The Korean revolution: today and tomorrow!

by New Worker correspondent

Alan Bolon, Dermot Hudson & Andy Brooks

NCP leader Andy Brooks returned to a community hall in south London to join other Korean solidarity campaigners at a meeting in Brixton on Saturday to remember Kim Il Sung and discuss the meaning of Korean-style socialism and its relevance in today’s world.
Called by the Korean Friendship Association the audience heard openings from KFA Chair Dermot Hudson, Alan Bolon from the West of England KFA and Andy Brooks from the NCP.
Alan Bolon said “Korean-style socialism has achieved historic success, the Korean style of socialism continues to achieve success and, this is because it is based on the solid ideological foundations of the epoch – making Juche philosophy and, on the experiences and great achievements of Kim Il Sung whose birthday we celebrate today”. Dermot Hudson said that “the Democratic People's Republic of Korea shows in practice that a new world of social justice is possible. All the internal and external policies of the DPRK serve the interests of the people in every possible way”.  And Andy Brooks recalled the time he met Kim Il Sung in 1990 and the role that the leader of the Korean revolution had played throughout his life in the struggle against Japanese colonialism and American imperialism that ended in victory and the building of the people’s republic in the liberated northern part of the Korean peninsula.
The openings inspired the discussion that followed as friends and comrades, old and new, looked at the relevance of Kimilsungism to the world communist movement and the struggle against US-led imperialism and its lackeys throughout the world today.
The well-attended meeting was watched  on livestream by over 800 people. A further 1,300 have now seen it on YouTube’s SONGUN007 channel!