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Speech by Keith Anderson, Political Director, Mosquito Press On behalf of Mosquito Press and the Organising Committee for the Seminar on the Juche Idea established by it, I once again express my deep thanks to all those comrades who have honoured us by their presence today. The comrades who have attended our Seminar today, and those who for one reason or another have been unable to attend but who have in various ways expressed their greetings and support, can without exaggeration be said to represent the five continents of the world. And for the most part we are talking about comrades on the frontline of the struggle against world imperialism, led by US imperialism. That our Seminar should evoke such a positive response from the world revolutionary forces is above all a tribute to the growing authority of the Juche Idea, and its creator the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. It is clear that increasingly the Juche Idea is becoming established as the guiding idea of world revolution in the present epoch. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to visit Pyongyang, the capital city of revolution, will well know how the flaming torch atop the Tower of the Juche Idea illumines the night sky of the city. Similarly, it is with lessons learned in blood that the revolutionary peoples of the world come to know that the road to victory lies through casting away old ideas and formulae, rejecting dogmatism and flunkeyism and grasping the future of the revolution in their own hands. As the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il points out, "The masses of the people are the masters of revolution and construction and the decisive factor in trans- forming nature and developing society... It is the masses that want the revolution and construction, and it is also the masses that carry them out." The revolutionary ideas of the working class and oppressed peoples are created by great and outstanding leaders of the people. As the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il said, "The revolutionary ideas of the working class are originated by distinguished leaders... Our leader created the great Juche Idea after acquiring a deep insight into the requirements of a new era when the oppressed and humiliated masses of the people became masters of their own destiny. Thus he developed their struggle for Chajusong onto a higher plane and opened up the age of Juche, a new era in the development of human history." For all communists and revolutionaries it is an axiom that wherever there is oppression there is resistance. This in fact flows from the nature of man as a social being with creativity, consciousness and Chajusong. As the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il has explained, "It is natural that man who regards Chajusong as his life and soul combats any encroachment on his Chajusong." From the slave revolts of Spartacus against the might of the Roman Empire to the recent year-long strike by the miners in this country, we can see the implacable refusal of oppressed people to accept slavery and the violation of their dignity, and their courageous struggle to assert themselves as masters of the world. However, history also teaches that however often, and however heroically, the masses rise in struggle, their resistance will not end in victory unless they have correct leadership. As dear Comrade Kim Jong Il pointed out, "If they are to hold their position and fulfill their role ... the popular masses must be brought into contact with leadership." It is therefore to the undying credit of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung that, whilst still in his early years, he created the Juche Idea. This idea cleared away the factional fog spread in the Korean revolutionary movement by bigotted national- ists and bogus Marxists, and in the teeth of enormously complex conditions 1

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