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No. 31 1162-M Summer 2010 Summer 2010 The Internationalist 3 Defend North Korea Against U.S. War Threats Haiti dossier and Sanctions ......4 Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Bloody War Provocation pp. 64-78 • The Blockade of Gaza and Zionist Plans for “Transfer” • Israel Gearing Up for War on Iran pp. 5-26 • Egypt: Mubarak Regime Tottering Haiti: Workers Solidarity, Yes! • For an Arab-Hebrew Imperialist Occupation, No!............5 Palestinian Workers State in a Socialist Federation of the Middle East Brazilian Trotskyists: Kick U.N., U.S. and Brazilian Troops Out of Haiti!...........8 For International Workers Action to Defend the Palestinians Oakland Picket Blocks Israeli Ship...............80 U.S. Puts Haiti Into Receivership ILWU Upholds Boycott of Israeli Ship.................79 (Under Gouverneur Bill Clinton)............9 Haiti Earthquake: Capitalism, Free Lynne Stewart! No Justice Occupation and Revolution................17 in the Capitalist Courts.....................48 Defend PFC Bradley Manning!.........51 Trotskyism vs. Social-Imperialism Immigrants Under Attack Spartacist League Backs U.S. Imperialist Invasion of Haiti.......27 SL Twists and Turns on Haiti......31 Open Letter from the Internation- alist Group to the SL/ICL..............41 Mobilize Workers, Immigrants to Puerto Rico Student Strike Stop the Deportations.................52 Blood on the Border..............................55 First Round Victory to UPR Strikers..........60 Defeat Capitalist Attack on Immigrants.....56 Beatings at the Sheraton...............................63 Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants Mobilize Workers Against Racist Mexico: Cananea Miners Arizona Law..........................................57 Call for a National Strike..........45 4 The Internationalist Summer 2010 U.S./South Korean Maneuvers A Threat to China As Well Defend North Korea Against U.S. War Threats and Sanctions JULY 21 – On July 20, the United States and South Korea enemy.” The North Korean regime of Kim Jong Il countered announced they would hold provocative military maneuvers by cutting off all ties with the South. North Korea categori- next week in the Sea of Japan, to the east of North Korea. The cally denies sinking the Cheonan, and has requested that North exercises will include ten American warships, led by the USS Korean military specialists be allowed to join the investigation. George Washington, one of the largest nuclear aircraft carriers What actually happened in the March 26 incident is un- in the world. This will be followed up by maneuvers in the clear. The main “proof” is a fragment of a propeller bearing Yellow Sea, to the west of the Korean peninsula and close to the inscription “№ 1,” matching a North Korean torpedo found China. On July 21, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and in the Yellow Sea some years ago. However, this supposed War Secretary Robert Gates in Seoul, South Korea announced evidence was not found in the intensive naval search of the sea new sanctions against the North Korea and traveled to the floor in the area, but showed up almost two months later in a Demilitarized Zone on the armistice line in the Korean War fisherman’s net. The area where the ship went down is only 10 for some nuclear saber-rattling against the North. miles from North Korea, next to a South Korean island which These “war games” and sanctions are a blatant attempt is the site of a U.S.-South Korean base for anti-submarine by U.S. imperialism to blackmail the isolated Democratic warfare (ASW). It is almost inconceivable that a North Korean Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK), and also pose a threat to mini-sub could have approached the area quietly enough to the People’s Republic of China. North Korea and China are avoid detection, particularly since the incident occurred shortly bureaucratically deformed workers states, which the Interna- after a joint U.S.-South Korean ASW exercise. tionalist Group and League for the Fourth International defend Both Russia and China have expressed skepticism about the against imperialism at the same time as we call for proletarian South Korean-U.S. charges. An official DPRK statement called political revolution to oust the bureaucrats who endanger the the “forged investigation” and accusations a “sheer fabrication.” remaining revolutionary gains.1 We defend North Korea’s right It suggested the sinking could have been the result of an accident to have nuclear weapons as a deterrent to the aggressive U.S. when the warship ran against rocks. Another possibility is that and Japanese imperialists, who have never abandoned their a U.S. “rising mine” laid during the March 11-18 Foal Eagle drive to “roll back Communism” to the Yalu River (North exercise could have struck the Cheonan. It also pointed out that Korea’s border with China) and beyond. the North’s focus on building up its economy was undercut by Although a truce was negotiated in 1953, the Korean War the incident, which has brought the two countries “to the brink has never ended. The U.S. still has tens of thousands of troops of war.” On the other hand, it was convenient for Lee Myung- in South Korea (28,000 at last count). Moreover, as part of the bak, who was elected on a program of ending any attempt at current offensive of military threats against the North, late last cooperation on the Korean peninsula. Lee’s party also tried to month at a press conference at the G-20 summit in Toronto exploit the Cheonan sinking with