Weekly Kaihoh / Liberation
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No. 1800 - New Year Issue 2004
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Break through the darkness of
the 21st century!
Zengakuren delegates marching in New
York
(March 22nd, 2003)
Eradicate the tragedy of contemporary religious=ethnic
wars!
In solidarity with people struggling to overthrow
the Iraqi military administration under the
CPA!
Stop the dispatch of the Japanese state army
to Iraq!
I. Defeat of the US occupation forces:
upsurge
of anti-American guerrilla struggles
1. Dispatch of the Japanese state army
to
Iraq
2. Fierce intensification of anti-US
guerrilla
struggles
- The 'November uprising' and its effects
- Joint struggles between the Saddam
loyalists
and the Islamic radicals
3. The planned 'return of the sovereignty'
and its deception
- Guerrilla hunts driven by madness
- The Shi'ites aiming to seize the
power
- The necessity of the bankruptcy of
the
military administration
II. Death agony of the militarist empire
as the 'sole superpower'
1. Internal strife within the Bush
administration
- Policy disagreements critically surfacing
2. Oppositions over the planned reorganization
of military alliances
III. The radical structural change
of the
21st-century world
1. The US-European opposition over
the 'Iraqi
reconstruction' and revisions in the
US foreign
policy
2. Intensification of the oppositions
between
the 'three poles'
- The crisis of the US-led 'coalition
of
the willing'
- Wavering of the 'Franco-German-Russian'
line
- Mounting contradictions in China
as the
'third pole'
[4]
Letters of solidarity from Britain
and Ukraine
[5]
The Koizumi government whipped by Bush's
threat: the murder of Japanese diplomats
- The Japanese state army to be dispatched
to the battlefield
- The murder of Japanese diplomats: a conspiracy
by the Bush administration for pressing the
Koizumi administration to decide the dispatch
- The troop dispatch and the Constitutional
revision encouraged by the memorial
campaign
- Denounce the JCP central leadership
engulfed
in the memorial campaign for the dispatch!
No troops to Iraq! 5000 workers, students
and citizens at a rally sponsored 'against
the dispatch' by Rengo and the Democratic
Party
- A leader of the Democratic Party
heckled
by angry oppositions: 'You help Koizumi!'
[6-7]
- A political cartoon for New Year
[8-9]
The grand failure of the 'structural reform'
led by Koizumi and Takenaka
No burdens onto the working people!
1. Miserable realities of the 'Koizumi
reform'
- The 'temporal nationalization' of
the Ashikaga
Bank
- Fierce oppositions over the reform
of the
highway public corporation and the
privatization
of the national postal service
- The 'simultaneous three-way reform'
in
taxation and finance to destroy the
financial
basis for welfare and education
- The collapse of the pension system
and
the stormy increase in taxation
2. Smash the offensive for tax increase
under
the pretext of 'resolute reform'!
[10-11]
Resolutions for New Year (1)
- JRCL Kansai Regional Committee
- JRCL Okinawa Regional Committee
- JRCL Tokai Regional Committee
- JRCL Postal Workers' Committee
- JRCL Electric Industrial Workers' Committee
- JRCL Education Workers' Committee
- East Kanagawa Antiwar Workers' Conference
[12]
Pictures:antiwar struggles 2003
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No. 1799 (December 22nd Issue)
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Stop the dispatch of the Japanese army to
Iraq!
Down with the Koizumi government rushing
to join in the war!
 - The Koizumi government to join in the bankrupt
military administration by US imperialism
- Denounce the US for its massacres
against
Iraqi people!
- Overcome the Democratic Party and
the Rengo
leadership helping the scheme to revise
the
Constitution!
- JCP bureaucrats uttering, 'We do
not demand
for US pullout.'
- Stop the dispatch of SDF troops to
Iraq!
Denounce the intentional gunshots to kill
Japanese diplomats
by the desperate Bush administration
to press for the dispatch of the Japanese
army!
- The Koizumi government deliberately ignoring
contradictions in the statement by
the US
Force
- The perpetrator was the US Force:
the gunshots
shaking the government
- An intentional murder for the purpose
of
pressing the Japanese government to
dispatch
the state army
Denounce the Cabinet approval of the basic
plan to dispatch SDF units!
- 9 Dec. Militant students protesting in
front of the Diet Building (Pic. above)
[2]
No troops to Iraq! Nationwide
- Militant students struggling to stop
the
Cabinet approval of the basic plan
for the
dispatch, in front of the Diet building
(9
Dec.)
- Zengakuren Hokkaido protesting against
the regional LDP office in Sapporo
(9 Dec.)
- Students from universities in the
greater
Tokyo area marching against the dispatch
(6 Dec.)
- JRCL propaganda at a JCP-led trade
union
rally (10 Dec.)
- 2000 workers rallied from trade unions
in Hokkaido against the dispatch (3
Dec.)
- Militant students in Okinawa denouncing
the Rumsfeld visit (16 Nov.)
Aichi Univ. Students' Cultural Festival
- A lecture meeting held to criticize
the
logic of 'Iraqi democratization'
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- Genocide again: another 'songmi'
- Colas: loved by Muslims
[4]
Japan's Defence Report 2003: a new military
strategy in response to the Bush doctrine
- 'From prevention to reconstruction':
a
new military strategy for Japanese
imperialism
- 'Terrorists' vs. 'international community'
- 'Anti-terror' strategy based on the
US-Japan
military alliance
- What is called 'international cooperation'
to defend 'national interests'
- Shift in priority from frontal equipment
to missile defence systems
[5]
Denounce Idemitsu Kosan Co. having caused
a grave fire at a oil manufacture in
Hokkaido!
What was shown in the historic worst
accident
at an oil industrial complex
- A 'full fire' for the first time in Japan
- Characteristics and causes of the
accident
- Successive accidents prior: operations
continued with old facilities
[6] Labour front
- Care service companies sweating and
sacking
workers
- A regular convention of the Hokkaido
Prefectural
Office Workers' Union: Angers for the
leadership
stressing 'an improved service for
the public'
Topics Leaders in JCP-led medical workers' unions
ordering 'actions for better job' in
cooperation
with medical industrial capital
[7]
Denounce the fatal accident at prefecture-run
rubbish disposal facilities in Mie!
No burdens onto the people under the pretext
of 'a circular type socio-economic system'!
- Two firemen killed in the explosion
- No safety measures and a thoughtless watering
- An 'ideal system for rubbish disposal'?
- Electric power generation from the Refuse
Derived Fuel system promoted as a state policy
[8]
- A list of the articles in Kaihoh in 2003
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No. 1798 (December 15th Issue)
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Denounce the US / Japanese governments
covering up the US Force's shots to
kill Japanese diplomats!
Stop the dispatch of SDF troops to Iraq
under the pretext of 'fight on terrorism'!
Denounce the Cabinet approval of
the basic plan to dispatch SDF units!
- The US Force desperate to cover up
the
case
- Denounce the Koizumi government helping
the cover-up! Stop the dispatch of
Japanese
troops!
7 Dec. JRCL Public Political Meeting
1500 workers, students and citizens
resolute
to fight
- Keynote report: beaconing the road
to revolutionize
the 21st world under wars
- Appeals from workers' and students'
fronts:
resolute to fight for another leap
forward
in the anti-Stalinist communist movement
- Let us fight the Echelon-type repression!
[2]
Stop SDF troops leaving for Iraq from Hokkaido!
- Students from universities in the
region
rallied in Sapporo (22 Nov.)
(Pic. Left)
No to the plan of nuclear facilities
in northern
Hokkaido!
- Local workers, students and other
residents
rallied
[3]
A coup in Georgia: Shevardnadze used and
discarded by US imperialism
- Opposition parties taking the advantage
of the mounting angers of the people
- The 'rigged election' consciously
made
up
- Confrontation intensifying between
Russia
and the US
A miserable 'international workers'
rally'
tried by the Bukuro Chukakuha remnants
[4]
Denounce the introduction of the new personnel
system by the postal agency!
- The newly introduced system for the
assessment
of employees' performances
- The reviewed standards for the assessment
- 'Ability-based, performance-based'
job
assessment to be refined
- A drastic intensification in the
personnel
management
[5]
Denounce another offensive for redeployment
and sacking by an NTT East subsidiary!
Fight it back in opposition to labour
aristocrats
helping the offensive!
- The 'Business Plan for 2003'
- Burdens from the declined business
of wire
telephones shifted onto the workers
- Redeployment to different jobs, imposition
of normas, and forced retirement
- Leaders in the NTT East Workers Union
helping
the offensive in the name of 'strengthening
the business'
[6] Labour Front
- Are there ideologically undesirable teachers?'
Niigata prefectural board of education checking
the ideas of teachers
- For deepening the analysis of the latest
recommendation by the National Personnel
Authority
Counsel
Topics Rengo's proposal for 'reviewing the wage
system': recommending trade unions to promote
a performance-based pay
[7] Kaleidoscope 2003
- 'War with donkeys' in Baghdad: and also in the homeland
- Operation Touch and Go: A dinner at 5:00 am
- Empty Warheads vs Resistance: an instant democracy
- A 'suicide bombing' of a Japanese spying satellite: Not up into space but down to the bottom
of the sea
- Rightist slanders against the sex education: a spearhead of reactionary offensives onto
the efforts against sexual discrimination
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
- "On Philosophy, Human existence and
Literature", in the Selected Early Writings of Kan'ichi Kuroda, Vol. 3
- "Quest for New Human Existence",
in the Selected Early Writings of Kan'ichi Kuroda, Vol. 1
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No. 1797 (December 8th Issue)
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The US-UK occupation of Iraq in an impossible
impasse
Stop the dispatch of SDF troops by the Koizumi
government
rushing on the road to hell along with
Bush's
empire!
- The 'Ramadan offensives'
- The Iraqi occupation to be 'Iraqified'?
- The Shi'ites aiming for a new government
- Stop the dispatch of Self-Defence
Force
troops!
Stop the Koizumi government from accelerating
the SDF dispatch by taking the advantage
of the deaths of Japanese diplomats!
[2]
Denounce the central JCP leadership pigeonholing
its demand for the 'retreat of US forces'!
- The shameless statement by a JCP
MP at
a Diet session: 'There is no argument
pressing
the US forces to retreat.'
Kanazawa Univ. students protesting against SDF warplanes using a
local civilian airport (7 Nov.)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- Prices for lives: raised before the dispatch
- The September 11th and artistic modernism: on a critic against the Stockhausen remark
- Multiculturalism vs cultural diversity: Chirac at a UNESCO conference
- Organized crimes by police: false investigations and faked receipts
[4] Juchiro [Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union]
Criminality of the self-destructive 'Declaration
for the 21st Century': the declaration of
the Jichiro leadership for its cooperation
in the restructuring and its support for
the Constitutional revision and war policies
1 The leaders' sense of the times and
their
alternatives from the same standpoint
as
that of the authorities
2 Today's industrial Patriotic Association:
its 'public service' version
- Proposing discussions for the revision
of the Constitution
- Ordering the 'defence and enrichment
of
public service'
- What is called 'a new relationship
between
employers and employees'
3 'For effective and credible governments'?
4 The changed meaning of the ideas
'freedom,
fairness and solidarity'
[5] JCP
Illusion of 'better capitalism': ultra-rightward
alteration in the party's line for 'economic
democratization'
(Continued from the previous issue)
3. A love letter to the Japanese monopoly
bourgeoisie
- Monopoly capitalism without 'exploitation'
or 'expropriation'
- A 'non-imperialistic' development
of monopoly
capitalism
- 'Reform' through 'cooperation with
the
conservative voters'
- Culmination of the 'anti-revolution'
[6] Labour Front
The 'School and Police Supporting System'
in Ishikawa Prefecture
- Intensified control on schools in
the name
of 'security measures'
Newly enforced 'trainings of teachers with
ten years' experience'
- Retrained to be obedient to the education
ministry
Topics Employers' opposition to the governemnt
raising insurance rates and their true intention
[7]
Smash the offensive of lower wages by the
Hokkaido prefectural authority
- The largest rate in decrease
- Fight back by transcending the movement
for demanding 'better financial policies
of local governments'!
4 Private railway companies In the
Kansai
region pressing earlier retirements
and cuts
in wages
- Smash the major restructuring under
the
pretext of 'managerial improvement'
Questions and answers exchanged at the reception
of the JCP headquarters
- 'Don't you disband the Self-Defence
Force?'
[8]
For self-liberation of the class: Reading
Kuroda's "For a Creation of a Vanguard
Organization"
1. The praxical significance of the
book
2. Overcoming Lenin's theory of organization
- Formation of the materialist subjectivity
as a communist
- Building of a vanguard organization
in
the form of 'inside = outside'
3 Grounds of the overcoming
- Negation of the view of mass movements
continually developing into a revolutionary
struggle
- The issue on revolutionalization
of human
existence
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No. 1796 (December 1st Issue)
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7 Dec. JRCL Public Political Meeting
Build an ideological-organizational bridgehead
to eradicate the crisis of the contemporary
world!
- The failed occupation of Iraq
- The Bush administration in agony
- Poodle Koizui's Dutch-roll
- Break the crisis of the 21st world
radically!
[2]
 JRCL public political meeting in Okinawa
(19 Oct.) resolved to win another leap forward
- Over 300 workers and students confident
in the new horizon of the anti-Stalinist
communist movement
- Firm fortresses built in workplaces
and
schools: reported from comrades
(Pic. right)
Winning in a suit against the police raid
on the JRCL Tokai Regional Office
- Aichi Prefetural police's appeal dismissed
by Nagoya High Court
- Smash the state offensive to break
the
organization!
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- Another unilateralism: US private companies gaining
- The Galileo's challenge: to shake the 'sole domination'
- Infrastructure for 'not healing but governing': stupid recommendation for Japan's 'international
contribution' in Afghanistan
- Social hysteria against the public service agitated by the media: helping restructurings
in local governments
- Reports on 'deterioration in public security': really?
[4] JCP
Illusion of 'better capitalism': ultra-rightward
alteration in the party's line for
'economic
democratization'
1. 'Alternatives' stated in the draft
of
the revised Programme
- Reformist measures for 'an economic
society
with rules'
- Arbitrary 'analysis of the present
situation'
made on the projection of party's policies
2. Changes in the ideological rationale
for
the party's line
- Changes in the theory of the 'rule
by Japanese
monopoly capital'
- Less emphasis on the reform through
the
'practical use' of the current structure
of state monopoly capitalism
(To continue)
[5]
The Proliferation Security Initiative and
its meaning: the US-led building of a global
system for maritime inspection
- The Pacific Protector 03 drills joined
by PSI member states
- Intensification of the economic embargo
against North Korea and Iran in the
name
of 'prohibition of WMD proliferation'
- US and Japanese governments bent
on intensifying
the inspection system against North
Korea
[6] Labour Front
Fight back against Tokyo governor Ishihara
imposing the national flag and anthem
upon
school ceremonies
- Unheard-of! School ceremonies held
under
the watch of officials from the education
agency
- New Guidelines: disobedient teachers
to
be punished
- Denounce the shooting against teachers'
union offices by neo-fascists!
Nippon TV Corp.: Should the only producer be responsible
for the bribe for higher program ratings?
- Burdens for higher ratings shifted
upon
media workers
Topics Governor Ishihara's extravagant advertisement
'Economic effects from Casinos save Tokyo
from deflation'
[7]
No to the prefectural / municipal version
of restructuring
JRCL Prefectural / Municipal Workers' Committee
- Stop the Tokyo prefectural government
from
4000 reduction of the personnel and
cuts
in retirement allowance!
- Smash the plan of lower wages and
reduction
of the personnel by the governments
of Tokyo
Cities!
- Denounce the central Jichiro leadership
helping localities' restructuring under
the
pretext of 'better public service'!
- Overcome the JCP-led central Jichiroren
leadership distorting the fight-back
into
election campaigns!
- Fight back against the media propaganda
agitating ill feelings against public
servants!
- Smash the offensives of restructuring
by
Tokyo Governor Ishihara raising the
banner
of 'Tokyo government reform'!
- No shift of burdens upon to workers
according
to the '2nd plan for financial reconstruction'!
- No personnel secondmented to the
Metropolitan
Police for 'security'!
- Denounce Ishihara's justification
of Japan's
past colonial rule of Korea!
- Stop the intensification of the 'crisis
controlling system' in Tokyo!
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- "Quest for New Human Existence",
in the Selected Early Writings by Kan'ichi Kuroda, Vol. 1
- Peace and Revolution in the Contemporary
Age
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No. 1795 (November 24th Issue)
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Smash the planed dispatch of SDF troops to
Iraq!
Stop the LDP-Komei coalition government
from preparing the Constitutional revision!
- Irritation and intimidation: Rumsfeld the
hawk
- The general election focused on the
alternative
of the LDP or the DP, with the big
defeat
of the SDPJ and the JCP
- A muddy stream emerging towards the
revision
of the Constitution
- Denounce the Democratic Party and
the central
Rengo leadership joining in the chorus
for
the Constitutional revision!
Stop warmonger Rumsfeld!
Zengakuren protesting in front of the US
embassy (14 Nov.)
Pics. from the media 1 2 3
[2]
- Zengakuren protesting against Rumsfeld's
visit to Japan, in front of the US
embassy
in Tokyo, 14 Nov.
- Militant students struggling to stop
SDF
warships leaving the Kure Port for
the Indian
Sea (28 Oct.)
- Okinawa students marching against
the planned
dispatch of SDF troops to Iraq (25
Oct, Naha)
Pic. left.
- Local students holding a protest
rally
in their university against a US-Japan
joint
military exercise (23 Oct.)
- JRCL leaflets shaking regional antiwar
rallies in Nagoya sponsored by the
SDPJ and
the JCP affiliates (1 Oct., 7 Oct.)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- A greased coalition between the black and the 'red': degenerate
Stalinist justifying their receiving
support
from YUKOS comparing it with Engels
as 'entrepreneur'
- A Japanese way of deconstruction
of the
'positive thinking' as American disease
- Right-wing responses to the regrettable Japanese students' performance in China: the most regrettable in morality
- 'Evolved' mobile phones: for terrible
surveillance society
[4]
Russia's desperation as a 'resource-supplying
colony': the arrest of the 'oil tycoon'
and
its meaning
1. Shockwaves from the investigation
of the
YUKOS
2. Opportunistic alterations in Russia's
policy concerning energy and natural
resources
- A sense of crisis towards the plunder
of
Russian oil resources by the US
- Shifts in the basis of policies towards
'cooperation with France and Germany'
3. Ignorance and incompetence of the
'St.
Petersburg' group
- 'Reconstruction' through state control:
a daydream
- Reconstruction of the productive
and technological
bases: impossible
[5]
The latest development in technologies for
surveillance of the people: Stop the
tendency
towards surveillance society with the
whole
nation put under the state control!
- Shocks from the September 11th: major
changes
in the idea and the method of 'anti-terror
measures'
- The started national online network
of
residents' registries and the controversial
introduction of the ID cards
- An intensive race between monopolies
in
the development of IC tags
- Increasingly sophisticated technologies
for the CCTV system
[6] Labour Front
The 5th national convention of the JAM:
the national leadership ordering the
affiliates
to be immersed in campaigns for next
year's
election,
covering up the failure in its 'industrial
policy'
- Questions and doubts appearing over
the
guidance for next year's election
- The empty policy 'to help workers
organize
trade unions in small and middle scale
companies'
- Self-justification of their abandonment
of struggles against the aggressive
war on
Iraq and the emergency laws
- A more outright joint-consultation
line:
emphasizing the defence or reconstruction
of the company
Terrible cuts in wages by the Osaka Prefectural
authority
- Shifts of the burdens of its financial
difficulties onto the workers
Topics The inaugurated Conference of the Public
Service Workers' Unions: covering up the
declining rate in organization through an
'industrial union'
[7]
Fight back against the imposition of 'mid-night
duty' upon indoor postal workers!
- A drastic deterioration of the form
of
working: consecutive 4 mid-night duties
of
10 hours
- What is called 'reform in the logistic
service': quicker in time and lower
in cost
- Denounce the leadership of the postal
workers'
union for its betrayal!
[8]
Reading books
- Tamagawa Nobuaki: Crimes by the Security Police Seen in the
So-Called In-Flights between Leftists
- Karaki Terue, etc.: K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
- Saiso Hadzuki: A Future Imagined in Those Days
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No. 1794 (November 17th Issue)
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Stop Rumsfeld's visit! No troops to
Iraq!
Advance antiwar struggles against the
Iraqi
occupation and the security alliance!
No revision of the Constitution!
- The Bush administration suffering
the bankruptcy
of its occupation and rule of Iraq
- Preparation for the Constitutional
revision
strengthened under the 'two-party rivalry'
- The Japanese Communist Party and
the Social
Democratic Party of Japan sunk down
amid
of the propagandized alternative of
LDP or
DP for a 'national leadership'
[2]
Stop the US-Japan joint military drill! No
troops to Iraq!
- Zengakuren Kyushu struggling together
with
trade unions (21, 25, 27 Oct.)
Smash the anti-guerrilla drill!
- JRCL leaflets inspiring trade unions
at
a rally against the joint military
drill
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- A Japanese dog robot unfaithful to Bush: and poodle lovers against
calling Blair as poodle
- The positive thinking: an American syndrome
- Another double standard: US submarines surrounding Japan exempted
from the ban on sonar harming whales
- A coup?: Putin's road to a 'strong Russia'
[4]
JCP theorization of 'socialist and communist
society' with big business and exploitation
continuing
1. The draft programme showing a blueprint
of 'future society'
2. Discarding the theory of the 'two-staged'
development
3. Negation of the law of distribution
in
communist society
4. A distorted interpretation of the
'socialization
of the means of production'
5. 'Reform' of state monopoly capitalism
6. 'Securing private property' stated
clearly
7. A caricature of 'socialism through
market
economy'
[5]
Denounce the Sharon government for its massacring
people in Gaza!
- The mini-Hitler launching the 'final
solution',
driven by irritation
- Indomitable fights against US imperialism
and Zionism
- Denounce the brutalities by Sharon
backed
by the Bush administration!
[6] Labour Front
The unemployment insurance law revised
to
worse: no pay to 'those without will
and
ability'
- Sweeping reduction of beneficiaries
- 'Benefits to temporary work' started:
Watch
it!
- Workers in public job centres: successive
deaths and sick
A JCP leader in labour movement
- A cheap politician imposing 'cooperation
in defending a company' upon trade
unions
in middle and small scale enterprises
Topics A government's advisory council ordering
'restructuring of local governments'
[7]
British workers' struggles rocking the Blair
government
- Demand for 'pullout' decided by the
TUC
- Growing angers for shifts of burdens
onto
the working class
- Against the 'New Labour' line
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- Peace and Revolution in the Contemporary
Age
- K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
- Anthropology
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No. 1793 (November 10th Issue)
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No troops to Iraq! No revision of the Constitution!
Fight antiwar struggles, overcoming parliamentarianist
distortions
by SDPJ / JCP leaders immersed in their
election
campaigns!
- Anti-US, anti-occupation fights burning
- The US occupiers' rule breaking down
in
hell fire
- The international donors' conference:
a
farce!
- The Koizumi government, as faithful
dog,
rushing to the dispatch of troops and
the
revision of the Constitution
- Denounce the Rengo leadership helping
the
trend to a Constitutional revision
[2] Antiwar struggles nationwide
- A militant demonstration against
the dispatch
of troops (19 Oct., Osaka)
- Protests in front of the US consulate
(19
Oct., Nagoya)
- Militant workers and students inspiring
trade union-based rallies (21 Oct.,
Naha,
Sapporo and Obihiro)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- Agitation for battle inspiring the Muslim
people: a televised message from Bin Laden
- Tools, parts and materials dangerously left inside nuclear reactors: 'condos without toilets' with heaps of rubbish
- A 'new historical document on the pre-war Japan': falsified
- 'I'm prepared to fight in the forefront
to defend Japan': a JCP candidate
- Written before publication: a book on the
secret security team within the Japanese
police
[4]
A caricature of the UN dependency which has
gone bankrupt: the JCP leadership starting
to cry out 'against building a state dispatching
troops abroad'
A. Comical arguments on 'an extraordinary
subjugation to the US' and 'a lawless
adverse
current'
- Stresses on 'an extraordinary subjugation'
- A fallacy of a 'current towards a
peaceful
international orders'
B. JCP's policy 'against the dispatch
of
troops to Iraq' decorated with a fake
'position
against the security alliance'
- Demands for 'US-based cooperation
for Iraqi
reconstruction'
- Fallen into 'state interest' nationalism
no different from that of 'conservative
constituencies'
[5]
A disastrous industrial fire at a Nippon
Steel factory in Nagoya: Denounce the management
avoiding its responsibility for the accident!
- A grave explosion of a COG tank and
its
consequences
- Managers covering up a fatal defect
in
their safety measures
- What caused the accident is the managerial
policy of steel monopolies!
- Stop them shifting their responsibility
onto the workers!
[6] Labour Front
Things happening to workers after refusing
suggestions for early retirement
- Days of no job at the workplace
- Am'I SARS?
- 'A division for human resource development'
- No help from leaders of trade unions.
Fight
back!
Topics The Rengo national convention: sealed disagreements
among labour aristocrats
[7]
Condemn the terrorist gun fires against the
Tama Teachers Union in Tokyo and the explosive
threat to the JTU!
- Denounce hostile attacks by neo-fascist
elements aiming to destroy the antiwar
peace
movement!
'Reconciliation helps a dictator'
- A deceptive lesson drawn by neo-cons
from
the Munich Agreements
'What Asians are today is owing to the imperial
Japan's war'
- A Ten'noist (monarchist) right-winger
boasting
before a Chinese journalist
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- "Philosophy and Humans and Literature",
Selected Early Writings of Kan'ichi Kuroda Vol. 3
- Peace and Revolution in the Contemporary
Age
- "Ethics and Logic for Cooperation",
Selected Early Writings of Kan'ichi Kuroda Vol. 2
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No. 1792 (November 3rd Issue)
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19 Oct. Antiwar Flames in the heart of the
Capital
 Workers and students marching on the US embassy
and the Diet Building:
Oppose the military occupation of Iraq by
US imperialism! Stop Japanese imperialism from dispatching
troops!
- An enthusiastic opening rally
- A militant demonstration, as breaking
the
coercive police control
- A speaker from the JRCL-RMF stressing
the
need to call on the Muslim people from
the
revolutionary Marxist standpoint
- Advance to stop the dispatch of troops
and the revision of the Constitution!
[2]
Smash the Bush-Koizumi talk! Nationwide,
17 Oct.
- Okinawa (in front of the largest
US air
base), Osaka (protesting against the
US consulate),
Kanazawa (local university students
marching
through the streets), Sapporo (local
university
students speaking downtown)
5500 workers against the dispatch of troops
in Osaka, 10 Oct.
- JRCL-RMF leaflets distributed at
an official
trade-union based rally
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- From 'fighting reformist' to 'comical actor':
the greenhorn construction minister amid
the scandal over the Japan Highway Public Corporation
- Interested in CUBS more than Iraq: Rumsfeld in concentrated criticisms
- A Prime Minister's Aid: justifications for 'a cause'
- A 'bank' doing good business: for reproduction of US soldiers
- The 'cocking-up' of information revealed
by a spy and a spy revealed by a 'leak'
[4-5]
Desperate attempts by labour aristocrats
to avoid Rengo's decline
1 A cheap play and a cheap imitation
of the
AFL-CIO
2 Orders for 'strengthening the organization'
without the sense of mission and passion
3 Rengo's future
- 'Urgent tasks' defending no interests
of
unorganized workers
- How to organize the unorganized workers
- How to train full-time union officials
[6] Labour Front
A fire at a Bridgestone tire factory: a disaster
amidst the major restructuring
- A mysterious suicide
- Backgrounds of the grave fire
Traffic accidents frequently occurring to
postal workers
- Denounce the authorities shifting
the responsibilities
onto workers!
Topics Budgets for job creation largely left unexpended:
poor treatment by the government
[7]
Reading K. Kuroda's works
- Humanism and Marxism
- Selected Early Writings by Kan'ichi Kuroda
[8]
The logic shown for creating the vanguard
organization: what I recalled from the keynote
report to a JRCL public political meeting
- That pamphlet by Kuroda recalled
to my
mind
- Opposition to the Bukuro-type mass-movementism
- Reconfirmation of our origin
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No. 1791 (October 27th Issue)
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Stop the planned dispatch of Japanese troops
sheltering behind the new UN resolution!
Fight it transcending the official opposition
movement led by the SDPJ / JCP
mired in the failure of their UN dependency!
 - The Koizumi government launching a life-boat
for the Bush administration alone and unaided
- The new resolution by the UN Security
Council:
a farce
- One thousand Japanese and 5 billion
dollars
from Japan for the US occupation
- Advance the revolutionary antiwar
struggle
under the banner against the US-Japan
security
alliance!
[2]
Stop Bush! Smash the talk with Koizumi!
- Zengakuren demonstrated nearest the
airport
as the US president arrived on 17 Oct.
Zengakuren Hokkaido protests against
the
bill to continue Japan's cooperation
for
Bush's 'war on terror'
- Sapporo (3-10 Oct.) and Obihiro (10
Oct.)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2003
- Letters from GIs in Iraq: another lie
- A leanest year: results of nonsensical agricultural policies
- Disasters in China from damped lethal gas weapons: Japan as a senior WMD possessor
- The last moment of the last Japanese crested ibis: flying to hit against a metal wall of her
cage
- The Part Played by Mobil Phones in the Retrogression from Man to Ape or
worse
[4-5]
JCP's illusion 'monopoly capitalism which
is not imperialism'
Party's chairman Fuwa Tetsuzo destroying
Lenin's theory of imperialism
1. Flattery to 'conservative constituencies'
- Tricks for rationalizing the party's
line
for revised capitalism
2. 'Monopoly capitalism' without exploitation
or neo-colonialism
3. Bowing down to Kautsky's theory
of 'super
imperialism'
- Stretched interpretations under the
pretext
of 'conditions changed'
- A second version of the Kautsky theory
- Rejection of the 'necessity of imperialist
war'
[6] Labour Front
Shock waves from BSE and workers in
public
health centres assigned intensive labour
- A veterinarian forced a false report
and
driven into suicide
- Extremely intensified labour after
the
start of total examination of dead
cows
- The source and routes to be covered
up
- Consequences of the efficiency-based
policy
of dairy farming
360 teachers branded as 'incompetent'
- The Osaka prefectural board of education
driving an offensive for purge
Topics Rengo President Sasamori: 'No condemnation
against politics or management but cooperation
is needed now.'
[7]
A supplementary textbook for 'morality' edited
by the education ministry: What 'A Notebook
of Mind' is designed for
- Moral education placed as supreme
- How they try to raise 'patriotic
minds'
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- Selected Early Writings by Kan'ichi Kuroda
- K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
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