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| Andy Brooks opening the meeting |
by New Worker correspondent
Friends
of Korea returned to the Marx Memorial Library last weekend for a solidarity
meeting to discuss the current efforts for peace and reunification that have
taken place on both sides of the divided peninsula since Korean leader Kim Jong
Un’s historic talks with Donald Trump, the leader of US imperialism in
Singapore in June.
The meeting, called by the Friends
of Korea committee, was opened by NCP leader Andy Brooks who welcomed everyone
in the hallowed hall whose boards had, as he said, once been tread by Harry
Quelch and Lenin. Michael Chant from the
RCPB (ML) followed with a talk that focused to the current efforts for peace by
the people’s government in the north and the new southern administration and
the need to raise the question of peace on the streets of Britain in this, the
hundredth anniversary of the end of the first world war.
This was followed by Dermot Hudson
of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) who spoke about his recent visit to
Democratic Korea and the giant strides that the people’s government is taking
at home and abroad for the cause of peace and socialism.
The panel then took part in a
wide-ranging discussion that covered all aspects of the campaign for peace in
Korea in Britain and across world. The meeting ended with the adoption of a
solidarity message to Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the people of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea supporting the right of the Korean people
to self-determination, independence and peace that was adopted by acclaim.
The Friends of Korea committee consists of
the New Communist Party of Britain, Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain
(ML), Socialist Labour Party, European Regional Society for the Study of the
Juché Idea and the UK Korean Friendship Association. Meetings are open to all
friends of the Korean revolution and the committee organises events throughout
the year which are listed by the supporting movements and on the Friends of
Korea blog.
