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(2) 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 Hunkeyism 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 transforming 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. This he developed their struggle for Chajusong onto a higher plane and opened up the age of Juche, a new era in the development

3 of human history. For all communists and revolutionaries it is an axiom that wherever there is oppression there is resistance. This on 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-lo 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 struggles 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

④ the L Juche Idea. This idea cleared away the factional fog spread in the Korean revolutionary movement by bigotted nationalists and bogus Marxists, and in the teeth of enormously complex conditions led the Korean revolution to achieve victory. Now the Juche idea has spread to all corners of the globe and Juche Idea Study Groups have been established in nearly every country of the world. I am pleased to take this occasion to announce that the preparations undertaken by Mosquito Press to found such a Study Group in this country are now at an advanced Stage, and that 1985 is the year when this great idea will at last be Systematically Studied and applied here. Of course, a correct guiding idea can only be created in accordance with the developing conditions and demands of the era. It therefore follows that the Juche Idea accords with the present Stage and tasks of the world revolution and provides Correct answers to the problems posed in the revolutionary struggle. As the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong IL makes clear : "When the leaders embarked on the road of revolution, 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

(5) 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. In an attempt to stop the revolutionary advance of the masses and weather the serious political and economic crises they were passing through, the imperialists further increased • their plunder and oppression of the people. In many countries contradictions and antagonism between revolution and counter- revolution were intensified, and the masses of people whose sovereign rights had been trampled down for a long time rose up in a struggle for their class and national liberation. A new age was approaching, in which the revolutionary movement made progress in a • broad and diversified way on a worldwide scale." Following the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution it rapidly became clear that the focus of world revolution was shifting to the oppressed nations, particularly those in Asia, and it is therefore not surprising, neither is it coincidental, that the leading development in revolutionary ideology should be made by an Asian Communist leader. The principles and policies put forward

⑥ by the Juche idea are fully relevant and applicable to our tasks here. One of the most essential - and in Many respects one that determines the approach to other questions- concerns the Juche-based stand, viewpoint and method of work with people. The dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il has pointed out "when they are armed with the revolutionary idea and united into an organised political force, the masses can emerge victorious in the revolution. The duty of revolutionaries is to go among the popular masses, Masters of the revolution, to educate, organise and inspire them to a struggle. The revolutionary forces, too, should be trained from among the masses, and all problems arising in the revolutionary struggle should likewise be resolved in reliance on their wisdom and strength." This exposition of the revolutionary work method can clearly be seen to be in contrast to the opportunist, bureaucratic, factional and sectarian methods adopted in the Main by the hondon-based left groups as well as the Labour and Trade Union movement. Like their counterparts in Korea in the early part of the century, they can be described as being "divorced from the masses, only engrossed in the scramble for hegemony and empty talks. They did not unite the masses but divided them by factional strife."

⑦ The endless splits and factional strife that characterise the British left do nothing to inspire the Masses to fight to end their oppression, in fact all that they succeed in doing is disorienting and disillusioning the Many sincere people who gravitate towards them, and generally discrediting the ideas of Socialism among the people. In contrast, a dynamic Struggle can only be waged by relying on and organising the • people themselves. This can be clearly seen in the case of the miners strike. Of course, nearly all left wing forces were involved themselves with the epic struggle of the miners to a greater or lesser extent. But their reasons for doing so, the ways in which they intervened, and the conclusions drawn from the Struggle differ widely. There are some who See the miners Struggle as confirming the • Correctness of an orientation to the established labour and trade union movement and its traditional methods. However, the miners strike Confirmed exactly the opposite. The reason for its endurance, Militancy and heroism lies in the fact that the miners and their leadership, to a considerable extent, turned their backs on factional and bureaucratic Methods of work and relied on the creative talents of the oppressed people of the mining Communities themselves. Fiercely confident in their own Strength and the justice of their cause, the

(3) young Miners - "Scargill's Red Guards" as they were called - together with their wives and girlfriends took on the full force of the British imperialist State, and in so doing began to give an outline of what a workers' state could mean in this country. As Comrade Malcolm Pitt, President of the Kent National Union of Mineworkers said in a recent speech in Southall, the Strike, "showed the latent ability power of • working people" From the logging teams who provided heating, to the food distribution teams and communal kitchens and dining halls, the importing of food, the to the arranging of foreign delegations and holidays for Miners and their families we were given, "signs of the ability of working people to run society". Moreover, the Miners turned to, and built alliances with, their real friends - • rank and file workers here and overseas, the National Minority Communities, the Irish people, national liberation Movements, revolutionary democratic states such as Libya, the Socialist countries... These forces responded with magnificent acts of solidarity, and we began to see the emergence of the type of revolutionary alliance that can defeat British imperialism. All of this is inseparable from the fact that in the person of

⑨ Arthur Scargill, and other readers such as Malcolm Pitt and Jack Collins, the Miners had a leadership that was prepared to base its work on "educating, organising and inspiring" the people. Without denying the importance of struggles over wages and conditions it is highly significant that the Miners struggle was not centred around these questions but was a battle to defend pits, jobs and communities, it was above all a fight for human dignity and Chajusong. henin said that Strikes were, "a School of war". In this great school we now have a body of graduates who have learnt lessons on the State, on imperialism, on the need to meet counter-revolutionary violence with revolutionary violence and the identities of their real friends and real enemies. Above all it has shown working people something of what they are capable of achieving. Although, unfortunately, it did not end in a clear victory for the strikers, it has trained soldiers who will be in the frontline of many a battle to come. It was an indispensable Stage in the struggle. In many respects it bears a close resemblance to the Struggle of the proletariat in Dublin in 1913, about which

(10) James Connelly wrote, " Our fight of last year was not for added wages and reduction of hours; it was for an opportunity of building up in our midst- men and women, a chance to develop nobility and grandeur of Character for men and women, a time to realise the nobility of life, to study the history of Ireland, to study our rights as well as our duties; time to - develop men and women for the coming crisis, so that they might take advantage of it when it came. " Another aspect of the Juche idea of Crucial importance to us is that of independence - specifically that the revolutionary organisations, particularly those Created by the oppressed peoples themselves, Must hold fast to an independent Stand. As dear Comrade Kim Jong Il - points out: " If the revolution and Construction are to be carried out as required by the Juche idea, Chayusong must be maintained and realised." All progressive struggles against this State have had to be waged on the basis of independence. For example, throughout the Miners Strike, the strikers had to resist the straightjacket of the labour aristocracy, who in the words of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, are reared by the capitalists, " to disorganis

(11) the ranks of the working class Movement". More particularly, this struggle finds its Sharpest and most concrete expression in the struggles of nationally oppressed nations, peoples and communities. The Most outstanding example is the Irish Republican Movement which has developed into the Most powerful revolutionary Movement in Western Europe precisely by tenaciously defending its own independence - By Contrast those forces in Ireland that have taken to Hunkeyism, or not based their work on going deep among the Irish people educating and organising them, have either become an irrelevance, or, as in the case of the Notorious "Irish Workers' Party" - so-called, have degenerated into agents of imperialism. The Irish Republican Movement is a genuinely revolutionary Movement that - Epitomises and grasps the truth of dear Comrade Kim Jong Il's teaching that : "Without the sense of National pride that one's nation is inferior to none, without the pride and honour of the revolutionary people, it would be impossible to live up to one's conviction in an independent Manner, uphold National independence and dignity and emerge victorious in the difficult revolutionary struggle. A Nation with a strong sense of national dignity