CPB cowardice over Korean satellite

While the CPB whinges to anyone who will listen to them about the wholly warranted criticism that they receive from the 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 our position of criticising them.

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 by Kate Hudson, CND chair and a prominent 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 this was some kind of test linked to weapons delivery systems and condemned the launch of the communications satellite by the socialist DPRK 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.

We in the CPGB-ML, on the contrary, loudly applaud Comrade Kim Jong Il, the Workers’ Party of Korea 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.