People’s Democracy Party (“Republic of Korea”)
Yoon Suk-yeol’s fascist power of “Republic of Korea (ROK, South Korea)” is going on a frenzied crackdown. On August 30th, the fascist authorities carried out the search and seizure of bodies, residences, and offices of the former president and party members of the People’s Democracy Party (PDP). During the search, the police conducted illegal, violent, inhumane investigations, including the detention of party members not listed on the warrant, property damage, and verbal abuse. Although the former president and party members conveyed their intention to remain silent through their lawyer, the police are forcibly and repeatedly demanding their attendance, threatening arrest, and pressuring them to abandon their right to remain silent. To repress a legal party, the PDP, Yoon Suk-yeol administration is slandering the party as being an “organization that benefits the enemy”, by applying an unconstitutional law, the National Security Act. The vicious repression of the PDP, the only revolutionary party of the working class in the “ROK” and a legal party, explicitly demonstrates the reality of the extreme fascist crackdown of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration.
Fascist repression is being brazenly carried out on all fronts. Yoon Suk-yeol administration, around the same time as its repression of the PDP, enforced the search and seizure of the anti-Japanese and patriotic organization, Anti-Japanese Action, on charges of “acting in concert with the enemy”. Additionally, they executed the search and seizure at the houses of the Democratic Party members and the family of the former president. Yoon Suk-yeol’s concurrent repression of the Democratic Party, which is the furthest right except for the far-right fascist party, as well as the PDP, which is the furthest left, is essentially no different from Hitler’s repression of both communist and social democratic parties in turn. Meanwhile, the fascist police have been manipulating violence and conflict and forcibly arrested university students, who waged the anti-Yoon struggle. National Security Prosecutors sentenced 20 years to the labor movement activist. Moreover, the police began fascist suppression of the struggling common people by conducting a search of the server of a democratic organization, the ‘Candlelight Action’, which has led the mass demonstrations against Yoon Suk-yeol.
Yoon Suk-yeol administration is madly wielding the fascist law and repressive institutions in both hands. The National Security Act has been a notorious fascist evil law, brutally abused to repress both workers and the people who have struggled against US imperialism and for independence and democracy since it was enacted by the pro-US proxy regime in November 1948. Article 7 (Praise, Incitement), which applies to the repression of PDP, is infamous for violating the freedom of thought and expression guaranteed by the Constitution. Since 2004, the National Human Rights Commission has determined that the National Security Act has serious issues in terms of International Law, the Constitution, and human rights, and since 1992, the United Nations Human Rights Council has also urged its abolition several times. The Security Investigation Division, which carried out the search and seizure of PDP, is a part of “counterintelligence” department of the National Police Agency, and is the successor of the National Security Division ill-famed for violent and torture-based investigations. Yoon Suk-yeol, a former prosecutor, is frantically repressing both progressive and reformist forces, by putting forward political prosecutors as his stooges.
Political repression of the PDP is a decisive sign of “wartime martial law” and “fascist coup”. Yoon Suk-yeol has been provoking the local war with aggressive actions against DPRK, while he appointed fascists of his private faction, “Chungam”, to key military and political positions related to the enforcement of martial law. It has recently been revealed that military commanders, who would play key roles in the event of martial law, secretly had a meeting. Under the current situation where World War 3 is being developed and the East Asian War and the Western Pacific War are imminent, Yoon Suk-yeol, abandoned by the people, is trying to evade his crisis by provoking a war and implementing martial law. This is a malicious and typical tactic that is also confirmed by the pro-US fascists in Eastern Europe and West Asia (Middle East). The miserable ends of past fascists in “ROK”, who were shot down, impeached, and imprisoned, illustrate what the fascist Yoon Suk-yeol’s fate may be. The awakened and united people of “ROK” rising up together with their full energy in the people’s uprising against Yoon Suk-yeol, and overthrowing him is both just and inevitable.
October 26th, 2024, Dakar in the Republic of Senegal
