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and Jack Gaster, who remains active in progressive politics in his 80s, with the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. Michael Shapiro and Alan Winnington both reported from the front for the Daily Worker. To their great credit, they were branded as "traitors" and stripped of British citizenship, Comrade Shapiro becoming a citizen of the People's Republic of China and Comrade Winnington, a citizen of the former German Democratic Republic, both symbolising, I believe, the real meaning of Marx's statement that working people have no country. Comrade Kim Jong Il, whose 54th birthday falls tomorrow, is not only a leader of the practical movement but also a prominent thinker and theoretician. Over the last years, he has published a number of highly important and thought-provoking works, evoking a great deal of interest not only from the Korean people but among progressive forces worldwide, and dealing both with key topical issues and also profound issues of theory, philosophy and ideology. Among these, one might mention, in particular, 'On the Juche Idea' (1982), 'The Workers' Party of Korea is a Juche-type revolutionary party which inherited the glorious tradition of the Down With Imperialism Union' (1982), 'Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea' (1983), 'Let us march forward dynamically along the road of socialism and communism under the unfurled banner of the anti-imperialist struggle' (1987), 'The Workers' Party of Korea organises and guides all the victories of our people' (1990), 'Our socialism centred on the masses shall not perish' (1991), 'The historical lesson in building socialism and the general line of our party' (1992), 'On the fundamentals of revolutionary party building' (1992), 'Abuses of socialism are intolerable' (1993), 'Socialism is a science' (1994), 'Giving priority to ideological work is essential for accomplishing socialism' (1995), 'The Workers' Party of Korea is the party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung' (1995) and 'Respecting

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