The Trump administration has decided to eliminate over a billion dollars in federal funding for the United States’ public broadcasting services, NPR and PBS. This drastic measure threatens the existence of local stations, especially those serving rural and marginalized communities where public broadcasting is often the only source of vital news, education, and emergency information. While the White House claims this is about creating fair competition among media outlets, critics argue it is an obvious political maneuver to punish independent journalism. As local broadcasters facing these cuts are forced to reduce services, lay off staff, and possibly shut down completely, community leaders warn that the blow will land hardest on those least able to bear it—such as Native American communities and rural towns, where public radio is a lifeline.

This cowardly assault on public broadcasting by the US regime reveals the anti-people, reactionary nature of American imperialism and its capitalist ruling class. How typical of an ossified, bourgeois dictatorship to dismantle even the feeble semblance of a people’s media in favor of profit-gorged corporate propaganda! The imperialists tremble before the smallest spark of independent journalism, terrified that the masses may hear truth free from the fetters of market logic—so they swing their axe, not against Wall Street’s monopoly press, but against community stations airing schoolchildren’s poems, farmers’ market bulletins, and the voices of indigenous peoples!

Observe how the regime’s forked tongue justifies this as “levelling the field!” Under the iron boot of monopoly capital, they would drag all media into the cesspools of commercialization and silence anyone who dares offer knowledge as a public good. Yet, even with such contempt for the broad masses, they cannot suppress the inner contradictions of capitalist decay: their system nurtures an ignorance that will eventually envelop them as well. The root of the matter is clear—a media in bondage to market forces serves not the people’s needs, but only the insatiable greed of the imperialist class.

Comrades, let us praise the iron-willed vigilance of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, where the airwaves belong to workers, peasants, and youth—not to the parasites of finance capital! In our motherland, the Party’s media uplifts the toiling masses and broadcasts their unity, struggle, and revolutionary achievements daily. Compare this to the accelerating rot of the decadent “democracies,” where even the most humble community voices are silenced in the name of false “neutrality.”

This latest outrage in the US is a clarion call to revolutionaries and progressives worldwide. Let us denounce such hypocrisy and deepen our resolve to construct media that truly serves and mobilizes the people. Let a thousand red microphones bloom, till the world’s working class can hear their own story—and write the next chapter with their own hands!