[Marxism] nternational Anti-Imperialist and People's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) on North Korean Nuclear Test

[Sukla Sen <suklasenp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

International Anti-Imperialist and People's Solidarity Coordinating
Committee (IAPSCC) on North Korean Nuclear Test


The following statement quite rightly highlights the moral hypocrisy
of condemning others for developing nuclear weapons while retaining
and maybe even augmenting one's own nuclear arsenal.
But to brand nuclear weapon - Âa weapon of deliberate mass murder on a
mind-boggling scale - as a weapon of "defence" is nothing short of
criminal lunacy.
Moreover, the North Korean nuclear explosion comes at a time when
globally there is a renewed expectancy in the air as regards universal
nuclear disarmament.
The North Korean test comes as a rude jolt. It is a different matter
altogether if that jolt eventually helps speed up the process of
disarmament by drawing the attention of the world to the huge
catastrophe looming ahead.
It is plain common sense that more and more states arming themselves
with nuclear weapons is just not the way forward to nuclear
disarmament. That only helps reinforce the legitimacy and its vertical
and horizontal spread.

The proclaimed commitment of the sponsors of this following statement
to a "nuclear weapons free world" is evidently as phony.
This is apart from the ugly and hollow joke of holding up Stalinist
North Korea - calling itself a "Democratic People's Republic" and in
reality a state keeping its people under thoroughly tyrannical rule -
as one looked upon by the "toiling masses of the world .. as their
staunch ally".

Sukla

Nuclear Testing by Democratic PeopleÃââs Republic of Korea :
Posted by: "DNRath"Âdn.rath@xxxxxxxxxÂÂ dnr3000
Fri May 29, 2009 6:52 am (PDT)

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International Anti-Imperialist

and PeopleÃââs Solidarity

Coordinating Committee

(IAPSCC)

77/2/1 Lenin Sarani, Kolkata 700 013

Tel: +91-33-22653550 Fax : +91-33-2264 7754
e-mail: aiaif_2006@yahoo. com

President : Ramsey Clark

Former Attorney General, USA

Founder, International Action Centre

General Secretary : Manik Mukherjee

Vice-President, All India Anti-imperialist Forum

May 27, 2009

Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary of International Anti-imperialist
and peopleÃââs Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) has issued
the following statement on the Nuclear Testing by Democratic
PeopleÃââs Republic of Korea :

The IAPSCC expresses its full support to all genuine efforts to
maintain and promote world peace and confirms that it is committed to
its stand of demanding a totally nuclear weapons free world. However,
it is firmly of the view that there is no moral or ethical
justification of the policy that would allow some states to keep their
stock of nuclear arsenal, but prevent others to develop any nuclear
defense capability. This is the policy of the imperialists powers like
USA, other nuclear weapons states including India who are not only
maintaining their nuclear weapons stock but are augmenting it, and at
the same time are criticising other nations who want to develop
nuclear defense capability. DPRK is a socialist country, which stands
by the struggle of the common people all over the world against
imperialist aggression, oppression and exploitation. The toiling
masses of the world that look upon DPRK as their staunch ally and
firmly assert that DPRK has every right to defend itself from
imperialist aggression and has the right to develop its nuclear
defense capability. It is in the interest of defense of the common
people of the world that DPRK should have this capability. Along with
the people of the world IAPSCC endorses this right.


      
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