On 28 April 2025, a visiting delegation of scholars from the School of Marxism at Shanghai’s Fudan University attended a meeting at the London School of Economics called in their honour by Friends of Socialist China (FOSC) and the International Manifesto Group (IMG). Keith Bennett, Patron of the Institute for Independence Studies, was in attendance. The aims and activities of the Institute’s Xi Jinping Study Group were outlined to the visiting scholars by its Secretary.

“The spirit of Bandung is indeed alive and, with Socialist China at its core, is now driving a process of change unseen in a century, with the rise of the Global South and the inexorable progression towards multipolarity.” Keith Bennett on the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference.

On March 20 1985, 50 participants attended the first London seminar on the Juche Idea. In his keynote address, Keith Bennett said: “Today has been a historic occasion when the banner of the Juche Idea, the banner of the Age of Independence, has been raised in London, the heart of the old and dying word.”