Weekly Kaihoh / Liberation
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No. 1810 (March 15th Issue)
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Denounce the Bush Administration
for the Bloody State Conspiracy,
the March 2nd Massacres of Shi'ite Muslims!
Full text of the JRCL statement. See
Zengakuren protest against the US embassy
(5 Mar)
- Denouncing the bloody March 2nd plot by
the Bush administration (Pic.above)
[2]
Rise in world-wide actions on the March 20th:
No to the US occupation of Iraq! Smash the
dispatch of the Japanese Army to participate
in the military administration!
- Our struggles winning the upsurge
of anti-dispatch
movement
- The Bush administration's plot with
the
aim to prevent the Iraqi Shias from
seizing
the power
- The Koizumi government rushing to
participation
in the military administration and
to revision
of the Constitution
- Win an international upsurge of the
Iraqi
antiwar struggle!
For the 117th meeting of the Central Committee
of Zengakuren (18-19 Mar)
- Advance struggles against the war
and against
the emergency-related bills!
[3]
A CIA spy the Chukakuha remnants have taken for their 'international solidarity'
- Named Steve Zeltzer
US / UK intelligences bugging on UN officers:
the Echelon system exposed to the light of
day
- Shocking remarks by a former British minister
- The Bush-Blair-Koizumi alliance being
contained
[4-5]
The bloody plot to massacre Shia Muslims:
the bankruptcy of the Bush empire
- A grave state conspiracy committed
- Fears of a Shia uprising
- The failed military administration
- Revealed limitations of policies
to use
the UN
[6] Resolutions addressed at the Workers' Meeting
for the Spring Offensive on 8 Feb
Win an organizational advance in hellish
postal workplaces!
- A grand failure in the experimental
introduction
of TOYOTA systems
- Increased frequency of midnight labour
with imposition of extraordinary norms
- Denounce the labour aristocrats accepting
the whole offensives from the agency
authority!
- Struggling at a difficult place:
our historic
mission
Topics A 'mini report for the offensive' issued
by labour aristocrats in the IMF-JC: asking
the capitalists for a 'more just performance-based
pay'
[7]
Fight together to overcome the spring offensive
in the electric industry degraded to a campaign
for 'industrial revival and industrial patriotism'!
- Electric monopolies wanting for special
demands from the 'Iraqi reconstruction'
- The leadership of the electric workers'
unions degrading the spring offensive
to
a campaign to demand industrial boosting
policies from the government: Fight
together
against the war and the restructuring!
[8]
Poems with comments for pent-up indignations
of education workers
- At schools in Tokyo where I work,
the prefectural
board of education are forcibly promoting
'education reforms' from above according
to orders from the ultra-nationalist
Governor,
Shintaro Ishihara, as causing disastrous
situations to classes.
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No. 1809 (March 8th Issue)
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21 Feb 'Stop the Japanese Army departing
for Iraq!'
Militant workers and students struggling
at Chitose Airport
- Protests in front of the ASDF base
in Hokkaido,
and just before the government plane
for
the flight
- Denouncing the Rengo leadership and
the
JCP central for the abandonment of
protests
- Raise tidal waves against the dispatch!
20 March:
Demonstrate in solidarity with the
people
around the world!
[2] No troops to Iraq! Nationwide
A militant demonstration on the Defence Agency
(21 Feb, Tokyo)
- In solidarity with comrades struggling
on the spot of Chitose
Stop US Marines in Okinawa departing for
Iraq!
- Local students demonstrating against
the
dispatch for reinforcing the occupation
army
(19 Feb, Okinawa)
3000 workers rallied against the dispatch
- From trade unions in the Kyushu region
(15 Feb, Fukuoka)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Silent Babies: human society deteriorating
- American middles falling low: as Indian engineers rising
- Matrix off: human communication just on a cellular
phone
- 'A mortar attack on the Defence Agency':
with a police raid on a handful of 'radicals'
in the next morning for showing off the 'possibility of terrors'
[4] Keynote Report to the Workers' Meeting for
the Spring Offensive on 8 Feb
Smash the offensive of lower wages and sacking!:
Let us struggle for a militant revival of
labour!
- Stop the dispatch of the Japanese
Army
to Iraq!
1. Storms of cuts in wages, restructuring
and sacking
- An 'economic recovery' through restructuring
- Koizumi's 'structural reform' shifting
burdens onto the working class
2. Rengo's line for the spring offensive
2004: pledging its cooperation in wage
decrease
and restructuring
- 'The end of the spring offensive'
declared
again with an order to accept lower
wages
- Submission to the offensive to abolish
the 'system of annual pay raise'
3. Japanese labour movement on the
verge
of death
- A bottomless crisis of labour movement
in Japan
- What Rengo labour aristocrats call
'organization
of unorganized workers'
4. For a militant revival of labour
movement
in Japan
- Struggles by militant workers in
unorganized
workplaces
- Lessons from struggles to found trade
unions
[5-6] Resolutions addressed at the Workers' Meeting
for the Spring Offensive on 8 Feb
I remake from below the organization of my
trade union at a small-scale enterprise:
From the private industrial sector
- In opposition to the submissive guidance
by the leadership of the JCP-led trade
union
- How we should win more companions
Let us expand our struggles against the war
and the imperialist reorganization
of education
under this wartime order!: From education workers in Okinawa
- Our pupils sent to a battlefield
again:
Let us turn the regret into our springboard!
- A rapid escalation in patriot education
and purges of opposition
- Organizing activities in workplaces
under
the imperialist reorganization of education:
Started with listening to companions
- Let us fight on the basis of the
sharing
of workers' alienation deepened under
the
wartime order!
Burn flames of antiwar struggle at electric
workplaces on the basis of the consciousness
of unity among members of a trade union!:
From the electric industry
- Electric monopolies devouring special
demands
from the Iraqi occupation
- Remaking a trade union movement from
below
- Angers against labour aristocrats
helping
restructurings
[6] Labour Front
Fukuoka Prefectural authority to trust its
financial accountings to private business
- Fight back against the reduction
in personnel
and the intensification of labour!
TOYOTA
- The world's second auto maker cheating
in an official examination for car
mechanics
Topics Labour aristocrats in the metal industry
giving an order for 'reform in the nation's
spirit'
[8]
Photo Special: Zengakuren fighting in Hokkaido
against the troop dispatch
Feb 15
Asahikawa City
Stop the main GSDF contingent departing!
Feb 17,
Muroran Port:
In solidarity with dock workers against
the
dispatch
Feb 18,
Muroran Port:
In protest against MSDF war vessels
entering
(Pic. Upper)
Feb 20,
Muroran Port:
Stop MSDF war vessels departing for
Iraq!
(Pic Lower)!
Feb 21,
Chitose Airport:
Stop the main GSDF contingent departing
for
Iraq!
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No. 1808 (March 1st Issue)
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15 Feb The greatest struggle
against the Japanese Army departing
for Iraq
Military City Asahikawa shaken by
1,200 workers and students marching through
- A traffic circle with pro-dispatch 'yellow
handkerchiefs' turned an antiwar plaza (Pic. left)
- Angry calls to the central gate of the
GSDF base
- A resolute declaration of fight against Bush
and Koizumi addrssed at a meeting (Pic. right)
- Raise tidal waves against the war, against
the Security Alliance and the Koizumi government!
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A militant fight also exploded on
Chitose Air Base, 21 Feb
(Next issue to report )
[2] No troops to Iraq! Nationwide
12,000 rallied in response to a call from
the transport related trade unions (13 Feb, Tokyo)
- Enthusiastic applause given to dock
workers
expressing their resolution
- A great upsurge of the joint struggle based
on strenuous efforts by militant workers
(Pic. left)
A trade union based rally with angry 4,000
workers (14 Feb, Osaka)
- Demonstrators unfurling red flags
of their
own unions against the dispatch
Students of Kanazawa Univ.
- Protesting against a local SDF base
(3
Feb)
No to the US Marine live firing drill!
- 600 workers rallied on the spot together
with Zengakuren Kyushu units (25 Jan,
Hijudai)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- The AWOL ordering troops to go to war:
another scandal
- An empty agitator and violator of Ten Commandments
- 'A civil war between religious sects' engineered:
a 'terrorist document' (?) found in Iraq
- A declaration of fight by a veteran French lawyer: for Saddam on trial
- 'I have no specialist knowledge' (Koizumi):
pressed by MPs' question exposing the truth of the gunshots on Japanese diplomats
[4]Keynote Report to the Workers' Meeting for
the Spring Offensive on 8 Feb
Fight back against the shift of burdens onto
the working people in the name of 'administrative
and financial reform'
- Fight together to stop the dispatch
of
the Japanese Army: my resolution
- Under the Koizumi-led 'structural
reform':
stormy offensives against workers in
public
sectors
- The municipal version of the major
restructuring
based on the 'New Public Management'
theory
- Oppression and distortion of fight-backs
by central leaders of the Jichiro [Prefectural
/ Municipal Workers Union]
- Our struggles in opposition to the
Jichiro
leadership submissive to the municipal
version
of restructuring
[5] Special Report to the Workers' Meeting for
the Spring Offensive on 8 Feb
Burn the Iraqi antiwar struggle in solidarity
with Muslim people!
1. The dispatch of the Japanese Army
to the
front for the first time after the
WWII
- The Koizumi government pushing the
dispatch
- A rush to the Constitutional revision
and
a crisis of opposition
- Neo-fascism agitated: yellow handkerchiefs
- Japan's base in Samawah: Like a prehistoric
site surrounded by moats suddenly appearing
in Babylonia
- Anti-American guerrilla fights burning
2. Downfall of the Bush Empire
- Bush in a dead impasse
- 'Saddam's arrest'
3. Strengthen your weapons for overcoming
the darkness of the 21st century!
[6] Labour Front
The NTT managerial intensifying offensives
for sacking and redeployment of workers
- Deserting maintenance divisions on
distant
islands
Angers of bookstore workers
- Amid of a long-time depression in
the publication
business
Topics Grave industrial accidents in succession
[7] TOYOTA
An emanation of fighting energy filled in
the 'General Action on Toyota' (11 Feb, Toyota City in Aichi)
- Enthusiastic responses to a JRCL
leaflet
- Leaders of the JCP-led trade unions
raising
illusions of Toyota bosses
The Leaflet: Contain the Toyota Headquarters with Angers
of Workers!
- Deadly intensification of labour,
overtime
works imposed with no pay and expropriation
of subcontractors: Now is the time
to fight
back!
- TOYOTA capital: the world's worst
exploitation
- Labour aristocrats in the Toyota
Workers
Union assisting the 'rule on workers'
by
the TOYOTA capital
- Degenerate leaders of the JCP-led
federation
boosting illusions of the vampire-like
TOYOTA
capitalist in a human guise
[8]
Reading Kuroda's book
- K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
At Highgate Cemetery
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No. 1807 (February 23rd Issue)
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Stop the SDF units departing for Iraq
from Chitose Base on 21 Feb!
1200 militant workers and students marching
on
the GSDF Asahikawa Base in Hokkaido
from which the main units depart for Iraq
(15 Feb.)
Burn flames of antiwar struggle from workplaces
in spite of oppressions by labour aristocrats
in Rengo!
- Troops sent to Iraq with the performance
of the 'Yellow Handkerchief Campaign'
- Anti-US struggles intensifying: the
Bush
administration in a dead impasse
- Denounce the Democratic Party advocating
a 'PKO-based dispatch' and a 'renewal
of
the Constitution'!
[2]
No troops to Iraq! Nationwide
- A 'National Meeting to Demand a Cancel
of the SDF Dispatch': 3000 workers,
students
and other citizens rallied in Sapporo
(7
Feb)
- 'No SDF troops to Iraq!' 1500 workers
and
students rallied in Obihiro, with one
of
the main bases of GSDF units dispatched
to
Iraq (31 Jan)
- Militant workers struggling in JCP-led
trade unions: 700 workers rallied against
the dispatch near ASDF Komaki Base
(17 Jan)
- Protests against MSDF vessels entering
a civilian port in Okinawa (26 Jan)
[3]
1300 workers rallied at the Workers' Meeting for the Spring Offensive on 8 Feb
Resolutions of all participants made
firm
for the national demonstration in Asahikawa
on 15 Feb
- First keynote report: lessons from
struggles
to found a trade union in minor-scale
enterprises
- Second keynote report: struggles
against
storms of a 'municipal version of the
major
restructuring'
- Special report: A statement-to-be
by fictitious
'Saddam with an anti-Stalinist communist
mind'
- Burning resolutions addressed from
various
industries
[4-5] Criticism of the annual report by the Japan
Employers' Federation
The Japanese monopoly bourgeoisie staking
its fate on a turn to a 'trading-based nation'
1. A turn to a 'trading-based nation'
2. Plans for a 'nation based on diverse
human
resources'
3. Fallacies of the 'performance-based
principle'
- Fallacies of a 'new wage system'
- Failure in the 'new type of the Japanese
management'
[6] Labour Front
Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education attempting
to purge a teacher who expressed his objection
to a Board's notification
- Only for his contribution to a local
newspaper
- Most problematical is the new policy
of
the Education Board
- A storm of a patriotic and ability-based
reorganization of education
- Advance the struggle by strengthening
the
unity in workplace units of teachers'
unions!
Topics Tricks in the Rengo's annual report
[7]
Expose deceptions by labour aristocrats of
the NTT Workers' Union in their 'opposition
to the troops dispatch to Iraq'!
1. A support for the Democratic Party
led
by Kan and Ozawa
2. Reasons for the 'opposition' based
on
the Iraqi Reconstruction Law
3. The anti-working class character
of their
policy based on the 'national interests'
- 'Our opposition is not an absolute.'
- Counterproposal of a 'UN-based reconstruction
assistance'
- Joining in a chorus for a Constitutional
revision
- Anti-American chants hand in hand
with
the NTT managerial
[8]
Book Review: Visiting the Kurdistan
- A torn 'nation'
Reading Kuroda's "For a Renaissance
of Marxism"
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No. 1806 (February 16th Issue)
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15 Feb. Fight together in Asahikawa!
Stop the main contingent of
the Japanese Army to Iraq!
Against the US occupation!
Against Japan's war participation!
Raise tidal waves of antiwar struggles!
- Participation in the US-led coalition forces
carrying out a war against guerrillas
- The Japanese Army in fear of guerrilla
attacks
- Attempts to build a national mobilization
system and to revise the Constitution
- Denounce the JCP degraded to advocators
of 'national interests'!
Call from Zengakuren
[2] No troops to Iraq!
Hokkaido: Stop the first batch of the main
GSDF contingent!
- 1 Feb.: 150 Workers and students
marching
on Asahikawa base against a departure
ceremony
attended by Koizumi
- 3 Feb.: Angry calls against the government-run
jet departing from Chitose base
(Pic. upper)
Okinawa: Militant struggles in succession
- 20 Jan.: 2700 people in a regional trade
union-based rally against the dispatch, encouraged
by militant workers and students
(Pic. lower)
- 23 Jan.: Okinawa Kengakuren calling
in
the streets against the Emperor's visit
to
Okinawa
- 26 Jan.: 'Stop the SDF transport
planes
to Iraq!' A trade union-based protest
in
front of Naha base
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Putin's government of Russia today
- A rightist group arrested for a series of gunshots against teachers
unions and North Korean affiliates: revealed
connections with Tokyo Governor Ishihara
and a right-wing MP of the DPJ
- A storm of whitewash against the whitewash
[4-5] Zenroren, JCP-led trade union federation
An appeal to monopoly capitalists for 'economic
boosting': the criminal nature of Zenroren's
line for the spring offensive 2004
1. What is called 'offensives to press
big
businesses for social responsibilities'
2. In the direction of 'cooperation
with
conservative voters'
- Praising 'Charters of the Japan Employers
Association'
- Dreaming for Japan's 'economic boosting'
through 'partial returns of internal
reserve'
- Beautifying overseas moves of production
by Japanese monopolies
- Stressing the 'cooperation with owners
of minor enterprises'
- Sending a love letter to the Rego
President
3. A right-wing remake of the JCP-led
labour
movement
[6] Labour Front
The 'official identification service' started:
5 months on from the expanded operation of
the national online system of resident registers
- Heavily intensified labour on municipal
workers
A 'community school' system introduced in
Fukui prefecture
- An imitation of the US 'Charter School'
system for privatized education
Topics A 'multiple wage system'? A monopoly capitalist
makeshift faced with harmful effects of the
'performance-based pay'
[7]
Reactionary revisions planned in the public
pension system: the devastation of the lives
of the toiling masses (Continued from the previous issue)
2. Falsity of the so-called 'sustainable
pension system'
- Justification of an intensified expropriation
under the pretext 'to cope with the
less
child-bearing and more aging society'
- Deceptions with the idea of 'impartiality
between generations'
3. A neo-liberalist reorganization
of the
social welfare system
[8]
Reading books
- "Questions around Philosophy, Humans
and Literature", Selected Early Writings by Kan'ichi Kuroda, Vol. 3
- "Quest into New Human Existence",
Selected Early Writings by Kan'ichi Kuroda, Vol. 1
- K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
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No. 1805 (February 9th Issue)
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15 Feb. Fight together in Asahikawa!
Stop the dispatch of the main GSDF contingent
to Iraq!
 - War participation in the name of 'security
keeping'
- To revise the Constitution: under
a wartime
order
- Attempts to rebuild the military
administration
over Iraq
- The Democratic Party of Japan shouting
for 'constitutionalization' and the
Japanese
Communist Party joining in the chorus
for
'eradication of terrorism'
- Stop the dispatch of the Japanese
Army!
No revision of the Constitution!
Pic. Left: Workers and students demonstrating
on GSDF Asahikawa Base in Hokkaido home to
the contingnt (1 Feb).
[2]
No troops to Iraq!
- 26 Jan., ASDF Komaki Base in Tokai:
workers
and students protesting against a C130
transport
plane departing for Iraq
- 19 Jan., Oita Port in Kyushu: Local
trade
unions and students struggling to stop
US
Force munitions landed for live firing
drills
- 18 Jan., Naha in Okinawa: 'Stop the
dispatch!
Stop the Emperor visiting to Okinawa!',
workers
and students demonstrating through
the capital
city
- 15 Jan., Kagoshima in Kyushu: Local
students
appealing to residents against the
dispatch
[3]
15 Feb. From all regions to Asahikawa!
Stop the main contingent of the Ground
Self-Defence
Force!
Marxist Students League - Hokkaido Regional
Committee
- The Japanese Army ordered to go to
the
battlefield
- For renouncing the Security Treaty!
For
overthrowing the Koizumi government!
Sounding the same as 100 years ago
- The 'strategic significance of the
Korean
Peninsula' explained by Yomiuri Shinbun
news
paper
The Georgian election: total sum over 100%?
- Following after Bush in rigging
[4]
Chukakuha remnants seized by a labour-movementist
faction
[5]
The Sharon government in its last moments
- A martyrdom operation by Hamas on
14 Jan.:
a signal gun for the overthrow of the
Sharon
government
- A 'unilateral declaration of the
separation
of Palestine' made by Sharon
- For plundering fertile lands and
water
resources from Palestinians
- Aggravated difficulties of the Israeli
economy due to the 'war'
- Power strife intensifying within
the regime
[6]
Nursing care workers forcibly trained according
to a McDonalds-like way of service
- Reporting the training I experienced
in
my workplace
'Moral education' stressed by the education
ministry
- The ministry-edited 'supplementary'
textbook
imposed on teachers
Topics 'Teachers must have an official training
every year!
[7]
Reading books
- Quest for a New Human Existence, included
in Selected Early Writings by Kan'ichi Kuroda
- K. Kuroda: Anthropology
- K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
[8]
Reactionary revisions planned in the public
pension system: the devastation of the lives
of the toiling masses
1. Change to a system without secured
payment
- Mass expropriation strengthened in
the
name of 'reform'
- Attempts to bill the people for the
financial
difficulties
- The monopoly bourgeoisie demanding
'less
payment'
(To continue)
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No. 1804 (February 2nd Issue)
Stop the main units of
the GSDF contingent to Iraq!
Reports:
The 18 Jan. demonstration in Tokyo
- No troops to Iraq! Smash the Security Alliance!
Militant workers and students marching
on
the US embassy, the Diet Building and
the
Prime Minister's Office
(Pic. Left upper)
The 22 Jan. protests at Komaki Base
- Stop the main units of the ASDF to Iraq!
Zengakuren and workers from Nagoya
area demonstrating
on the base
(Pic. Left lower)
Coming:
- Stop the main units!
1 Feb., Protests against GSDF Asahikawa Base
- Stop the facilities building unit!
Protests against Chitose Base
[2]
No troops to Iraq!
- Successive demonstrations in Hokkaido
home
to the GSDF units to be dispatched
- Zengakuren protesting against a dispatch
ceremony of the GSDF advance unit at
the
Defense Agency headquarters in Tokyo
(16
Jan.)
- Workers and students demonstrating
against
the troop dispatch in Osaka (17 Jan.)
Aichi Univ.: 300 students marching through the campus
for their petition against intensified regulations
on students' circles
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Nakasone and Miyazawa, LDP seniors forced to be retired by Koizumi:
turning free critics against Koizumi and
Bush
- A liberal-aired journalist who supports
a national referendum for the Constitutional revision
- Measures for 'ethnic cleansing' by Tokyo Governor Ishihara
- A fictitious monologue by UN Secretary General
[4] Rengo's policy for the spring offensive 2004
Denounce the Rengo leadership surrendering
to the 'cancellation of regular pay raise'
and 'cuts in basic wages'!
- The deceptive nature of its opposition
to 'the present dispatch' of troops
to Iraq
- The repeated wording: 'to maintain'
and
'the minimum'
- A trick in their demands for 'raising
the
minimum'
- A sudden change from the last year's
policy
of 'focusing on the job issue'
[5] Regular Convention of the Democratic Party
Denounce the new Democratic Party advocating
the revision of the Constitution!
1. An explicit statement for the Constitutional
revision and 'formation of special
units
for the UN forces'
- Stresses on Hawkish policies: the
backgrounds
2. A 'smiling fascist' party sounding
the
bugle for the march
- Agitation for a 'national referendum
law'
- Moves for a 'grand coalition between
the
LDP and the DP'
[6]
Harsh conditions of workers in military bases:
Okinawa, a fortress for the 'war on terror'
- Reorganization and strengthening
of US
military bases under the 'revolution
in military
affairs'
- Long-time absences from illness and
mental
illness
Topics Behind Matsushita's 'recovery': Affiliated
retailers cut off, workers sacked
[7] Extra 58th Convention of Zentei
Marked the completion of the postal industrial
patriotic association
- Decision of the change of the union's
name
'Zentei'
- 'Reform of the organization and finance'
to strengthen the central leadership
and
its bureaucratic control
- The central leadership assisting
the first
president of the new Postal Agency
- Labour aristocrats showing their
hatred
for anti-US, anti-occupation struggles
by
the Iraqi people
[8]
Over the 'value determination' of commodities
and the 'magnitude of the value'
- Is the 'dual character of labour'
a determination
given to the 'living labour'?
- The value of commodities is a determination
of the 'dead labour'
- What is meant by it that the 'magnitude',
or quantity, of value 'settles down
to the
socially average quantity of labour'
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No. 1803 (January 26th Issue)
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8 Feb. Workers' Meeting for the Spring Offensive
Fight for a militant development of the Spring
Labour Offensive 2004!
Stop the main GSDF unit leaving for Iraq!
- Organize struggles from workplaces
to stop
the dispatch of the Japanese army!
- Fight back against storms of wage
cuts
and restructuring!
- Labour aristocrats in Rengo surrendering
to the capitalist offensive for scraping
the mandatory pay raise
- Central leaders of the JCP-led Zenroren
reducing the offensive to attempts
for building
'cooperation with managers of small
and medium
enterprises'
- Smash lower wages! Win a uniform
and substantial
pay raise! No to sacking and redeployment!
Fight back against the ultra-long labour
time and the unpaid over-time work!
[2-3]
Against neo-fascist reactions
Win a militant advance of the Spring
Labour
Offensive 2004!
JRCL Central Workers' Orgburo (Continued from the previous issue)
III. Advance antiwar struggles and
the Spring
Labour Offensive 2004 in opposition
to the
war-assisting industrial patriotic
movement
of Rengo!
1. A deepening crisis of the Japanese
labour
movement and tenacious struggles by
revolutionary
workers
- Makeshifts to cover the declining
rate
of organization
- Reduction of the spring offensive
to a
'spring consultation' for lower wages
2. Organize struggles to break the
neo-fascist
reaction from the core of the labour
front!
(1) Block the enactment of 'laws for
an emergency
decree'!
- Stop the legislation to 'restrict
basic
human rights' in the name of the 'protection
of the nation'!
- The deceptive and criminal nature
of the
arguments 'against the troop dispatch'
by
the Democratic Party and the Rengo
leadership
- The idealistic and criminal nature
of the
JCP policy for a 'UN-based assistance
for
reconstruction'
(2) Denounce the Rengo leadership submissively
responding to the capitalist offensive
for
performance-based forms of payment!
- Deceits in Rengo's slogan of 'Ensure
the
wage curves!'
- A full assistance to the capitalist
changes
in the form of payment
(3) Smash the measures for restructuring!
- A full cooperation in restructurings
under
the pretext of 'job security'
- The farcical nature of JCP demands
for
'rules of work'
[4-5]
A fictitious broadcasting: the Saddam Hussein
Trial as his platform of exposure
- Saddam's arraignment has begun.
- Who gave the WMD to Iraq?
- Gorby's support, an unpardonable
betrayal
- The senior and junior devils attacked
Iraq
- 'Causes' of the war entirely given
the
lie
- Brutalities by the Crusaders
- May God judge war criminal Bush!
[6] Labour front
Government-run 'polytechnic centres': the
job training schools planned to be reorganized
into independent agencies
- Everything expressed by borrowed
words
from English
- What are called job trainings
- Reorganization of the ministry-run
centres
into independent agencies
Kindergarten kids forced to sing wartime
military songs
- 'Patriot education' escalated in today's
war-time situation
Topics 'Don't be puffed up!' The Rengo president
making a show of protesting the capitalist
proposal of lower wages
[7]
Stop the ASDF main unit leaving for Iraq
from Komaki base!
- Workers and students from the Tokai region
protesting in front of the main gate (11
Jan.) Pic. left.
Militant students protesting the repairs
of a high-speed nuclear breeder
- Together with 700 workers and residents
against the planned resumption of the operation
(6 Dec.) Pic. right.
Columns
- Sleep, drugs, and money: for GIs mentally ill
- 'South America is the safest in the world': Yankee-phobe 'measures against terrorism'
by Brazil
[8]
The chairman of Zengakuren speaks
- Against the mobilization of the Japanese
arm to Iraq, against the revision of
the
Constitution, Zengakuren fights in
the forefront.
- In opposition to the Democratic Party
shouting
for the Constitutional revision and
the Japanese
Communist Party joining in the 'anti-terrorism'
chorus.
Resolutions for New Year (4)
- JRCL Media Industrial Workers' Committee
- JRCL Small and Medium Enterprise-Related
Workers Committee
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No. 1802 (January 19th Issue)
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Stop the Japanese army mobilized to Iraq!
No cut in wages! For a uniform raise!
Win a militant advance of the spring
labour
offensive 2004!
JRCL Central Workers' Orgburo
I. Bankruptcy of the US-UK military administration
in Iraq and the dispatch of the Japanese
state army
1. The Bush Empire suffering from the
bankruptcy
of the occupation
2. Participation in the war and the
dispatch
of the state army finally launched
by the
Koizumi government
3. Rapid intensification of neo-fascist
reactions
- Preparation for revision of the Constitution
- Attempts to form and strengthen today's
system of national mobilization
- Deprivation of basic rights under
the pretext
of 'protection of the nation'
- Forcible reorganization of administrative
structures of governments under the
pretext
of 'administrative and financial reforms'
II. Failure in the 'Koizumi reform' and the
deepening crisis of the Japanese economy
- Revisions of Labour codes against
workers
- 'Economic recovery': falsity by the
government
- Takenaka-led 'structural reform'
having
plunged the Japanese economy into the
bottomless
pit
(To continue.)
[4]
The world's severest exploitation system
of workers of Toyota
1. Groups of specialists organized
in factories
for 'improvement'
2. 'The Toyota system of "Kaizen"
does not cause intensified labour'?
3. A newly introduced way to cope with
troubles
[5]
Fight back against the closure of a Takefu
Matsushita factory with the whole 1000
workers
sacked!
The trick of a new company founded through
the 'Employee Buy Out' system
1. 70% workers sacked for shifting
the production
of Matsushita motors to China
2. An 'employee-invested company' newly inaugurated:
in fact, a temporary measure before
the complete
shift of production
3. All bills of red notes in management
shifted
onto the workers
[6]
No to the Emperor's visit to Okinawa!
Marxist Students' League - Okinawa Prefectural
Committee
- Emperor's visit to the southern Islands
and its intention
- Overthrow the Koizumi government
dispatching
the troops and building a national
mobilization
system!
23 Dec. A mass rally held against the revision
of the Fundamental Law of Education
- 4000 people rallied, smashing the
attempted
division of struggle by the official
leaderships
in teachers' unions
[7]
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No troops to Iraq! Nationwide
- Okinawa (25 Dec.):
A trade union based rally in front
of an
SDF base.
(Pic left upper)
- Osaka (19 Dec.)
- Sapporo (20, 26 Dec.)
Militant students protesting against
the
local LDP office.
(Pic. left lower)
- Kanazawa (23 Dec.)
- Fukuoka (14 Dec.)
[8]
Resolutions for New Year (3)
- JRCL Chugoku Regional Committee
- JRCL Metal Industrial Workers' Committee
- JRCL Heavy Industrial Workers' Committee
- Tokyo Antiwar Workers' Conference
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No. 1801 (January 12th Issue)
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Stop the dispatch of the Japanese army to
Iraq!
Oppose the occupation of Iraq by the US-UK
coalition forces!
Now is the time to advance the revolutionary
antiwar struggle
in solidarity with fighting Muslim
people!
JRCL Central Students' Orgburo
Block the dispatch!
Militant workers and students fighting
in
front of the ASDF Komaki base (24 Dec.)
I. Burning struggles by Muslims and the bankruptcy
of the US-led military administration
A. The Japanese army dispatched to
a battlefield
for the first time after the WWII
B. Bush's Empire attempting to break
through
the crisis of defeat
1. An upsurge of anti-American guerrilla
struggles
- Captured Saddam starting to reveal
'America's
crimes'
2. Measures for breakthrough by the
militarist
empire as the 'sole superpower'
- The US occupation forces desperately
carrying
out guerrilla hunts
- The 'Iraqification' policy in deadlock
- Internal strife within the Bush administration
3. Oppositions intensifying over the
'Iraqi
reconstruction'
- Wavering in the French-German-Russian
line
C. The crisis of the opposition movement
in Japan
II. Advance struggles against the Iraqi
war,
against the security alliance and against
the neo-fascist Koizumi government!
A. Oppose the Democratic Party and
the Rengo
leadership helping the planned revision
of
the Constitution!
B. Denounce the central leadership
of the
JCP asking for a 'UN-based Iraqi reconstruction'!
C. Rise in the coming united action
on 18
Jan.!
- No troops to Iraq!
- Advance in solidarity with Muslim
people
bravely fighting against the US-led
military
administration!
- Struggle in opposition to the abandonment
of the anti-Security Alliance struggle
- Smash neo-fascist reactions by the
Koizumi
administration!
[4-5]
Create a struggle to oppose the contemporary
religious-ethnic war!
1. The 'unjust war' to be exposed
- The Saddam trial: a double-edged
sward
- 'The advance of freedom': falsity
2. A religious-ethnic war between the contemporary
crusade and Islam
- The double-standard policy by Yankee
imperialism
- Islamic revolts furiously burning
- The Middle East as a Balkan in the
21st
century
3. Tragedy in the 'age of de-ideologization'
- Revival of 'Gods' in the godless
age
- A turn in the contemporary history
- For a creative application of Marxism
[6-7]
Resolutions for New Year (2)
- JRCL Hokkaido Regional Committee
- JRCL Kyushu Regional Committee
- JRCL Hokuriku Regional Committee
- JRCL Prefectural / Municipal Workers' Committee
- JRCL Telecommunication Workers' Committee
- JRCL Chemical Industrial Workers' Committee
- JRCL Social Service Workers' Committee
- JRCL Traffic and Transportation Workers'
Committee
[6-7]
No troops to Iraq: nationwide
Militant students and workers fighting against
the inauguration ceremony of the Air Self-Defence
Force unit
- 24-26 Dec., in front of the ASDF Komaki
base, calls of anger against the prime minister
and the defence minister attending to lead
the ceremony (Pic. on the first page)
'Stop The Ground SDF leaving for Iraq'
- 2000 workers and students besieging the
GSDF Northern Army Asahikawa base in Hokkaido
after a trade union-based rally, 14 Dec.
(Pic. left bottom)
Zengakuren protesting against the Defence
Agency
- Denouncing the dispatch of the ASDF advance
unit, 26 Dec., Tokyo (Pic. left above)
Zengakuren struggling against the dispatch
- Kobe (9 Dec.), Kagoshima (9 Dec.),
Osaka
(13 Dec.)
JRCL leaflets arousing supportive responses
at a regional rally based on JCP-led trade
unions, 8 Dec., Nagoya
- JCP cadres wavering before the criticism
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