The 80 Day campaign in People’s Korea is the sure way to victory !
Today the imperialists and their pathetic lackeys are slandering the 80 Day campaign in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) or People’s Korea .
At the 19th enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers Party held on the 6th of October , the momentous decision was made to hold an 80 Day campaign to greet the historic 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea that will be held in January 2021 . It was stressed at the meeting that ‘ It is our Party’s consistent mode of struggle to bring about greater successes and miracles one after another through a determined successive offensive and usher in a new heyday of the revolution and it is our people’s proud tradition of struggle to write a history of great change and work eye-opening miracles by waging an all-out campaign for the great socialist construction ahead of Party Congress.’
Basically the 80 day campaign means that the Korean people will go all out and make every effort to complete the tasks and goals for building socialism successfully . The declaration of the 80 day campaign at the 19th meeting of the WPK Political Bureau is a militant one to build socialism in the spirit of self-reliance , not relying or depending on others , it is a declaration to break through the sanctions of the hostile forces.
The 80 Day campaign is within the tradition of speed battle campaigns in People’s Korea which have a long history . In the late 1950s President KIM IL SUNG initiated the Chollima movement to increase production and make innovations , indeed to go beyond that and sweep away everything backward in society . In the 1970s the ‘70 day battle ‘was launched which produced outstanding results ; industrial output value jumped by 70 percent in 2 months compared with the previous period and a bumper harvest was reaped . In the 1980s there was the 200 day campaign . Comrade KIM JONG IL in his talk to senior officials of the Workers Party of Korea in 1988 titled ‘ Let Us All Live And Struggle Like Heroes’ he said that ‘ Our Party and our people have assumed a heavy responsibility to our times and to history. We must keep the banner of revolution, the banner of socialism, flying, by foiling the enemy’s frenzied attacks and effecting a steady advance in socialist construction. We must never weaken, but continue to maintain the high enthusiasm being displayed in the current 200-day campaign. We must follow this campaign with a 2,000-day campaign and then a 20,000-day campaign. This is the way to carry the revolutionary cause of Juche through to the end and to discharge the heavy responsibility we have assumed before the world revolution.’
In 2009 and 2016 , 200 day campaigns were waged with big success.
Speed battle campaigns are a distinctive feature of Juche-based , Korean style socialism . Instead of either trying to build socialism in a bureaucratic style or by a one-sided emphasis on material incentives , the Workers Party of Korea led by respected Marshal KIM JONG UN is building socialism by rousing the people to display their creativity and to go all out to build socialism .
Now under the banner of the 80 day campaign and in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance the Korean people are working miracles every day . Production has increased in the steel and mining industries . Literally thousands of new homes have sprung up . The DPRK is doing all this without outside aid , also under the pressure of blockade and sanctions and at a time when the capitalist countries are seeing production falling due a recession and in the grip of the Covid 19 pandemic which has not affected People’s Korea.
I am very sure that the People’s Korea will win a great victory in the 80 Day campaign and wish the Korean people well in their efforts to self-reliantly build socialism.
Dr Dermot Hudson
Chairman British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea
Chairman UK Korean Friendship Association and Official Delegate of the Korean Friendship Association for the UK
President Association for the Study of Songun Politics UK
Chairman British Solidarity Committee for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula
