Opposition to imperialism is not just a fight for freedom from imperialist domination in the Asian semi-colonies.

It has to be seen in the light of imperialism's world-wide crisis and the need to stop the drive to trade wars and military wars to restore profits and accumulation. This links the struggles of the workers and poor peasants in the "tigers" to those of semi-colonies in Latin America and Africa, to the remaining degenerated workers states in China, Vietnam and North Korea, and, finally, to the labour movements in the imperialist states of Japan, the EU and the US.

The issue which dramatises these links more than any other is the partition of Korea. The fate of both Koreas are tied up together. The US and Japan will defend investments in South Korea while at the same time attempting to restore capitalism in the North. Opposition to imperialism will be characterised as "communist".

The only way that the Korean workers can win is to fight for the unification of the divided Korea as a socialist republic! In China, Vietnam and North Korea, the Stalinist dictatorships are rapidly reintroducing capitalism which will restore a huge part of the world to imperialist control. These countries will re-emerge as new capitalist semi-colonies with terrible 19th century wages and conditions. China and Russia are huge countries and their struggle to catch up with the established imperialist powers will fuel trade wars and hot wars. To defend what remains of state planning in these states and to frustrate the ambitions of imperialist expansion, it is necessary to reverse the privatisations and take state power in both countries to overthrow the new bourgeois classes and capitalist property and plan production based on socialism.

The fight to prevent imperialism from carving up the tiger cubs and the ex-degenerated workers’ states (DWSs) must involve the imperialist working classes in Japan and the US. Why? Because capitalism's crisis is always shifted downwards on to colonial and semi-colonial workers and poor farmers, into cut-throat trade wars which ruin small producers, and always ends in war. The West has high hopes of finding new markets as well as super-profits in the former DWSs. Their squabbles to gain more markets will spur on the re-partition of China, Vietnam and North Korea and will lead to heightening tensions among the imperialist powers. Imperialist workers have to fight their own enemy at home in any such war with semi-colonies or other imperialist powers.

• Out with the IMF! - Repudiate the foreign debt!
• No to free trade!
• US/UN troops out of Korea!
• For a united Korean socialist Republic!
• Political revolution in DRK, Vietnam and China!
• For a Federation of Socialist Republics of Asia and the Pacific!