By New Worker correspondent
NEW COMMUNIST Party comrades
joined other communists at seminar last week at the John Buckle Centre in south
London to celebrate the 66th
anniversary of the foundation of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK).
The
seminar at the London HQ of the RCPB (ML), called by the Friends of Korea
co-ordinating committee, heard contributions from Korean solidarity activists
on the achievements of the WPK and its great leaders Kim Il Song and Kim Jong
Il, over the years.
It was chaired
by Dermot Hudson of the UK Korea Friendship
Association and the discussion began with contributions from Michael Chant of
the RCPB (ML), NCP general secretary Andy Brooks and DPR Korea London diplomat
Mun Myong Sin on the importance and relevance of the Korean revolutionary
experience to the world communist movement in the 21st century.
The NCP leader
praised the feats of the WPK and denounced the hostile propaganda of
imperialism against the DPRK in his contribution, which focused on the
relevance and meaning of independence and self-sufficiency in Juche thinking.
Michael Chant spoke about the importance and
significance of the WPK and the great role of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and Dermot
Hudson gave a succinct history of the Korean communists’
revolutionary struggle from the beginning of the struggle against Japanese
colonial rule in the 1920s.
After a
round-table discussion the seminar concluded with the unanimous agreement to
send the following congratulatory message to Democratic Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Message of Congratulations
Adopted at the Seminar organised by Friends of Korea, October 6, 2011 (Juche 100)
London,
England
To Comrade Kim Jong Il
General Secretary, Workers’
Party of Korea
Pyongyang
Dear
Comrade Kim Jong Il
This
Seminar convened to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the foundation of the
Workers’ Party of Korea conveys to you its warmest and most fraternal
greetings. It also wishes you the very best for your continued successes on the
occasion of the 14th anniversary of your election as the General Secretary of
the Party, and on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the formation of the
Down-with-Imperialism Union by the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung.
The
DPRK has the inviolable right to defend its sovereignty and independence, and
develop the human and material resources to do so. It is the US military presence which has been a threat to peace
and security on the Korean Peninsula for more than 60 years, since the division of the
nation following the Second World War. The aspiration and task taken up for
solution by the Korean people, under your leadership and that of the Workers’
Party of Korea, is to reunify and denuclearise the Korean Peninsula under the
banner of “By our nation itself”, which reflects the united will of the Korean
people. Korea Is One!
These
are difficult times for the world’s peoples, but the continued defence by the
DPRK of its sovereignty, and its refusal to conciliate with the arrogant
bullying of US imperialism, is a very great contribution to the
people’s struggles. Our hearts go with you every step of the way in your great
work.
The
work of progressive people in Britain, in this regard, is to counter the slanders and
disinformation spread about the DPRK, and to unite everyone in solidarity and
friendship. US imperialism, closely supported by the British
government, is escalating military tension on the Korean Peninsula, and our struggles here are also to hit at this
Anglo-American chauvinism and trouble-making.
The
Workers’ Party of Korea under your leadership is the sure weapon to defend the
achievements of the Korean people and to thwart all the plans of Anglo-US
imperialism to stifle and wipe out the beacon of the DPRK.
May
we wish you on this occasion good health and long life, and assure you that we
stand shoulder to shoulder with you in our common cause of building a new
world, the world of peace, independence and socialism.
With warmest fraternal regards
Seminar
organised by the Co-ordinating Committee of Friends of Korea
