Tag: 1950

Kim Jong Un Pays Respect to Killed Chinese People's Volunteers!

DPRK: Kim Jong Un Visits Cemetery for Fallen Soldiers of the Chinese People’s Volunteers – Marking 75th Anniversary of China’s Entry into Korean War! (1.11.2025)

After 1948 – this ethnic Korean movement was assisted by Socialist China. When the US caused the war of 1950-1953 – the USSR provided the Red Airforce to guard the skies over North Korea and Soviet Technicians to aid the mechanical development of the North Korean military. Meanwhile, Socialist China organised millions of “Chinese People Volunteers” (CPV) who comprised the Land Forces of the “Internationalist” effort to free North (and South) Korea from US domination. The fact that the CPV had very little modern or advanced military equipment – and yet still achieved significant victories – is remarkable. Through sheer will-power the CPV (together with the North Korean Forces) inflicted endless defeats and reversals upon the US (and UN) Forces.

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Playing Cricket in the Back Yards of UK Cities!

UK: British Council Film Archive ([1950] – Cricket Documentary! (25.9.2025)

At his peak, however, he was a very good all-rounder wielding the bat and ball. When a child, my father taught me all the rules of cricket and this is why I know a) how to play the game, and b) what is going on when watching it (we support Leicestershire County Cricket Club – and we watched them play once). I have tried to teach my partner and children – but the modern youth now have the internet to take their attention! I have played “in-door” cricket – as well as cricket on a proper pitch – and I never wore a helmet (I couldn’t afford one). When standing at the crease – the mind must be calm and expansive – clear and reflective. Peace and self-control must permeate reality – whilst the bat and ball must be properly utilised in a technically perfect manner. There is no hatred for the opposition – or unnecessary attachment to one’s team-mates – all are equal to the true gentleman. This is why I refer to cricket as a form of English Confucianism!

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rotests poster featuring the removed “comfort women” memorial statue is displayed during a rally in Manila, the Philippines, Aug. 14, 2025. The statue was installed in December 2017 at the same protest site but was dismantled just four months later under sustained pressure from Japan. (Photo: China News Service/Zhang Xinglong)

Philippines: Women & Girls Remember Crimes of Japanese Fascism! (16.8.2025)

The greater percentage of this crime occurred within China – but involved many other ethnic groups as victims – including the Filipinos. Although a statue was raised in Manilla in 2017 to record their suffering – just four-months later – the Japanese government succeeded in cajoling the Philippines Authorities in removing it! Whether Trump ordered this first time around is open to speculation. For Socialists, WWII was a People’s War against the common enemy of fascism. WWII was not the usual bourgeois excess of one competing nationality against another – although for many – this is exactly how it is remembered. Indeed, many of the victorious nations have taken on a vitriolic attitude of blatant nationalism when it comes to remembering WWII – a nationalism that steers very near to the wind of fascism that was purportedly defeated. A People’s War led to a People’s Victory and not one nationalist group over another. The US and its lackeys often sully the remembrance of this war. It was a victory of the International Working Class over the forces of reaction – against capitalism in decline!

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DPRK: Disband the US-Controlled “United Nations Military Command” Entity – to Maintain Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula! (13.11.2023)

On June 24th, 1994, UN Secretary-General Boutrus Galli acknowledged that “the Combined Military Command was NOT established by the UN Security Council as a subsidiary organization under its control – and was solely under the command of the United States.”

On December 21st, 1998, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan also said of the military forces dispatched by the United States to the Korean War – or its command, “None of my predecessors gave any permission to any country to associate the name of the United States with the name of the United Nations.” Since then, several UN officials have repeatedly emphasized that “the UN Combined Command is NOT a UN organization – and is NOT under the command or control of the UN.”

The fact is that the appropriation of the designation “United Nations Military Command” by the US was only a front for its aggressive policies in the region – which remains a flagrant violation of International Law, including the UN Charter, and a shameless insult to all UN Member countries.

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