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No. 1750 (New Year Issue)
No. 1749 (December 23th Issue)
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Stop the Yankee imperialist aggression against
Iraq!
Overcome the failed official movement
for 'a peaceful solution under the
UN'!
- Saddam Hussein's last defiance and
Warmonger
Bush's rampage
- The Koizumi government rushing to
its participation
in the war of aggression against Iraq
- World-wide upsurge of antiwar struggle
and its stagnancy in Japan
- Denounce the JCP for praising the
UN Resolution
1441!
[2]
'No to the patriotic education!' Calls shaking
the Central Council for Education's public
hearing in Tokyo, 30 Nov.
- Students' appeals received warmest
responses
from workers and other citizens in
the hearing.
A trade union based prefectural rally against
the military attack against Iraq and the
emergency bills, 23 Nov., Nagoya
- Fighting workers and students inspired
the participants.
Kobe University: The school authority gave
up a joint research program with the military
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- The Empress' speech with a quotation from an anarchist poem
drawing a right-wing criticism: but a new
type of the royalty
- Senior ladies' remarks on the kidnapping
issue: commonsense, now having scarcity value
- He's 'Hitler', 'moron', and could be 'behind bars': accurate
remarks for which to be sacked
- Mandela's remarks: 'For me, a hero of America is he (not Bush)'.
[4]
The annual police report: a reactionary scheme
uncovered for a drastic intensification of
the coercive order
- SAT, a special task force
- For a Japanese version of the CIA
- Building a Big Brother system
- No to repressions by today's version
of
the 'state police'
[5]
Power struggles in Israeli leaders under
the military crushes in Palestine
- A dove's victory in the Labour Party
- Sharon's victory in the Zionist party
- The Arafat leadership shaking
[6]
Tokyo prefectural workers' unions: the 19
Nov. strike betrayed by the leadership
- Militant workers struggling
Niigata prefectural workers unions strike
- Fight back against the wage cut plan!
SDPJ-led 'No to attack on Iraq rally', 15
Nov.
- Angers from below against leaders
dependent
on the UN resolution
Topics Cooperation between managers, unions, and
the government for 'job security'?
Rengo's
pledge of allegiance before the heads
of
the government and the business
[7]
A series of 'guerrilla' incidents on US and
SDF military bases: state conspiracies with
self-styled radicals as a cover
- Wipe out the group of spies!
[8]
Titles of main articles in Kaiho from No 1700 to No 1750
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No. 1748 (December 16th Issue)
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Stop the Aegis destroyer Kirishima leaving
for the war!
In solidarity with fighting people over the
world
Stop the war of aggression against Iraq!
- The Bush administration desperate
to form
a 'multinational forces'
- For Japan's debut as a 'state that
can
wage war': reactionary offensives conducted
by the Koizumi government
- Denounce the JCP for yielding to
the chauvinistic
nationalist agitation!
16 Dec.: Zengakuren to fight to stop the
Kirishima at Yokosuka base!
[2]
No to the Emergency Bills! Stop the war against
Iraq!: a protest rally sponsored by transportation-related
trade unions, 1 Dec.
- 25000 people rallied, militant workers
and students struggling in the forefront.
- In spite of oppressions from the
central
leadership of Rengo
No to the police-military joint security
drill!
- Zengakuren Hokkaido protested against
the
prefectural police head office
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- The axis of morons: when a moron becomes a warmonger.
- A 'ubiquitous computer network': an illusionary messiah of the declining
country
- "We restrain ourselves from criticizing
the government over its policies towards
North Korea': a JCP leader on TV.
- A 'VeriChip' planted in a human body: trends to a high-technically
controlled society
- 'What am I studying for, Mom?': kids in Japan
[4]
Presidential Election in Brazil: a victory
of the working class?
- Lula's victory
- On the Brazilian Labour Party
- Degenerate Trotskyists: fallacies
against
the working class
[5]
Japanese auto-making monopolies in China
- Toyota, Honda and Nissan: drastically
expanded
investments in the Chinese market
- The rapidly growing car market in
China
and the reorganization of Chinese enterprises
- The mega competition intensifying,
sacrifices
shifting onto workers
[6]
No to the new rule for punishment! Oppose
the intensified control on teachers!
JRCL Okinawa Regional Committee of Education
Workers
- 'Offensive languages against superiors'
to be punished
- The deceptive propaganda about 'ethically
degenerated teachers'
- The official leadership obsessed
with their
'vision of the JTU as a partner of
the education
ministry'
[7]
Denounce the central leadership of the Democratic
Party of Japan for joining in the chorus
of chauvinistic Japanese nationalism!
- An MP from the Democratic Party crying
for controlling a North-related federation
of Korean people in Japan
- Following Bush's criticism of Koizumi's
diplomacy towards North Korea, more
reactionary
policies are proposed by the DP.
Rescue workers killed and injured in a double
accident in JR East
- Don't shift the responsibility to
workers!
[8]
Letters from readers
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No. 1747 (December 9th Issue)
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14 Dec. JRCL Public Political Meeting
Stop US / UK imperialist aggression against
Iraq!
- UN Inspection Commission, guides
for a
US military action
- A 'Yankee Hitler' rushing towards
a crazy
war of aggression
- The Koizumi government pledging its
support
and participation in the war on Iraq
- Criticize the JCP leadership for
supporting
the UN inspection! Fight for an international
antiwar struggle!
(Photo below:students at a transportation-related
unions' sponsored rally with 25000 people.)
25000 people rallied, 1 Dec.
called by transport-related trade unions
against the Emergency Law
Don't invade Iraq! Students' banners inspiring
[2]
No to joint military drills!
- 5000 workers from trade unions in
Kyushu
region rallied near the site, 9 Nov.
- Zengakuren Kyushu waged a series
of protests,
9 to 11 Nov.
(Photo below Left: Workers and students against
the drills, Right: 5000 workers and students in an
protest rally.)
Kobe University: struggles advanced against
a joint academic-military research program
on emergencies
- At last! 'The planned seminar in
an SDF
base to be cancelled', announced the
school
authorities.
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- Wolfovitz vision for a democratized Middle East: a
new imperialism theory
- CPC: Changes of generations and changes in ideology
- Mysterious 'guerrillas' against military bases in Japan
Students' Walk-out in the US
- Don't invade Iraq! Demonstrations
and sit-ins
nation-wide.
[4]
Chukakuha remnants: 'antiwar struggle'?
[5]
Internal conflicts over the Juki-net (national
online system of resident registers)
- Revolts by the LDP Etoh-Kamei faction
- A growing sense of caution about
leaks
of the data to the US: internal strife
over
foreign and defence policies of the
Japanese
government
[6]
Hokkaido Prefectural Office Workers' Union:
a resolution adopted in its Convention against
the military attack on Iraq
- JRCL propaganda permeating.
Topics
Rengo's tactics for next spring offensives:
full of deceptions
[7]
Differences in the field and methods between
the analysis of the contemporary politico-economic
situation as an economic analysis and the
analysis of real situation
[8]
Reading Kuroda's "On philosophy, humans
and literature"
- Introspection and formation of the
self
In the form of a traditional Japanese poem:Echelon
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No. 1746 (December 2nd Issue)
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Fight against the propaganda of
chauvinistic Japanese nationalism!
Denounce the SDPJ / JCP leadership
for joining in the 'anti-Korean, anti-terrorism'
chorus!
Stop US / UK aggression against Iraq!
Stop Japan's participation in the war!
- The Koizumi government stirring up
chauvinistic
nationalism on the basis of the 'hexagonal
iron pyramid'
- Official left wings' submission to
the
disseminated arguments about 'North
Korea's
threat' and 'eradication of terrorism'
- The JCP central leadership covering
up
the failure in its UN dependence
Join in the 1 Dec rally against the Emergency
Bills
sponsored by the transport-related
trade
unions!
- Fighting workers and students, come together
in spite of the oppression by the official
leadership!
14 Dec JRCL public political meeting in Tokyo
- Organize a mass struggle against
the aggressive
war on Iraq inspite of the stormy propaganda
of chauvinistic nationalism!
[2]
Waseda Univ. authorities backed a rightist-led
symposium on the 'kidnapping issue'
- Militant students sounded an alarm
against
the chauvinistic campaign taking advantage
of the abductees.
No to the planned reorganization of national
universities into independent administrative
corporations!
- Militant students from national universities
fought in a protest rally together
with workers
in related trade unions.
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- Hans Blix: a coverer on Chernoby and now a trigger
in Iraq.
- al-Jazeera: the voice of the Arabs
- The revealed police crime: a mysterious death of a detainee at a police
office fabricated as a suicide
A letter: From visitors' gallery at a law suit against
the national network of resident registers
[4]
Annual Report on National Defence: ambition
for a full participation in the 'war on terrorism'
- Emphasis on 'responses to terrorism'
- A growing ambition for a full participation
in the war
- Tricks to justify a war of aggression
with
the name of 'war on terrorism'
[5]
More cunning and more reactionary: revisions
to the Emergency Bills in support of Japan's
participation in the Iraqi invasion
- What kinds of 'revisions'?
- For what?
- 'Use of force' introduced in laws;
security
mobilization of the SDF against 'terrorism'
newly codified
[6]
Stop the new personnel and wage system based
on 'ability and performance'!
- JRCL Postal Workers' Committee
Smash the offensive for lower wages!
- JRCL Okinawa Regional Committee of Municipal
Workers
[7]
Reading an article in Kaihoh No. 1607 : Use the right cerebral hemisphere!
- Rich imaginations
- Springboards towards thinking
- Volitions, interests and attitudes
Topics A deceptive Monthly Economic Report by Koizumi
and Kakenaka
[8]
Learning from a part of Topos and Praxis (by K. Kuroda)
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No. 1745 (November 15th Issue)
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Denounce the new UN resolution!
Stop Imperialist US / UK aggression against
Iraq!
Transcend official opposition movements clinging
to the illusion of the UN!
- Saddam's last choice
- US / UK imperialism completing their
preparation
for war
- Denounce the JCP leadership covering
up
the failure in its policy of the UN
dependence
- For an international antiwar struggle
to
break the brutalities of the war-crazy
imperialism
[2]
5000 workers rallied against the military
attack on Iraq (24 Oct., Osaka)
- Zengakuren students demonstrated
with ranks
of trade unions
Zengakuren Tokai protested against the US
Consulate (9 Nov., Nagoya)
- Denounced the UN resolution.
UN Security Council's new resolution that
has authorized a military attack on Iraq
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- 'This is the way we have been cheated':
on the law of war propaganda.
- A mass playacting for North-phobia: true faces of those commentators crying
for familihood
- The second Afghanistan of Chechnya: in spite of being wrapped in
pig's skin…
- A string of lies by Putin: against the 'disobedient people' (or Chechens)
- A Washington Post article on the anthrax scare: why now?
[4]
The Koizumi government propagandizing chauvinistic
nationalism
'Counter kidnappings' and 'starving
out':
a harder line towards North Korea
- A policy change: pressed by the Bush
government
- An independent diplomacy: for rebuilding
the Japanese imperialist prestige
- Oppositions between the US and China
/
Russia over the Korean Peninsula
- Break the chauvinistic nationalism!
[5]
Stop the enactment of the Personal Information
'Non-Protection' Laws!
- The Koizumi government rushing towards
the enactment through a 'partial revision'
- Transcend the distorted opposition
demanding
'protection of privacy'
[6]
No sacking! No cut in the seasonal bonus!
For a militant upsurge of year-end struggles
in private sectors!
- No cut in the seasonal bonus!
- The major restructuring: killing
workers
- Labour aristocrats ordering to cooperate
for higher competitiveness
- Break the stagnation in labour movement
in Japan!
Smash the 10% cut in basic pay planned by
the postal agency!
- The national leadership of Zentei
[Postal
Workers' Union] joining in the chorus
for
'Change to an ability- and performance-
based
pay'
- Denounce the leaders accepting the
'-1.9%
a month'
[7]
Denounce the leadership of Hokkaido Teachers'
Union giving in the offensive from the prefectural
board of education! Fight back from workplaces!
- An all-out offensive to deprive workers
of their gains: in the name of 'a strict
application of laws'
- An intensified control of workers
by the
headmaster
- The HTU leadership strengthening
their
line of 'joint consultation'
- Denounce the betrayal! Fight back!
Topics Drastic changes to worse in labour codes:
legalization of easy dismissals, long-time
/ irregular labour, etc.
[8]
Efforts to immanently transcend a thought
- On an article in The Communist No.
201
In the form of a traditional Japanese poem:
Yankee's barbarity
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No. 1744 (November 18th Issue)
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Denounce the UN resolution for a military
attack on Iraq!
Stop US / UK aggression on Iraq
under the pretext of the new resolution!
- The UN Security Council resolution to approve
US's 'use of force against Iraq'
- French, Russian and Chinese power
holders
submitted to Bush's hard line
- The Bush government bent on strengthening
its war readiness
- The Koizumi Government propagandizing
chauvinistic
Japanese nationalism for its war participation
- Break the stagnation of opposition
movements!
For the revolutionary antiwar struggles!
Zengakuren protest against the UN resolution
(9 Nov.)
- Militant students waged their protests
in front of the US and Russian Embassies
in Tokyo.
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| 150 students In front of the US Embassy in
Tokyo. |
At the Russian Embassy. |
[2]
Statement of the Japanese Zengakuren (9 Nov.)
- We denounce the UN resolution on Iraq.
Click to see the full text.
No to the joint security drill of the
SDF
and police!
- Zengakuren Hokkaido staged their
actions
in front of an SDF gate in Sapporo,
25 Oct.
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- 'Hellfire' from the 'Predator': lethal weapons for one-sided killing.
- 'Petty nationalism' spreading among the Japanese youth: from
the World Cup to the sympathy to those abductees.
- In a KGB way: Who are 'rogues'?
- Repair it after an accident: a new standard of security for nuclear
facilities.
- Judged as the false accusation: voices from the former 'boys', 17 years
on.
[4-5]
Warmonger's new strategy for military domination
over the world: the Bush doctrine obsessed
with the fetishism of military might
- Declaration of a pre-emptive attack
on
an 'enemy of America'
- 'A new threat': extraordinary sense
of
crisis and hatred
- A solo domination with the overwhelming
nuclear military might
- Bush's 'aggressive nationalism'
[6] Labour Front
A local peace rally in Kanazawa
- Voices against an attack on Iraq,
31 Oct.
Anti-disaster drills led by the Self-Defence
Force in Sapporo
- Residents including high-school students
mobilized.
'No jobs as you hope for'
- Increasing difficulties for young
job seekers.
These are examples of 'volunteer activities
for communities' recommended by the bourgeoisie
- Clean toilets in your companies,
cut the
grass, separate the collected empty
cans
…
Topics The planned revision of job security system
[7]
Reading Crimes by Security Police Seen in Uchigeba [Violence between Factions]
- Remember precious wills of comrades!
Fight
against the storms of conspiratorial
attacks!
[8]
JRCL-RMF appeals to Korean brothers / sisters
in Japan
Let us fight against storms of anti-Korean
chauvinism taking advantage of the 'kidnapping
issue'!
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No. 1743 (November 11th Issue)
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Stop US / UK aggression against Iraq!
Advance an international antiwar struggle!
Now is the time to transcend the official
peace movement
under the illusion of 'a UN-based solution'!
- The Bush government steamrolling
for 'a
new resolution' of the Security Council'
- Intensified oppositions between state
powers
over a military invasion of Iraq
possible holders intensifying
- Pressure from the Bush government
and Japan's
dash for its participation in the war
- For a radical breakthrough of the
present
crisis of the opposition movement in
Japan!
Advance the revolutionary antiwar movement!
Denounce the War Resolution of the UN!
Zengakuren protested in front
of the US Embassy
(9 Nov.)
Click to see media reports. 1 2 |
[2]
October 21st rally in Okinawa: voices against
a US invasion against Iraq raised at the
trade union-based mass rally
- Never let leaders distort this upsurge
into an election campaign! Okinawa Kengakuren
inspired the participants together with militant
workers. (Below left).
A student action in Kagoshima, 22 Oct.
- From the campus to the streets, Kagoshima
Univ. students called on the public to stop
Japan's participation in the war and the
Emergency Laws. (Below right).
'No to the joint research with the military!'
- Kobe Univ. students denounce the
school
authorities. (18 Oct.)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2002
- An 'anti-war' Senate from Minnesota killed in a mysterious accident
- Another 'September 11th': and a politician awarded a Nobel Peace
Prize
- Trotskyists in Brazil: all for Lula
- Scandals over nuclear power plants and
'counter-leaks' about CIA involvements
- With 'anti-terrorism' as a pretext: a dangerous
attempt to build a JCIA
[4]
Denounce the Putin government for its bloody
repression on Chechen fighters!
Zengakuren protest against the Russian Embassy.
Click to see a media report: 1 |
- A massacre: chemical weapons used.
- For the single demand: 'Pull out
the Russian
forces from Chechnya!'
- Stand up against the Chechen invasion!
[5] Zentei [Postal Workers' Union]
Degradation to a labour movement for the
national postal service and the state: the
anti-working class nature of the central
leadership's policy for 'a new postal labour
movement'
- Zentei leaders helping enactment
of the
Emergency Laws
- Bankruptcy in their attempts over
a possible
privatization of the postal service
- Full cooperation in the stormy restructuring
going the postal service
- Stop degradation of Zentei to a movement
for the business and the state!
[6]
No revision to the Fundamental Law of Education!
No to the planned system to check 'ability-less
teachers'!
- Denounce the JTU leadership for its
submissive
response.
Stop the introduction of the 'ability check'
system!
- From A to D: teachers to be graded
Topics The JCP-led labour centre planning a new
fund for 'strengthening the organization':
'The problem is to get the personnel, materiel,
and money', acknowledging its bankruptcy
before the start.
[7]
On our creation of the theory of tactics
for organizing mass (labour) movement
[8]
Images of Antonio Negri's Empire
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No. 1742 (November 4th Issue)
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Stop US / UK Aggression on Iraq!
Explode the revolutionary antiwar struggle,
breaking the stagnant opposition movement
in Japan!
- Bargaining over a UN's new resolution
among
the US / UK, Germany- France and Russia-China
- Disagreements within the US ruling
class
and a drastic intensification of power
struggles
- Expand the antiwar flames all over
the
world!
Emergency protests of Zengakuren in front
of the Russian Embassy, 27 Oct.
- Denounce the Putin administration for its
ruthless massacre of the Chechen rebels!
(Photo below)
[2]
 Antiwar Demonstrations, 20 Oct.
- Hokkaido: Young workers and students
marched
on the regional LDP office in Sapporo.
- Kansai: The US Consulate in Osaka
shaken
by angry voices of workers and students.
No to the Emergency Legislation in support
of aggressive wars!
- Militant students staged protests
together
with traffic-related trade unions,
in front
of the Diet Building, 23 Oct.
[3]
Zengakuren's Statement of Protest, 27 Oct.
- We condemn the massacre of Chechen
rebels
who rose for withdrawal of the Russian
forces!
Denounce the Putin government for its
military
invasion against Chechnya!
Kaleidoscope 2002
- October-surprises: mysterious incidents
every time before a major election
in the
US.
- Warmongers' mongering: arms contractors.
- 57 years on: a controversial photo
of the
Showa Emperor.
[4] UN Conference for the Global Environment
in Johannesburg
American imperialism against the solution
of global issues of the environment and poverty:
surging voices of resentment against the
US
- The powerless 'Action Programme'
and the
emasculated 'Political Declaration'
- The tripartite oppositions: The US,
Europe,
and developing countries
- The splits of the world: to intensify
[5]
Tricky measures for sacking: at an electric
company
- A training of seniors for making
them give
up
- Surveillance and control over workers
- Extend the solidarity of workers!
Smash the scrap-and-build! No to the mass
sacking!
- A major restructuring in Hokkaido
Prefecture
Topics Matsushita (Panasonic) to abandon its long-standing
system of wages typical of Japanese companies
[7]
A fake 'guerrilla': a big lie
- A new book by the converted Bundist leader
revealing the police conspiracy (Continued
from the previous issue)
[6]
On what is called the 'investigation
of the
abductions by North Korea'
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No. 1741 (October 28th Issue)
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Fight together in the forefront of the historic
struggle against the aggressive war on Iraq!
16 Dec. Yokosuka: intense fights against
the Aegis destroyer leaving for the war
