For over 70 years, Korea has been sliced through the middle. This division is one of many scars that the peninsula suffered from the massive US-led bombing campaign and invasion from the south, and the subsequent Soviet-China incursion in the north.

Over the graves of millions of Koreans murdered in that war, state-capitalist dictatorships entrenched themselves in both north and south. Understanding the war is essential to understanding contemporary Asia and tracing the small threads of working class resistance that could withstand the horrors.