Comrade Kim Il Sung Remembered
The Friends of Korea
organised a well-attended public meeting at London’s Marx Memorial Library on
Saturday 12 April to celebrate the 96th birthday of the late Korean
revolutionary leader Comrade Kim Il Sung and to outline some of his great
contributions to the global anti-imperialist struggle.
The meeting was chaired by Comrade Harpal Brar,
Chairman of the Friends of Korea and of the Communist Party of Great Britain
(Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML), and the speakers were Comrades Andy Brooks of the
New Communist Party (NCP), Chris Coleman of the Revolutionary Communist Party
of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (RCPBML) and Jong In Song of the London Embassy
of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Following the speeches, a cultural programme was
presented by the comrades of RCPB(ML), which included the Song of General
Kim Il Sung. Refreshments were generously provided by the comrades from the
Korean Embassy in London.
On this same occasion, the CPGB-ML sent a message
to the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Comrade Kim Jong Il.
We reproduce extracts below:
“Comrade Kim Il Sung was not only the founder of
the Workers’ Party of Korea, but also an outstanding Marxist-Leninist, a tried
and tested leader of the international communist movement, and a staunch
fighter against revisionism and both right and ‘left’ opportunism.
“Holding high the banners
of both revolutionary patriotism and proletarian internationalism, he fought,
throughout his life, from his early teenage years to the moment he breathed his
last at the age of 82, for the independence and freedom of the Korean people,
for the liberation of all the oppressed nations and peoples, and for the final
and complete emancipation of the proletariat, independent of all nationality.
He was a comrade-in-arms of Comrade Stalin and Comrade Mao Zedong and a true
friend to struggling peoples and communists throughout the world.
“He lives on in the huge
achievements of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and in the indomitable
struggle against imperialism that the Korean people continue to wage under your
wise leadership.
“Our Party greatly values our excellent and
intimate fraternal relations with your Party, which you have rightly named as
the Party of the Great Leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, and we stand wholeheartedly
and unreservedly with you in your struggle to oppose US imperialism and other
reactionary forces, to defend your sovereignty, and to build a great,
prosperous and powerful socialist nation on Korean soil, just as Comrade Kim Il
Sung wished for and expected.”