{"id":6108,"date":"2025-06-22T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wap21.org\/?p=6108"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:03:34","slug":"war-and-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wap21.org\/?p=6108","title":{"rendered":"War and Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stephen Cho | Coordinator of the Korean International Forum <\/p>\n\n\n\n

War is the eve of revolution. Historically, wars on a global scale have served as decisive triggers for revolutions on a global scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

War is the situation; revolution is the strategy. The focal point of the current situation is World War 3, and the basic task of the revolutionary forces is anti-imperialist liberation. Scientific analysis of the current situation reveals the essence of World War 3, and the revolutionary study of strategy leads to the conclusion of anti-imperialism liberation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key to the scientific analysis of the situation lies in the imperialist camp\u2019s calculated move, and the key to establishing a revolutionary strategy lies in the anti-imperialist camp\u2019s strategic move. The strategic goal of the imperialist camp is to form a \u201cNew Cold War\u201d system, while the strategic goal of the anti-imperialist camp is to achieve liberation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of justification, capacity, and operations, the anti-imperialist camp currently holds overwhelming superiority. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Imperialism is the main culprit of World War 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The storm of World War 3, unleashed by imperialism, is sweeping from Eastern Europe through West Asia (the Middle East) to East Asia and the Western Pacific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

World War 1 was an inter-imperialist war. It resulted in the emergence of the world\u2019s first socialist state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World War 2 was an anti-fascist war. It was transformed from an inter-imperialist war into an anti-fascist war. The world anti-fascist front was formed under the leadership of the Soviet Union, leading to the victory of the anti-fascist camp. Socialist and national liberation camps emerged on a global scale, ushering in a historic upsurge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

World War 3 is an anti-imperialist war. In this war, the world anti-imperialist front has been formed, paving the way for victory for the anti-imperialist camp. If the anti-imperialist forces are victorious in this anti-imperialist war, the imperialist forces will be decisively defeated and a new great period of upsurge will begin, marked by the significant expansion of the socialist and national liberation forces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eastern Europe, West Asia (the Middle East), and East Asia constitute the three major theaters of World War 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia, China, and the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are nuclear and missile superpowers. Eastern Europe and East Asia are the strategic theaters where Russia confronts NATO, and the DPRK-China-Russia confronts the US, respectively. Among them, East Asia is the main theater of World War 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, West Asia is a tactical battleground between the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d including missile power Iran, and Israeli Zionist-imperialism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flashpoint in Eastern Europe is Ukraine; in West Asia, it is Palestine. The flashpoints in East Asia are the \u201cRepublic of Korea (ROK)\u201d and Taiwan. The wars in Ukraine and West Asia are already underway, and the war in East Asia is imminent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine began with the 2014 \u201cMaidan coup,\u201d intensified over the next eight years with the war in Donbass, and then entered full swing with Russia\u2019s Special Military Operation in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Palestine in 2023 immediately escalated into a war in West Asia, with the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d including Hezbollah, Yemen, and Iran, joining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, the war in Ukraine broke out in February 2022 and the war in West Asia began in October 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From September to November 2024, the \u201cROK\u201d carried out local war provocations against the DPRK. If not for the DPRK\u2019s \u201cstrategic patience,\u201d the local war would have erupted, rapidly escalating into an all-out war. On December 3, 2024, a military coup took place in the \u201cROK.\u201d Had it not been immediately overthrown by the people of the \u201cROK,\u201d the fascistization of the \u201cROK\u201d would have been completed, and followed by the war against DPRK. In short, the war in the \u201cROK\u201d was decisively provoked by imperialism in September-November and December 2024. That period was when the war in the \u201cROK\u201d was supposed to erupt according to imperialism\u2019s World War 3 plan. Imperialism provoked the war in Ukraine in Eastern Europe in 2022, and the war in Palestine in West Asia in 2023. It carried out decisive provocations for war in the \u201cROK\u201d in East Asia, but these were thwarted by the DPRK\u2019s \u201cstrategic patience\u201d and the heroic struggle of the people of the \u201cROK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to escape the worst political and economic crisis in its history, imperialism is trying to form a \u201cNew Cold War\u201d by triggering World War 3 and denouncing the DPRK, China, Russia, and the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d like Iran, as the \u201cNew Axis of Aggressors.\u201d Imperialism is mobilizing all its military, political, and economic capabilities to achieve its goal of forming the \u201cNew Cold War\u201d framework, pushing proxy wars across three major theaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In World War 2, Germany, Italy, and Japan formed the \u201cAxis.\u201d During the \u201cCold War,\u201d the imperialist camp denounced the socialist camp as \u201cEvil.\u201d In 2003, US imperialism labeled Iraq, Iran, and the DPRK as the \u201cAxis of Evil,\u201d launched the Iraq War, and intensified its offensive against the DPRK. In 2024, imperialism labeled Russia, Iran, China, and the DPRK as the \u201cNew Axis of Aggressors.\u201d When it became untenable to label the DPRK and China as \u201caggressors\u201d because they did not respond to imperialist war provocations, imperialism lumped them with Russia and Iran and rebranded them as a \u201cNew Axis of Evil.\u201d Whatever label is used, it is a vicious scheme to isolate and blockade the anti-imperialist camp and to construct a \u201cNew Cold War\u201d framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cCold War\u201d was a ploy devised to deflect the worst political and economic crisis of imperialism, brought about by the global emergence of the socialist and national liberation camps after World War 2 and the failure of the \u201cNew Deal policy.\u201d The imperialist camp implemented a \u201cblockade\u201d policy against the socialist and national liberation camps to prevent the westward advance of the Soviet-led socialist forces through the Marshall Policy in Europe and the southward march of China and other socialist forces through the formation of ASEAN in Asia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1950 Korean War, which claimed the lives of approximately 5 million people, realized the \u201cCold War\u201d policy. During the \u201cCold War\u201d, imperialism focused on the blockade, regime competition, and arms race with the socialist camp, while waging \u201chot wars\u201d against the national liberation countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cNew Cold War\u201d is a ploy by imperialism to deflect the unprecedentedly worst political and economic crisis in history through World War 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the \u201cCold War,\u201d which began after World War 2, ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe\u2019s socialist bloc, the \u201cNew Cold War,\u201d unfolding in parallel with World War 3, will end with the collapse of the imperialist camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the \u201cCold War,\u201d the imperialist camp waged a \u201cCold War\u201d against socialist countries and \u201chot wars\u201d against national liberation states. In the \u201cNew Cold War,\u201d by contrast, the imperialist camp is either already waging or provoking \u201chot wars\u201d even against socialist countries. However, these \u201chot wars\u201d in the \u201cNew Cold War\u201d era are being carried out in the form of limited warfare, such as proxy wars and local wars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the \u201cCold War\u201d era, there were disputes over socialist principles between the Soviet Union and China\u2015the two major powers in the socialist camp, but in the \u201cNew Cold War\u201d era, there is no disagreement that the DPRK is the most thoroughly socialist country, and the alliance between China\u2015a socialist country with its own characteristics\u2015and Russia\u2015a country with socialist heritage\u2015remains firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the \u201cCold War\u201d era, in the \u201cNew Cold War,\u201d the DPRK, as the most thoroughly socialist and anti-imperialist country, has entered the ranks of the nuclear and missile superpowers, forming the three major anti-imperialist powers along with China and Russia. With the addition of the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d including Iran, these from the four leading forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both during the \u201cCold War\u201d and the \u201cNew Cold War\u201d, imperialism has been fundamentally doomed by its unsolvable and overlapping contradictions\u2015between imperialist and socialist states, imperialist and national liberation states, imperialist states and peace-loving forces of the world, imperialist states and colonized peoples, monopoly capital and anti-monopoly working masses within imperialist states, and imperialist powers themselves. This is the common trait shared by both eras. However, unlike during the \u201cCold War era\u201d, the \u201cNew Cold War era\u201d is marked by a significant difference\u2015although the socialist bloc has relatively weakened, the anti-imperialist camp remains broadly united. In contrast, within the imperialist camp, non-warmongering imperialist forces now hold considerable capacity, standing in opposition to the warmongering factions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the \u201cCold War era\u201d, the economic crisis within imperialism deepened\u2015from the overproduction crisis of 1929, through to the inflationary crisis of 1974. In contrast, the \u201cNew Cold War era\u201d has witnessed crises of an entirely different magnitude: premised on the previous two crises, it has undergone the 2008 US-triggered global financial crisis and the 2019 pandemic-induced crisis. As a result, the economic turmoil within imperialism has reached an unprecedented level. In particular, the US national debt has reached $36 trillion, and the hegemony of the US dollar has weakened to an unprecedented extent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the \u201cCold War era\u201d was marked by a bipolar structure centered on the US-Soviet confrontation, the \u201cNew Cold War era\u201d\u2015which began after the brief unipolar system of US hegemony that followed the end of the \u201cCold War\u201d\u2015has developed into a multipolar system involving multiple contending forces, including China and Russia apart from the US. Although a multipolar system is not the strategic objective of the anti-imperialist camp, it holds significant tactical value in weakening the imperialist camp. The \u201cNew Cold War era\u201d is, in essence, a \u201cnew bipolar structure\u201d between the anti-imperialist and the imperialist camps. In this sense, the \u201cNew Cold War\u201d serves as a strategic expression, while \u201cmultipolarity\u201d is a tactical one. From the perspective of dialectical negation, the sequence of \u201caffirmation\u2015negation\u2015negation of the negation\u201d is expressed as \u201cbipolarity\u2015unipolarity\/multipolarity\u2015new bipolarity.\u201d The truly revolutionary concept, consistent with the dialectical principle of contradiction between the old and the new, and of the transformation from an old-dominated system to a new-dominated one, is not \u201cmultipolarity,\u201d but rather the \u201cNew Cold War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imperialist and anti-imperialist camps are confronting each other economically and diplomatically as G7 versus BRICS, and militarily as NATO versus the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). In the \u201cNew Cold War era,\u201d as China and Russia have come to represent the position of the anti-imperialist camp, the United Nations Security Council has become effectively paralyzed. In response, the imperialist camp has sidelined the UN Security Council and instead advanced its imperialist agenda through the G7 and NATO, thereby escalating the drive toward a world war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a decisive difference between the New Cold War and the Cold War in terms of the purpose of the world war. The imperialist camp is actively pushing for the initiation of World War 3 in order to consolidate the \u201cNew Cold War\u201d structure. The imperialist camp has neither the will nor the capacity to eliminate the existence of the DPRK, China and Russia. Rather, by labeling these countries as the \u201cNew Axis of Aggressors\u201d and the \u201cNew Axis of Evil,\u201d it is merely attempting to draw a line between the imperialist and anti-imperialist camps and to enforce a strategy of \u201cnew blockade.\u201d The shift of this line can be expressed, in strategic terms, as a transition from the \u201cAsia-Pacific Strategy\u201d to the \u201cIndo-Pacific Strategy,\u201d and in geopolitical illustration, as a transformation from a \u201cW-shaped\u201d configuration that includes China to a \u201cU-shaped\u201d configuration that excludes China. In other words, the decisive difference between the two sides lies in China. After President Xi Jinping\u2019s visit to the DPRK in 2019, China came to the decision to resolve the Hong Kong issue through police force, thereby affirming a policy shift from \u201ckeeping a low profile and biding time\u201d (taoguang yanghui) to \u201cpeaceful rise\u201d (heping quji). In the \u201cIndo-Pacific Strategy\u201d\u2015a \u201cnew blockade\u201d policy that draws a \u201cU-shaped\u201d line to encircle the anti-imperialist camp\u2015war in East Asia is not optional, but inevitable. This is why the imperialist warmongering forces persistently provoke wars in the \u201cROK\u201d and Taiwan for the war in East Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a capitalist society is like a car, the capitalists are the drivers. The former is the system; the latter is the controllers. As capitalism has evolved from monopoly capitalism into state monopoly capitalism, the controllers of this system have naturally evolved as well. Understanding the strategic objectives of the core forces of imperialism\u2015the controlling forces within imperialism\u2015is the most crucial premise for formulating the revolutionary strategy and tactics of the anti-imperialist camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a scientific analysis of the current situation and the formulation of revolutionary strategies based on it, not only analyzing the system crisis, but also analyzing the strategies of its controllers who attempt to escape this crisis is one of the fundamental components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is necessary to distinguish between Jews in general and Zionists among them. The problem lies not with \u201cJewish capital\u201d in general, but specifically with the \u201cZionist transnational capital,\u201d including financial capital. Anti-Semitism is erroneous and is a fascist perspective, but anti-Zionism is not an error as it is a revolutionary standpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The national liberation of the Palestinian people fundamentally aims to end the occupation by Zionists, not oppose Jews in general. Historically, Palestinians have never been anti-Semitic, while Zionists have historically been anti-Palestinian. The essence of the Palestinian issue is not religion or ethnicity, but fascism. Chauvinism manifests as fascism in the political realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump is positive in that he is relatively non-warmonger; however, his essence is imperialist. His suppression of anti-Zionist movements in the US by labeling them anti-Semitic reveals his imperialist nature. It reflects his fascist nature, at least in this field. The anti-imperialist camp should tactically cooperate with Trump as a non-warmongering force within imperialism to deepen contradictions with imperialist warmonger forces, but must firmly oppose Trump\u2019s imperialist and fascist policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding China, the Trump\u2019s first administration pursued a policy of \u201cdecoupling,\u201d while the Biden administration adopted a \u201cde-risking\u201d policy. Although the \u201cde-risking\u201d appears softer than the \u201cdecoupling\u201d in terms of sanctions and attacks on China, it is actually the opposite. The \u201cde-risking\u201d conceals a scheme to wage war in Taiwan through Taiwan\u2019s separation provocations. The Trump administration declared that it would respond only with a 200% tariff increase even if China initiated the war in Taiwan. Such declaration, of course, poses no threat to the Chinese government, which is determined to accept any cost to achieve reunification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imperialist core powers, by shifting from the 1944 Bretton Woods system to the 2014 Fortaleza system, positioned themselves at the center of a political seesaw, with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the World Bank (WB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the right, and the New Development Bank (NDB), the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) on the left\u2014in an attempt to continue manipulating the global economy through a calculated balance of checks and counterbalances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this end, China was incorporated into the global economic control system via the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. As if to test this integration, when NATO bombed Belgrade in 1999, they destroyed the Chinese Embassy. Much like the historical anecdote of Han Xin passing between the legs of a bandit, China endured this humiliation and, through its accession to the WTO, ascended to the position of a G2 power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The core imperialist powers, under the framework of 1989 \u201cWashington Consensus\u201d, pursued \u201cneoliberal policies.\u201d Meanwhile, the USA used the 1985 Plaza Accord, to suppress emerging competitors like Japan and West Germany. Specifically, Japan suffered an \u201cL-shaped\u201d recession lasting over 30 years\u2014known as the \u201cLost Decades\u201d\u2014and has yet to fully recover. In contrast, West Germany overcame its market challenges through reunification and the creation of the European Union, gaining access to low-cost gas from Russia, which enabled a relatively swift recovery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US attempted to apply this methodology to China, which was rising as a G2 power. However, China, having drawn lessons from Japan\u2019s experience, rejected this \u201cSecond Plaza Accord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, the Biden administration announced the policies of \u201cNew Washington Consensus\u201d and \u201cde-risking\u201d in 2024. While it may appear as a continuation and innovation of the original \u201dWashington Consensus\u201d, it is nothing more than a deceptive tactic. The essence of these policies lies in their strategic intent to provoke Taiwan\u2019s separatist independence, thereby inciting a potential war in Taiwan and a war in East Asia\u2014making them far more dangerous than Trump\u2019s \u201cdecoupling\u201d policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China surpassed one of its two major development goals set for the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China in 2021\u2014achieving a per capita GDP of $10,000\u2014by the year 2019. This economic achievement provided strong momentum for the formation of the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As China and Russia firmly joined the anti-imperialist camp and the nature of the seesaw system transformed into a confrontation between the anti-imperialist and imperialist camps, the core imperialist forces could no longer remain at the center of the seesaw and were forced to move further to the right, to the side of the imperialist camp. As a result, the imperialist camp could no longer maintain its system of global domination\u2014the \u201cunipolar order.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, within the imperialist camp itself, the imperialist non-warmongering forces have emerged, opposing the aggressive war policy pursued by the imperialist warmongers. This internal contradiction has intensified as the World War 3 is being promoted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boundary between Europe and Asia changes according to the criteria applied. From this perspective, Eastern Europe can be regarded as Northwestern Asia, and Western Asia can more precisely be described as Southwestern Asia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The storm of world war is sweeping from Northwestern Asia through Southwestern and Southern Asia into East Asia. Under the strategy of a \u201cNew Cold War,\u201d the target of a \u201cU-shaped\u201d arrow of war, which the imperialist camp is drawing to realize its \u201cIndo-Pacific Strategy\u201d and \u201cnew blockade\u201d policy, is clearly East Asia. It is now blatantly revealing its intent to ignite a war in East Asia against China and the DPRK\u2015following its confrontations with Russia and the \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d like Iran\u2015in order to turn this region into the main theater and decisive front of World War 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that the storm of world war is encircling Asia, it is a reasonable prediction that it will move beyond Southern Asia and advance toward East Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan is a localized war in South Asia. This war aligns with the imperialist camp\u2019s Indo-Pacific strategy by fueling tensions between India and China, thereby contributing to pulling India away from the anti-imperialist bloc and drawing it into the imperialist bloc. China and Pakistan have a very close relationship, and the Pakistani fighter jet that shot down India\u2019s Rafale jet was the J-10C, a Chinese-made aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

India is a founding member of BRICS, and Prime Minister Modi, having secured re-election, skipped the July 2024 NATO summit in Washington and instead visited Moscow for talks with President Putin. Meanwhile, the Quad is becoming increasingly ineffective. In this context, the outbreak of the localized conflict between India and Pakistan has heightened tensions between India and China, further fueling the atmosphere of World War 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, following negotiations relatively with Russia and Iran, also mediated the localized conflict between India and Pakistan. After India was defeated in its initial attack on Pakistan, it launched a second strike targeting a nuclear facility. Immediately afterward, the Trump administration intervened decisively. The localized conflict between India and Pakistan always carries the risk of escalating into a nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The anti-imperialist forces\u2019 overwhelming superiority in justification, capacity, and operations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The national domination method of monopoly capital in the developed capitalist society is social democracy and fascism. Imperialism, as the outward expression of the monopoly capitalist system, represents its method of dominating other nations. The basic target of the national domination method is the class, and the basic target of the domination method against other countries is the national people. Class is the structure within a unit, while nation is the unit itself. Today, class has expanded to form the people, and the people\u2014including the class\u2014constitute the foundation of the nation. In the colonial \u201cROK\u201d, the national bourgeoisie belongs to the nation but not to the people, while foreign workers belong to the people but not to the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social democracy and fascism are merely different modes of domination, but their essence\u2014a system to serve the monopoly capitalist\u2014is the same. Prior to World War 2, Nazi Germany shifted its mode of rule from social democracy to fascism. Social democracy and fascism are interchangeable forms of rule, depending on conditions. World War 2 began as a conflict between imperialist powers with social democracy domestic systems and fascism domestic systems. It later transformed into an anti-fascist war when the fascist state launched an invasion of the socialist Soviet Union, prompting a tactical united front\u2014anti-fascist front\u2014between the Soviet Union and the imperialist powers of the US and Britain against fascism. Fascism within imperialist states differs from fascism in colonial states. Fascism in colonies is one of the methods through which imperialism exercises colonial domination. From the 1950s to the 1970s, imperialist powers frequently employed fascism as a means of colonial domination. In the case of the \u201cROK\u201d, the country was subjected to military fascist rule for approximately 30 years, from 1961 to 1992. This military dictatorship, manipulated by US imperialism, functioned thoroughly in service of US imperialist interests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In World War 3, the imperialist camp is using neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Zionists in Israel, and comprador fascists in the \u201cROK\u201d as shock troops in its proxy wars. The people of each country, along with Russia, the \u201cAxis of Resistance\u201d, including Hamas, and the DPRK, are not only carrying out anti-fascist struggles against these collaborators, but are also waging anti-imperialist struggles against the imperialist forces orchestrating behind them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia is engaged in an anti-imperialist, anti-neo-Nazi war; Hamas is waging an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist war; and the Axis of Resistance as a whole, including Iran, is conducting an anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist war. The DPRK is preparing for an anti-fascist, anti-imperialist war. If the US intervenes in the DPRK\u2019s war of \u201cSubjugation\u201d\u2014war of anti-fascist, anti-imperialist war\u2014the war will escalate into a full-scale anti-imperialist, anti-fascist war, in which the DPRK\u2019s primary enemy shifts from the \u201cROK\u201d to the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategy and tactics refer to an integrated system of objectives, means, and methods. The strategy and tactics of the anti-imperialist camp likewise constitute a holistic system, consisting on the one hand of objectives, means, and methods, and on the other of justification, capacity, and operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The character of a war is determined by the purpose and objectives of its principal actors. Since the nature of war is relative, the characterization of World War 3 and its localized conflicts must be made from the standpoint of the anti-imperialist camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Ukraine is an anti-imperialist, anti-fascist war, a war of liberation and prevention. As Ukraine\u2019s neo-Nazis act as proxy forces for NATO, the imperialist aggressor, the essence of the war in Ukraine is anti-imperialist war. When a war breaks out in East Asia, Russia will expand the Ukrainian front into a broader Eastern European war. This would deal a severe blow to imperialist and fascist forces, serve as a liberation for the peoples of Eastern Europe, and enable Russia to prevent a NATO-led invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Russia reintegrates former Soviet republics into the Russian Federation and promotes NATO\u2019s withdrawal from former Eastern Bloc socialist states, as well as Finland and Sweden, in order to create a buffer zone, as World War 3 enters a more advanced stage, such moves could invite accusations of \u201cdefensive expansionism.\u201d However, this does not make Russia an imperialist power. Expansionism and imperialism must be distinguished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Palestine is an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist, and national liberation war. The war in West Asia is an anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, and liberation war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Taiwan is an anti-imperialist, national liberation, and reunification war. Indigenous peoples make up only 2% of Taiwan\u2019s population. Historically and practically, Taiwan is an inseparable part of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in the \u201cROK\u201d is an anti-fascist, anti-imperialist war and a war of \u201csubjugation\u201d. A war of \u201csubjugation\u201d essentially means a civil war. The war in the \u201cROK\u201d is a civil war on the Korean peninsula. Currently, fascist factions within the \u201cROK\u201d are attempting to ignite a civil war within the \u201cROK.\u201d When the local war against the DPRK is combined with the civil war within the \u201cROK,\u201d it constitutes the war in the \u201cROK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the history of South Korea, there was an internal civil war in 1948, a localized war against the DPRK in 1949, and the Korean War in 1950. The 1950 Korean War was an anti-imperialist, anti-fascist war, a national liberation war, and the fatherland liberation war. The DPRK refers to the combined national liberation and reunification war as the \u201cFatherland Liberation War.\u201d The Korean War fought by the Korean people against US imperialist aggressors, was, in essence, an anti-imperialist war and a war for the liberation of the fatherland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commonality among the ongoing war in Ukraine in Eastern Europe, the war in West Asia, the imminent war in the \u201cROK\u201d and Taiwan in East Asia is that they are all fundamentally anti-imperialist wars. In short, World War 3 is essentially an anti-imperialist war. Although it may be distinguished by the characteristics and conditions of the three main battlefields, its fundamental commonality\u2014anti-imperialist nature\u2014remains unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war in Palestine is an anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist war, and the war in the \u201cROK\u201d is an anti-fascist, anti-imperialist war. Although anti-Zionism and anti-fascism are emphasized respectively, at the forefront, the essential nature of both conflicts remains fundamentally anti-imperialist. Ultimately, the imperialists stand behind both the Israeli Zionists and the \u201cROK\u201d fascists. Without imperialism, these wars would neither have occurred nor, if they did, would they be easily won by the oppressed and exploited peoples and nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US imperialism is organizing the S-QUAD to draw the Philippines into the war in East Asia. If China is inevitably forced into war with the Philippines and its imperialist backers, this war in the Philippines will differ from the war in Taiwan. The war in Taiwan is a national liberation and reunification war for China, a civil war fought within one country with the goal of territorial integrity. However, the war in the Philippines is neither a national liberation war nor a reunification war for China. Nevertheless, both the wars in Taiwan and the Philippines are anti-imperialist wars, and there is no doubt that the war in the Philippines will decisively promote the Filipino national liberation revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objectives can be divided into acquisition objectives and strike objectives. Each of these, in turn, can be further classified into strategic and tactical levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anti-imperialist camp\u2019s strategic acquisition objective is victory in World War 3\u2014that is, the decisive defeat of the imperialist bloc. Its tactical acquisition objectives are victories in each of the three major theaters of war, which means the liberation of each respective front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if tactical nuclear weapons are used during World War 3, their use will necessarily remain limited. The imperialist bloc, from the outset, has been waging limited war, including proxy wars, with the strategic objective of constructing a \u201cNew Cold War\u201d order. Accordingly, even though the conflict qualifies as a world war, it is impossible to completely annihilate the strategic-nuclear-armed imperialist bloc. Thus, the strategic acquisition objective of the anti-imperialist camp cannot be the destruction of imperialism itself, but rather its defeat\u2014more precisely, its decisive defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A world war period is a period of great upheaval. The anti-imperialist camp must first transform this upheaval into a great change\u2014reversing the declining trajectory of the global situation that followed the imperialist victory in the previous \u201cCold War,\u201d and turning it into a rising tide. This is comparable to how the period of upheaval in World War 2 became a period of great change following the Battle of Stalingrad. Once the decisive defeat of the imperialist bloc is confirmed, the period then transitions into a period of great upsurge. The great upsurge that followed World War 2 will be reproduced after the World War 3 period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World War 3 involves three main theaters: Eastern Europe, East Asia, and West Asia. The Eastern European and East Asian theaters are strategic fronts, while West Asia constitutes a tactical front. Nevertheless, victory on each of these fronts remains a tactical acquisition objective. World War 3 encompasses all three theaters as a whole and has an universal character itself, and therefore possesses a strategic character, whereas each of the three theaters, being constituent parts of the world war, and has a particular character, thus retains a tactical character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strategic strike target of the anti-imperialist camp is imperialism, while the tactical strike target is fascism. Imperialism is the root cause of the world war, and fascism is its servant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the Zionists in Israel, and the collaborationist fascists in the \u201cROK\u201d all operate under the thorough control of imperialism, fulfilling the role of front-line assault forces in each theater to achieve imperialism\u2019s strategic objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since World War 3 carries a strategic character, and its three major theaters carry a tactical one, imperialism\u2014the main instigator of the war\u2014is the strategic strike target, while fascism\u2014the front-line shock troops in each theater\u2014is the tactical strike target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategic and tactical strike targets are each divided into primary and secondary categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary strategic strike target is US imperialism, while the secondary strategic strike targets are European imperialist powers and Japanese militarism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imperialism is the strategic strike target, but US imperialism, as the head of the imperialist bloc, is the main strike target, and the other imperialist powers are secondary strike targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary tactical strike targets are the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and the collaborationist fascists in the \u201cROK,\u201d while the secondary tactical strike target is the Israeli Zionists. The battlefield in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, and the battlefield in East Asia, including the \u201cROK,\u201d constitute strategic theaters in which nuclear and missile superpowers directly confront each other. Accordingly, the fascist forces that serve as imperialism\u2019s shock troops in these theaters are treated as primary strike targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israeli Zionists, from the perspective of a regional theater, are strategic targets and primary targets for the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d including Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, from the perspective of the global war, since West Asia is considered a tactical theater, the Israeli Zionists are regarded as tactical strike targets and secondary targets for the anti-imperialist camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Israel is a nuclear-armed state and Iran is a missile power with latent nuclear capability, neither are nuclear\u2013missile superpowers equipped with hydrogen bombs and hypersonic weapons. Thus, the conflict in that regional theater is likely to remain limited in scope, and it will not escalate toward full-scale mutual assured destruction. So, in the context of the global war, the war in that region retains a tactical and secondary character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The war fought by the anti-imperialist camp is an anti-imperialist war and thus, is a just war. The anti-imperialist camp firmly stands on the side of justice; while opposing imperialism, it also opposes fascism and strives for liberation and reunification. There is no historical precedent for defining imperialism as just, but just as imperialists opposed fascism during World War 2, it can never deny the justification of anti-fascism. The justification of liberation and reunification is just as objective as anti-fascism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the banner of anti-imperialism, the anti-imperialist camp wages a just war for anti-fascism, liberation, and reunification. In terms of justification, the anti-imperialist camp overwhelmingly surpasses the imperialist camp. In war, justification is one of the decisive factors determining victory or defeat, defining the political and moral superiority of force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imperialist camp, while advancing World War 3, and planning the war in Ukraine and West Asia, overlooked the logical contradiction between anti-Russian propaganda and pro-Israel propaganda. The imperialist propaganda that condemns Russia\u2019s anti-fascist war\u2014a just war\u2014as an unjust war, while simultaneously defending the unjust war of Israeli Zionists and fascists, holds no credibility at all. As a result, the imperialist camp has lost even the flimsy justification it had built by labeling Russia as the \u201caggressor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notorious double standards of the imperialist camp have provoked strong backlash even within imperialist countries. It is no coincidence that large-scale protests under the banners of anti-Netanyahu, anti-Zionist, and pro-Palestinian are taking place both inside Israel and in many Western European countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the essential strategic tasks to strengthen the anti-imperialist front and enhance its role is for the anti-imperialist camp to actively support Russia in the war in Ukraine and the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d including Palestine and Iran, in the war in West Asia, while simultaneously promoting strategic solidarity between pro-Russian and pro-Palestinian forces on a global scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Means is capacity. In revolution and struggle, capacity is divided into leading capacity and auxiliary capacity. There may be disagreements when adopting the view that armed struggle forces constitute the leading capacity and mass struggle forces the auxiliary capacity as a general theory of revolution, but there is no disagreement when adopting it as a theory of revolutionary war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leading capacity of the anti-imperialist camp is the \u201cThree Countries and One Group.\u201d The three countries are the DPRK, China, and Russia\u2014all nuclear missile superpowers and major powers. The \u201cOne Group\u201d refers to the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d including Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All members of the Three Countries and One Group are anti-imperialist armed struggle forces. Russia and the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d including Iran, are currently engaged in armed struggles. The DPRK and China regard the wars in the \u201cROK\u201d and Taiwan as imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Three Countries and One Group, as anti-imperialist armed forces, constitute the leading capacity, while the rest of the world anti-imperialist forces engaged in mass struggle form the auxiliary capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anti-imperialist ruling forces in Latin America and the Sahel region of Africa possess the potential to carry out anti-imperialist armed struggle under certain circumstances. However, since they exist outside the three major theaters of World War 3 and are not currently involved in or facing imminent war, they are not considered part of the leading capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPRK is the most thorough socialist state, China is a socialist country with its own characteristics, and Russia is the most important inheritor of the socialist legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPRK, as the most rigorous state based on socialist and anti-imperialist principles, embodies these not only in military and diplomatic aspects but also in economic and cultural aspects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

China, as an economic powerhouse forming the G2 with the United States, is a main pillar of BRICS, the economic community of the anti-imperialist camp together with Russia. The essence of the \u201cOne Belt One Road\u201d policy is to break through the imperialist blockade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia, as the country possessing the world\u2019s most powerful nuclear missiles, provides military support to anti-imperialist states within the anti-imperialist camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The battlefields directly connected to the three major leading states\u2014the Eastern European and East Asian fronts\u2014are regional battlefields of strategic significance among the three main theaters, thus considered strategic fronts. The front of the \u201cAxis of Resistance,\u201d including Iran, is a regional battlefield of tactical significance, therefore a tactical front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria and the weakening of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip bear a strategic character in terms of the West Asian front as a regional battlefield, but from the perspective of the world war as a whole and global fronts, they remain tactical in nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From September to December 2024, imperialism, deploying Israel\u2019s Zionists, launched concentrated offensives in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza in West Asia, inflicting significant damage on the anti-imperialist forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, regarding the invasion of Kursk in Russia in August 2024 and the lifting of long-range missile restrictions against Russia in November 2024, the anti-imperialist forces of Russia and the DPRK joined forces to lead the Battle for Kursk to victory, and the astonishing power of Russia\u2019s \u201cOreshnik\u201d missile struck fear into the imperialist camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The provocations against the DPRK to wage local war led by fascists from September to November 2024 were frustrated by the DPRK\u2019s \u201cstrategic patience,\u201d grounded in overwhelming military power. Meanwhile, the pro-American military self-coup attempt in the \u201cROK\u201d in December 2024 was thwarted by the heroic struggle of the people in the \u201cROK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the perspective of the world war, the anti-imperialist camp dealt a military strike to the imperialist camp on the strategic front in Eastern Europe, and military as well as political strikes on the strategic front in East Asia, both naturally carrying strategic significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia recently marked the 80th anniversary of its victory in World War 2 with a triumph in the liberation battle of Kursk. The DPRK established its strongest-ever military alliance with Russia by signing the DPRK-Russia Treaty on June 19, 2024, and concretized this treaty by participating in the Kursk liberation battle. The DPRK troops\u2019 participation in this battle shines as the highest example of strategic solidarity among the leading countries within the anti-imperialist camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPRK signed treaties with the Soviet Union and China in 1961, confirming automatic intervention by the USSR and China if imperialist war against the DPRK recurs. Since China remains a socialist state, there was no need to renew the DPRK-China treaty during Xi Jinping\u2019s 2019 visit. However, given changes in Russia from the Soviet socialist state, a new DPRK-Russia treaty was in need, which was signed during Putin\u2019s 2024 visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The June 19, 2024, DPRK-Russia treaty establishes the strongest-ever DPRK-Russia alliance, surpassing the previous DPRK-Soviet treaty. Based on this treaty, it was codified that the DPRK and Russia would automatically intervene in the event of a war against imperialism involving the other party. Under this treaty, the DPRK\u2019s participation in the Kursk liberation battle was fully legitimate under international law. Putin and Russia highly commend the heroic and sacrificial achievements of the DPRK military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anti-imperialist front is a strategic united front, while the anti-fascist front is a tactical united front. For the anti-imperialist camp, non-warmongering forces in imperialism are targets for tactical cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A strategic united front can remain throughout the historical course of revolution and its successive developmental stages, whereas a tactical united front is only effective within a limited time frame. A typical example of the former is the national united front, while the latter is the anti-fascist democratic front. The anti-Japanese national united fronts in the DPRK and China evolved into governments which have been continuing in the process of socialist revolution and construction. The world anti-fascist front during World War 2, however, was dissolved after the war due to the imperialist camp\u2019s \u201cCold War\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treating a permanent strategic united front as a temporary tactical united front is a right-wing deviation, while treating a temporary tactical united front as a permanent strategic united front is a left-wing deviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tactical cooperation involves temporarily aligning actions to isolate and weaken a common enemy, while refraining from mutual attacks between the cooperating forces. By engaging in tactical cooperation, one can avoid situations where fighting between cooperating forces would ultimately benefit the common enemy. Since tactical cooperation is not a united front, meetings, agreements, or declarations are not necessary. In other words, those involved in tactical cooperation are neither subjects of solidarity nor subjects to shake hands with. Forming a tactical united front with the so-called \u201cnew right\u201d that has roots in fascism, or aligning with them in solidarity, is a right-wing error and an error of rightist open-door policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the political situation of World War 3, if the \u201cnew right\u201d opposes the war and takes a different line from the warmongering forces in the imperialist camp, then tactical cooperation aimed at exacerbating the divisions within the imperialist camp and promoting the anti-imperialist camp\u2019s victory in World War 3 is both justifiable and necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, when the imperialist camp is divided into warmongers and non-warmongers, as is the case today, it is important for the anti-imperialist camp to tactically cooperate with the non-warmongering forces within the imperialist camp. Denying this would be a left-wing error, an error of leftist closed-door policy. The unity of the anti-imperialist camp has strategic significance, while the division of the imperialist camp holds tactical significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The methods are armed struggle and mass struggle. When combined, they form what is called an All-People\u2019s War. The fundamental struggle form of anti-imperialist camp is the All-People\u2019s War. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the historical experience shows, the Soviet Union waged a war of attrition in World War 2; China won its liberation war through a protracted war; the DPRK achieved victory in its liberation war through guerrilla warfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following World War 2, Italian revolutionary forces developed the concept of war of position. For the past three years, Russia has also relied primarily on a war of attrition in its prosecution of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forms of popular struggle can be classified according to intensity and leadership into: All-People\u2019s Resistance War, All-People\u2019s Resistance struggle, People\u2019s Uprising, and Mass Uprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-People\u2019s Resistance War, All-People\u2019s Resistance struggle, People\u2019s Uprising are all forms of revolutionary resistance: All-People\u2019s Resistance War is a resistance war waged together by regular armed forces and the masses; All-People\u2019s Resistance Struggle is a combination of armed and mass struggle by the irregular armed forces and people; People\u2019s Uprising is the highest form of popular struggle led directly by the people themselves; Mass Uprising is also a high-level mass struggle, but one typically led by reformist forces rather than revolutionary ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the history of the \u201cROK\u201d, the 1950 Korean war is characterized as an all people\u2019s war; the 1948 Jeju uprising and 1980 Gwangju uprising as all people\u2019s uprising; the 1960 April uprising and 1987 June uprising as people\u2019s uprising; the 2016 \u201cCandlelight uprising\u201d and 2024 December uprising as mass uprising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imperialist camp is conducting military operations in the form of proxy wars, expeditionary wars, \u201cnon-nuclear hybrid wars,\u201d and limited wars. In contrast, the anti-imperialist camp is commonly engaging in direct war, proximate wars, \u201cnuclear hybrid wars,\u201d and full-scale wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the context of World War 3, Russia is waging a war of attrition against the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and NATO, while the DPRK and China\u2014preparing for a decisive imperialist provocation\u2014have established military operational plans aimed at achieving victory within \u201c72 hours,\u201d based on blitzkrieg (lightning war), total war, and tactical nuclear strikes. In recent years, they have been refining these plans through repeated drills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2022, the DPRK responded to the US-\u201cROK\u201d joint aerial invasion exercise \u201cVigilant Ace\u201d by mobilizing 500 aircraft in a counter-drill. As their operational plan is designed to be completed within three days, they reverted to the Day 1 plan on the fourth day. In April 2025, China conducted a military encirclement drill around Taiwan, based on an operational plan that involved the projection of tactical nuclear weapons from air, sea, and land. Since 2024, the DPRK has been continuously screening the film \u201c72 Hours\u201d in theaters nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The imperialist camp\u2019s hybrid warfare is a \u201cnon-nuclear hybrid war,\u201d wherein the use of nuclear weapons is entirely excluded. In contrast, the anti-imperialist camp engages in a \u201cnuclear hybrid war,\u201d which includes the use of tactical nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tactical nuclear warfare is a strategy that targets the enemy\u2019s underground command bunkers with tactical nuclear weapons in the early phase of war, aiming to force a swift surrender and minimize human and material losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPRK possesses even tactical nuclear weapons and has the will to use them. In contrast, the \u201cROK\u201d has no tactical nukes, and while the US does possess them, it lacks the will to use them. The DPRK\u2019s tactical nuclear weapons are intended for use against the \u201cROK,\u201d not the USA. However, if the US were to use tactical nuclear weapons, it would be doing so against the DPRK\u2014and specifically on DPRK territory. In that case, the DPRK would retaliate against the US\u2014specifically targeting US territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If such a situation unfolds, China and Russia would become involved. If the DPRK were to use a nuclear weapon\u2014especially a hydrogen bomb\u2014against the USA, then the US would feel compelled to retaliate not only against the DPRK but also against China and Russia with hydrogen bombs. This is because the US cannot allow China and Russia to remain intact after its own territory has been destroyed by thermonuclear weapons. In turn, China and Russia would naturally retaliate by launching hydrogen bombs at the US, and likewise, unable to leave Europe unscathed, they would also target Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This catastrophic chain of mutual assured destruction on a global scale is precisely why the US cannot, under any circumstances, initiate a tactical nuclear strike on DPRK territory. Thus, the DPRK, possessing tactical nuclear weapons, would be able to conclude the war quickly and with relative ease\u2014within three days\u2014against the \u201cROK,\u201d which lacks such weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of tactical nuclear weapons by the DPRK, China, and Russia is limited to their own historic territories and is aimed at achieving long-standing goals of territorial integrity and the surgical elimination of fascist forces. Tactical nuclear weapons are employed to bring a swift end to war through an ultra-short-term campaign, precisely to prevent the prolonged duration of conventional warfare and the astronomical human and material losses it entails. They are a means used for just purposes\u2014to minimize the consequences of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if the US and NATO\u2014acting as the backers of the \u201cROK,\u201d Taiwan, and Ukraine\u2014were to launch tactical nuclear strikes against the mainlands of the DPRK, China, or Russia, the situation would escalate to an entirely different level. In such a case, the DPRK, China, and Russia would rightfully and immediately retaliate with tactical nuclear strikes against the US and NATO homelands, plunging the world into a state of mutual assured destruction. For this reason, a tactical nuclear attack by the US or NATO would not only be unjust, but in practice, unfeasible. Such an action would mean the annihilation of humanity and the destruction of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historically, the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons is the United States\u2014US imperialism. The destructive power of the \u201cLittle Boy\u201d and \u201cFat Man\u201d bombs it dropped was well over ten times greater than that of the tactical nuclear weapons currently being planned for use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had a yield of 16 kilotons, whereas the DPRK\u2019s newly revealed tactical nuclear warhead, the \u201cHwasan-31,\u201d intended for use in a war in the \u201cROK,\u201d has a yield of 0.9 kilotons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cHwasan-31\u201d is designed for deployment across all domains\u2014land, sea, underwater, and air\u2014and is compatible with a wide array of delivery systems, including ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles, maneuverable glide missiles, and even 600mm super-large multiple rocket launchers. The DPRK has completed all necessary preparations for its tactical nuclear weapons program\u2014including production, deployment, operational training, and legal formalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During World War 2, the United States used nuclear weapons to annihilate Japanese militarism and fascism. In World War 3, the tactical nuclear weapons of the DPRK, China, and Russia will likewise be used to eliminate fascism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USA\u2014as the first and only country to have ever used nuclear weapons and one that has continuously wielded nuclear blackmail against non-nuclear states while now driving the world toward World War 3\u2014has no right to condemn the DPRK, China, and Russia for resorting to tactical nuclear strikes as a justified act of defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DPRK and China are currently upholding a stance of \u201cstrategic patience,\u201d refusing to be drawn into provocations, even as the largest-ever war exercises targeting both countries unfold in the Pacific and schemes to ignite the wars in the \u201cROK\u201d and in Taiwan accelerate. Their position reflects a steadfast commitment to preserving peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPRK\u2019s war in the \u201cROK\u201d is a war of anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and a war of \u201csubjugation.\u201d While anti-fascist war is inherently anti-imperialist, the anti-fascist aspect takes precedence in this case. This indicates that the Korean People\u2019s Army will not engage US forces unless the United States intervenes in the war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, in such a scenario, US forces and related elements would be effectively confined within their bases. Given that the DPRK would have already subjugated and occupied the \u201cROK,\u201d the situation for them would be even more severe than that of the so-called \u201cGreen Zone\u201d in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike Ukraine, which shares land borders not only with Russia but also with Poland, Romania, and others, and unlike Taiwan, which\u2014though separated from China by sea\u2014is an island completely surrounded by water, the \u201cROK\u201d shares a land border only with the DPRK and is otherwise enclosed by sea on its three remaining sides. This gives Russia a geographic advantage in launching and occupying Ukraine by land, while Ukraine still has options to flee by land. In contrast, China faces a geographic disadvantage in having to cross the strait to attack and occupy Taiwan, but Taiwan is completely isolated and has no way to escape. As for the DPRK, it has a geographical advantage in attacking and occupying the \u201cROK\u201d by land, while the \u201cROK\u201d remains geographically isolated and has no route of escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPRK has undertaken extensive preparations for a war in the \u201cROK\u201d by excavating numerous southward infiltration tunnels and strategic underground structures. The fascists in the \u201cROK\u201d and the imperialists like the US Forces Korea (USFK) would find themselves immediately isolated and effectively taken hostage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The USA would bear responsibility for ensuring the safety not only of its own citizens but also of those from the other \u201cFive Eyes\u201d countries, as well as Japanese citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems that the DPRK intends to use the presence of U.S. troops and other personnel as hostages in the event of a revolution in the \u201cROK\u201d to pressure imperialist powers into lifting their economic and other forms of blockade. Fully aware of this, Trump has sought to withdraw the USFK before the outbreak of a war of \u2018subjugation,\u2019 yet his efforts have been hampered by the imperialist pro-warmonger forces. As of May 2025, reports indicate that the Trump administration is considering a troop reduction plan that would relocate 4,500 USFK personnel from the \u201cROK\u201d to Guam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPRK will never resume talks unless the agreements made during the 2018\u201319 summits with the US and the \u201cROK\u201d are implemented first. It is no coincidence that the Trump administration has acknowledged the DPRK as a nuclear-armed state and is now moving to reduce USFK by 4,500 troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reformist forces led by Lee Jae-myung, which won the early \u201cROK\u201d presidential election on June 3, must also take concrete action by abolishing the National Security Act. USFK is an occupying and invading force, and the National Security Act is a fascist law. Their very existence proves that the \u201cROK\u201d remains a US colony under fascist rule. The DPRK\u2019s fundamental position appears to be that it will only enter into dialogue with the US and the \u201cROK\u201d if and when USFK is withdrawn and the National Security Act is abolished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this end, the DPRK issued its \u201cDeclaration of \u2018Subjugation\u2019\u201d during the policy address of the Supreme People\u2019s Assembly in January 2024, and notably omitted the policy address entirely in January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, the DPRK has suspended intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch drills targeting the US mainland, and has instead been concentrating on tactical nuclear strike drills aimed at the traitorous and fascist forces in the \u201cROK\u201d\u2014using short-range ballistic missiles, strategic cruise missiles, 600mm multiple rocket launchers, air-to-air missiles, and other platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the imperialist war-mongering forces desperate to unleash World War 3, a war in East Asia is indispensable\u2014and at its core lies the war in \u201cROK\u201d as the ignition point. Having failed in the military coup of December 3, 2024, the fascist and reactionary clique in the \u201cROK,\u201d now facing political death, sees civil war as its only remaining path to survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a civil war overlaps with a localized war, it becomes a full-scale war\u2014w war in the \u201cROK.\u201d The historical sequence of the 1948 civil war in South Korea, the 1949 localized war against the DPRK, and the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 is now being reenacted in the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the standpoint of imperialist and fascist forces, the provocation of a localized war against the DPRK between September and November 2024 constitutes Plan A. The instigation of civil war beginning in December 2024 then becomes Plan B. If both fail, a war in Taiwan becomes Plan C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In accordance with the 1961 DPRK-China Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance\u2014and as reaffirmed during Xi Jinping\u2019s visit to the DPRK in 2019\u2014any outbreak of war, whether in the \u201cROK\u201d or in Taiwan, will inevitably trigger the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the victory of reformist candidate Lee Jae-myung in the June 3 presidential election, Plan B has become a difficult path for the imperialist and fascist forces. They now stand at a crossroads: either attempt Plan A once more, or proceed with Plan C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Plan B within the \u201cROK\u201d is not entirely off the table, as the possibility of a military coup still remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plan A, as clearly demonstrated by this year\u2019s largest-ever U.S.-\u201cROK\u201d joint war exercises aimed at invading the DPRK, remains a constant and immediate option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US imperialism has been accelerating its war exercises aimed at invading the DPRK: 132 times from 2003 to 2022, 123 times in 2023, 134 times in 2024, and it is already on track to surpass this record in 2025. In August 2023, the imperialist camp de facto established an \u201cAsian NATO,\u201d centered on trilateral military cooperation, through the Camp David summit between the US, Japan, and the \u201cROK.\u201d Subsequently, preparations related to the \u201cPacificization of NATO\u201d proceeded on both political and military fronts: on the political level, with the Washington NATO Summit Declaration in July 2024; on the military level, with a series of joint exercises held between June and August 2024, including \u201cFreedom Edge,\u201d \u201cRIMPAC,\u201d and \u201cUlchi Freedom Shield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFreedom Edge\u201d is a trilateral exercise involving the US, Japan, and the \u201cROK, \u201dexplicitly aimed at joint operational readiness concerning the DPRK, and was one of the outcomes of the Camp David summit. \u201cRIMPAC,\u201d the largest annual maritime exercise in the Pacific, has steadily expanded in scope, with an increasing focus on scenarios involving both the DPRK and China. \u201cUlchi Freedom Shield\u201d is the largest joint military drill in the region, specifically aimed at simulating a war against the DPRK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between June and August 2024, \u201cRIMPAC\u201d was conducted at an unprecedented scale in the Pacific, with 29 countries participating, involving 40 warships, 3 submarines, over 150 aircraft, and some 25,000 troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exercise laid bare the reality of the \u201cPacificization of NATO\u201d and clearly demonstrated how the imperialist camp is preparing for what many now call a \u201cSecond Pacific War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series of events that occurred\u2014the assassination attempt on candidate Trump in July 2024, the Kursk incursion, concentrated strikes on Hezbollah, and the drone attack on Pyongyang in August, September, and October\u2014followed by the lifting of restrictions on long-range missiles against Russia in November, and the military coup in the \u201cROK\u201d and the collapse of the Assad government in Syria in December\u2014cannot be seen as mere coincidences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That these provocations and attacks by imperialist warmongering forces and fascists took place around the US presidential election\u2014and then subsided relatively after January 2025, when Trump, representative of the non-warmongering forces of imperialism, returned to power\u2014points to the same context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump engaged in serious negotiations with Russia and Iran. Even when an unprecedented and unexplained explosion occurred at Iran\u2019s largest port on the very first day of talks between the Iranian and US delegations in Oman, Iran did not suspend the talks. Under the direction of NATO\u2014representing the imperialist warmongering forces\u2014its proxies, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and Israeli Zionists, continue their attacks and provocations against Russia and Iran, respectively. Alarming signs of possible strikes on Russia\u2019s nuclear reactors and Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities have repeatedly surfaced. Israeli Zionists have intensified their assaults on Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. We must closely monitor whether these provocations by imperialist warmongering forces and their fascist puppets are merely aimed at sabotaging Trump\u2019s negotiations, or whether they will escalate into a broader war in Eastern Europe and a full-scale war in West Asia. It is because the imperialist warmongering forces are not only deliberately pushing for the outbreak of war in East Asia\u2014they are also relentlessly driving the expansion of war in both Eastern Europe and West Asia to crush the imperialist non-warmongering forces and fully ignite World War 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The localized conflict between India and Pakistan, which had served to escalate tensions between India and China and to draw India toward the imperialist camp under the Indo-Pacific Strategy, was also brought to a halt through Trump\u2019s mediation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration stated that even if a war in Taiwan were to break out, it would respond solely with a 200% tariff on China. It also blocked the implementation of a plan\u2014initiated under the Biden administration\u2014to transfer operational control over US Forces Japan (USFJ) from the Indo-Pacific Command to USFJ. While publicly pursuing negotiations with the DPRK, the Trump administration repeatedly emphasized the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state and was reportedly reviewing a plan to withdraw 4,500 troops of US forces stationed in the \u201cROK.\u201d Although a military coup took place in the \u201cROK\u201d under the Biden administration, moves toward civil war were de-escalated during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fundamentally, the attempted localized war against the DPRK was deterred by the DPRK\u2019s overwhelming military power and its \u201cstrategic patience,\u201d while the attempt to provoke civil war in the \u201cROK\u201d was blocked by the heroic resistance of the people in the \u201cROK\u201d. Through the great December uprising, the people in the \u201cROK\u201d prevented a repetition of Indonesia\u2019s dark past\u2014the Suharto coup and mass slaughter\u2014from unfolding in the \u201cROK\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this process, the people experienced a powerful awakening that they came to directly confront the limits of \u201cROK\u201d-style democracy and rule of law, to recognize the deeply subordinated and reactionary nature of the existing society, and to deepen their collective realization of the need to advance toward a new society rooted in people\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the sole revolutionary force leading the revolution of the \u201cROK,\u201d the People\u2019s Democracy Party stood at the center of the political struggle to elevate the anti-fascist front into an anti-imperialist, anti-fascist front, and faithfully carried out its historic mission as the \u201clocomotive of the struggle\u201d throughout the entire course of the December Uprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the imperialist pro-warmonger forces, the war in the \u201cROK\u201d is the ultimate scheme to launch World War 3 in earnest through the war in East Asia and the most effective card for suppressing the imperialist non-warmonger forces that run counter to the march toward world war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If a war in the \u201cROK\u201d breaks out, a war in Taiwan would erupt almost simultaneously, rapidly expanding into an East Asia war involving Japan and the Philippines, and then into a Western Pacific war as Australia and others join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A war in the \u201cROK,\u201d a war in East Asia, and a war in Western Pacific are not a matter of choice but of necessity\u2014the only remaining question is when, not if.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That timing will not be decided by the anti-imperialist camp, but by the imperialist camp\u2014by the imperialist warmongering forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As reality clearly shows, the anti-imperialist camp is surpassing the imperialist camp in every respect\u2014in objectives, means, and methods; in justification, capacity, and strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPRK and China are steadily accumulating justification through \u201cstrategic patience,\u201d while Russia and Iran, fully aware of the imminence of an East Asia war, are likewise exercising \u201cstrategic patience\u201d by holding back from decisive countermeasures and escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The delay in the outbreak of war in East Asia, the expansion of the war in Eastern Europe, and the widening of the war in West Asia is entirely thanks to the \u201cstrategic patience\u201d of the DPRK and China in the former case, and of Russia and Iran in the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. The Final Victory of the Anti-Imperialist Camp Is Inevitable<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitalism has evolved through monopoly capitalism and imperialism into state monopoly capitalism and modern imperialism. Ideology reflects its time; when the times change, so too must ideology. Leninism emerged as a continuation of the universal principles of Marxism, which reflected the era of monopoly capitalism, while overcoming its historical limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lenin defined imperialism as the highest and final stage of capitalism. Although the era of modern imperialism has since arrived, the universal principles of Lenin\u2019s theory remain valid to this day. As stated in the preface, Lenin\u2019s \u201cImperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism\u201d inevitably bears the limitation of being written primarily from an economic standpoint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imperialism, of course, is not limited to the economic aspect; it also possesses military and political features. For example, the mere presence of monopolistic forms of capital, the phenomenon of capital export, or holding a dominant position over other countries as an economic power cannot, in and of themselves, be sufficient to define a country as imperialist. At its core, imperialism necessarily involves colonial domination\u2014and such domination is predicated not only on economic control but also, as a precondition, on military and political rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As history has shown, military domination is the decisive factor in colonial rule under imperialism. The most important criterion for determining whether a society is colonial in nature\u2014the primary indicator to examine\u2014is whether it is under military domination. Imperialism militarily occupies its colonies, governs them politically, and exploits them economically. In the absence of military occupation and political control, even if there are partial forms of economic subordination or exploitation, the relationship cannot be characterized as one between imperialism and a colony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there is a so-called \u201ctheory\u201d that claims all capitalist societies are, by nature, imperialist societies. It is truly deplorable that this pseudo-theory\u2014lacking even the barest scientific foundation to qualify as a theory\u2014is being propagated under the name of the \u201cImperialist Pyramid\u201d, thereby sowing confusion within the international communist movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This clearly illustrates how stagnant the international communist movement has become. The reason why Solidnet\u2014a respected body within the international communist movement\u2014has failed to carry out the mission demanded by the times, remaining mired in division and paralysis, lies precisely here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So long as the proponents of the \u201cImperialist Pyramid\u201d theory remain at the helm of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Solidnet\u2014of which the KKE serves as an organizer\u2014will be unable to overcome its inherent limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leadership of the KKE has committed a grave analytical error in understanding the current international situation by clinging to the absurd sophistry of the \u201cImperialist Pyramid\u201d theory, labeling Russia as an imperialist state, and defining the war in Ukraine as an inter-imperialist conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It must also be emphasized that other political forces within the international communist movement\u2014though they may not explicitly follow to the \u201cImperialist Pyramid\u201d theory\u2014nonetheless commit the same error by advancing similar analyses that obscure the true nature of the war in Ukraine, ultimately serving imperialist interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KKE leadership not only classifies Russia as an imperialist society but also includes China and even the DPRK. This logic leads to the conclusion that the imminent wars in Taiwan and the \u201cROK\u201d are also inter-imperialist wars. As a result, the main strategic battlefronts of World War 3 are reduced to nothing more than conflicts between unjust forces, erasing the existence of any real enemy for the international communist movement and world anti-imperialist forces\u2014a truly absurd outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To confuse friend and foe is the gravest strategic mistake that communists must never commit. This was the essential error committed by Karl Kautsky during World War 1 and by Trotsky during World War 2. This is precisely why the KKE leadership\u2019s \u201cImperialist Pyramid\u201d theory evokes both Kautsky\u2019s theory of \u201cultra-imperialism\u201d and the ultra-left tendencies of Trotskyism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is no longer a secret that the KKE leadership followed Khrushchev\u2015the ringleader of modern revisionism\u2015in 1956 and even supported Gorbachev\u2019s policies of \u201cPerestroika\u201d and \u201cGlasnost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some might defend the KKE leadership by arguing that most of the international communist movement followed the Communist Party of Soviet Union at the time and thus also committed revisionist errors. However, given the KKE\u2019s central role as one of the main organizers in SolidNet, it must bear the corresponding political responsibility for the grave consequences of those errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth remembering that Nikos Zachariadis, the most representative General Secretary of the KKE, was a revolutionary communist who stood firmly against Khrushchev\u2019s revisionism\u2014alongside Kim Il Sung, the General Secretary of the Workers\u2019 Party of Korea, Mao Zedong of the Communist Party of China, and Enver Hoxha of the Party of Labour of Albania. Ever since expelling General Secretary Zachariadis and other steadfast communists, the KKE leadership has followed a revisionist line\u2014without ever genuinely reflecting on or evaluating its errors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KKE, which continues to cling to the pseudo-theory of the \u2018Imperialist Pyramid\u2019 and commit grave errors through its revisionist ideology and opportunist political line, must immediately withdraw from all positions of responsibility within the international communist movement. It must carry out a rigorous, scientific, and self-critical communist assessment of the ideological, organizational, and practical consequences of its actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leadership of the KKE is today causing some of the most serious problems in the international communist movement: revisionism in ideology, both \u201cleft\u201d and right opportunism in political line, and sectarianism in organizational practice. Even at this very moment, its erroneous ideas, theories, and line are spreading confusion within the international communist movement and sowing division among the communist parties of various countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The KKE leadership must be held strictly accountable for the political, strategic, and historical consequences of weakening the international communist movement and aiding the forces of imperialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is no coincidence that the true nature of the KKE is being increasingly exposed through the ideological struggle waged by revolutionary communists, and that it is becoming ever more isolated within the international communist movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2022, the war in Ukraine erupted. Originating with the 2014 Maidan coup, the conflict escalated into full-scale war through Russia\u2019s \u201cspecial military operation,\u201d marking the opening salvo of World War 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although World War 3 had begun, the international communist movement remained engulfed in severe confusion, unable to break free from the grip of the KKE leadership and its dogmatic adherence to the so-called \u201cImperialist Pyramid\u201d theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the KKE leadership defined the war in Ukraine as a conflict between imperialist powers, Solidnet experienced an unprecedented split and was compelled to issue two mutually opposing declarations at its meeting in Havana, Cuba, in October 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, communist forces aligned in revolutionary orientation gathered in Paris in October 2022 to hold the 1st International Anti-imperialist Conference, issuing the Paris Declaration. The day after the declaration was released, the World Anti-imperialist Platform (hereinafter the Platform) was founded, based on the political program it laid out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the Platform has organized seven successive international anti-imperialist conferences: in Belgrade, Serbia (December 2022); Caracas, Venezuela (March 2023); Gwangju and Seoul, the \u201cROK\u201d (May 2023); Athens, Greece (November 2023); Washington, USA (July 2024); and Dakar, Senegal (November 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside convening international conferences for the scientific analysis of the global situation and the formulation of revolutionary strategies, the Platform has vigorously carried out joint anti-imperialist struggles to implement them in practice. At each event, rallies and marches were held, and communist party members and anti-imperialist activists came together to discuss and disseminate the Platform\u2019s scientific understanding of the present conjuncture and its revolutionary strategy and tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world anti-imperialist massive struggles are also being carried out on a regular monthly basis, led by the People\u2019s Democracy Party of the \u201cROK\u201d and other participating parties and organizations wherever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Platform held its 2nd International Anti-imperialist Conference in Belgrade, Serbia, because NATO\u2014an imperialist bloc\u2019s military tool\u2014bombed Belgrade in 1999. The Platform places strategic importance on opposing NATO, which is now executing World War 3 directly on behalf of the imperialist camp. Serbia is the most dangerous flashpoint country in the Balkans, where NATO\u2014defeated in the war in Ukraine\u2014could launch a retaliatory war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Platform selected Caracas, Venezuela\u2014the heart of the Bolivarian Revolution\u2014as the site of its first event in Latin America. The event was held in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s passing, adding to its historical significance. The Platform has consistently expressed its support for the Maduro government, which upholds the banners of the Bolivarian Revolution, anti-imperialism, and anti-fascism, strengthens the people\u2019s power of the Communas, and advances toward socialism. In stark contrast, the leadership of the KKE played a divisive role in splitting the Communist Party of Venezuela, manipulated the breakaway faction, and absurdly labeled the Maduro government an \u201cimperialist government.\u201d This culminated in their shocking endorsement of a pro-US fascist candidate in the recent presidential election. The genuine communist forces of Venezuela, standing firm against these pseudo-communist elements, have upheld the revolutionary tradition of the Communist Party of Venezuela and maintained their revolutionary independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next event was held in Gwangju and Seoul in the \u201cROK,\u201d located at the geopolitical flashpoint of East Asia\u2014the main battlefield of the unfolding World War 3. The mass street demonstration in Gwangju, carried out under the high banner of anti-imperialism and led by the working class, marked not only the first such action by the Platform, but also an unprecedented moment in the history of the \u201cROK\u201d itself, lending it profound political significance and wide resonance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the \u201cROK,\u201d a colonial and fascist society where the largest US military base in the world is located and where the most draconian fascist laws are in force, it is an unprecedented historical event for workers and the masses to march through the streets raising high the banner of anti-imperialism and anti-US, calling for the overthrow of the fascist regime. Such a struggle would have been impossible without the strength of the Platform, the true rallying force of the global communist movement and the anti-imperialist struggle. Amid the energy and momentum of the Platform\u2019s international anti-imperialist conference and anti-imperialist massive struggle, the People\u2019s Democracy Party successfully held its Party Congress, formed a new leadership, and proclaimed its people-centered \u201cTheory of the 21st Century Revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Platform\u2019s decision to choose Athens, Greece as its next site was rooted in multiple layers of significance: to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Nikos Zachariadis, and the 50th anniversary of the Polytechnic anti-fascist and anti-imperialist uprising; to carry forward the ideological struggle against the revisionism and opportunism of the KKE leadership; and to highlight the geopolitical importance of Greece, positioned between the front in Ukraine and the newly emerging fronts in Palestine and West Asia. At the Athens International Anti-imperialist Conference, the Platform issued the \u201cPalestine Declaration\u201d, affirming international solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequently, the Platform, overcoming tremendous obstacles, held an International Anti-imperialist Conference in Washington DC. in opposition to the NATO Summit. Despite intense repression and blockade by US imperialism\u2014forcing an unavoidable reduction in scale\u2014the event was of strategic importance and was carried out with high political quality. The Platform advanced powerful anti-imperialist rallies, marches, and propaganda actions in the heart of imperialism itself. No amount of repression or fascist suppression can block the path of the Platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few months later, the Platform held its first event in Africa, in Dakar, Senegal, expressing solidarity with the anti-imperialist struggles unfolding in the Sahel, which today stands at the forefront of Africa\u2019s resistance to imperialism. The event also commemorated the 100th birth anniversary of Am\u00edlcar Cabral, the renowned African revolutionary from Guinea-Bissau, in a meaningful tribute. From the time of the Dakar event, the Platform also initiated an international solidarity campaign calling for the release of Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese revolutionary who has been unjustly imprisoned for over 40 years by French imperialism for his role in the Palestinian liberation struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the 2022 NATO summit held in Madrid, Spain, a new summit is now set to take place once again in Western Europe\u2014in The Hague, Netherlands, in June 2025\u2014as part of NATO\u2019s drive to provoke and accelerate World War 3. In firm opposition to NATO\u2019s expansion and war drive, the Platform continues to advance with unwavering determination and revolutionary clarity\u2014until the day NATO is dismantled and world peace is achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With over 80 political organizations all over the world signing the Paris Declaration, all the practical events, theoretical and propaganda work, event-based struggles, and everyday operations of the Platform are consistently oriented toward its three core objectives: to promote world anti-imperialist mass struggle, to intensify the ideological struggle against revisionism and opportunism, and the consolidate the international communist movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Platform conducts its theoretical and practical activities under the banners of two central slogans: \u201cProletarians of all countries, unite!\u201d and \u201cThe people united will never be defeated!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Platform\u2019s most fundamental task is to establish a revolutionary strategy based on scientific analysis of the global situation. By analyzing the global conjuncture of World War 3 unleashed by imperialism and presenting a revolutionary anti-imperialist strategy, the Platform is at the forefront of the struggle to strengthen the anti-imperialist front and hasten the final victory of the anti-imperialist cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the world anti-fascist front triumphed in World War 2, the world anti-imperialist front will surely win in World War 3. As reality shows, the anti-imperialist camp is overwhelming the imperialist camp in justification, capacity, and operations. The final victory of the people, advancing under the banners of anti-imperialism and revolution, is inevitable. Revolution is science. So is revolutionary victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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