It is with deep sorrow that we learned that Pol Pot died in Cambodia on April 15, 1998 at 23:15 (local time), according to a heart attack. For years he had been seriously ill with malaria, yet he continued to be among his people, in the jungle, fighting for the freedom and independence of his country, never allowing himself to be tempted to flee his country and people to seek treatment elsewhere. His death leaves a great void in the hearts of all the authentic revolutionaries and anti-imperialists of the whole world as well as the…

The UN puppet court installed in Phnom Penh has sentenced to life imprisonment for "genocide of Muslim and Vietnamese minorities" two former rulers of Democratic Kampuchea, ninety-two-year-old Noun Chea and 87-year-old former head of state, Khieu Samphan, already sentenced to the life imprisonment for "crimes against humanity".

The sentence had great international emphasis on the word…

With the passage of time, Stalin's works and thought…

That awkward appendage to the corpus of Marxism—the Asiatic Mode of Production (AMP)—has been repeatedly declared dead, with some Marxist theorists calling for its final burial. Most notably, Perry Anderson once argued that the notion "be given the decent burial it deserves." However, in contrast, Umberto Melotti has revived the concept in his thorough and insightful analysis.

The persistent reappearance of the AMP suggests that it contains a vital principle.
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"Here," the visitors are told, "is where the British professor, Malcolm…

The trip is taking place against a very significant political backdrop. On Dec. 23, the British scholar Malcolm Caldwell, who was visiting Kampuchea, was assassinated in the Phnom Penh house where he was staying by terrorist enemies of the Kampuchean government. Tw…

Today it is the Communist Party of Kampuchea headed by Pol Pot that all-sidedly incarnates the dynamic principle of materialist dialectics: people’s war. Po…

The answers to these and other questions were given in a historic press conference held by Pol Pot during his recent visit to China. Pol Pot is the Secretary at the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and the Prime Minister of its government.…

The DC has been asked to take the lead in the effort to better understand Mao Zedong's Theory of the Differentiation of the Three Worlds (TTW). This paper is the first of 3 or 4 to be distributed before we hold a London meeting on the subject in late November. The national conference on the international situation is to be held next June, and our district-level study will be well directed in preparation for…

While the Hanoi authorities have long harbored the ambition of annexing Democratic Kampuchea - and indeed other neighboring states - this would have remained a mere fantasy had -Vietnam not had the support and patronage of the expansionist great power, the Soviet Union. Thus, the aggression against Kampuchea was carefully planned by both Vietnam and the Soviet Union, as the following facts…

The 9th-15th century kingdom of Kambuja stretched from the Burmese border in the west to the South China Sea in the east--including what is now southern Vietnam. Invasions of the kingdom by the Thais and Vietnamese weakened this ancient civilization and eroded its territory. In the late 19th century, the French imperialists established a "protectorate" over Kampuchea and, in 1887, merged their…

I have read the lengthy articles you wrote for the Daily Mirror on September 12 and 13 attacking the government of Democratic Kampuchea led by Pol Pot. You repeat many of the lies invented by Father Ponchard in his infamous book Cambodia Year Zero. You even use the same phrase "Year Zero" repeatedly. You really should have taken the trouble to read the works of well-known academics and opponents of US aggression in Southeast Asia, such as Naom Chomsky, Jan Myrdal, and Malcolm Caldwell.
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The Korean Central News Agency reports that Comrade Kim Il Sung, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a message to Comrade Pol Pot, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, on December 27.

In his message Comrade Kim Il Sung said: "The Korean people…

For over thirty years the peoples of Vietnam, Cambodia (now Democratic Kampuchea) and Laos fought side by side against the French and then the U.S. imperialists. Their victories were not only a tremendous material blow against the imperialists, they were an inspiration to people everywhere struggling for their liberation. Th…

Suddenly we were mired in a mud pit, the truck’s wheels spinning uselessly. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, ten Khmer Rouge soldiers appeared in crisp green uniforms and pushed us out onto firmer ground. This was our introduction to Democratic Kampuchea.…

These polemics have been directed against the Communist Party of China (CPC), particularly…

These were the words of a veteran guerrilla fighter, just 32 years old, as he told us of the great offensive which finally liberated Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia) from the U.S. imperialists and their Lon Nol puppets. To…

“We believe a national Cambodia must exist even though we believe the Pol Pot regime is the world’s worst violator of human rights,” reads a cable sent by…

Upon arrival in Peking, Pol Pot,…

It was less than four years ago that the peoples…

Josip…

On this, it is a good opportunity to take a brief look at who he really was and what he represented.…