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miners, their wives and girlfriends; the black youth who led the uprisings of 1981 and who have organised themselves into various independent organisations such as the Stoke Newington & Hackney Defence Campaign and the Asian Youth Movements; the young people who have formed the core of the militant pickets of South Africa House; or the mass organisations of the anti-imperialist youth of Glasgow - the Republican Bands. By encouraging the youth consciously to play their leading role, whilst at the same time learning from the experience of veteran comrades, all sections of the people can be encouraged more dynamically to take up the struggle for freedom and independence. The Juche Idea aims to unite the people to wage the revolutionary struggle. It turns its back on the factional strife which divides the people. But whilst concentrating on the development of new revolutionary forces, this does not mean that we should turn our backs on those honest comrades who have been misled by the factionalists. We should also remember that our main enemy is imperialism, and that we should unite all possible forces against it. All oppressed peoples know that their strength lies in unity. The grave difficulties that the Palestinian people are currently facing are connected in no small part to the tragic splits in the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Conversely, the Nicaraguan revolution rapidly won victory when the three wings of the Sandinista National Liberation Front reunited. The liberation movements of El Salvador and Guatemala have learned this lesson and formed themselves into united fronts. In contrast, the door was opened to the US invasion of Grenada by the split in the revolutionary party and government of that country. In the course of their struggle the miners saw the need to uphold unity and reject sectarianism and were able to work with a vast range of forces. On many occasions in the course of leading the Korean revolution to victory the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung risked his very life in order to achieve national unity, and unity with the various anti-Japanese imperialist forces of the fraternal Chinese people. Today, he extends the hand of friendship to all democratic and patriotic forces in the south of divided Korea, and to all those forces in the world who are objectively in contradiction with imperialism, particularly US imperialism. He well understands that it is only our enemies who can gain by disunity. Therefore, without for a moment giving up our principles or the fight against opportunism, we think it necessary for all left wing forces concretely to look for ways in which they can unite and work together. Whether in support of the miners, the Irish people, other national liberation movements, the socialist countries, or in the anti-racist struggle, it should be possible for nearly all left wing organisations to find some realistic common ground on which to work together, without surrendering their independence or particular points of view. For our part, learning from the policy on international relations carried out by the Workers' Party of Korea, we are prepared to unite with what is positive in all other organisations, even if this is only a minor aspect, and to work together with them. Comrades, The Juche Idea is a precious gift that the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung has given to the peoples of the world. Since his early days he has been devoting himself to the people, and I am sure that everybody here would want

to join with us in conveying to him wholehearted greetings on the occasion of his 73rd birthday which will be celebrated in a few weeks' time. The experience of the Sovet Union and the People's Republic of China, and of the international communist movement generally, shows that the question of succeeding the revolutionary cause of the leader is a complex and difficult one. We therefore share the joy of the Korean people in their having the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il as the successor to the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il has inherited all the revolutionary qualities of the great leader, and has developed and systematised his ideas, defining them as Kimilsungism. It is therefore only natural that the Korean Party and people should unanimously acclaim him as the genuine successor to the great leader. We send wholehearted and sincere greetings to the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, who is wisely leading the Korean people to advance at the 'speed of the '80s' in all fields of socialist construction, holding the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung in boundless esteem forever. Today has been an historic occasion when the banner of the Juche Idea, the banner of the Age of Independence, has been raised in London, the heart of the old and dying world. This is but a first step in our continuing work to hold high the banner of the New World, and to join the revolutionary struggle of the peoples of the world who are fighting against imperialism and for independence. I would like to thank all those comrades, particularly those present, who have given us help and encouragement in the organising of this Seminar. Special thanks must go to our Korean comrades in Pyongyang and in Paris who have provided us with a great deal of inspiration. Were it not for the reactionary and obdurate stand of the Thatcher government in denying visas to citizens of socialist Korea, we are sure that they would have been present with us today. The Juche Idea means solidarity with the world revolution. As the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il says, "All countries, all nations, and peoples the world over that advocate Chajusong, must struggle jointly in close unity under the revolutionary banner of anti-imperialism and independence." Today, on this occasion, I pledge on behalf of Mosquito Press that we will always be on the same side together with all the peoples fighting against imperialism and dominationism, particularly those fighting against British imperialism. No matter what storms may arise in the world, we will always be on the side of the brave Korean people who daily face the nuclear war threat from US imperialism and its followers. LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL SUNG! LONG LIVE THE DEAR LEADER COMRADE KIM JONG IL! LONG LIVE THE IMMORTAL JUCHE IDEA! ALL PEACE-LOVING PEOPLES OF THE WORLD WHO ADVOCATE CHAJUSONG, UNITE TO BURY IMPERIALISM FOREVER!

(1 The Juche Idea Fulfills James Connolly's Vision of the Internationalism of the future. Comrades, We have laboured in vain if we have failed in our endeavours during recent months and years to obtain a better future convince our anti-imperialist comrades that James Connolly's vision of internationalism internationalist independence is so strikingly prophetic of the scientific solution socialism of our era, the Juche Idea, that The dear leader Comrade KJI has pointed out that "Chajusong/independence of a party and a state is expressed, after all, in foreign relations ... There are big and small parties, big and small countries, and economically developed and underdeveloped peoples in the world, but all parties; all countries and peoples are equal and independent. No one should encroach upon the sovereignty of others and no one should tolerate them.

encroachment on one's sovereignty. " "These should be neither superior-subordinate relations nor master-servant relations in the [Communist] movement... The Juche Idea defined Chajusong/independence as the fundamental principle of the relations between parties and between countries, and this helped towards a change in the international communist movement and the development of international relations." "This movement is a struggle to realise the Chajusong of the popular masses in each country, and it is the communists people of the country themselves who are the performers, the masters of this struggle." In the vastly different circumstances of the first world war when imperialism still held sway and that the age of Chajusong had yet to dawn, James Connolly advanced a vision of Irish freedom and socialism under which "every nation will be the supreme (2

(3 arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will not be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guarantied and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the social democracy of the world." "The Internationalism of the future," he taught," will be based upon the free federation of free peoples, and cannot be realised through the subjugation of the smaller by the larger political unit." "There is no "most favoured nation clause' in Socialist diplomacy." We have laboured in vain during recent and months & years if we have failed to convince our anti-imperialist comrades that the affinity between James Connolly's vision of Irish freedom and the Juche Idea is not superficial or coincidental

(4 matter, but is a significant reflexion of the fact that James Connolly was the earliest of all scientific socialist leaders to have left a body of teachings developed in the context of the movement revolutionary patristics fact of an oppressed nation. This is teachers His was, at the same time last part of the great encyclopedic bodies of proletarian revolting thought produced in the West of that time of Marx, Engels the West of Europe. He was at the same time the last of the great proletarian revolting teachers of today This explains the fact that James Connolly's teachings are so strikingly modern and so profoundly prophetic ideology expressed in of the Socialist of our era the Juche Idea. The teachings of James Connolly are a deeply concerned with the questions thought body of thought focussing on the and 'manhood' questions of independence and on questions of method leadership and most worked method among the work among the people of his oppressed nation. ideas That He promoted the of James Fintan Lalor, one of the most powerful propagandist scientific code who in 1848 had

(5 Said, "I want to put Ireland foremost, in the van of the world, at the head of the nations - to set her aloft in the blaze of the sun, and to make her for ages the lode star of history." Connolly applied this teaching in the period of the find half of the prior to 1917, first world war, when (the revolutionary situation in Ireland focussed the hopes of Europe and beyond for a revolt that would "spark off a Europe - wide conflagration" and bring an end to the misery of the war through proletarian revolution. The period following Connolly's death was Sunday, the period that one in which, in the words of the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, "a new development was taking place in the struggle of the working class and the popular masses against exploitation and oppression. On the world arena, the influence of socialism, which had won its first victory, grew strong, and the revolutionary struggle of the working class and the liberation struggle of the peoples in colonies and semi-colonies were intensified sharply... A new age was approaching, in which the revolutionary movement made progress in a broad and diversified way on a worldwide scale."

Democratic People's Republic of Korea (6 Today it is the great [illegible crossed out text] which, and all having stood face-to-face with US Imperialism for 35 years, through unbelievable hardship and sacrifice, focusses the hopes of the people of the East Asian region and internationally for a worldwide anti-imperialist [crossed out: movement] that advance to make the whole world finally independent and usher in the [crossed out: new era of] victory At the age of Chajusong. United as one under the unconquerable unifying force of the half-century leadership of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, the Korean people have indeed, to paraphrase Lalor's words of 1848, placed Korea foremost, in the van of the world, at the head of the nations, in the blaze of the sun (-or) and for ages the lode star of history. Thus does the Juche torch beam out across the world, focussing the hopes of peoples from the Indian Ocean to the Irish Sea, from Africa to Japan, and from the Middle East to the Americas, for a free world - in

(7 Connolly's words a "free federation of free peoples" - Where no nation or national group, no matter how Small, no matter how oppressed, divided or downtrodden by imperialism, no matter how blacks scorned or humiliated, is second rate. In the phrase of the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il, every nation is "second to none". The Korean people, who have seen their country partitioned, their countrymen forced to emigrate, their country subjected to the unbelievable sufferings and destruction of the Great Fatherland Liberation War in the 1950s, have uncontrovertibly proved this great historic truth that, " come what may and let imperialism do its worst, "a nation with a strong sense of national dignity and revolutionary pride is unconquerable." (TL438) Writing of Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish Republicanism, James Connolly wrote that the movement accomplishment of a unified national mapot required " the activity of a revolutionist with statesmanship

(8 enough to find a common point upon which the two elements could write, and some great event dramatic enough in its character to arrest the attention of all and fire them with a common feeling. The first, the man, revolutionist and statesman, was found in the person of Theobald Wolfe Tone, and the second, the event, in the French Revolution." The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung has in our era. Similarly focussed the advances of the Korean and world revolutions through a whole series of great and dramatic events of our era. From an early date in the when that he was still in his teens, 1920s, his original and creative ideal of building the party independently became the focus of the Korean revolution's attempts to find a path forward from the darkness of oppression and powerlessness. In the stormy events of world war and guerilla war, and of state-building under the enemy