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Socialist Press no. 200, 28 May 1980 · scan p. 1 · about 352 words

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leo Kim stressed not a u feder Korean The MOUNT AT. MELEN'S MIAMI "deter Communism and protect democracy" —can offer any serious lead to the Korean workers and students.

Nor indeed can the other Kim-Kim Il Sung, leader of the deformed workers' state of North Korea.

Despite years of chest-beating rhetoric about the essential unity of Korea, Kim's Stalinist bureaucracy has been terrified by the spectacle of mass revolutionary struggles in the South.

As a result Kim has fallen over himself to assure US imperialism that North Korea has no intention of intervening in the "internal affairs" of the South Korean dictatorship, of aiding those in struggle against Chon's regime, or of. using their 700,000-strong army on the border to invade.

Significantly it was fears of such an invasion that slowed the movement of the army units against the Kwangju militants.

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has gone further-and that his perspective is lited socialist Korea, but ation in which South capitalism is left intact! courage and militancy Tanks ward off demonstrators of the workers and students in South Korea are an example to the international working class.

But the political problems they confront are likewise those faced by workers in every country: without a revolutionary leadership capable of breaking politically with the reactionary bourgeois and Stalinist parties and leaders and spelling out a perspective for united working class action, such spontaneous explosions of militancy can be headed off, isolated and There is no doubt however that these struggles have also demonstrated once again that imperialism and its puppet forces can be defeated in mass For UŞ President Carter, the Kwangju uprising must have brought dreadful memories of the crumbling of the Shah of Iran's awesome 400,000-strong army in the face of the mobilised Iranian masses.

As the US combat troops in Korea wonder when and how they will be called upon to act against the South Korean working class and aircraft carriers steam towards the peninsula, American workers must take up the fight for their immediate withdrawal.

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← Contents of Socialist Press no. 200, 28 May 1980