International organizations have sent the solidarity messages regarding the fascist situation in the ‘Republic of Korea’.
Recently, in the ‘Republic of Korea’, Yoon Suk-yeol declared the emergency martial law. The attempted fascist coup failed by the National Assembly which passed the bill to lift the martial law. But the fascist forces have tried to declare the second martial law.
The organizations in the World Anti-imperialist Platform (the Platform) sent the international solidarity messages for the People’s Democracy Party which is the revolutionary party in the ‘Republic of Korea’ and the member organization of the Platform.
The solidarity message from the Peruvian Communist Party
Solidarity with the People of the Republic of Korea and the People’s Democracy Party of Korea
PRONOUNCEMENT
The Peruvian Communist Party expresses its deep solidarity with the people of the Republic of Korea and with the People’s Democratic Party, in the face of the imposition of a fascist-liberal dictatorship of the Yoon Suk-yeol regime.
Today the imperialist partners of Yoon Suk-yeol’s regime have managed to involve South Korea in the spiral of the war in Ukraine, in order to push the world into the country.
We demand the Yoon Suk-yeol regime to respect the freedoms and lives of democratic and revolutionary fighters.
We demand the restoration of democratic freedoms.
No to the fascist dictatorship in the Republic of Korea.
Central Committee of the PCP
12-03-2024
The solidarity message from the worker’s party (Ireland)
Fascist Yoon regime repressing progressive forces in south Korea
The Workers’ Party is observing the situation in south Korea with great interest. The lifting of martial law by President Yoon Suk Yeol marks a positive step, but south Korea remains in grave danger as a fascist government continues to wield power. This development underscores the profound challenges facing the working class in south Korea, who endure ongoing repression under a system that prioritises capitalist domination over democratic rights and social justice.
President Yoon’s declaration of martial law initially signified a stark descent into overt authoritarianism, recalling the territory’s long history of military dictatorship from 1945 until 1987. While the formal lifting of martial law may alleviate immediate tensions, the underlying fascist character of the regime remains intact. Fascism, as the terrorist dictatorship of capital over the working class, persists in south Korea, now cloaked in a liberal guise to mask its anti-democratic core.
The Workers’ Party of Ireland extends its unwavering solidarity to workers and all progressive forces in Korea who are mobilising against the capitalist dictatorship and its exploitative system. President Yoon’s justifications for martial law — a supposed defence of a “liberal” south Korea against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, communists, and “anti-state elements” — remain hollow pretexts for suppressing dissent and consolidating the ruling class’s power. Despite the lifting of martial law, the government continues its assault on democracy, workers’ rights, and the progressive movement.
South Korea remains a crucial ally of U.S. imperialism in Asia, and the Workers’ Party of Ireland condemns the role of American imperialist forces in supporting reactionary elements within the Yoon administration. While the United States may express “concern” over authoritarian measures, its complicity in suppressing revolutionary movements and maintaining hegemony in the region is evident.
The progressive forces in south Korea must persist in their courageous struggle against not only the Yoon administration but also the broader system of exploitation and imperialist domination. Together, the workers of Korea can and will forge a path towards liberation.
The solidarity message from the Communist Youth Union of Spain
Communist Youth Statement on the Self-Coup in South Korea
The news of the latest events in South Korea should not surprise anyone, nor do they change in the slightest the nature of the South Korean state, which is none other than to serve the geopolitical interests of the US in the region, either with a more or less democratic veneer or showing its true anti-popular and colonial face.
And the so-called “Republic of Korea” is not and has never been a legitimate state, only a territory occupied by US imperialism (which unlike the USSR never withdrew its troops from the peninsula, maintaining up to 50,000 soldiers and numerous military bases to this day), proof of this is its failure to sign several attempts to sign peace with the North, since it requires Washington’s permission.
Throughout its history, the title state of South Korea has stood out, both in its “democratic” stages and in its various military dictatorships, for harshly repressing the workers’ movement and communism, which has always been illegal in the country.
If the South Korean state is already anti-democratic and anti-communist, this has intensified with the latest government, which seems determined to reactivate the war with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, to the point that the latter has considered peaceful reunification impossible, a policy that it has defended since its foundation.
This authoritarian and anti-popular intensification has also been seen in the growing repression towards our comrades of the People’s Democracy Party, whose headquarters, and the homes of several of its militants, were raided by the police on August 30 of this year, which has been followed by summons and other forms of political repression of its militancy.
Therefore, as we know that nothing good can be expected from any of the US puppets, we can only end this statement by wishing a prompt liberation of the Korean people from imperialism and the reunification of the Korean nation around the DPRK, its only legitimate state, by all means necessary.
