On 3 September, China staged the largest military parade in its history. The parade included hypersonic and ballistic missiles, naval and airforce drones, and the country’s full strategic arsenal, including nuclear weapons. All accompanied by the disciplined and immaculate divisions of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
This show of dignity, sovereignty and strategic strength came on the historic occasion of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the world antifascist war, on 3 September 1945, which marked the end of WW2 in the east.
As the soldiers marched past the presidential podium in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese people were celebrating the first in a string of hard-won victories, one in which they had for the first time succeeded in ejecting a foreign invader from their soil. The protracted people’s war led by the communists would ultimately continue for four more years until the triumphant founding of the People’s Republic of China.
Seven and a half decades later, the whole world can now appreciate the profound meaning of Chairman Mao’s historic words, delivered from that same podium on 1 October 1949, that “The Chinese people have stood up!”
A show of anti-imperialist unity
While it was shunned by western leaders, the victory parade was attended by a veritable Who’s Who of the leadership of sovereign and socialist states. President Xi Jinping was joined by Russia’s president Vladimir Putin and the DPRK’s Comrade president Kim Jong Un were guests of honour among a group of 26 national leaders that included Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel, Vietnamese president Luong Cuong, Lao president Thongloun Sisoulith, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian and Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The parade came at the end of a historic meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in which the non-imperialist Eurasian nations pledged greater cooperation and the deepening of economic and security ties – destroying attempts by the USA and European Union to sanction them all into submission and subordination.
At the centre of the celebrations was a show of unity by the three great anti-imperialist nations – Russia, China and the DPRK – who are once more united in their firm opposition to Nato aggression and imperialist domination, led by the Anglo-American imperialists.
China’s people sacrificed a staggering 35 million lives in their 14-year liberation war against Japanese fascism. The Soviet people sacrificed 27 million lives in the war to vanquish German Hitlerite fascism. The people of Korea lost some 5 million lives in the great battles to defeat Japanese and then US imperialism.
Today, Russia and China are the main impediments to imperialist domination of the entire globe. The DPRK, having refused to give up on its planned economy and socialist system, has demonstrated its commitment to the new antifascist alliance by sending troops to help vanquish the Nato-backed Banderite invasion of Russia’s Kursk region – to the great chagrin of the reactionaries.
A clear message has been sent to the modern heirs of Hitlerite fascism (the ruling classes of the Nato nations, the EU, the US and British imperialists): the SCO and Brics nations are reshaping the world. Their strength and unity was on full display in Beijing. A new world is in birth, and progressive people everywhere rejoice to see its foundation.
Nato’s proxy fascist aggression in Ukraine will fail. Nato’s zionist proxy in the middle east, the settler-colonial entity of Israel, will fall. The genocidal war on the peoples of the middle east will be defeated. The criminal finance capitalists in Washington, Europe and London will pay the price for their crimes.
Death to imperialism!
Workers of all countries, unite!
