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(9 bombardment, and through the inspiring years when the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America have seized the wheels of history and accellerated the are moving them forward under the banner of Chajusong/independence, and when the international communist movement has brought forth a new dramatic independent • orientation - through all these events, (crisis) the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung has and world arrested the attention of the Korean (people and indeed fired them with a common feeling, becoming a lodestar and focus of unity and cohesion for independent • the Korean and international anti-imperialist forces. it It is thus no coincidence that / has been the Korean revolution, consolidated, stabilised by the great leader and deepened as no other revolution in history has consolidated ever been (before, better by its great leader; and solved that has for the first time in history taken up the question of revolutionary leadership method and its logical concomitant, the

(10 question of succession to the leadership. As the dear leader has said, "The question of the leadership method holds an independent place, both theoretically and practically, in the revolutionary struggle of the working class... but in the revolutionary theory of the working class this question was never systematised as an independent theory." It is precisely this question that is systematised in the Lear leader's treatise "The Workers' Party of Korea is a Juche-Type Revolutionary Party which Inherited the Glorious Tradition of the DIU", which is the subject of our Seminar today. This classic work is of priceless benefit for the world's people in studying the unprecedentedly advanced and comprehensive experience of the Korean revolution in upholding their great leader and the guiding idea propounded by him, the Juche Idea. Let us therefore broach the question of applying these teachings to the

(11 history of the Leadership question in the Irish Republican tradition.

12 bout A wide the three what al peet often. As de sage "3 cmpt de het is supply, a And die wat te I plan only the cuer to it. this The quita Afrodenten voe of the bede leade Igically the questio Abe Succeirson to the leading In the stormy struggles of Irish Republicanismgas in strutstand other national liberation movements , the question of succession consolidating a leadership think of normally has beeed tik mohad to be faced in the context of crisis and martyrdom. Tone's martyrdom 798 of the succeeding years was followed by the despair for tear of British colonialism's counter-revolutionary terror, and the movement at home was unable to regroup itself after the wreyle Tone and the Aber and killing off Republican Leaders of '98. It only was Lin Republican France that conditions existed Republican The rezultontat lesdeshistove fore reconstituting the organised / Leadership, Paink / contred on Robert Emmet and led the met uprising of 1803. This was the legendary final blow in the United Insh stoggle. A the national movement before British colonialism's long success in dividing the two communities in Ireland - a success which has held back Irish victory till today. The Emmet uprising and creative was a magnificent victory of independent fanti-colonialist leadership method, and brilliantly achieve had not died and thus proved that the United Irish Republicanimes hamortala thay with Tone succession to the leadership of Tonel. Throughout the following century pictures of Emmet were Plant exhibited in every fatristic household,

Songs of Emmet were passed from parent heroic to child, and the personality A Emmet was upheld triumphantly United as the historic proof of that Irish identity which and British colonialism had tried & was trying unsuccessfully to obliterate. Emmet societies and 'Monument Associations' spread like a flame among the Irish communities forced to emigrate to the United States and elsewhere. Truly the tradition Irish Republican Movement founded by Tone and immortalised by Emmet was a worthy precursor of the immortal Juche Idea, and achieved historic advances in the Irish and international anti-colonialist traditions, through its profound respect for the leading ideas of its achievements great leaders and their in inspiring unity of their people, and continuity of thath (Leadership) The European democratic revolutions of 1848 once again saw Ireland in W deeply affected by the advance of, the whole conty the most progressive forces, and she seethed with expectation A rebellion under the banner of Tone and Emmet. Once again. (13

(14 crisis, martyrdom, imprisonment and deportation were the context in which Irish Republicanism sought to consolidate a revolutionary leadership. The collapse the compromise of the bulk of the leadership of the '40s was followed by The a few months of insurrectionary preparations and drilling of 1847-8 found the focus of their cohesion in with hunger for a ring formed and the leadership of John Mitchel. His trial and deportation was followed by the re-grouping of the movement around the great but the leadership crisis was not solved revolutionary patriot James Fintan Lalor, but not rapidly enough to ride the high tide of the Europe-wide crises of capitalism. Nevertheless it was Lalor who faced and solved the major problems of the Irish national revolution, in that brief period of his leadership. Above all he solved the question of successors to leadership of the the revolution in the difficult circumstances of illegality, and the majority of the leaders of movement the Fenian aspect of the later nineteenth Century traced their origins back to the brief but brilliantly constructive period of Lalor's revolutionary activities. Lalor to the world bequeathed the priceless revolutionary legacy of movements his thought on peasant and revolutionary patriotism, and is to be numbered, like Connolly later, among the most strikingly and prophetically modern

(15 of the early scientific socialist and progressive thinkers. His vision of an internationalist mission for a its independence shining out like a "beacon", free Ireland, has been implemented by the Juche Idea which has made of the heroic SaKa struggles of the a beacon of hope Korean people not just a gain for Korea but for all the world's oppressed people. Such was some of the fine then legacy and in theory and practice which James Connolly above all four inherited and developed, in the three glorious years of his revolutionary activity to lead Ireland at the hand. to national revolution with the working class the working class, the most independent class; I The great James Connolly profoundly grasped the truth enunciated by the dd. that "the working class but failed to oppose with was a revolutionary to tell a working class with a belief in their a revolutionary style. A worthy that made the futo: His concept of what Connolly contributed to the struggles of the working class was to make the working class more than a "beacon" of hope. These 1911-16 works and memoirs "beacon". He was..." I could accept a Sept. 1915 article by a participant. by participants in the 1916 uprising associate its adherents closely particularly with him. readily illustrating the truth that "...accord to His writings illustrate the distinguished Cor." NJC but decided a brilliant united front in all parts class, was to include all sections of the working class, led by a revolutionary head of the party, and The James Connolly is his legacy of A state of affairs profoundly exercised. This in fact symbolised in the 7 leaders gave a model broad working class front in all parts. I am sure. He brought a model study, and come to know deeply and respect for their lively structures. J.R.A.

(16) It was in this period of world war and imperialist crisis that James Connolly came forward as a great internationalist leader who profoundly grasped the principle later formulated by the dear leader in these words: "The best way to preserve national independence and peace and win the revolutionary cause is to counter the imperialist war of ^aggression^ ~aggressor~ with the war of liberation, ^answer^ ^reaction^ ~and~ ^the^ counter-revolutionary violence of ~the~ with revolutionary violence, and always meet the imperialist moves of aggression and war in full preparedness." James Connolly called on the working class, the most independent class, to "erect barricades all over Europe, to break up bridges ^and^ ~of~ destroy the transport service that was might be abolished," and called for "armed battling in the streets". In the course of this magnificent period of revolutionary propaganda and organisation, James Connolly developed a legendary style of

(18 chance to developnobility and grandeur of character for men and women, a time to realise the nobility of life, to study the study history of Freland, to our rights das well as our duties; time to develop men and women for the coming crisis, so that they take might advantage of it when it came." In a prophetically modern manner he waged unceasing struggles to found an Irish socialist party independently as the "general staff" of the revolution. He had long upheld the and movement led the matt to found a separate party, "one victory over imperialism of which he was particularly proud," to use the words of his daughter Nora. During the years 1911 to 1916 he fought hard to consolidate this advance in terms strikingly reminiscent of the Jude Idea, and left an immortal legacy of teachings on this serious question of independence in party-