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Vol. 82/No. 9 March 5, 2018
End US sanctions against North Korea! Korea is one!
Letter from Socialist Workers Party National Committee
Below is a Feb. 15 letter from Steve Clark, on behalf of the National
Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, to the people of Korea on the
occasion of their Feb. 16 national holiday.
The Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialists send revolutionary
greetings on the occasion of this February 16 national holiday of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. We reaffirm our commitment to the
Korean people’s fight to reunify their country and to end the partition
that Washington, with Moscow’s complicity, imposed at the end of World
War II and has maintained ever since at the cost of millions of Korean
lives.
We welcome the DPRK’s recent proposals for joint North-South Korean
participation in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which was then
followed by Washington’s and Seoul’s decision to postpone annual joint
military maneuvers and war games. Those provocative and threatening
“exercises” must now be ended once and for all. The US government must
withdraw all troops and armaments from Korea’s soil, skies, and waters,
including the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile
batteries and espionage station deployed by the Donald Trump and Barack
Obama administrations. In face of Washington’s massive and deadly
submarine, naval, air, and ground-based ballistic missile systems across
Asia and the world, we renew our call for a nuclear-free Korean
Peninsula and Pacific.
We demand that the US imperialist rulers unconditionally sit down with
the DPRK for talks and at long last, after almost sixty-five years, sign
a peace treaty ending the barbaric and failed war it waged against the
Korean people from 1950 to 1953. As Washington affirms today that its
“maximum pressure campaign is going to continue and intensify” to punish
the people and government of the DPRK, we demand an end to
ever-tightening US and US-initiated “UN” economic, financial, and
political sanctions — all of them, now!
In the United States and across much of the world, a political awakening
is under way among tens of millions of working people whose lives have
been devastated by the consequences of capitalism’s deepening economic
and political crisis — and by Washington’s ongoing military operations
and wars in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and beyond. Vanguard workers are
seeking to increase solidarity and overcome capitalist-fueled
competition and divisions by defending and strengthening our trade
unions, demanding amnesty for immigrant workers, combating racial
discrimination and cop brutality, and demanding dignity and an end to
second-class treatment for women.
As socialist workers and youth talk with fellow workers on their
doorsteps and elsewhere across the United States, we explain that it is
this resistance and openness to discuss a working-class course — not
entrapment in capitalist politics dominated by the Democratic and
Republican parties (and its growing pornographication and
rationalization of unleashing federal police power and prerogatives) —
that offers a way forward for working people.
It is among workers and farmers such as these that growing support can
be won for the demands the Socialist Workers Party — on this DPRK
national holiday — is determined to fight for until they are won: End
all economic and banking sanctions against the DPRK. US troops, ships,
planes, and THAAD missiles and radar systems out of Korea. For a Korean
Peninsula and Pacific Ocean free of nuclear weapons.
Korea is one!
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