cking the requisite revolutionary purity:
It is significant that members of the CPB and NCP – organisations which still call for a Labour vote in spite of Labour’s intimate involvement in the imperialist bombing of Yugoslavia – did not this year attend the picket. In theory they oppose imperialism, but when it comes to practical action – voting for anti-imperialist parties or picketing the embassy of the Labour government’s ally, US imperialism, that’s a different matter!
The Society for Friendship with Korea also held a meeting at London’s Conway Hall on 8 July to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of the great Marxist-Leninist Korean leader, Comrade Kim Il Sung. This meeting was addressed by Comrades Dermot Hudson, Ella Rule and Hugh Stephens, who all gave interesting and informative presentations on the subject of important contributions of Comrade Kim Il Sung to the Korean and international communist movement. Comrade Dermot’s contribution covered Comrade Kim-il-Sung’s leadership of the Korean liberation struggle and the building of socialism; Comrade Ella’s covered the special contribution made by the Korean revolution under Comrade Kim-Il-Sung’s leadership to the emancipation of women; and Comrade Stephens focused on the Juche idea, which of course originated with Comrade Kim Il Sung. Summaries of these presentations will be produced in the Autumn issue of the Society’s Bulletin.
There is even, you’ll be pleased to hear, a Juche Ideas Study Group, led by one Shaun Pickford, “who made the long journey from Stoke On Trent”, and “read out a speech entitled for “an Independent Peoples England” in which he stressed the need to apply the Juche idea to the UK”.
I find all this in a way harder to understand than the extreme right. With neo-Nazis, you get what it says on the tin by and large. Whether they choose to question the reality of the holocaust or revel in it, they’re openly racist, specifically anti-semitic, and will include a fair share of sociopaths as well as hangers-on just enjoying the thrill of being nasty. With these ultra-leftists, they’re generally people you wouldn’t find much exceptional about, apart from their politics, when it becomes quickly apparent that they’re completely and utterly barking.
While idiots sing the praises of Kim Jong Il in the Juche Study Group, check out what people will do to get out of North Korea in this story from The Marmot’s Hole, about a woman who escaped once, was captured and tortured to the extent that her feet had to be amputated, and escaped again on crutches.
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