Commemorative Lecture Meeting on Celebrating the Founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea
Commemorative
Lecture Meeting on Celebrating the Founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea
On the occasions of the
79th Founding Anniversary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (October 10, 1945),
Serbian Preparatory Committee for celebrating the Founding the WPK organized as
a commemorative lecture meeting on Oct 5.
Mr. Victor Jankovic,
Chairman of the Serbian Preparatory Committee for celebrating the Founding the
WPK and Chairman of the Serbian National Committee on the Study of the Juche
Idea addressed as follows:
“The
solid mass foundation, that is, the ardent support and trust of the working
masses is the greatest political asset of the Workers’ Party of Korea. This
asset difficult to gain is ascribable to the fact that the WPK was founded in a
different way from the parties of many countries.
The WPK
was founded on October 10, 1945, less than two months after the liberation of
Korea (August 15, 1945) from the Japanese imperialists' military occupation.
However, it can be said that the preparation for its founding started nearly 20
years before. No communist party or workers’ party of any country was founded
after such a long period of preparation.
The WPK
is different from other parties in terms of not only the mode of the founding
but also the class foundation.
On
October 17, 1926, Comrade Kim Il Sung (1912-1994) formed the
Down-with-Imperialism Union (DIU), the first genuine communist revolutionary
organization in Korea. The DIU broke with flunkeyism and dogmatism which had
remained deep-rooted in Korea and paved a new road of revolution on the principle
of independence for the first time in history. Since then, the work for
founding a Juche-type revolutionary party was launched in Korea.
In his
early years Kim Il Sung put forward a policy of founding a party by
forming its basic organizations first and then expanding and strengthening
them, not by founding its central committee first and then forming its basic
organizations, and led the struggle to form party organizations among the broad
working masses. Under his guidance, the Korean revolutionaries awakened and
rallied the masses and steadily expanded and strengthened the basic party
organizations. The pioneers who were fighting against the Japanese imperialists
and for building a new society in which the working people are well-off became
the members of the basic party organizations. This mode of party building was
the first of its kind in the world.
After the
country’s liberation, Kim Il Sung, above anything else, dispatched
staunch revolutionaries who took part in the anti-Japanese armed struggle to
various parts of the country on a mission to form basic party organizations.
The Korean revolutionaries organized party cells by rallying hard-core members
in factories, farming and fishing villages and, on this basis, formed regional
party organizations.
The
organizational and political lines of the WPK are also unique.
Kim Il
Sung
set forth a policy of founding the Party with communists tempered in the
anti-Japanese armed struggle as its core and embracing all the communists
involved in the anti-Japanese struggle at home. He also saw to it that a hammer
and a sickle symbolizing workers and farmers, as well as a writing-brush
representing intellectuals were inscribed in the Party’s emblem, thus making
the WPK a mass-based Party of the working people. In this way, the WPK could
become a powerful political organization which was firmly based on the broad
masses from the first days of its founding.
The
Party’s political line of carrying out the tasks of the anti-imperialist,
anti-feudal democratic revolution and founding a democratic people’s republic
was also a line which fully accorded with the interests of the masses. On the
basis of this line, the WPK carried out the tasks of the agrarian reform,
nationalization of major industries and sex equality in a short span of time,
commanding the hearty support of the people. As it carries forward and develops
these traditions, the WPK is demonstrating its might as a dignified and
powerful political organization.”
Following
the meeting, all participants watched the Korean Video.