On 17 October 2009,the Juche Idea Study Group Group and the Association For the Study of Songun Politics UK (ASSPUK) held a succesful meeting at the historic Lucas Arms in central London to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the foundation of the Workers Party of Korea and the 83rd anniversary of the Down With Imperialism Union. Chairman Dermot Hudson opened the meeting.He said it was also the 12th anniversaryof the election of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il as general secretary of theWorkers Party of Korea and said that he is leading the Songun cause of the WPK to victory. Kevin Cain read out a statement from Nina Andreeva general secretary of the All Union- Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the occasion of the anniversary of the WPK andDIU which praised the WPK's exploits in leading the revolution. The WPK is the standard bearer of a free independent socialist state and under the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il is marching towards the high peaks of Juche socialism despite unfavourable conditions.Dr Hugh Goodacre said that the work "The Workers' Party of Korea Is a Juche-Type Revolutionary Party Which Inherited the Glorious Tradition of the DIU" was published in1982 which was a momentous time in the development of the world revolutionary movementwhen a change in generations was taking place. He recalled how in 1985 he had organisedthe first national Juche Seminar in Britain around the work "The Workers' Party of Korea Is a Juche-Type Revolutionary Party Which Inherited the Glorious Tradition of the DIU"and how in the 1980s an upsurge was taking place in the class struggle with the Minersstrike and also the uprisings of oppressed inner city youth as well the Irish strugglefor independence and liberation. He said how the DIU was a forerunner of the Songun ideaand how great achievements are being made under the banner of Songun in the anti imperialist class struggle.Dermot Hudson said "The Workers Party of Korea which was founded on October 10th originally as the Communist Party of North Korea by the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung and is led today by the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il is a Juche type party totally different to both bourgeois parties such as Tory and New Labour and also to the former ruling parties of the socialist countries.It is different because it is rooted the popular masses"...............The WPK was defined by both the great leader comrades Kim Il Sung andKim Jong Il as the Mother party. This is a unique Juche orientated concept unprecedentedin world political history.The WPK looks after everyone like a mother,people areprovided with jobs,food,housing,education and health care and even do not have topay tax.The people and the party,the WPK,are welded into an iron unity.Society in the DPRK forms an intregal harmonious whole.People are united around the leader and partyin elections in the DPRK 99.98 per cent of electors vote and vote 100% for the candidates.This is unknown in capitalist societies.....The WPK is proudly know throughout the world,from Sao Paulo Vladistock,for itsstruggle for socialism for example te Pyongyang Declaration and the WPK struggleagainst imperialism. The WPK has travelled a long road to become a model revolutionary party.All this isdue to the leadership of the great leader comrade Kim Il Sung sun of Juche and thegreat leader comrade Kim Jong Il sun of Songun!.He also said that the Down With Imperialism Union organically combined the strugglefor class emancipation with the struggle for national independence and nationalliberation.It was agreed to hold a national seminar on the Juche idea with wide participationA letter to the great leader comrade Kim Jong Il was adopted