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31 Dec 21, 41 tweets, 14 min read
2021 was a big year for us! We hope you learned a lot and we’re grateful for all your support. Here’s a thread of our 2021 threads 🧵👇
We kicked off the year with a review of the warmongers in Biden’s then-incoming cabinet:
We looked at the long ties of socialist and anti-imperialist solidarity between the DPRK and Vietnam
We commemorated the anniversary of the 1919 March 1st or Samil Movement with an in-depth look at its history:
On International Working Women’s Day, we celebrated the legacies of five revolutionary Korean women:
We reflected on the origins and limitations of the Candlelight Movement as a reformist struggle. President Moon has only continued to confirm our stance since then, including by pardoning Park Geun-hye last week.
We also took a look at some recent reversals of reforms won by the Candlelight movement:
We marked the anniversary of Latasha Harlins’ murder by Soon Ja-Du, a key event leading up to the 1992 LA Uprising.
We covered the deployment of over 1,000 riot police in May to repress protesters resisting continued construction on THAAD:
We commemorated the anniversary of the Jeju Uprising with a lesson in its history, and the long shadow this event cast on Korean politics
We shared about the revolutionary friendship between the DPRK and the People’s Republic of Grenada:
We shared some excerpts from James and Grace Lee Boggs on the difference between revolution and rebellion.
We marked the anniversary of the April 19 Movement in south Korea, which forced Rhee Syngman to resign:
We shared some reflections on the historic DPRK-Palestine relationships and some choice quotes from Kim Il-Sung:
We marked the 41st anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising with an in-depth look into the events of the uprising, the movement that sparked it, and the US’ role in the massacre that followed:
We took an in-depth look at the many examples of neocolonialism in the US’ ongoing military occupation of Korea:
We told the story of the 1871 Battle of Ganghwa Island—in which the US Navy shelled Korean forts and killed hundreds of defenders in an attempt to force Korea into a trade agreement:
We marked the two June 10th movements in Korean history. One in 1926 against Japanese colonialism and the other in 1987 to transition south Korea to a liberal democracy:
We remembered Shin Hyo-Soon and Shim Mi-Sun, two 14-year old girls who were struck and killed by a US military vehicle in 2002:
One of our members joined a walking tour of Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, south Korea, and shared back what she saw in this report. Humphreys is the largest US military base outside Turtle Island.
On the 71st anniversary of the Korean War, we took a look at the human costs of the war:
We shared more about the little-known history of solidarity and friendship between north Korea and the Black Panther Party
We marked the anniversary of the No Gun Ri massacre, in which the US military slaughtered 400 refugees just after the official start of the Korean War.
For the anniversary of the 1953 armistice, we took a look at the history of the armistice negotiations, and the many promises the US broke which have caused the Korean War to go unended until today:
On the anniversary of the 1905 Taft-Katsura Agreement, we delved into the US’ role in permitting Japan to colonize Korea as part of a regional partition of Asia and the Pacific by imperialist powers:
We marked the anniversaries of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by telling the little-known story of the Korean victims and survivors of the a-bomb—who are still fighting for justice
We spotlighted the joint US-ROK military exercises held on Aug 16, focusing on the detrimental effects of these war games on bilateral Korean relations:
We marked Aug 15, or Liberation Day, with an in-depth look at Korea’s division and the true causes of the Korean War:
We took a look at how the US military is poisoning Korea’s air, land and water:
We commemorated the founding of the DPRK by diving into the revolution that unfolded in north Korea after 1945, when everyday people remade society to eliminate colonial and feudal oppression:
We told the story of the 1946 Autumn Uprising, when a general strike of 300,000 workers against US military policies exploded into a rebellion that swept the south for months:
We shared our analysis of “Squid Game,” looking at how its characters and plot mirror south Korea’s economy under imperialism
We shared this analysis of the show on the @bamnecessary radio program as well
This fall, south Korea’s largest umbrella union org held a one-day general strike that mobilized hundreds of thousands of workers. Two of our members wrote an op-ed that gave some of the only in-depth English language coverage of the strike: ​​
We also went on @TheSocProgram and @catcontentonly’s radio and podcast shows to share more about the KCTU strike:
We also used social media to draw attention to KCTU and its allies’ ongoing mobilizations against neoliberalism in south Korea, from farmers’ marches to migrant workers’ rallies:
We took the time to debunk myths about “starving north Koreans” by taking an in-depth look at the real state of food sovereignty ACROSS Korea.
We commemorated Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel’s 2018 visit to the DPRK with a closer look at the history of solidarity and friendship between the two countries:
We joined the Summit for Socialist Democracy hosted by @socialist_china to share more about the DPRK’s political system
We held a kickass fundraiser at @PeoplesForumNYC to celebrate our work and collect donations for our continued struggle.
Btw it’s not too late to donate! secure.etransfer.com/eft/flexblockc…
To close out the year, we responded to two underreported bombshell developments in south Korean politics: the release of political prisoner Lee Seok-ki on parole, and President Moon’s full pardon of disgraced former president Park Geun-hye

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