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 Ill makes clear, "When the leader 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 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 rapdily 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. and in many concerns the The dear leader The principles and policies put forward 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, masses 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 London-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." 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
