CPB yet again sides with imperialism
While the Communist Party of
Britain (CPB) whinges to anyone who will listen to them about the wholly
warranted criticism that they receive from the Communist Party of Great Britain
(Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML), due to the former’s rotten revisionism, they have
once again put their putrid politics of surrender and their deformed brand of
internationalism on display to prove the correctness of these criticisms.
In an article in the Morning Star, a paper
supported, promoted and sold by the CPB, on Monday 6 April, there was an attack
on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by Kate Hudson, CND chair
and a leading member of the CPB. Ignoring the information put out by the KCNA,
the news agency of the DPRK, she accepted without question the view of
imperialism that the launch of a communication satellite by the socialist DPRK
was some kind of test linked to weapons delivery systems and condemned the
launch as both “unnecessary and provocative”. Adding for good measure “which,
regardless of whether its intentions are peaceful, [something she clearly
does not believe] risks others seeing the launch as a threat to regional
security”.
In making this assertion, Ms Hudson shows the
political cowardice that has come to be associated with her party.
There are very many satellites whizzing around our
planet, most of which are the property of imperialism and which are used for a
variety of military and spying purposes. These satellites are launched on a
regular basis without a murmur from Ms Hudson, her party or its paper, so
what’s the big deal now?
The US objects strongly when its virtual monopoly
of space is in any way challenged, even by a peaceful communications satellite,
and the appeasers of CND and the CPB/Morning Star, instead of standing
up and supporting the right of the DPRK to launch a satellite for whatever
reason it wants, including defence if it should so choose, give lectures to a
socialist country for ignoring the threats and lies of US imperialism and their
lackeys.
If people and political parties are going to term
themselves communist they really should understand the duties of communists.
In the DPRK they are quite clear regarding their duty, they are looking after
the welfare of their people and giving them good ideological training along
with the quality housing, education, health care and the right/duty to
participate in the productivity of their country. They understand the need to
keep up to date with all technology and they understand that the imperialist
demons surrounding them are looking constantly for signs of weakness. In these
conditions they understand their duty to protect themselves as ably as they
possibly can. They also understand their duty to support others in struggle,
both the national liberation movements in the third world and other socialist
parties and groups even in the imperialist heartlands. They do this while
standing nose to nose with the imperialist warmongers who are possessed of
enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the world several times over.
For those of us inside the imperialist countries
who consider ourselves communist our duty to the DPRK is also clear, we must
support them in their struggle for us all and try to win over the people of
this country to understanding that the DPRK develops weapons only to defend
itself from our oppressors. We have to try to convince people that the DPRK,
while ready and able to defend itself, only wants to develop its own way in
peace.
The sight of such an attack on the DPRK
coming from a party that only recently condemned the CPGB-ML for sectarianism
and having no history within the communist movement is sickening but not
unexpected. It is the height of sectarianism to launch such an attack on a
ruling communist Party while it is in such danger of imperialist attack. It
shows that the only history that the CPB can lay claim to is that of
Khrushchevite revisionism that split the communist movement apart and weakened
severely the opposition to imperialist aggression and the march towards
revolution in many quarters.
It is high time that communist parties
around the world who declare opposition to revisionism break any links that
they have with these despicable renegades and latter day Khrushchevites.
We wholeheartedly congratulate Comrade Kim Jong Il,
the Korean Workers’ Party and the people of the DPRK on the launch of this
satellite and acknowledge their correctness in ignoring both the rants of
Imperialism and the lick-spittle admonishments of the social-pacifists of the
CPB.