensfied as well combat training.

The Korean People’s Army was fortified ideologically and politically. It was built up as the army of the leader,party and working class.As the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il said
“The People’s Army is the revolutionary armed force of the Workers Party of Korea and its mission is to defend with arms the revolutionary cause of our party”

It was also built into a strong army ,a revolutionary army of Mt Paektu fully inheriting the traditions of the anti Japanese armed struggle. It became an army in which each of its soldiers was a match for a hundred enemy soldiers(though the anti party revisionists tried to oppose the revolutionary slogan “ a match for a hundred”).
Leader Kim Jong Il taught as follows

“We must must inspire the entire Party membership and working people and soldiers of the People’s Army with a firm conviction of victory and dauntless fighting spirit so that if the enemy assaults us we shall rise as one as smite the aggressors violently for the honour of Juche Korea under the direction of the leader”.
Under the Songun based revolutionary leadership of leader Kim Jong Il the KPA and Korean people smited US imperialism with full force.In January 1968 the USS Pueblo an armed spy pirate ship of the US imperialist aggressors was captured by the KPA navy off Wonsan(the Pueblo can be seen today on the bank of the river Taedong).The US imperialists demanded the immediate return the ship falsely claiming that it was in “international waters” and the cowardly revisionists tried to advise the DPRK to send the ship and its crew back.
The great leader comrade Kim Jong Il said
"Nowadays people of a certain country are saying that if a war breaks out in Korea it will be serious problem,and “advising us” it would be better to have the Pueblo quietly released.This would mean making a concession to US imperialism,and we can never do such a thing.A concession to US imperialism means submission and surrender.Since the our People’s Arm“Ny did not capture the “Pueblo” on the sea off the United States,but when it was in violation of our country’s territorial waters and engaged in in acts of espionage,we need to neither make any concession to the Americans or pander to them

The DPRK resolutely stood firm and refused to do so until an apolegy from the US was issued

In 1969 the US imperialist spy plane EC121 tried to infiltrate into DPRK but was shot down by the KPA airforce.In 1994 a US army helicopter infiltrated into DPRK airspace and was brought down by one shot by the KPA.
The US imperialists seeked to isolate and stifle the DPRK by inventing the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula leading to the 1st ‘Korean nuclear crisis’ in the 1990s and the 2nd one in the 2000s.The DPRK refused to bow down and instead declared a semi war state and announced its intention to withdraw from the one sided and inquitous NPT in 1993.This move stunned the US and they had to enter into talks.
When Bush vocificated about a “rogue state” and “axis of evil” and raked up the 2nd nuclear crisis the DPRK under the Songun supreme commander comrade Kim Jong Il responded with a series of hardline measures namely withdrawing completely from the NPT and declaring itself a nuclear state.This was not mere words,the DPRK succesfully carried out nuclear tests in October 2006 and May 2009.It nuclear device was the fruit of self reliance based 100% on Korean resources and technology.
Thus under the Songun revolutionary leadership the DPRK has been fortified ever more strongly as powerful socialist state of independence.A country of Juche which is able to do what it likes and say what it like no matter what others may say or think.Comrade Kim Jong Il brilliant commander of Songun declared on the 1st of January 1995,at the Takasbol army post that the Korean people had a choice of either being an independent people adhering to socialism or colonial slaves of imperialism.Thanks to the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il the DPRK has been able to smash the unceasing pressure and moves of US and world imperialism to isolate and stifle the DPRK.The DPRK has carried proudly along the road of Juche defying the imperialists.The Songun revolutionary leadership has carried forward the Juche revolutionary cause and is propelling it ever onward to final victory.
The 50 years of the Songun revolutionary leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il,illustrious brilliant commander of Songun,have been 50 years of victory and glory

Monday, 9 August 2010

Call by AUCPB

aucpbenglishwebsite.blogspot.com

6th August 2010

CALL by the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB)
to all honest people of the planet

- To stop the American criminals-imperialists in their
attempt to ignite a nuclear war on the Korean
Peninsula or other parts of the world.


As is known, in the period 25 - 28 July in the East Sea of Korea were conducted large-scale joint military "exercises" by U.S. forces and South Korea . They were attended by nuclear aircraft carrier George Washington and 20 other ships and submarines of the U.S. Navy, as well as 100 aircraft and 8,000 troops. The scale of the forces in the exercises were the largest since 1976 Invincible Spirit.

Robert Gates (U.S. Secretary of Defence) called these exercises "an open letter-demand for the DPRK to abandon nuclear weapons."

These military "exercises" by the sheer scale of military power engaged in them, have been called by the world's media "saber rattling" for the sake of deterring the DPRK. But the People of the DPRK in these tense days have been quietly working, being always ready for the toughest defence of their motherland. Responsible persons of the DPRK have repeatedly said, in particular, in the statement of the DPRK National Defence Commission on May 20 this year:
- "We will consider any of the slightest incidents in territorial waters, airspace and territory under the jurisdiction of the DPRK as a provocation of fanatics and respond with a crushing blow of retaliation by powerful merciless physical blows."
- To “respond” to “retaliation” by an even more powerful “retaliation" and "punishing retaliatory blows ", to defend with acts of merciless punishment - that is our unchanging iron will".
- "On this occasion, we strongly warn the U.S. , Japan and all the others dancing to their tune of force to behave prudently."


But the U.S. has grit its teeth and is trying hard to ignite a nuclear world war, perhaps choosing between Iran and the DPRK using the Korean peninsula as a wick.
As reported in a press statement the representative of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK from 24.07.2010, the U.S. imperialists and south Korean puppet authorities, capitalizing on the fabricated version of the DPRK's involvement in the incident with the sinking of the corvette Cheonan, which has been rejected the international community and the UN, are once again whipping up war hysteria on the Korean Peninsula.
They are planning to carry out joint naval exercises from 16 to 26 August in the East Sea of Korea, with joint submarine exercises, and from late August to early September in a row - joint naval military exercises in the Yellow Sea . All this is aimed precisely at inciting a military conflict in this region of the world. In the above statement to the press, it also says:
"1.Our army and people will suitably retaliate using the power of our mighty nuclear deterrent force against the largest in its history nuclear war exercises of the U.S. imperialists and their South Korean puppets.
2. Our army and people in response to adverse hardening of conditions to the limit (start of war) will start in due time, a holy war of retribution of our specificity on the basis of nuclear deterrent forces.
3. Our army and people in conditions of having being blamed for the sinking of the "Cheonan" will take all possible steps and get to the bottom of the case regardless of the wishes of Americans.

Today, U.S. foreign policy, the policy of the ruling Zionist lobby - the world government, is extremely aggressive. They are looking for even the slightest pseudo pretext to ignite a global slaughter in any region of the world where it can. We, in the words of Fidel Castro, now live, thanks to the U.S. on a powder keg ready to explode at any minute.
On June 19, U.S. warships, including the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, accompanied by, perhaps, not just one nuclear submarine and other military vessels, sailed to the shores of Iran through the Suez Canal . Together with the American naval forces off the coast of Iran , Israeli warships settled there with the same cutting-edge weaponry. As noted by Fidel Castro, " Israel will not shy away from the activation and use - with full independence – its large nuclear might created in this country by the United States . To recognize that this is not so - is to ignore reality."

In Latin America, the United States has located on the territory of Columbia a network of U.S. military bases, and provoking a war between Colombia and Venezuela , and are preparing plans of aggression against Venezuela to overthrow Hugo Chavez's government and the capture of rich deposits of Venezuelan oil. By assessing the situation, Hugo Chávez said "the possibility of armed aggression against Venezuela from the Colombian territory is currently very high. We have not had such a dangerous situation for the past 100 years." According to him, "The Yankee empire has extensive experience in the invention of pretexts (for aggression). In Iraq , they invented a story about weapons of mass destruction, and it was a big lie. Saddam Hussein had no such weapons of this type... They (in the U.S. ) are looking for any excuse, when in need, when scheduled to invade a country or overthrow a government that does not suit them, or kill the president, who is not cooperating with them. The Yankees are capable of any fraud.”

Such fraudulent and false statements are the basis of the allegations of involvement by the DPRK in the sinking of the Cheonan, being an artificial excuse for the organization of the recently daunting U.S. Navy war manoeuvres near the borders of North Korea .
The U.S. are scouring the whole world in search of a "reason" to start World War III. Iran and Venezuela - one of the largest suppliers of oil, remains the main source of energy. Also, these countries occupy a special position in the region ( Venezuela - the leader of the ALBA bloc, Iran – is the leader in the Middle East ).
They are like a bone stuck in the throat for the U.S. . In Afghanistan and Iraq , the war is weak in character. The U.S. still can not get out of a deep economic crisis. The U.S. military industrial complex is in dire need of a new war.
The start of a new war is only a matter of time.

We, Bolsheviks, appeal to all honest people of the planet:

Do not let the American madmen, sitting on mountains of their fake blood-stained dollars destroy our beautiful planet, to destroy civilization!

Take action all together against the provocations of American mercenaries who organize the conflicts in different regions of the Earth!

Take action! Do not wait for the Americans blow up the planet!

Defend North Korea , Cuba , Venezuela , Iran , Palestine and other countries, which are being pummelled by the pressure of American imperialism!
Death to imperialism!
Long live SOCIALISM!

N.A. Andreeva
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB

Translated by For Bolshevism-AUCPB

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Wednesday, 4 August 2010

ON THE NATURE OF ZIONISM

ON THE NATURE OF ZIONISM

I found on a website an article by Vladimir Andreyev entitled "The Truth about Zionism." I was happy, because that destructive role played by Zionism in the modern world, little is written about it by the Communists and this is unforgivable. And here we have the truth about Zionism. I thought, finally a Communist, a member of the RCWP (Russian Communist Workers’ Party), calling a spade a spade.
This is all the more necessary, because ZIONISM as the state ideology and policy of Israel, in equity should be again as in 1975, condemned by UN General Assembly as aggressive racism and a form of racial discrimination. For 60 years Israel has occupied Palestine and maintains a policy of state terrorism on the suffering of Arab land, exactly resembling Germany's fascism.
Although placing hopes on the UN is naive, because in 1991 it had abolished its decision. In recent decades, the credibility of this international organization has fallen sharply. The UN has become a handheld appliance for the U.S.A., the world imperialist gendarme. It got to the point that during the visit of the UN Secretary General to the Middle East on March 21, 2010, Israeli President Shimon Peres scolded Ban Ki-moon like a little boy for the allegedly loyal attitude of the UN towards "troublemaker" Iranian President Ahmadinejad ...
After reading the article my disappointment knew no bounds. Andreyev set out to - in whatever form he took to DEFEND ZIONISM. At first he warned readers not to believe the paraphrase from an article from the Large Soviet Encyclopedia, which says that "Zionism is a reactionary chauvinist ideology and policy of the Jewish bourgeoisie," and named "the characteristic features of Zionism as being militant chauvinism, racism, anti-Sovietism. He has reduced these assessments of Zionism to ordinary "horror stories", though they are the absolute truth.
Then he introduced us to the wise sayings of the first Israeli ambassador to the USSR, then Prime Minister Golda Meir. Do not forget to remember the good father of Zionism, Vladimir Jabotinsky, who Mussolini affectionately called a "Jewish fascist", and Ben Gurion dubbed him as "Vladimir Hitler." He sang the praises to the Israeli kibbutzim, “agricultural communes”, in which labour is perfectly organized, unlike the Soviet communes, in which "thick commies like to work less and get more ...”

The author even dragged Ber Borohov here, who headed in Poltava in the beginning of the XX century the Jewish "Marxist" organization Po'alei Zion "("Workforce"). And he dreamt, how the Jewish proletariat would move to an empty land (?) free from people, to create a "Jewish national enclave" and implement "socialist ideals". That’s w
hy Zionism was initially alleged to be "socialist".
The magic of words played a cruel joke on the author. It saved him the necessity to analyze and dig to the bottom of the terrible phenomenon called "ZIONISM."
Hitler also headed the WORKER’S National Socialist Party. Was its program really desirable to the interests of the working class of Germany? Thus the Jewish "Bund" broke away from the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) in early XX century, and the Poltavian “Po'alei Zion” bore no relation to Marxism and did not serve the interests of the working class. It would not hurt the author-"communist" to get acquainted with Lenin's assessment of the pro-Zionist position of the Bundists.
True, very often latter-day "communists" do not feel the need for studying dialectical materialist logic. They do not study the classics of Marxism. They say that "they are obsolete" to cover up their political ignorance and laziness of the mind. They restrict themselves to sketches of surface phenomena and do not examine events in the concrete historical context. The class approach is not considered a major methodological tool in understanding social phenomena.
Marx and Engels are sometimes quoted, but their outstanding discoveries - the materialist conception of history, are not understood. But they prefer, mainly what is in vogue, being the idealistic treatises of Western "thinkers" and the beautifully speaking speakers of bourgeois publicists. And they are even proud of such an eclectic mishmash of ideas in their heads.

So it turns out these articles, where instead of the truth about Zionism, are its solid apologetics. Andreev in the article refers to statements of "good" Zionists. And they do not bother to think about the thoughts of Lenin on the false and reactionary Zionist ideas about "special Jewish people" and "the need for Jewish separateness", which are harmful and contrary to the interests of the proletariat, including the Jewish proletariat. (PSS., v. 8, p. . 74).
In his work "Critical Remarks on the National Question", Lenin insisted on the need for "an uncompromising struggle against the contamination of the proletariat with bourgeois nationalism, even the most refined. (PSS., v. 24, pp. 124) He writes: "Marxism is irreconcilable with nationalism, be it the most "fair", "clean", refined and civilized. Marxism advances in place of nationalism - internationalism, the merging of all nations in higher unity "(p.131).
Not useful for the author also is the article by Karl Marx "On the Jewish Question", where indeed the social ESSENCE OF ZIONISM is revealed.
Arguing with Bruno Bauer on the question of emancipation of Jews in Germany, Karl Marx wrote: "What is the secular basis of Judaism?
Practical need, selfishness. What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Haggling. Who is his worldly God? Money. But in this case, the emancipation from haggling and money - hence, from practical, real Jewry - would be self-emancipation of our time. The organization of society, which would have the prerequisites of commercialism, and, consequently, the possibility of haggling eliminated – such organization of society would make the Jew impossible ... Thus, we find in Judaism a contemporary manifestation of the modern-day anti-social element, led to its current stage of historical development in which the Jews took in this bad direction, zealous participation. This element has reached a high stage of development at which it must necessarily disintegrate. The emancipation of the Jews in the endvalue is the emancipation of mankind from Jewry" (K. Marx and F. Engels, Collected Works, Vol. V. 1, pp. 408. Russian lang.)
Marx, one of the first, spoke of the significant impact of the Jews throughout the world. He cites the arguments of Bruno Bauer from the book "The Jewish question": "A Jew, who in Vienna is only tolerated, determines by his monetary authority, the fate of the whole empire. A Jew who may be disenfranchised in a small German state, decides the fate of Europe." And commenting on this passage with the words: "And this is not an isolated fact. The Jew emancipated himself in the Jewish manner, he emancipated himself not only because he had arrogated to himself the power of money, but also so that through him, MONEY has become a world power, and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of Christian nations" (ibid., pp. 409).
Marx drew attention to the transformation of Judaism into the ideology of the Jewish bourgeoisie. "Jewishness could not develop further as a religion, because the world-view of practical demands, by its nature is limited and confined to a few strokes." "What is in itself the foundation of the Jewish religion? Practical need, egoism." "MONEY IS THE JEALOUS GOD OF ISRAEL, before whom there should be no other god. Money deprecates all the gods of Man from the heights, and turns them into commodities.” "The god of the Jews was made secular, became the world's god. The promissory note is the true god of the Jew. His god is just an illusory bill of exchange "(ibid., pp. 410).
In his work, "The Sacred Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism", Marx stresses that in the XIX century, the Jewish bourgeoisie began to occupy key positions in the capitalist world. "The fate of France is determined not in the offices of the Tuileries, not under the arches of the House of Peers, not even under the arches of the Chamber of Deputies, but on the Paris Stock Exchange. The real ministers are not Guizot and Gishatel, but Rothschild, Fould and other bankers. They control the Ministry and the Ministry is concerned about only those people who are loyal to the regime and those who benefit by it running in elections."
People would be better to understand state bodies of power do not have the reins of power in capitalist countries. True power is not with the politicians, but with CAPITAL. The capitalist buys the politicians in the same way as journalists and lawyers, villas on the Mediterranean coast or fashionable European yacht clubs are bought...
Of course, not every person finds it so easy to understand what Zionism really is. Under the conditions of imperialist globalization, international Jewish capital holds in its hands not only most of the transnational corporations, but most of the media. Any criticism of the ideology of Zionism and Zionist policy qualifies as ANTI-SEMITISM.
Fear of possible accusations of anti-Semitism makes even the other "bashful" (or cowardly) communist leaders say that the aggressive policies of Israel against the Palestinian Arab people, reminiscent of a genocide – is a topic which few Russian citizens (or British ones –K.C.) believe to be vibrant." When it comes to citizens-philistines, what can be taken from them? Besides their own stomachs, nothing ever interests them.

If the GENOCIDE which the Israeli racists have been subjecting the indigenous population of Palestine to for the past 60 years is not perceived by the Communists as their pain, then how can they be Communists. Communists – are internationalists.
Do we really not have the highest example of proletarian internationalism? The founder of the International Workingmen's Association, Karl Marx, held under the scrutiny the revolutionary situation in France in 1848 and kept in touch with the Paris Commune in 1871. After its defeat, it was at his house that many Communards found shelter.
For many years he had connections with the Russian revolutionaries Herman Lopatin and Vera Zasulich. He followed articles by Chernyshevsky and Flerovsky. In 1879 he intently studied Narodnik Danielson’s report sent to him on Russian financial policy for fifteen years. In his personal library were 115 titles of Russian books. Herzen read "Prisons and exile” in Russian in the original. He did not consider Russia to be "far far away" country ...
It was not from the Communist position, but an ordinary common sense position that made even former U.S. President Jimmy Carter describe Israel's policies as an "APARTHEID system, where two peoples occupy a land, but are separated from each other, and where the Israelis completely dominate and suppress by violence, depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights.”
Zionism is a terrible destructive force. In it are all the dogmas - false, unfounded and reactionary.
Who sees the “inextricable link of the Jews throughout the world"? None. Jews living in Russia, speak in Russian, many do not know any Hebrew or Yiddish. Jews in the U.S. are Americans. They speak English. French Jews do not utter a word of Hebrew. Assimilation has done its work. The Jews have no common territory, or single language.
Who today in his right mind accepts that "all Jews are brothers?” All Jews who are capitalists are enemies of the Jewish working people, like capitalists of any nationality are enemies of working people throughout the world. And this the ABC of Marxism.
Who, except the Zionists can accept the idea that Jews have some special "historical rights" to the "land of the Jewish ancestors? Yes, 700 years BC, that is almost 3,000 years ago there was a small kingdom of Judah, which then disappeared ... And now, when so much water has flowed, is there an Arab who has reconciled with the fact that he was forced to flee from the land where his ancestors lived, where he was born and raised?
So, what is Zionism? In the words of a Swedish journalist, a former Moroccan officer, Ahmed Rami - the voice of millions of Muslims all over the world. "ZIONISM is racism ... It is COLONIALISM ... It is IMPERIALISM ... It is the policy of repression and arrogance, as Zionist Israel has systematically violated all the principles and resolutions of the UN ... Zionism in its practice is strikingly similar to APARTHEID "... (Http://radioislam.org/russ/rami/5.htm)
Communists have nothing against this assessment, though Ahmed Rami is far from the ideas of communism. He did not understand any of Marxism, nor the socialist revolution of 1917 in Russia.
The leader of theoretical and practical Zionism, Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky's position of racism and colonialism openly deemed it NECESSARY to create a "national home" for Jews in Zion. He devoted his whole life to the development of Zionism, its defence and implementation. He did not accept the revolution in Russia in 1917. He advocated the "private economy", "private initiative” and private property. He rejected the class struggle, appealing for class peace and harmony. He believed the worker and the entrepreneur play the same role in the development of society. Whoever fights against private capital, is an enemy of the nation. He categorically disagreed with the slogan of the Communists - "Workers of all countries, unite!" The national was above the class.
He traveled to dozens of countries. In Russia and Poland, America and Germany, Britain and France - everywhere he campaigned passionately for Jews to leave everything and go to the "ancestral homeland". On the planet, everyone, Jews and non-Jews should understand that Eretz Yisrael (Israel) should be a Jewish state. The idea of a "Jewish majority" in the Promised Land was the motive of his life.
He preached the dogma - "EVERYTHING IS MINE", not agreeing even to admit that Arabs belong to at least three-quarters of the earth. "The Arabs must accept the situation as it is: the territory of Eretz Israel on both sides of the Jordan is intended for the Jewish state with a Jewish majority" - he said. (Joseph Nedava. Vladimir Jabotinsky: Milestones in life. Per. In Hebrew. Rostov-on-Don. 1998).
Back in 1908, he wrote that the creation of a Jewish state is the COLONIZATION of Arab lands. And it will lead to antagonism with the locals. History shows that the colonialists have never been met with open arms. The natives fiercely resisted in America, and will resist here. We must prepare for this. "Our country will be freed only by the sword" - he said.
The racist attitude of modern Israel is here in the words of Jabotinsky: "The settlement can only develop with the use of force, independent of the local population, protected by an iron wall that local people can not break ... We should not be afraid of the possibility that 900,000 people will leave the country "
Already in 1919 he created the organization of Jewish immigrants "Khagani" to "ensure the protection of settlers from the arbitrariness of the natives," as he called the indigenous Palestinian Arabs.
Later, speaking to young “Beitar”nationalists, he urged them to be "relentless", sung the praises of the "power of the fist" stood for "military training". "Learning to shoot" - he believed was a historical necessity. And did not cease to rejoice that he had saved the youth from the "red plague".
Later, out of the ranks of "Betar", the brainchild of Jabotinsky, rose bandit groups Etzel and Lehi, which after the adoption by the UN of the fateful decision to create the Jewish state of Israel in December 1947, began by terror to implement it.
They, 1 April 1948, in the village of Dir Yassin, massacred 245 unarmed Palestinians - men, women and children. The bodies were taken to a quarry and burned. Similar atrocities were committed in other towns. In 1948 alone, the Zionists had killed 100,000 Palestinians, both inside the country and abroad. The strangulation of the indigenous population of Gaza by continuing bombardments, blockades and starvation is still ongoing.

I do not know whether there was a Jewish Holocaust, but the Arabic holocaust today is there to see.
The ideas MILITARISM have become the driving spring of the aggressive policies of Israel. And terror has become its state policy.
The ideology and politics of Zionism naturally gives rise not only among Arabs but also among all freedom-loving humanity a feeling of protest and hatred of Israel, the occupiers and invaders.
Unfortunately, there is still no force that would be able to destroy Israeli fascism, as did the Red Army in World War II in the fight against German fascism.
The Arab world is split. The international communist and workers' movement is riddled by opportunism and appeasement. There is no Communist International. The Communist Party of Israel is silent. Critical remarks by sane Jewish intellectuals in Europe and America in addressing Israeli barbarism are heard only neighbours on the couch by the TV ...
The military and political power of the Israeli and international Zionism can be withstood only by military and political force. Under the domination of the global imperialism, the only hope is for a global, well organized, national liberation and communist protest. The victory of the people in the liberation struggle in South Africa and the collapse of the apartheid regime inspires faith in the victory of the Palestinian people in the Middle East.
Lyubov PRIBYTKOVA, from Irkutsk, Russia

March 2010

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On June 13 in Kiev, a meeting took place between Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (CC AUCPB) comrade A.A. Mayevsky and a delegation of the Korean Association of Social Sciences (KASS), headed by a member of the KASS Presidium comrade Han Eun-Thek, KASS researchers comrade Cho Eun-Reb and comrade Pak Te Wong. Comrade Mayevsky conveyed fraternal greetings to the Korean comrades from of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the AUCPB Comrade Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva with the wishes of success in building a prosperous socialist society, to defend the gains of socialism and progress in the reunification of North and South Korea. The Korean comrades were also given Bolshevik literature, newspapers "Hammer and Sickle" (Serp I Molot) and "Workers' and Peasants' Truth" (Raboche-Krestyansk aya Pravda). Comrade Mayevsky gave a speech entitled "At The Forefront Of The Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism. " The Korean comrades spoke about the successes in building a prosperous socialist society under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) headed by the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, the willingness to confront and firmly defend their homeland against hostile provocative attacks from South Korea and the U.S. military.
The meeting was attended by members of the Ukraine-DPRK Society headed by Comrade N.V. Polishchuk and members of the Kiev AUCPB organization under the leadership of Comrade L.P. Shevtsova.


AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM

Speech made by A.A. Mayevsky at a meeting with a delegation of the Korean Association of Social Sciences (KASS)

Dear Comrades! We, Ukrainian Bolsheviks, members of the CC Ukraine Buro of the AUCPB, have been closely following the events surrounding the Korean Peninsula, and the escalating of tensions by the South Korean authorities, headed by the traitorous puppet regime of Lee Myung-bak and the stadning behind him U.S. in connection with the sinking of the corvette Cheonan of the puppet Navy in South Korea on March 26, 2010 which for some unknown reason, broke in two and sank in the coastal waters between the islands and Peknendo and Techondo on the Korean west sea.
The so-called International Investigation established by the authorities of South Korea on May 20 issued a "report on the results of the joint investigation”, which announced to the world the “version of the torpedo attack by North Korea" that the corvette Cheonan sank as a result of a torpedo attack by the DPRK.
In the Commentary of the military observer newspaper “Rodong Sinmun" dated May 27, the true picture of this "torpedo attack by the DPRK” was revealed and shown that this version is an absurd fabrication by the south Korean traitorous clique and is aimed at worsening relations between the DPRK and South Korea that plays into the hands of aggressive imperialist USA.
The area where the Cheonan went down is a disputed area between the North and the South, the south Korean authorities themselves bragging that double-and triple-detection systems and controls have established here. And, despite this, they invented the version of events that a small North Korean submarine rounded the peninsula, went undetected by the Cheonan which was then struck by a torpedo weighing 1.7 tons, whereas such a submarine can only carry a torpedo weighing no more then 300 kg. It should be noted that during this period this area of the sea was crowded with a variety of corvettes, submarines and air reconnaissance means participating in the joint US-South Korean military exercise "Foal Eagle" which had reached its peak by that time. Evidence suggests that the wreck of the Cheonan had deviated from its regular route, and despite the risk of collision with underwater rocks, it had entered into an area only 25 meters deep, and that after the incident, all the survivors of the Cheonan were ordered to stay quiet. They were also forbidden to use mobile phones and meet with other people, not to publish the logbook, or records of communication and photographic materials. As a result of the sinking of the “Cheonan" 46 young sailors were killed who had drowned in their underwear, and yet, all the officers on the corvette managed to monopolise the lifeboats and jackets and jumped into the sea, as if they knew in advance of an impending sinking of the ship.
The version sucked from a finger about a torpedo attack by a North Korean submarine has been thrown into doubt, even by the South Korean media, which say that not only the corvette “Cheonan” went down, but also the “Lee Myung-bak government."
With its provocation by the sinking of the corvette Cheonan and blaming the North Korean side, the regime of Lee Myung-bak almost brought the North and South of Korea to the brink of war.
"Such actions by the clique of traitors - as noted in the announcement by the General Staff of the Korean People's Army on May 29, 2010 - are an act of total denunciation of the historic Joint Declaration of the North and South of 15 June 2000, which is a common achievement of the entire Korean nation, and the implementation of its program - the Declaration of the North and South from October 4, 2007. These actions are also very serious crimes, pushing inter-Korean relations to a state of war ".
The South Korean rulers refused to accept the inspection group of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK to determine the true cause of the sinking of the corvette Cheonan, fearing exposure of their filthy-gutter slander.
All this has been done with one aim in mind - to prevent the reunification of the Korean people, divided by the 38 th parallel as a result of the occupation of south Korea by U.S. forces after the Second World War. The U.S. and their puppets suffered a severe defeat in the war against the DPRK of 1950-1953, which was the Fatherland Liberation War of the Korean people, but they managed to keep the artificial division of Korea on the 38 th parallel, and to continue the occupation of the South, turning the Korean Peninsula into the largest nuclear arsenal in the Far East.
The U.S. are also displeased with the independent policy pursued by the people of the DPRK under the leadership of the WPK headed by outstanding leader of our time, Comrade Kim Jong Il, a policy aimed both at building a prosperous socialist society in the DPRK and the reunification of the Korean nation into one state.
O June 15, 2000 between North and South Korea the historic Joint Declaration was signed and on October 4, 2007 - Declaration of the North and South as a program for implementing the Joint Declaration. A merging between North and South had begun, along with the resumption of dialogue between citizens and separated families, etc.
To stop the process of closer ties, Lee Myung-bak, the president of South Korea a few years ago, with the full complicity and support of the United States was "elected" (in fact, placed into the presidential chair by his U.S. masters). He is a puppet ruler of South Korea, conducting pro-American policies, policies against the fundamental interests of the Korean people for their unification.
It is the DPRK and Cuba, despite the temporary defeat of socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe that have remained loyal to their socialist choice and pursue an independent foreign and internal policy, without submitting to the dictates of the United States.
This example of two freedom-loving peoples really annoys the U.S. imperialists who are committing all types of provocations, in order bring the Korean and Cuban people to their knees.
The provocation over the sinking of the Cheonan serves this purpose.
The U.S. seeks to completely control the situation in this region of the world and to “turn Japan and South Korea into more obedient servants," says the press statement by the representative of the DPRK Foreign Ministry on May 29.
"If the south Korean puppets commit the slightest provocation against the DPRK, - notes the commentary of the military observer newspaper Rodong Sinmun on 27 May - the DPRK will immediately respond with devastating retaliation, and thereby build a unified Korea, which will eliminate any kind of dregs of humanity and where a united prosperous powerful nation will live."
We wish the people of the DPRK under the leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il with honour to face this challenge and achieve their cherished dream - the reunification of the Korean nation into a powerful and prosperous state.

***
Now a few words about the events in Ukraine.
During the presidential elections to the top echelons of power arrived instead of the Orange faction of the bourgeoisie the white-blue faction - a group of large oligarchic capital, the representative of whom is President Yanukovych. The only plus the people of the Ukraine have gained by changing the bourgeois clan at the helm, is that they have begun to recover, the torn apart over 5 years by the orange faction, Russian-Ukrainian ties, and that the primitive nationalism has begun to retreat, to take second place, and that the great Russian language is gradually ceasing to be the language of second grade. Here, perhaps, are the pluses. And it should be noted that the restoration of relations with Russia is no longer on a socialist basis, not on the basis of socialism, which had suffered a temporary setback in our country during the accomplished under the guise of perestroika, counterrevolution, but by now already on a capitalist basis. The major bourgeoisie of both countries passed through the phase of "wild capitalism", when the state amassed billions of dollars over several years by looting the people's property – by the theft of plants, factories, mines and seizure into private hands, sources of raw materials (oil, gas) and the corresponding production infrastructure for their extraction and transportation , transport, trade, by freezing and non-payment of wages, and theft of the population’s savings deposits, etc., etc.
The bourgeoisie could not continue along that path. It grappled with the need to restore the destroyed financial and economic ties, to restore the one time highest world level aviation industry, shipbuilding, energy, aerospace and other high-tech industry. Otherwise, the oligarchs of Russia and Ukraine will lose in the fierce competition with Western transnational corporations and banks, but their financial-industria l groups on their basis, will serve as suppliers of oil and other raw materials on world markets.
As soon as possible after coming to power, the bourgeoisie managed to form a parliamentary coalition called "Stability and Reform” out of three factions: PR (Party of the Regions), CPU (Communist Party of Ukraine) and the Lytvyn Bloc, as well as individual deputies. A government headed by a loyal ally of Yanukovych, N. Azarov, was immediately elected: new governors of the regions were approved - supporters of Yanukovich.
On 3 June, the President addressed the Ukrainian people, in which he outlined plans for his team. There were a lot of words about the fight against poverty, overcoming corruption, the development of education, science, culture, and an ambitious goal set to bring Ukraine into the twenty most developed countries in the world. "A Ukraine for the people, and not for the authorities" - Yanukovich said.
But it's all rhetoric. In fact, in the same public address, he said that in 5 years, privatization of state property is to be completed, i.e. of state property. In the hands of the state, according to the president, should remain "only objects that enforce the state of its core functions and national security." Consequently, all major Ukrainian enterprises will be transferred into the hands of private capital. And that means that there will be a further stratification of society, the rich getting richer and the poor - poorer. Valery Heyets, director of the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of NAS of Ukraine, member of the Committee on Economic Reforms under the President of Ukraine, gave the following assessment of the banks. In Ukraine, about 180 thousand of the richest people, i.e. 0,7% of the working population, have a total capital worth $ 45 billion, with the annual GDP of around $ 100 billion during the further privatization, and the process of concentration and centralization of capital will continue. Although Yanukovych said that in Ukraine the "tycoons, lobbyists, and other interest groups will stand, as they say in the general queue, that no outside influence on government decisions will not be tolerated, it's all just words. Rinat Akhmetov is the richest man in Ukraine, a member of the PR and one of its main sponsors. During the President's appeal in the Palace of Ukraine he was in the same row as the vice-premiers. Of course, Akhmetov will not be standing in a queue. Moreover, the real possibility of his influence is much greater than at the vice-prime minister's level. Namly the president, prime minister, parliament and all public bodies from top to bottom are faithful to the true master of Ukraine - big business. And all their political, economic, financial and other activities, are directed at ensuring the basic interests of big capital, i.e. to ensure they get maximum profit and surplus profits for their further enrichment.
For an exit from the crisis, the regime of Yanukovych-Azarov intends to continue like the previous government of Yulia Tymoshenko, to borrow from the IMF. They are engaged in intensive negotiations with representatives of the IMF to provide Ukraine with a loan amounting to 12 to 20 billion dollars over the next 2,5 years. Naturally, the IMF provides loans which are always under certain political conditions, namely: reducing the budget deficit, reduction of tariffs for housing services in line with actual costs (which means their actual improvements, in particular, the IMF demands an increase in gas prices by 50% for utilities, and by 75% - for the population), cuts in social spending, increase the retirement age, etc. I.e. the IMF prescriptions for ending crisis for all countries who are taking out its loans are the same: all the reforms and all the anti-crisis measures to carry out on the backs of the working people, by increasing the exploitation of working people. Furthermore, since these loans from the IMF will have to be give to all the people, because the debt obligation will fall on the budget. But by the beginning of this year, Ukraine's external debt (both public and corporate) had already exceeded 100 billion U.S. dollars. The government want to hang another 20 billion onto the neck of the people. The debt noose around the neck of the working people of Ukraine will tighten even further.
In addition, immediately after the inauguration of the President's address, it became known that already from next year there is a planned raise in the retirement age for women: in 10 years, the retirement age for women will be raised by 5 years to catch up with the retirement age for men, equal to 60 years (an age many men do not live to in Ukraine and, since the real life expectancy for men in Ukraine is not 62 according to the president, but 59, i.e. many men simply do not live to retirement). Then, the government would carry out the requirement of the EU - to raise the retirement age for the entire population of Ukraine up to 65 years. As we see, the way out of the crisis rests entirely on the shoulders of the working people.

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Ukraine does not develop in isolation. All that is happening in the world economy is immediately reflected on the Ukrainian economy and the state of its financial and banking sector. Greece was on the verge of default, its total external debt amounting to approximately 300 billion euros. And then the euro staggered and went down against the dollar. Some experts even talk about the possible collapse of the euro. The global financial sector is so intertwined and so sensitive that when the new Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke of the difficult economic situation of the country and the need for "deep structural change", it immediately drew down the Hungarian national currency - the forint, which immediately had negative repercussions on the euro, while Hungary is not included in the euro area, but is closely linked economically, in the first place, with Germany and Austria.
In a heavy financial and economic situation are such economies of the Euro-zone as Portugal, Spain, Italy. Yes, and the locomotives in Europe - Germany and France (and Britain) are experiencing great difficulties. And everywhere a way out of the crisis, the European Commission (in fact, the Cabinet of Ministers of united bourgeois Europe) offers at the expense of workers. The euro-commissioners are proposing to reduce the budget deficit, cut social spending, reduce wages etc. bourgeois recipes. But these prescriptions, among other things, lead to declining purchasing power and have adversely affected the development of production and GDP growth, that is, once again leading to a recession for the next round of the crisis of world imperialism.
According to some economists, the question of an approaching second dip in the crisis has been almost resolved. The second dip has already started in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and inevitably it will touch Ukraine (and Russia, by the way, too, because the decline in business activity inevitably leads to falling prices for oil and steel products). As expected, the peak of the second wave of the crisis will be in late 2010-early 2011
In European countries (Greece, Spain, Britain and others) mass strikes have begun. Workers are not going to become submissive victims of the crisis of the world imperialist system, and are rising up to fight for their rights.
Working people of Russia and Ukraine are fighting for their rights too. The well known residents’ strike of the miners at Mezhdurechensk (Kuzbass), when the miners and their family members blocked the railway line. They were attacked by riot police, the police dog of Russia's oligarchs and those who are at the service of the Medvedev-Putin regime. But that is typical. For the first time in many years, protesters have not bowed to the batons of the riot police punitive expeditions, and have started to respond to these crooks. Ukrainian workers are striking and, in particular, at the Kherson Machine factory (ex-Combine factory), the Dnepropress plant" and others. This strike action in Ukraine and Russia, in contrast to the organized mass struggle of European workers, is still fragmentary. And that is not surprising. Trade unions Russia and Ukraine, represented by their leadership faithfully serve the current ruling regimes, and instead of protecting the economic interests of workers, effectively protect their bourgeois masters.
But all the same, the convergence of Ukraine and Russia has a positive side for the workers in that they will conduct a joint struggle for their rights. And none of the atrocities of the Russian riot police, and torture in the dungeons by the Ukrainian militia (in many ways already surpassing Hitler's Gestapo) can stop the rising wave of popular anger.

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Workers are looking for a way out of the crisis in the rise of the strike struggle for their rights.
And the imperialists - in starting another war and conflict, are creating all sorts of provocations. Anger and indignation throughout the world by military action of Israel's attack on the “freedom flotilla", which sought to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Palestinian people of Gaza, for a few years already under the Israeli blockade. 9 people, as a result of this barbaric action by the armed to the teeth aggressive militarism of Israel (which has nuclear weapons), were killed and dozens injured.
The artificial crisis and tension in connection with the sinking of the South Korean puppet corvette "Cheonan, the belligerent rhetoric of U.S. President Barack Obama, contributed to, including and the fall of the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers led by Yukio Hatoyama, who said that he was resigning, as he unable to fulfil his election promise of moving U.S. military base from Okinawa. The U.S. are here too trying to impose on their Japanese and South Korean allies governments that are more flexible and convenient for U.S. imperialism.

Concluding my brief remarks, once again I want to note that the strong position of the leadership the DPRK headed by the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, the mighty forces of the DPRK, equipped with nuclear weapons of defence as a result of the Songun policy (the policy of priority in military affairs, the policies formulated by the Great Leader Kim Il Sung, and developed further in the writings and practices of the Great Leader Kim Jong Il, which corresponds to Lenin's conclusion that every revolution is only worth anything if it can defend itself), is certainly cooling the belligerence of the South Korean and U.S. military.
Today the people of the DPRK, as well the people of Cuba are at the forefront of the struggle of workers throughout the world for their liberation from imperialist bondage.
We wish the Korean people, the Workers' Party of Korea led by the Great Kim Jong Il, further success in this struggle.
We are with you, dear comrades!


A. Mayevsky, secretary of the CC AUCPB,
editor of “Raboche-Krestyanska ya Pravda"

June 13, 2010, Kiev

WORDS BY STALIN ON MILITARY STRATEGY

"The success of our army is due, above all, to its consciousness and discipline ... He (the Red Army soldier - ed.) proudly calls himself a soldier of the revolution, he knows that he does not fight for the profits of the capitalists, but for the liberation of Russia, he knows this, and boldly goes into battle with open eyes"(On the south of Russia. Conversation with a correspondent of the newspaper Pravda. October 30, 1918. works., V. 4, p.150).

"No army in the world can victor (this means, of course, a long and lasting victory) without a stable rear. The rear for the front -is of utmost importance, because it and it alone, feeds the front, not only with all kinds of material allowances, but with people also - men, moods and ideas" (The new campaign of the Entente into Russia. May 25-26, 1920., V.4, p.323).

"The tactics of defence, as a necessary tool for preserving and accumulating forces in anticipation of the coming battles ... Unleash a fight on the enemy, when it is unbeneficial to the enemy, to keep the enemy under constant pressure, step by step frustrating and demoralizing the enemy forces, step-by-step exercising ... and thus multiplying our own strength. Only in this case, can defence truly be active defence" (On political strategy and tactics of the Russian Communists. Draft Plan brochure. July 1921., V.5, p.78-79).

"... Determine the direction of the main blow - this means to prejudge the nature of operations for the entire period of the war, prejudge, therefore, on 9/10 the fate of the entire war. In this is the task of strategy" (On the strategy and tactics of the Russian Communists. 14 March 1923., V.5, p.164).

"... Heavy artillery and aircraft, gas and tanks decide everything. The task of the art of war is to secure for ourselves all types of troops, train them to perfection and skilfully combine their actions "(ibid., p.170).

"... An assault without consolidating captured positions is an assault that is doomed to failure. When can an attack be successful in say, the field of military affairs? When people are not limited to a sweeping advance, but try at the same time to consolidate the captured position, to regroup their forces in accordance with the changed circumstances, move up the rear, bring the reserves ... and thus to prepare for the complete elimination of the enemy" (Reply to comrade collective farmers. April 3, 1930, vol.12, pp.215-216).

"It (modern war - ed.) requires massive artillery ... Whoever wants to adjust to a new modern system, must understand that artillery, massive artillery decides the outcome of the war." (Speech at a meeting of the leadership of the Red Army. April 17, 1940 V .14, ed. 2, pp.532).

"Secondly - aviation, mass air power, not hundreds, but thousands of planes ... Plenty of bombs need to be dropped onto the enemy to stun it, and turn upside down enemy cities. Then we shall achieve victory" (ibid, pp.532).

"Then - tanks, thirdly, also critical, massive tanks are needed, not hundreds but thousands. Tanks, protected armor – that’s everything "(ibid., pp.532).

"... I'm talking about the counterattack after a successful attack by the enemy, however, giving inconclusive results, during which the defender gathers strength, moves over to the offensive and inflicts a decisive blow against the enemy" (ibid., p.21-23).

"Underestimating the enemy – is a very dangerous thing" (Conversation with A.S. Yakovlev. March 26, 1941 V.15, izd.1, p.18).

"History teaches that when the army is not given due diligence and not provided with moral support, a new morality appears, demoralizing the army ... The army must have the exclusive care and love of the people and the government - this is the greatest moral force of the army. The army is to be cherished. In this lies the guarantee of success, in this, the guarantee of victory." (Speech at an enlarged meeting of the Politburo of the CPSU (b). The end of May 1941, V.15, izd.1, p.30-31).

"It (Germany having treacherously attacked the Soviet Union - Ed.) gained a certain advantageous position for her troops in a short period, but she lost politically by exposing herself in the eyes of the world, as a blood-thirsty aggressor. There can be no doubt that this short-lived military gain for Germany is only an episode, while the tremendous political gain of the USSR is a serious and long-term factor, on which the development of decisive military successes of the Red Army in the war with Nazi Germany must unfold." (About the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Moscow, 1949, p.10-12).

"The enemy expected that after the first attack, the Red Army would be defeated and lose the ability to resist. But the enemy badly miscalculated. It did not realize the power of the Red Army, did not realize the strength of the Soviet rear, did not take into account the will of the people of our country for victory, did not realize the unreliability of the European rear of Nazi Germany, did not realize, finally, the internal weakness of Nazi Germany and its army "(ibid., p.42 ).

"The moment of surprise and unexpectedness, as the reserve of the German fascist troops, was fully exhausted. Thus the inequality in conditions of war which was created by the suddenness of the German fascist attack was eliminated. Now the fate of war will be decided not as circumstantial as the element of surprise, but by constant factors: i.e. the strength of the rear, the morale of the army, the quantity and quality of divisions, the weaponry of the army, the organizational abilities of leadership of the army "(ibid., p. 43, 44).

"The power of the Red Army is primarily in the fact that it is not a war of conquest, not an imperialist war, but a patriotic, liberating, just war... The Red Army has its own noble and lofty goal of the war, inspiring it to great deeds"(ibid. , p.45-46).

"The current war with all the force has confirmed the well-known statement of Lenin that war is a comprehensive test of all the material and spiritual forces of each nation. The history of war teaches us that only those states withstand the test, which proved stronger than their opponents according to the development and organization of the economy, experience, skills and morale of its troops, and by the tolerance and unity of people throughout the war "(ibid, P.119 ).

"The lessons of the war say that the Soviet system was not only the best form of organizing the economic and cultural development of the country in the years of peaceful construction, but also the best form for mobilizing all forces to fight the enemy in wartime. Established 26 years ago, the Soviet government in the short period of history has turned our country into an impregnable fortress. The Red Army out of all the armies of the world has the most durable and reliable rear. This is the source strength of the Soviet Union "(ibid., p.120).

"The Red Army's successes were made possible thanks to the correct strategy and tactics of the Soviet command, due to the high morale and offensive spirit of our soldiers and commanders, thanks to our well-equipped troops of Soviet military-grade technology, thanks to the increased art and level of skills of our artillery, mortar, tank crews, pilots, communication specialists, engineers, infantrymen, cavalrymen, scouts ... But the success of the Red Army could have turned out weak and would have been wiped out after the first major counterattack by the enemy, if the Red Army was not propped up by the rear with the all of our Soviet people, our entire country "(ibid., s.143).

"It (the war - ed.) was also a great school of test and endurance of all the forces of the nation ... The war arranged a sort of test of our Soviet system, our state, our government, our Communist Party, and summed up the works" (Comrade Stalin's speech on election Meeting of voters of the Stalin constituency of Moscow, February 9, 1946. v.16, izd.1, p.6-7).

"Our victory means, first and foremost, that our Soviet social system triumphed, that the Soviet social system successfully withstood the test of the flames of war, and proved its full vitality ... the Soviet social system is more viable and sustainable than any non-Soviet social system, and that the Soviet social system is the best form of organization of society than any non-Soviet social system. Our victory means, secondly, that our Soviet system won, that our multinational Soviet state survived all the trials of war and proved its viability ... the Soviet state system has turned out to be a model of a multi-national state, that the Soviet political system is a system of state organization, where the national question and the problem of cooperation among nations has been resolved better than in any other multi-national state "(ibid., p.7-8).

Serp i Molot (Hammer and Sickle) № 6, 2010
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THE “PATRIOTS” HAVE ARRIVED. WHERE THEN IS THE "ISKANDER"?
Soldiers of Obama with "Patriot" missiles 60 km from Russia

In Poland, a hundred U.S. troops and the first battery of the "Patriot" anti-aircraft missile system have arrived at the Morag military base. The Poles triumphantly greeted their patrons and supporters of NATO from the United States. Now the Americans will train Polish soldiers how to use the weapons. This is the first American military base in Poland. After 2012 the latest American missile interceptors SM-3 will arrive in Morong.
So the convergence of U.S. and Russia, about which so much was said under the new policy "rebooting relations" has occurred: as they say, they can’t get any closer. If there is a next step, it may well be called an "invasion".
President Medvedev did not comment on the arrival of the "Patriots" into Poland.
The START Treaty will shortly be submitted by the President to the Federal Assembly for ratification. According to him, "the ratification of the treaty of the Russian Federation and the United States would mean a restoration of confidence between the countries and the importance of this trust is beyond the scope of bilateral relations."
To this original, but in general located in line with U.S. policy "credibility" , Russia should respond symmetrically. That is, not to ask for "clear answers" from the Americans, but ourselves to give a clear and unambiguous response to their actions. Moreover, the technical capacity in Russia does not yet exist.


On November 5, 2008, Dmitri Medvedev, speaking with an appeal to the Federal Assembly, said that in response to the U.S. missile shield in Poland, Russia will locate in the Kaliningrad region their “Iskander” missile system. After the stated refusal by the U.S. to locate their missile defense system in Eastern Europe, Medvedev said that "Iskander" missile system would not be located in Kaliningrad region. Now the elements of U.S. missile defense on Russia's border is a reality. But the president of Russia is silent, including about Iskander, which recently looked so good at Moscow's Victory Day parade. Further evidence that this parade symbolized the unreadiness of our army to defend the Fatherland, and solidarity with the leadership of Russia with NATO countries: which are arming up against us and right on our doorstep.


based on material from newspaper "Sovietskaya Rossiya” (Soviet Russia) [29/05/2010]
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MEDVEPUTOV JUSTIFIES NOTHING

Having published in his videoblog a statement for the so-called "Day of Memory of Victims of Political Repression, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev launched another wave of anti-communist propaganda by the bourgeois media.
All that our "guarantor" of failure of constitutional rights said, is a rehash of the stereotypes of bearded anti-communist post-perestroika trash; i.e. pure anti-Soviet propaganda.
"I am convinced that no development of the country, none of its successes, ambitions can be achieved at the cost of human suffering and loss. Nothing can override the value of human life. And there is no justification for repression." – How touching! In fact, he says that all these medvedputin "national projects", all of this so-called "Moving forward" – is shit, because to 80% of the country’s population, their policies have brought nothing but poverty, humiliation and vegetating.

"We pay a lot of attention to the fight against falsification of our history. And somehow we often feel that this applies only to the unacceptability of revising the Great Patriotic War. But it is equally important not to allow under the guise of restoring historical justice, to justify those who destroyed their own people." - One could seriously listen to an oracle who speaks about the historical truth, knowing full well that he is not a scoundrel. However, the situation is as follows: the dictatorship of the oligarchs, the head of which now happen to be the medvedputins, falsifies the present day: take for example the elections, which were completely garbled and rigged, take the television, completely controlled by the anti-peoples regime – the news is served always full of bias and bits cut out – and this is the most sophisticated falsification. Does one have to believe professional chatters allegedly "restoring historical justice" and fighting the "falsification" of the past, if they lie in the present day? Every sane person answers this question in the negative.
As for "millions of dead and tortured to death": that is an old fable. Even the KGB archive statistics reads as follows: during the entire period of rule by Stalin, that is in 30 years, according to political articles in the Soviet Union, 642,980 people were sentenced to death. Nowadays, Russia's population is dying out every year by nearly a million people. And in the prisons of Russia there are around a million people (there are no "political" articles officially, so all current political prisoners are convicted on criminal charges). Is that not "torture" and "destruction" of their own people?
There is no justification for medvedputin oligarchic regime which has brought the Russian people into the abyss of hopelessness and social regression. The nation is dying out because of the appallingly low quality of life for the vast majority of the population (unemployment, insecurity and constant stress, low-income, poor quality food, law enforcement- police arbitrariness and chaos, etc.). The clique of nouveaux rich and rogues cannot escape the people’s court. The Russian people will free themselves from the yoke of the bourgeois, and only then the falsification of history and modern day come to an end.

G. Atomov
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DESTRUCTION OF EDUCATION

On Friday 23 April 2010 the State Duma of Russia in the third reading adopted the most important anti-national law of the entire "Putin-Medvedyev period" - "On amendments to some legislative acts of the Russian Federation in connection with the improvement of the legal status of state (municipal) agencies." On April 28, 2010, the Federation Council voted in favour of the bill.
Even the chairman of the Federation Council, their own man in the government of Russia, Sergey Mironov - commented on the adoption of the law as follows: "In essence, this law, if one calls a spade a spade – is a sentence on the poor of our country, no matter what you say." And further: "This law will make many of the social services subject to fee-paying, services which still, fortunately, remain free."
Oksana Dmitrieva, who is not pro-Communist- minded, at a meeting of the State Duma gave a more detailed assessment of what is happening: "I propose to discuss the question of how the people are being deceived. I mean the law on changing the status of budgetary institutions, transferring them, supposedly, into another status of budgetary institutions, in reality commercial businesses - and the formation of state-owned enterprises. At this point, the factories and plants have already been carved up, and until this, the infrastructure, natural monopolies, then the forests, land and water resources had been divided. What is left under state ownership now? The public and the social sector, of which are institutions of education, health, and institutions of science and social welfare.
Here they are propose the carving up, because for them, good property still remains, inherited to us from tsarist Russia (not from the tsarist but from Soviet Russia - ed.), because some institutions are located in beautiful pre-revolutionary buildings, and schools - in former gymnasiums, and they are all located on good land ... The changes this law will bring us requires a referendum, a general discussion of all the citizens of the Russian Federation ... Most of the subjects of the Federation, and state employees, and rectors of universities and heads of health facilities do not know about the law and do not know about its catastrophic consequences. Today what is being proposed is the forced, compulsory transfer of all budgetary institutions over to a new status under which they will actually be profit-making organizations ... Dear colleagues, the consequences of this law is much more serious than the consequences of 122-th law. This is destruction of our social sector. No upgrades, no innovative breakthrough after the adoption of this bill can be implemented.”

The people are deprived of full secondary education. The government is doing everything to ensure that high school children finished school not literate and educated people but illiterate dropouts. Mandatory minimum secondary education will be reduced to the amount of knowledge, given to a parochial school: two hours of the Russian language in a week, a drop of mathematics and a lot of religion. And how will this law be combined with the dreams of Medvedev on innovation and breakthrough?
Let us recall that the faction "United Russia" voted for the law, numbering of 314 people with one person abstaining and not one who were against or abstained. The faction Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) (Leader Zyuganov) and "Fair Russia" voted unanimously against the anti-national law, while the faction "LDPR" did not vote, thereby upholding the decision of the party in power. The Federation Council voted in favour of the bill by 90 people with 6 abstentions. 5 people voted against, while 67 people did not vote.
The shocking details of the reform of school education were told by school directors in past courses on improving their skills. It turns out that one of the main principles of "reform" – is the transition over to fee-paying secondary education.
The new scheme of secondary education will look like the following. The student comes to school in the morning for the first three lessons of minimum general education, which are fully paid by the state, and after dinner can choose his or her classes according to desire and amount of money - music or art, it doesn’t matter. After that the pupil enters profile education. It is expected to be built as follows: the school director enter into contracts with the management of nearby businesses so that his students spend two hours in the company where they talk about the profession. All this is also funded by the state by only 30%.
In addition, according to the program "Our new school”, some of the theses which President Medvedev announced on November 12 in his message to the Federal Assembly, the system of teacher training will be modernized. Details of modernization are not yet known, but it has been announced that profile universities will be gradually eliminated. Teacher training institutes will become part of either classical universities or turned into educational centres.
The schools will be able to employ people without a diploma with the title "teacher". However, such "self-taughts" must complete educational courses. This measure, of course, is being implemented by an acute shortage of teachers. The only thing is that if salaries are not seriously raised, the school is unlikely to attract people who know maths or history well. And besides, children still require a special approach and methods of education, and just a good knowledge of the subject is not enough. After all, in Russia, the teacher has always been not just a coach but a mentor-educator.
The Russian Government finally decided that the people do not see literacy as important.

Ordinary schools and hospitals are given money only by the number of students (patients) and only within the limits guaranteed by the state education (treatment). The question of the limit of free education - and this is of course, the most important in this situation - will be discussed only this November, a month before the reform.
In the free limit may enter only 2 hours of Russian language in a week, 2 hours of mathematics, 3 hours of physical education and religion 3 hours (DIC, secular ethics and lessons from other denominations, depending on the school). Such an experiment, according to some parents, has already begun in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow.
The remaining subjects and extra hours, reportedly by the same parents, with reference to the director of the school district, will be subject to fee paying: for the full language education, the parents have to pay 1000 rubles a month, for other subjects - 500. Thus, the full training average cost of a Moscow pupil will cost his or her parents he 5-6 thousand rubles a month.
And if the family has several children?
Directors of schools are already preparing for the fact that very soon they will have to earn children, and the contents of the budget ends.
"It is worth noting that the Russian Constitution and the law on universal secondary education" guarantee Russian citizens free public education - but these documents do not regulate its volume. Thus, the cuts in education and a minimum at least to the level of parochial schools do not require a change neither the Constitution nor the law, "- said the Internet edition of the "Svobodnaya press".

V. Lebedev, a student
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INSOLENT FROM IMPUNITY

In the second half of May, Putin paid an official visit to Izhevsk. He conducted a visit to local businesses, which produce small arms for the army. However, this bourgeois senior official was more like a tourist or visitor, than a statesman, as no serious social or economic problem in the city had been resolved.
Izhevsk car factory, as before remains in an unenviable position (by July 2010). At the very enterprise producing Kalashnikov assault rifles visited by Putin, the delay in salary by two months, remains. Even for the sake of show, the heads did not pay off the wage arrears to the workers of the arms factory. This fact has proved once again that Putin and President of Udmurtia Volkova are not concerned with the unsatisfactory financial situation of Izhevsk workers.
In May, production workers of № 104 Izhevsk arms factory wrote a statement to the state inspection of labour, which set forth the circumstances of backpay. A month has passed, and nothing has been done. The employees of the state inspection during this time and did not bother to understand the issue and somehow push the factory administration to pay the factory workers their money.
On May 31, a group of workers from the same company filed a petition to the prosecutor's office to complain about the delay in salary.
On June 4, one of the workers was summoned for talks with a certain Pushin. He said he was a representative of the security of the plant, but no documents confirming this fact were presented. In the conversation, this "official" expressed his displeasure that the worker filed an application to the state inspection of labour. According to Pushin (if the name is not fictional), this issue could be resolved in talks with the management of the factory - Grodetsky, Gilfanovym and others. It has long been known that higher factory bosses do not consider factory workers as people and have no time to talk to them and are squeamish. Therefore, it is unlikely to agree to a meeting with a simple worker. In such a situation any mention of a personal meeting with the boss – is such a cynical and blatant lie. During the conversation Pushin defiantly asked his companion: "You still want to receive your salary for May?” This offended the worker. During the conversation Pushin behaved very rudely, crudely, arrogantly, insolent and cynical. When, during a second interview with him, the worker once again asked the name of that "security officer" and told him about his rough work, Pushin hysterically shouted: "You're still going to teach me how to work?"
It is known in the Russian language that the relationship between unfamiliar people requires that one person refers to the other person when saying the word "You" in the “Vi” form and not the “Ti” form that is used between close friendly ties between people (i.e. Sie and Du in German). What right had this Pushin to use the "Ti" form to the worker, who a few days ago did not even know him?!
Not only do the bourgeois capitalists hold on to workers wages, they do not even give them the benefit of those rights which are set out in the writings of the capitalists laws. They themselves write, adopt laws, and they themselves violate them later. Here is one of the characteristic distinguishing features of Putin's police state. What does this mean? The fact that the laws of today's rulers are not needed. Laws exist only to slightly disguise the lawlessness and arbitrariness, which now prevail in Russia. Law enforcement agencies MVD, FSB, and "security officials" blatantly violate the rights and freedoms of ordinary workers, peasants and all working people, those rights which the bourgeois Constitution of 1993, "security officials" are called on to protect. Instead of fighting corruption, organized crime, gangs, plundering and killing people, the Interior Ministry, the FSB, and "security officers" fight "extremists" - the common people, who seeks enforcement of their already sparse rights.
In this example, the workers are once again convinced that all of today's laws are only a fig leaf, something to cover up all the impudence, arrogance and cynicism of the fat, brazen impunity of thieves, the bourgeoisie, who in order to safely and easily plunder and rob the workers, farmers, pensioners, students, poorer members of the intelligentsia, are ready to erase all the rights of ordinary people, and those who resist, to label "extremists" and persecute them.
In such circumstances, workers who have their salary delayed, have only one way to protect their rights – to g on strike. Calls to the state inspection of labour, as we have seen, are ineffective.
The aim of the workers should only be socialism, since only socialism guarantees the timely payment of salaries, the true and not false realization of individual rights, the rights to social benefits, a stable life and confidence in the future.


Sokolov


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