IN this significant yet complex and turbulent year we are going to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Our dear and esteemed Korean comrades are attaching great importance to it since the historical 5th Plenary Meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the WPK, held on December 28-31, 2019. As respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:
«This is an auspicious year for us, when we will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of our glorious Party. Already, the entire Party and the whole society, equipped with the ideas and spirit of the recent plenary meeting, are waging a massive struggle to implement the line of independent development and the relevant policies. They are doing so in the face of the harshest-ever circumstances, both internal and external.»
These 75 years elapsed from the birth of the Workers' Party of Korea, mother Party of all the Korean people, have been 75 years of victories and glory, as well as of struggle.
The Workers' Party of Korea had seen its birth amidst the flames of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and thanks to the correct, superior assimilation of the communist outlook on the world by President Kim Il Sung. It was a protracted process, unprecedented in the world history of party building: the WPK had in fact been born starting from the lower-echelons organizations and not from the Central Committee, as it has been for all other parties in the world.
Thus, the great leader set an example of struggle against dogmatism, as he did when reproaching the factionalists who strove for “hegemony” in the Korean communist movement while vying with each other in calling at the Comintern to receive “recognition”, or when he put down various proposals from his comrades to go studying in the Soviet Union. As he recalled in his first speech of the year 1988, titled, On Improving the Work of the Administration Council and Concentrating on the Five Major Economic Tasks:
«In the days of my early revolutionary activity, the Comintern and my comrades once requested me to go to the university in Moscow which was run by the Comintern. At that time the organization decided to send me to the Soviet Union for study, and prepared a suit, shoes, daily necessities and school things for me.
In fact, studying in the Soviet Union was a trend in those days among Korean communists who were active in Manchuria. Apparently my comrades had decided to send me abroad to study because they hoped that I would acquire rich knowledge in the Soviet Union and guide their activities better after returning. I told them: "I fully understand your wish to send me there to study. But in my opinion I cannot learn much in the Soviet Union.
I can learn the theory of socialism and communism as much as i want by reading the works of Marx and Lenin without having to go to the Soviet Union. What we must learn is the strategy and tactics of the Korean revolution, which we cannot learn in the Soviet Union. Our people know best about the Korean revolution. In order to find the correct strategy and tactics of the Korean revolution we must go among our own people. We should go among them and share weal and woe with them to find a way to accomplish the Korean revolution. Instead of going to the Soviet Union, I will go among our own people with you comrades to learn the theory and method of the Korean revolution."
Later I went among the people with my comrades. On looking back upon those days, it was really fortuitous that I went among the people and carried out the revolutionary struggle without going to the Soviet Union to study. Because we went among the people and waged the revolutionary struggle relying on them, we were able to build strong armed forces and liberate the country and, after liberation, we were able to maintain the line of independence in politics, self-reliance in the economy and national defence, without falling prey to flunkeyism and dogmatism.»
Notwithstanding this, the struggle to create and build the Workers' Party of Korea was all but smooth. Everyone who studied even a little bit the revolutionary history of Korea knows about the hard-fought struggle against the “Left” adventurist line of “anti-Minsaengdan warriors”, against the treacherous acts of the Pak Hon Yong clique and the historical struggles between the revolutionary and reactionary lines which took place in the WPK in the years 1956, 1967 and 2013, successfully concluded with the victory of the former. This made possible for the WPK to be the staunch bulwark both of socialist construction in the northern half of the Korean peninsula and for the revolutionaries in the south which found themselves exposed to the brutal, fascist repression by the US and their stooges, as well as for the south Korean revolution.
The development of the WPK knew a further heyday when leader Kim Jong Il began his work at the Central Committee on June 22, 1964. He was the inspirator of the monolithic ideological system which guaranteed the Party from the infiltration of alien ideologies other than the Juche idea, providing firm bases for the strict unity of the whole WPK around its leader and on the one and only basis constituted by the revolutionary ideas of President Kim Il Sung. As the dear leader correctly stated:
«The masses' cause of independence is the cause of the leader, the cause of the party. It is a historic cause that is carried through many generations. It is only when the working-class party firmly carries forward the ideas and guidance of the leader down through generations that it can invariably maintain its revolutionary character and appearance as a leading political organization and carry out its honourable mission.
If a party is to correctly carry forward the ideas and guidance of the leader, it must fully ensure the continuity of its own development. Otherwise, the line of the revolution discontinues, and renegades from the revolution appear to ruin the cause of the leader, the cause of the party. This is a serious lesson of history.»
Basing himself on these revolutionary principles, leader Kim Jong Il wholly inherited one of the main contribution made by President Kim Il Sung to revolutionary theory and practice: his correct solution of the issue of succession, which so many troubles caused in the leadership of a certain number of socialist countries. He demonstrated in words and action the most genuine loyalty to President Kim Il Sung, developing his revolutionary ideas in a complete, organical theoretical system which is Kimilsungism. He thus brought communist science onto a new, higher stage.
Holding up the red flag of Kimilsungism, leader Kim Jong Il led the whole party and the entire people of the DPRK in the complex historical period of the 1990s without the slightest wavering, without the minimum sign of vacillation. He brought up the DPRK to immediately take upon itself the role of red base of world revolution after the dissolution of the USSR: on April 20, 1992 the historical Pyongyang Declaration titled, Let Us Defend and Advance the Cause of Socialism, was officially adopted as new program for global independence and for socialism.
The enormous success of this initiative has been proved by the fact it has been signed by 305 Communist and Workers' Parties in the world, the last among them being the Communist Party of Denmark, which signed it on October 18, 2018. In Italy the only signatory, although if among the first ones, has been the Movement for Peace and Socialism.
This, however, has not been the only occasion in which the Workers' Party of Korea showed its sincere and deep internationalist outlook.
We all know how the WPK and the DPRK government provided political asylum and military training to the US Black Panthers Party and to the armies of many countries struggling for independence such as Syria, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe, semt volunteers to Vietnam, economic and military assistance to Syria and Libya, support for Hezbollah, how the DPRK furnished a fundamental economic and infrastructural assistance to such African countries such as Tanzania, Togo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Benin, Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Lesotho and Burkina Faso. President Kim Il Sung, moreover, gave historical advices to leaders of European parties such as the Communist Party of Portugal, the Left Party – Communists of Sweden, the Labour Party of Switzerland, the Labour Party of Ireland and the Workers' Party of Belgium; he poured all his efforts for the strengthening and unity of the international communist movement under the banners of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, playing a major role in the worldwide struggle against revisionism but avoiding to break up the workers' movement broadening the differences of view to the relationship between parties and states.
That intuition by the great leader has been proved totally right by facts and history: he never sacrificed his country's and WPK's independence to side with one or another between the parties in conflict but elaborated a common platform on which to unite all socialist countries: 1) oppose imperialism; 2) support the national-liberation movement and 3) do not interfere in the internal affairs of fraternal parties and countries. The comprehensive analysis he and leader Kim Jong Il provided about the collapsing of a certain number of socialist countries and about modern revisionism is still today a great contribution of them to the defence of socialism and communism, both in theory and in practice.
The principled attitude and stand retained by President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il allowed the DPRK mantain its existence, not following in the footsteps of other socialist countries who were absorbed into capitalism by the imperialist burgeoisie. In the Korean peninsula, it is in fact the DPRK which always led the play, forcing US imperialists and the south Korean stooges to chase it. We have seen this already since the July 4 North-South Declaration in 1972, but also with the 1991 Agreement on Reconciliation, Non-Aggression, Exchange and Cooperation, the June 15 Joint Declaration in 2000, the October 4 Joint Declaration in 2007 and the shining victories registered in the year 2018 under the leadership of respected Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un, marked by the successful five inter-Korean summits with the adoption of the Panmunjom Declration and the Pyongyang September Joint Declaration.
The US imperialists themselves have being suffered utter defeats in their long-standing confrontation with the DPRK: here we remember only the capturing of the USS Pueblo (1968), the Panmunjom Incident (1976) which resulted in the death of two American aggressors, the shooting down of the US Army CH-47 Chinook (1977) and of the OH-58 Kiowa helicopters (1994), not forgetting the fact that in 2003 four DPRK fighter jets intercepted a US reconnaissance plane over the West Sea of Korea.
Indeed, no country in the world has ever scored so much victories in a historical showdown with the US. This has concretely shown to the world that big powers does not always gain the upper hand and that it is perfectly possible, for small countries, to win victories against them when they are armed with a progressive, revolutionary ideology and are led by a corageous, independent and sovereign government which is decided to uphold the dignity of the nation.
This is precisely the case of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which has at its helm the heroic Workers' Party of Korea led by the peerless great persons of Mt. Paektu and the immortal revolutionary ideas of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. This has been the key to victory for the DPRK, which materialized itself in the building of the most powerful military and nuclear deterrent force which saw its peak with the successful test-launch of the ICBM Hwasong-15 on November 28, 2017.
Imperialists, and particularly the US, are coward enough not to attack countries which could respond in an equally destructive way to their provocations: this is the lesson finally understood by socialist Korea from the pitiable destiny of those countries, like Iraq and Libya, who made the tragic mistake of placing trust in the “promises” by imperialism about “prosperity” and “re-integration in the international community”. As respected Comrade Kim Jong Un recently pointed out:
«With the spirit and will of victory brought about by the immortal July 27, we chose on our own accord the arduous road of strengthening the national power, looking towards a bright future of our state, and have never changed our choice, tightening our belts, when others were vying with one another for the pursuit of immediate "prosperity."»
Reality has already proved the justness and correctness of this strategic choice made by the DPRK long ago. The DPRK has reliably defended peace not only in the Korean Peninsula and in the rest of Asia, but in the whole world as well.
This principled policy of the WPK bore its fruits also on the internal front: People's Korea was among the very first countries in Asia who lawfully recognized sex equality and adopted an advanced, progressive labor legislation, granting every citizen free housing, education and healthcare service even in the darkest days of the Fatherland Liberation War and in the grim period of the Arduous and Forced March in the 1990s. The DPRK was also the first country completing socialist transformation of the production relations (1958) and the only one, in today's world, being completely tax-free (since 1974).
It has a strong Sci-Tech power thanks to the keen interest shown in IT by General Kim Jong Il, who directly led the introduction in the country of the CNC machines. He enriched the treasure of communist science with such masterpieces as On Improving the Training of Computer Specialists, The 21st Century, A New Century, is an IT Era, Kim Chaek University of Technology is a Powerful Base of Our Country for Training Talented People in Science and Technology and others.
This works by him are priceless ideological goods which set a new revolutionary programme of establishing science and technology as a strategy of development for the DPRK, and at the same time have qualitatively upgraded the revolutionary theory, thus overcoming other limitations of Marxism-Leninism, the main ones of its having already been analyzed and overcome in other masterworks such as On Some Problems Posed by the Evaluation of Past Theories, The Leader of the Working Class Plays a Decisive Role in the Revolutionary Struggle, A New Era Requires a New Idea, On Correctly Analyzing and Reviewing the History of the Preceding Revolutionary Ideology of the Working Class, On Correctly Understanding Kimilsungism, On the Juche Idea, On Having a Correct Viewpoint and Understanding of the Juche Philosophy, Socialism Is a Science, The Songun-Based Revolutionary Line Is a Great Revolutionary Line of Our Era and an Ever-Victorious Banner of Our Revolution and others. He critically analyzed and defended the legacy of the first socialist countries in such de facto revolutionary manifestos as On Some Problems of the Ideological Foundation of Socialism, Socialism Is the Lifeline of Our People, Abuses of Socialism are Intolerable, Giving Priority to Ideological Work Is Essential For Accomplishing Socialism, and others.
Today, socialist Korea dashes forward decisively, upholding the red banner of revolution, socialism and Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism more firmly than ever. Under the wise leadership of respected Supreme Leader Comrade Kim Jong Un, the militant activity of the Workers' Party of Korea is knowing a new heyday: this year alone, there have been 6 sessions of the Political Bureau of the WPK (3 of which enlarged, 1 called as an emergency meeting), 1 enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and 1 plenary meeting of the Central Committee.
On the occasion of the latter, the decision has been taken to convene the 8th Party Congress next January 2021. It is worth mentioning, also, that in all these meetings a sharp critics of all shortcomings and mistakes has been thoroughly made by respected Comrade Kim Jong Un: this shows the renewed vitality of the WPK which is advancing along the revolutionary road of Juche with bigger leaps, towards modelling the whole society on Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The DPRK has completely changed, time and again, its wonderful appearance throughout the 2010s. Under the personal guidance of respected Comrade Supreme Leader, many projects have been undertaken and completed, such as Mirae Scientists Street, Changjon Street, Ryomyong Street, the new terminal of the Pyongyang International Airport, the Jungphyong Vegetable Greenhouse Farm, the renewal of Pyongyang Metro and trolleybuses and of the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, the Yangdok Hot Spring Resort, the construction of Samjiyon City, the Pyongyang Mushroom Farm and the Sunchon Phosphate Fertilizer Factory, among others. Now we are witnessing the speed-up construction of the Pyongyang General Hospital, started among the snowstorm of the COVID-19 pandemic and the unexpected trials related to it. This colossal work will add ever more brilliance to the 75th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
I cannot wait for the celebration of this august event, and even more for the opening, development and sure victory of the historical 8th National Congress of the WPK.
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