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| Andy Brooks talking about Juche |
By New Worker correspondent
FRIENDS of Democratic Korea
returned to the Marchmont Centre in central London last weekend to mark the 1st
anniversary of the passing of dear leader Kim Jong Il called by the Juché
societies in Britain,
electrified by the news that the DPRK had successfully put a satellite into
Earth orbit.
The achievement of Democratic Korea’s
independent space programme was a fitting tribute to the memory of Kim Jong Il
and the new leadership around his successor, Kim Jong Un. And that was a point
stressed by all four speakers at the meeting on Saturday organised by the Juché
Idea Study Group and the Association for the Study of Songun Politics.
But first of all everyone stood to observe two
minutes’ silence in memory of Kim Jong Il. A screening of Korea Changing Sorrow into Strength and Courage was followed by
thoughtful contributions from Dermot Hudson and Shaun Pickford from the Juché
society on the life of Kim Jong Il.
Dr Hugh Goodacre, a lecturer at the University of London, opened discussion on the meaning
of Juché that was taken up by New Communist Party leader Andy Brooks in his own
contribution to the discussion. Brooks stressed the importance of independence
and self-reliance in the philosophy of Kimilsungism and the Juché Idea.
The general secretary of the NCP said that the
DPRK and the Workers Party of Korea were under attack by right-wing and bogus
“left-wing” revisionists as well as the bourgeois pundits who never even
bothered to read what Kim Jong Il actually said. If they had they would see
that Kim Jong Il had made an immense contribution to Marxist-Leninist theory
and ideology.
“In his 1982 work On the Juche Idea, Kim Jong Il brought together and systematised
the Juché theory while his 1994 thesis Socialism
is a Science affirmed that socialism would eventually become the economic
system of the entire world because it is the only form of society in which
people can be truly free,” Andy Brooks declared.
All these points were triggers for a lively
discussion amongst the activists and supporters of Korean-style socialism which
could have continued well into the evening. But sadly time ran out leaving just enough
to end with the enthusiastic
adoption by acclaim of a solidarity message to Kim Jong Un, the new leader of
the Party and People of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
