Partie 3 - LA36 KB articles 1988 98 and cuttings 089 003

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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, Chajusong 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 disorganise 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 flunkeyism, 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 and revolutionary pride is unconquerable, but a nation without this attribute is powerless. The peoples of small countries who have long suffered oppression by foreign forces need so much the more the sense of national dignity and revolutionary pride." Other organisations and movements that have preserved their revolutionary integrity, deepened their links with the masses and expanded their fighting ranks precisely by defending their independence include the Scottish and Welsh Republicans and black organisations such as the Indian Workers' Association (GB) and the Bangladesh Workers' Association. These organisations, which firmly uphold Chajusong, know their communities, their problems, revolutionary traditions, and methods of struggle far better than the British left ever can. Their existence is in marked contrast to those of some other forces that go in for national nihilism, or who have allowed themsleves to be sucked into the "race relations industry", or who have been made to dance to the baton of this or that British left organisation. Their sorry plight is aptly characterised by the dear leader Comrade Kim Jong Il as follows: "If one is inclined to be servile, one would be in the habit of grovelling before others and following them: if others take to revisionism, one would follow suit; and if others adopt dogmatism, one would act likewise. As the leader said, if a person falls into flunkeysim, he would become a tool; if a nation is servile to big powers, the country would go to ruin; and if a party is subservient to big powers, it would make a mess of the revolution and construction." Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il has further clarified the concept of independence of the organisations of the nationally oppressed by his development of revolutionary theory on the national question with regard to national minorities

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