Tuesday 12 October 2010

Speech About the 65th anniversary of the WPK

Comrades and friends Thank you for inviting me to address this seminar of Friends of Korea
of the UK on the 65th anniversary of the foundation of the glorious Workers Party of Korea the militant general staff of the Korean revolution and guide of the Korean people.I can remember the 60th,55th,50th and 45th anniversaries of the WPK and I joined the Young Communist league of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1975 the year of the 30th anniversary of the WPK.
The Workers Party of Korea was formed as the Communist Party of North Korea on October 10th 1945 the process of its foundation precedes that date and indeed the process of its formation continued after that date

The WPK roots are in the Anti Japanese armed struggle which was waged for 20 years under the command of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.
He formed the Down With Imperialism Union as the starting point of the anti Japanese armed struggle .The DIU is the historical root of the WPK.It was the first communist revolutionary organisation which organically combined the struggle for national liberation and independence with the struggle for class emancipation.Thus the two were fused together.
At the historic Kalun meeting in June 1930 he put forward the line of indepedence for the Korean revolution .He put forward the line of the anti imperialist
anti feudal revolution and to form a new Juche orientated party on the basis of forming
lower level party organisations first instead of the party centre.On July 3rd 1930 comrade Kim Il Sung he made the historic speech "On Formation of the Party organisation"and the Society for Rallying Comrades was formed.

Later party organisations were formed in the units of the Korean Peoples Revolutionary Army and in May 1936 the Homeland Party Working Committee was formed.Around the same the Association For the Restoration of the Fatherland a united front body of the Korean communists came into being.
Korea was liberated in 1945 thanks to the anti Japanese armed struggle led by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung.The order of the day was to found a vanguard party to led the anti imperialist anti feudal democratic revolution and carry out the tasks of building peoples democracy.However founding the party was not easy going owing to the occupation of south Korea by the US imperialists and Korea’s division as well the brutal suppression of the south Korean revolutionary movement by the US imperialists and Syngham Rhee puppet clique.Also the WPK faced the enemy within,the factionalists.Pak Hong Yong an inveterate factionalist and CIA agent tried to disrupt the formation of the WPK.Also Right and Left opportunists created confusion by putting forward incorrect theories .The Rightists wanted to create a bourgeois republic(and even wanted to have south Korean puppet fascist Syngham Rhee as their the president) and Leftists wanted an instant socialist revolution and abolition of private property.
The Communist Party of North Korea was formed on the
10th of October 1945.In order to prevent a situation in which 2 parties of the working class
existed dividing the masses ,the CPNK merged with the New Democratic Party to form
the Workers Party of North Korea in August 1946."Rodong Sinmun"(Daily Worker")
daily organ of the WPNK came into being on September 1st 1946.
The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung smashed the moves of the factionalists and cemented the unity of the new party.Later in 1949 the Workers Party of North Korea and Workers Party of South Korea merged to form a single party.
The WPK led the Korean peoples struggle against the US imperialist invasion in 1950. The struggle was not just against the external and internatl enemy the US imperialism and world imperialism but against the internal enemy the counter revolutionary factionalists.In December 1952 the 5th plenary committee of the WPK was held.The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung made public the work the Organizational and Ideological Consolidation of the Party Is the Basis for Our Victory.

In the course of the discussions about implementing the decisions of the 5th plenary CC meeting the Pak Hon Yong -Ri Sung Yop spy clique were unmasked and defeated.

In the post war period the WPK had to face the disruptive and corrosive activities of factionalists more than once.In August 1956 anti party factionalists tried to overthrow the WPK leadership with the backing of the modern revisionists and great power chauvinists but they were smashed.At this time modern revisionism had appeared in the international communist movement and the great power chauvinists tried to force the DPRK to follow their line.They tried to force the DPRK to join the CMEA but the WPK refused to do so and countered this by setting force the line of building an independent national economy.Earlier in December the great leader President Kim Il Sung had made his historic speech on "Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and establishing Juche In Ideological Work".
At the historic conference of the WPK held in October 1966 the great leader comrade
Kim Il Sung denounced both modern revisionism and Left opportunism and put forward the
line of independence and struggling against US imperialism.
In May 1967 the 15th plenary committee of the 4th Central Committee of
the Workers Party of Korea was held.At this meeting the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung
crushed the bourgeois and revisionist elements and took measures to establish the
monolithical ideological system of Juche in the party and indeed throughout society.
Under the guidance of comrade Kim Jong Il the line of modelling the
whole society on the Juche became the strategic line of the WPK,this was put forward
in 1974.At the 6th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea held in October 1980 the
great leader comrade Kim Il Sung defined the modelling of the whole society on the
Juche idea as the general task of the Korean revolution.
The WPK in the face of the raging winds of anti socialism unleashed
by the modern revisionist renegades in the late 80s and early 1990s ruggedly stuck to
the road of socialism and independence holding higher the the Red flag though others
threw it down.Internationally the WPK defended socialism taking initatives such as
the Pyongyang Declaration in April 1992 and issued joint statements with many
communist and workers parties.Russian communist leader Nina Andreeva was invited
to give a lecture at Kim ll Sung University in 1992.

In the mid 1990s the imperialist reactionaries trying to take advantage of the trials caused
by natural disasters and the collapse of the world socialist market,run riot in trying to
stifle Korean style socialism.At this juncture the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il
put forward Songun politics which places stress on the role of the revolutionary army as the
pillar of the revolution.
Guided by Juche and Songun the WPK frustated the moves of imperialism and now an upsurge is taking place in the battle to build a great prosperous powerful socialist nation.
Thus the WPK has led the Korean revolution and socialist construction over the course of many decades.It has achieved solid unity in its ranks and in society as whole.It has constantly strengthened its leadership role.This is an example to revolutionary parties throughout the world.It has maintained independence and Juche.As the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il says
Since they strictly adhered to the Juche stand and line of independence, our Party and people have not vacillated in the raging wind of modern revisionism and all other opportunist trends, and in the trying situation in which socialism collapsed in several countries, they have been able to defend and add lustre to our style of socialism. Our political and ideological strength, the powerful socialist independent economy and the unconquerable self-reliant military power, which our Party and people have consolidated rock-solid through the implementation of the revolutionary line of independence, self-sufficiency and self-reliant defence, are the sure guarantee for defending the sovereignty of the country and the achievements of the revolution, advancing the revolution and construction victoriously and thwarting the aggression and interference of imperialism and dominationism. The fact shows that the political and diplomatic pressure of imperialism, its attempts to disintegrate us ideologically and culturally, its economic blockade and military threat—none of these are able to infringe upon the sovereignty of our country, nor can they demolish or suffocate our socialism.



This sums up the WPK's fine achievements.On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the WPK,the 13th anniversary of the the election of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as WPK general secretary and his recent election let us uphold and exalt the great gains achieved by the Workers Party of Korea in its 65 years.
LONG LIVE THE WPK
LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL

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