Wednesday, 17 October 2018

SPEECHES ON THE ANNIVERSARIES OF THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA AND DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM UNION 13.10.2018delivered to the meeting of the ASSPUK, JISGE and UK KFA on the 13th of October




SPEECHES ON THE ANNIVERSARIES OF THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA AND DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM UNION 13.10.2018
Earlier we heard about the achievements of People’s Korea from those people who visited there in September . Now I will talk about the force behind these achievements, the Workers’ Party of Korea , or ChosonNodongDang to give it’s correct title in Korea . On Wednesday 10th of October the Workers’ Party of Korea- WPK for short –celebrated the 73rd anniversary of its foundation.
The WPK has been leading the Korean people for over seven decades now .  The WPK is a genuine mass party. It has members in all sections of society  from waitresses and drivers to senior officials and generals .The symbol of the WPK is a sickle , a hammer and a Korean writing brush , this is different to other communist parties which simply had the hammer and sickle (and some revisionist parties dispensed with the hammer and sickle in favour of cherry trees and the like ). The WPK included the writing brush to symbolise intellectuals , the WPK is a party of the workers, intellectuals and peasants . When visiting the monument to the foundation of the Party I was told that the leading role of intellectuals is symbolised by the fact that the writing brush is higher than the hammer and sickle.
  The WPK is also different to many communist parties by the manner in which it was founded . In some countries communist parties were formed as a result of the secession from socialist or social democratic party or by the merger of a number of revolutionary groups. In Britain the CPGB was founded by a merger of the British Socialist Party , the Socialist Labour Party , the Guild Communists and other groups in 1920. In Korea the foundation of the WPK was a process which took place over a number of years.
 The first step on this road was the formation of the Down With Imperialism Union on the 17th of October 1926 .
The DIU was the first genuine communist revolutionary organisation in  Korea. The formation of the DIU marked a clean break with the stagnant  ideas of factionalism , flunkeyism and dogmatism  thus, it was a decisive leap forward in the task of building a revolutionary working-class party in Korea. The DIU completely broke with opportunism and also the national reformism of bourgeois nationalists. As the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung said to the meeting that founded the DIU
"Irreconcilable contradictions exist between the imperialists and people in the colonies  and these contradictions are sharpening  with the passage of time. Because these contradictions are antagonistic they cannot be settled by any kind of 'compromise ' and will only be solved when imperialism is overthrown"
  Thus the Korean revolution was set on the correct path.The foundation of the DIU by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung heralded the dawn of a new era of independence in which the popular masses became masters of their fate,masters of their destiny.
   Indeed as the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung said;
"The formation of this union, the first genuine communistic revolutionary organisation in our country , was the historic announcement of a new beginning for our revolution. With the formation of the DIU  our people's revolutionary struggle began to progress with the principle of independence and this was when our Party began to strike its glorious roots"
     The DIU proudly proclaimed its aims were to win independence and liberation for Korea, to carry out the socialist revolution in Korea, to build socialism and communism in Korea and to carry out the world revolution. Thus for the first time in history the lines of national liberation and socialist revolution were combined. Moreover the relationship between the national tasks of the working class and its international tasks was affirmed. Both the line of combing national liberation with socialism and the line of inter-relating the national and international tasks of the struggle were a prototype form of the Juche idea of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung. Independence and self-reliance were the cornerstones of the DIU.
 The DIU was a new kind of revolutionary organisation founded among the youth and students of Korea . The great leader comrade Kim Il Sung had prepared the ground for the formation of the DIU by leading many struggles amongst the youth and students including a strike of school students against reactionary teachers. These struggles fostered core elements of the revolution. It was not formed from the factionalists who indulged in empty talk and who were divorced from the popular masses as they were drawn from the middle class , bourgeoisie and  ruined aristocracy. The DIU fought for the revolution on the basis of independence.
Later in 1930 comrade Kim Il Sung formed the first party organisation called the Society for Rallying Comrades . Party committees were also formed in the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army.
Thus when the WPK was formed in October 1945 the groundwork for founding the party had been well prepared.
 Since its inception the Workers Party of Korea has been the organiser and guide of the Korean people, the supreme general staff of the Korean revolution .
The WPK is the mother party that takes care of the peoples lives. Free education and free health care were introduced, long ago, indeed the free health system was introduced in the flames of war in 1953. Korean people receive great social benefits such as free housing and taxation was abolished in 1974. Now under the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un the WPK is pushing forward all manner of projects to improve living standards. Thus the DPRK is becoming a people's paradise the envy of the world people and the model that the world revolutionary people dream of.                      
   The WPK under the guidance of the great leaders comrades Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has united the people solidly around itself, achieved single-hearted and single-minded unity the like of which is not seen anywhere else in the world. The WPK has achieved total oneness of ideology , a unique feat in the international communist movement. The leader , party , army and people form an integral harmonious whole .No other country in the world knows such unity and amity . This is due to the outstanding leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and his Juche-orientated theories on party building. This has splendidly carried forward by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il who has built up the WPK as the party of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung. Now the dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un has ensured that the WPK is and will always be the party of the great leader President Kim Il Sung and  general  Kim Jong Il.
     The Workers' Party of Korea has staunchly fought against modern revisionism , opportunism , flunkeyism ,dogmatism and factionalism .
 The WPK upheld socialist principles in the 1990s when socialism was frustrated in number of countries due to the insidious moves of the imperialists and renegades.
   The WPK has always maintained revolutionary and class principles, holding high the red flag of socialism even when others threw it down.  Under the banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism the WPK is not only the leading force of the Korean people but a shock brigade of the world revolution.
   . The WPK under the leadership of dear respected Marshal Kim Jong Un is guiding the people forward to smash the sanctions of the imperialists under the uplifted banner of self-reliance !
LONG LIVE THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA !
GLORY TO THE DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM UNION!
LONG LIVE RESPECTED MARSHAL KIM JONG UN !


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