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S. Korean uprising sparks solidarity As massive protests continued in South Korea against the U.S.-backed military dictatorship, thousands of KoreanAmericans and peace and labor activists staged demonstrations in various U.S. cities to demand an end to military rule in South Korea. Photo above: Demonstration in San Francisco on June 20. Socialist Action/Joe Ryan but KOREAN Goods KOREA Boycott PRACTICE PRACTICE "reflagging" of Kuwait oil-tankers for the purpose of providing U.S. naval protection to an ally of Iraq-have greatly undermined the belief that U.S. foreign policy goals have anything to do with the "defense of freedom and democracy."
Naked imperialism is seen by growing numbers of Americans to be the policy of the U.S. government.
Perhaps nothing has done more to shatter illusions than the spectacle of President Reagan's sharp shifts of policy in the Persian Gulf.
These sudden-often embarrassing— shifts in U.S. imperialist tactics are the result of the growing world capitalist crisis, which erupts at its weakest points. Vulnerable places are those where imperialist interests conflict with those of their junior capitalist partners in the semi-colonial world.
The history of imperialist domination is replete with instances of divide-and-rule wheeling and dealing in the underdeveloped world.
England and France, old hands in the imperialist game of domination and exploitation, have historically augmented the raw industrial, financial, and military power at their disposal with "balance of power" tactics. The U.S. government, too, needs to play the conflicting interests of the local rulers under their domination against each other.
In the Middle East, the United States created and financed the state of Israel as an imperialist outpost against the Arab revolution and as a counterbalance to the Arab states of the region.
Another key U.S. ally in the region had been Iran under the oppressive dictatorship of the Shah. The Iranian capitalist class, like its counterpart in Israel, willingly (continued on page 11)
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BY SIERS FOR THE MINNESOTA DAILY UNIVERSITY OF MINNE
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U.S. military buildup in Persian Gulf intensifies