Self-supporting Economy–Lifeline of the DPRK

Self-supporting Economy–Lifeline of the DPRK

                                                      

From the outset since its founding the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has advocated the building of a self-supporting national economy, and is still regarding the self-supporting economy as its lifeline.

Defending the National Sovereignty 

The Korean war in the 1950s devastated the economy of the DPRK to the hilt. The US imperialists asserted that the DPRK would be unable to rise up from the debris even in a hundred years.

However, the DPRK healed the wound of war in a short span of time and advanced forward to the building of socialism developing heavy industry on a preferential basis while promoting light industry and agriculture simultaneously. At that time, the great-power chauvinists, displeased with its construction of self-supporting national economy, forced it to join the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. And they even suspended the delivery of iron and steel, machinery and equipment they had contracted with it to send. The DPRK found itself at a crossroads–yielding to the pressure of the great-power chauvinists and receiving machinery and equipment from them while sending them raw materials or defending its sovereignty without doing so.

At this juncture Premier Kim Il Sung (1912–1994) visited the then Kangson Steel Plant. Saying to the workers that if they produced 10 000 tons of more steel materials, the country would greatly be relieved, he called on them to increase production. True to his call, the workers turned out 120 000 tons of steel billets with a blooming mill with the annual rated capacity of 60 000 tons. And the workers of the then Kim Chaek Iron Works produced 270 000 tons of pig iron with a 190 000 ton-capacity blast furnace.

In the course of laying foundations of the self-supporting economy one by one,  

the country manufactured modern machinery and equipment including tractor, automobile, bulldozer, excavator, 8-metre turning lathe and 3 000-ton press. From 1957 to 1960 the total industrial output value increased by 3.5 times. From 1957 to 1970 the industrial production grew at a high speed of 19.1% every year on average, turning it into a developed socialist industrial state in a short span of 14 years. From 1970 to 1979 the industrial production grew at a speed of annual average of 15.9%. The success it achieved in the economic construction aroused world admiration and remarkably raised its profile.

After the 1980s, the self-supporting economy of the country developed into a powerful one which could easily perform such huge economic tasks as manufacturing a 10 000-ton press and constructing the world-famous West Sea Barrage by crossing a 8-km-long rough sea.

Safeguarding Socialism

As socialism collapsed in the former Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries in succession and the moves of the imperialists to isolate and suffocate the DPRK became more and more blatant, the DPRK’s economy underwent ordeals. 

The imperialists enforced comprehensive economic sanctions and blockade against it on various pretexts in an attempt to crush the country which remained the sole bulwark of socialism. Analysts judged that socialism would perish in the DPRK within three days, three months or three years.

However, the economy of the DPRK did not collapse at all.

In order to make the nation’s economy more modern and independent, Chairman Kim Jong Il (1942-2011) led the country to direct great efforts to the development of iron, fibre and power industries which relied on CNC technology and domestically-available raw materials. Under his wise leadership, many machine-building factories and light industry factories fitted with CNC equipment and automated production lines sprang up in the country. And modern iron- and steel-making and fibre production lines based on the raw materials abundant in the country were established.

Meanwhile, large and medium- and small-sized hydropower stations were built across the country, laying a firm foundation for increasing power production. Along with this, the country achieved an astonishing success of manufacturing and 

launching man-made earth satellites by its own efforts. Amid hard trials, it realigned the farmland of the whole country into large standardized plots and constructed gravitational waterways, thus radically increasing the agricultural production potential.  

Despite difficulties it did not ask others to help it, but rather it further consolidated the might of its self-supporting economy and defended its sovereignty and socialism.

Guarantee for Eternal Prosperity

Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the DPRK, believes that only when his country further consolidates its economic power on the principle of self-reliance, can it defend the dignity of the state and people and dash forward more quickly towards the chosen target. At major occasions such as the Seventh and Eighth congresses of the Workers’ Party of Korea he clarified the ways and methods for strengthening the might of the self-supporting economy under the unfurled banner of self-reliance.

Today the DPRK is conducting the work of further intensifying the self-sufficiency of the many-sided and comprehensive economy by readjusting and reinforcing its economy in the period of the five-year plan of the national economic development (2021-2025). Metal, chemical and other basic industrial sectors are dynamically propelling the work of further completing and expanding iron production system relying on domestic raw and other materials scientifically and technologically, while establishing C1 chemical industry and strengthening the self-sufficiency of fibre industry. Successes are being made in the work of turning the machine-building industry into development- and creation-oriented one. Rural construction to facelift the appearance of the rural communities is being pushed ahead with true to the new programme of rural rejuvenation.

Building every factory and production line on such a high level as to make them look no inferior even in the distant future–this is the aspect of the self-supporting economy of the DPRK which is steadily consolidated. 

It is the general orientation of the self-supporting economy of the DPRK to reliably guarantee the prosperity of the nation and improvement of the people’s life even though the hostile forces’ economic blockade and sanctions last 10, nay, 100  years or worldwide economic upheavals come

Fairy tales by Julienne. Such a petty bourgeois mode of thinking. An example of the face of British revisionism!

 

A letter that the Morning Star did not publish .

Dear comrades ,

 With reference to Julienne Ford’s letter attacking me ( Morning Star 1.11.2022 ) No matter how much history is reinterpreted  or reworked or rewritten, the basic fact the USSR’s actions during the Cuban missile crisis represented a disastrous and humiliating climbdown cannot be obliterated .Indeed ‘s Khruschov’s capitulationist stance may have been a factor contributing to his removal from office by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union  2 years later . In opinion polls in contemporary Russia , Khruschov scores badly along with Gorbachov with both being seen as weak leaders or traitors .

  Most accounts I have read of the Cuban missile crisis ( I was only 1 year old at the time ) state that Fidel Castro was angered by the Soviet decision and had not been consulted . One thing is for certain is that Fidel rejected UN inspections of Cuba which were in the small print of the US -USSR deal . People who defend Khruschov conveniently ignore the issue of UN inspections of Cuba , a violation of its sovereignty which Khruschov tried to foist on the Cubans . The fact that Fidel rejected such inspections and instead put forward the five point demands, which included the closure of Guantanamo  , implies that Cuba was not consulted . Indeed most evidence points to the USSR and Cuba as having positions at variance with each other on key points .

As to the DPRK’s nuclear deterrent , those countries which did not have nukes or gave them up such as Yugoslavia , Iraq , Afghanistan and Libya were invaded by the US but to date the DPRK has not . Colonel Gadhafi of Libya, an independent anti-imperialist country , foolishly gave up Libya’s nuclear programme , even handing it over to the US literally . He ended up dead with a knife in his back . The DPRK will not follow that example !

The strategic goal of our party is the revival of the USSR and socialism

                                      

31 years ago the Founding Congress of the AUCPB was held

The All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKPB) was established on November 8, 1991 at the height of the anti-communist hysteria. The congress was held semi-legally in Leningrad.

The beginning of the unification of people devoted to socialism was the publication in the newspaper "Soviet Russia" on March 13, 1988 of the article "I can not compromise the principles" of the LTI teacher. Leningrad City Council Nina Alexandrovna Andreeva. The article essentially heralded the revival of Bolshevism.

The revival of the VKPB as a party of the Leninist type was prepared by the activities of the All-Union Society "Unity - for Leninism and Communist Ideals", established in May 1989, and the Bolshevik Platform in the CPSU, which was constituted on July 13-14, 1991 at the All-Union Conference in Minsk and dissolved as having fulfilled its task with the creation of the VKPB.  

The RSFSR, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, as well as the Transcaucasus, Central Asia and the Baltics were represented at the Founding Congress of the AUCPB. At the congress, N.A. Andreeva. The congress adopted the Program and Rules of the party. N.A.Andreeva was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Belarus. She held this post until the end of her life (07/24/2020).

In his report, N.A. Andreeva revealed the origins of the bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR, the causes of the crisis into which Gorbachev's perestroika brought the country, and substantiated the need to revive the party of the Leninist type.

The bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR had prerequisites in the Soviet history of the last three decades, associated with petty-bourgeois influence on all spheres of society. The ideological overture of the restoration processes was the anti-Stalinist campaign that unfolded after the 20th Congress of the CPSU. The origins of the crisis in the USSR consisted in the erosion and destruction of the economic, political and ideological foundations of socialism.

The working class lost its leading role in society, lost its political organization. After the 20th Congress (February 1956), the CPSU was slipping into right-wing opportunism. During the years of perestroika, the positions of the opportunists naturally transformed into bourgeois restorationism.

The historical experience of the international working-class and communist movement has convincingly proved that without their own political party, armed with a scientific proletarian ideology, the working people are in no position to win, retain or strengthen their power.

The need to create a new party, the VKPB, was on the agenda, which was created on November 8, 1991, on the second day after Yeltsin banned communist activity (CPSU). The VKPB was the very first among other parties that call themselves communist today.

The founders of the party announced the inheritance of revolutionary traditions and a complete break with the anti-people policy of the opportunist leadership of the CPSU, responsible for the destruction of the socialist system, the collapse of the country and the liquidation of the party created by Lenin.

The congress adopted the name of the party - the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKPB), other names were rejected.  

The congress adopted the program of the AUCPB. The program formulated the ideological and political positions of the party, its strategic goals, and the main ways out of the crisis. The program was developed by the ideologist of the VKPB, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor V.I. Klushin. 

In his report at the Founding Congress of the AUCPB, N.A. Andreeva said: “ The theoretical basis of the party being created, not in words, but in deeds, should be fundamental Marxism-Leninism, considered as a philosophical, sociological, economic, socio-political justification for the world-historical mission of the working class - to create a classless society that does not know exploitation, oppression , wars, social injustice. Marxism-Leninism, cleansed of opportunist vulgarities and creatively developed in modern conditions .

The program of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, adopted at its Constituent Congress, from the scientific proletarian-class positions, provides a deep and comprehensive analysis of the entire period of Soviet history, the period of great victories of the Soviet people under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party headed by V.I. Lenin and I.V. Stalin, the main causes and driving forces of the bourgeois counter-revolution in the USSR, the reasons for the degeneration of the CPSU as a party of the working class, determined the main goals and objectives of the party at this stage of the struggle in the field of economics, politics and ideology.

The program emphasizes that the VKPB does not close the causes of the counter-revolution on the betrayal of Gorbachev and his accomplices, but proceeds from the fact that without the objective and subjective prerequisites for capitulation that have been growing in the party and the country since the late 50s, Gorbachev's perestroika would have been impossible, clearing the way for the arrival to the power of the mafia bourgeoisie.

The AUCPB rejects the subjective-opportunistic approach in assessing a historical personality and proceeds from the fact that the main criterion for the significance of historical activity is the compliance of the policy pursued by this personality with the objective laws of the functioning and development of society. In this regard, the party resolutely rejects the anti-Leninist campaign, the anti-Stalinist hysteria, all the rabid anti-communism unleashed by the restorers and their ideologists.

The AUCPB proceeds not only from the need to abolish private ownership of tools and means of production as a source of appropriation by the exploiters of the unpaid labor of producers, but also from the inconsistency of the anarcho-syndicalist recipes for the transfer of public property to individual production teams. Under the conditions of the capitalist market, this becomes only a transitional step towards its privatization and its transformation into private property.

The AUCPB stands for the sovereignty of the Soviet system as a form of state for the working class and its allies (the dictatorship of the proletariat).

The AUCPB believes that in order to reverse the restoration processes, a second edition of the socialist revolution is needed, with the participation of broad sections of the working people and the use of all forms and methods of struggle that the counter-revolution will impose. What can successfully organize and direct the anti-restoration struggle of the masses is not the parties of parliamentary reforms, but the parties of the revolutionary struggle for power. The strategic line of their policy should be to combine the struggle for socialism with popular uprisings for the mighty Soviet Union and the survival of the working people. The leading role here is to be played by such extra-parliamentary forms of struggle as the politicization of strikes and the general political strike.

The congress adopted the Party Rules. The guiding principle of the inner-party life of the AUCPB is democratic centralism, freed both from the bureaucratic perversions of the post-Stalinist CPSU, and from the anarchic disregard for party discipline and Bolshevik traditions. 

The AUCPB declared itself an integral part of the international communist and workers' movement. The AUCPB stands firmly on the positions of proletarian internationalism and Soviet patriotism.   

At the II Party Congress on February 25, 1996, it was decided to prepare a new (revised) version of the program of the AUCPB. At the congress, a commission was formed, which, among other things, included: N.A. Andreeva, candidate of technical sciences - chairman of the commission; IN AND. Klushin - Doctor of Philosophy, Professor; S.V. Khristenko - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Work on the new edition of the program was difficult. During this time, V.I. Klushin (10/17/1996).

Adopted at the III Party Congress on February 26-27, 2000, the new version of the program is the fruit of almost three years of collective work of the party. ON THE. Andreeva rightly noted that " today no one has proposed anything else, fundamentally capacious and better " ( N.A. Andreeva . For Bolshevism in the Communist Movement. Leningrad, 2002, p. 71).

In his speech at the 3rd Party Congress, N.A. Andreeva, already after repeated revisions of the draft, proposed replacing the epigraph to the Program, taken from the text of the International, with Lenin's words from “The Immediate Tasks of Soviet Power” - “ We do not need hysterical impulses. We need the measured tread of the iron battalions of the proletariat .” ON THE. Andreeva noted that the words of V.I. Lenin clearly orients everyone who will read our program that this is the program of a revolutionary proletarian party, the political organization of the PROLETARIAT, first of all ( N.A. Andreeva , ibid., p. 70).  

The historical significance of the Founding Congress of the AUCPB was that it broke with the opportunist leadership of the CPSU and created an independent political party expressing the fundamental interests of the working class.

At the congress there was a decisive and definite disengagement from all other trends and movements of a communist and near-communist orientation that arose on the ruins of the CPSU and whose ideological and political platforms were burdened with elements of conciliation, anarcho-syndicalism, anti-Stalinism and Trotskyism.

The congress laid the ideological, political and organizational foundations for a new party of the Leninist type, free from opportunism, irreconcilable in relation to the compromisers and capitulators, revolutionary in relation to the bourgeoisie and its state power. The AUCPB was created on the solid scientific foundation of modern Marxism-Leninism - BOLSHEVISM.

The strategic goals of the party are defined in its program - the restoration of our Socialist Motherland - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and SOCIALISM . The AUCPB seeks the revival of the USSR as a multinational socialist state of workers and peasants on the principles of the Leninist-Stalinist national policy. The Party's immediate tactical tasks are determined at each given stage of the struggle depending on the political situation, both domestic and foreign. 

We, the VKPB (Nina Andreeva), guided by the Marxist-Leninist methodology of scientific knowledge and revolutionary action, are convinced that we will achieve the strategic goals of the party. Our conviction in this is based on the knowledge of the objective laws of social development. The revival of the USSR and socialism is necessary and inevitable.

The socialist revolution depends on objective and subjective factors. On the whole, objective factors are evident: the productive forces of society have long outgrown capitalist relations and require their destruction. The subjective factor - the readiness of the masses for revolution and the presence of a revolutionary vanguard - depends on you and me, on our agitational and propaganda work among the masses, on improving and intensifying our party work. 

To carry out the proletarian revolution, a revolutionary situation is still needed, which does not yet exist today. But capitalism, with its inherent irreconcilable antagonistic contradictions between Labor and Capital, develops in waves, periods of peaceful calm are sooner or later replaced by periods of revolutionary onslaught of the working people on capitalism. Therefore, we must prepare for the revolution and prepare the working class.

Our main task today is “ to instill confidence in the minds of the working people that no matter how events develop today, the laws of history objectively work for socialism and communism and that the last word belongs to the peoples in solving all socio-political problems ” ( V.I. Klushin ).

Let us be worthy of our Teachers - V.I. Klushina and N.A. Andreeva and bring the cause of the revival of the USSR and socialism begun by them to victory!

A.V. Denisyuk,

Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Belarus (Nina Andreeva)

CONGRATULATIONS ON THE DAY OF THE GREAT OCTOBER!

                                                                

 06.11.2022, 

Dear comrades, members of the AUCPB (Nina Andreeva), our supporters in Russia and on the territory of the USSR, our friends and like-minded people in the communist, anti-imperialist and anti-fascist movement abroad!

We congratulate ALL of YOU on the 105th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, which marked the beginning of a new era of radical resolution of the contradiction between Labor and Capital, the beginning of a new era - the era of the most humane socio-political system - SOCIALISM, building without exploitation and poverty, without social and national oppression, without wars and armed conflicts, a society of truly free working people who look confidently into the future!

We wish ALL OF YOU steadfastness and endurance in the struggle to destroy the capitalist system, to carry out the proletarian revolution!

We wish ALL of YOU inexhaustible faith in the victory of socialism!

We wish ALL of YOU success in the fight against the most monstrous offspring of imperialism - fascism!

We wish ALL of YOU to firmly and boldly carry the banner of struggle for the national independence and sovereignty of their countries from the international banditry of the imperialist USA, striving for world domination!

We wish ALL of YOU international unity in the struggle for peace on planet Earth!

The Great October created on earth the world's first multinational socialist state of workers and peasants - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where peoples lived in peace and friendship, man was comrade, friend and brother to man.

WE, the USSR, were the most reading country in the world, the first country to conquer space, the first with universal suffrage, the best education system in the world, with free medicine for everyone, a great sports power, a state that the whole world reckoned with, a country saved the world from fascism.   

The Great October Socialist Revolution gave the working people such benefits and freedoms that citizens of the present capitalist Russian Federation and other capitalist states formed as a result of a counter-revolutionary coup in the USSR cannot even dream of.

The rights that the working people of the USSR had were obtained by them for the first time in the world as a result of the conquests of the Great October Revolution.

The right to an eight-hour working day and the right to paid annual leave.

Right to work. Moreover, graduates of Soviet educational institutions had the right to compulsory employment with the provision of housing in the form of a hostel or apartment.

The right to free general and vocational education. Moreover, both secondary vocational education and higher education. Schoolchildren were provided with food and textbooks free of charge.   

The right to free use of preschool institutions: nurseries, kindergartens, pioneer camps.

The right to free quality medical care. And medicines were available.

The right to free sanatorium treatment in the best sanatoriums and resorts of the USSR.

The right to free housing.

The right to freely express one's views on all problems of society.

All these rights were secured and guaranteed by the Soviet system based on public property. Plants and factories, land and its subsoil, premises and printing houses belonged to the working people.

We wish everyone who has remained faithful to our beautiful Soviet Socialist Motherland confidence and strength in the field of struggle for the revival of the USSR!

The world today is restless. After the destruction of the USSR by the traitors of the Socialist Motherland, bloody interethnic conflicts do not stop on our land. The imperialists pit the peoples against each other and sow enmity between them.

We wish the working people on the territory of the USSR peace and friendship, as it was in the USSR!

We wish the militias of Novorossiya, who are fighting for peace in their land, the Russian servicemen, who are doing their duty, fortitude and courage in defending our Motherland!   

At the same time, we remind the workers of the sacred commandment of our classics Lenin and Stalin: in order to achieve peace on Earth, it is necessary to destroy capitalism - the source of wars.

Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Belarus (Nina Andreeva),

Moscow cit