Weekly Kaihoh / Liberation
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* English edition is not available. Japanese
only.
No. 1830 (August 2 Issue)
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Fight in solidarity with Muslim people
struggling for smashing the US occupation
and
for overthrowing the puppet government!
- The puppet government of US imperialism
on the verge of crisis
- The collapse of the US 'coalition
of the
willing'
- The US-Japan military alliance strengthened
in the name of 'war on terrorism'
- The Koizumi government ambitious
to leap
into a 'nation that can wage war'
- Rally in the 42nd International Antiwar
Assembly
[2]
What lies behind the recent arrests of 'suspected
snipers at the former National Police Agency
Chief'
- Former Aum cultists arrested 9 years
later
after the incident
- Suspicions about the arrests revealed
by
a police-related scholar
- Power struggles over the reorganization
of the violent apparatuses of Japan
beiween
the US and Japan
- Fight back against the strengthening
of
the repressive order under the pretext
of
'war on terrorism'
A book written by a erstwhile stock trader
advocating against Yankee culture
- The truth of 'Koizumi reform' revealed
by /Japan who cannot refuse it/
- 'Reforms' by successive Japanese
governments
following America's demands to Japan
- Disgusts against Anglo-Saxons 'who
have
the interests in competition for winning
Every 15 minutes:
- The increasing number of suicides
for the
6 consecutive years
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- 'Straightforward exchanges of opinions' between South Korean President
No Moo-hyung and the Japanese poodle of Bush
- Obituary Yaceck Kuron: the frustrated advocate for 'revolution
for workers' self-control'
- 'Arrested bombers of Madrid trains are police
agents': a truth-finding committee inaugurated
by Spanish politicians
- 'What a thing for players to say his owners!':
an arrogant saying against the players' union by the boss of the Japanese baseball leagues,
a former leader of the JCP
- China: hometown of wolves
[4-5]
Neo-fascist reorganization of the national
education: what to be brought about by the
Tokyo Governor's 'education reform'
I. A destructive reorganization of
the education
in prefectural / municipal schools
II. His ideology of 'education reform'
- Statism: 'education as part of the
governing
act'
- Talent-first: separation between
kids 'with
and without talents'
- Market supremacism: 'introduction
of competitiveness
into education'
III. Changing demands for education
from
the monopoly capitalist class
VI. The abyss of the neo-liberalist
reform
1 A copy of the US-made 'New Public
Management'
- Pressure on schools to compete with
each
other
- Introduction of a 'school management
system'
- A coercive control based on the principle
that 'good work will be rewarded and
bad
work punished'
- Americanization of the education
system
(To continue)
[6] Labour Front
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back! (in the end of the 13 consecutive series)
- Smash the restructuring in the postal
service!
Rebuild our trade union as a fighting
union!
Fight back against the restructuring and
the extreme intensification of labour in
national hospitals!
- Workplaces deteriorated after the
reorganization
into independent agencies
- Fight by overcoming the distorted
guidance
by the leadership!
No to 80000 sackings of postal workers! Sentiments
growing for fight-back against the industrial
patriotic movement!
- 20 percents voted against the chairman
elected for the first time after renaming
the union as JPU (Japan Postal Union)
from
- 'The central leadership is an accomplice
of the restructuring!'
- Criticisms levelled against the leadership
helping the reationalization
- Voices demanding the pullout from
Iraq
- Win a militant rebirth of the postal
workers'
union!
Topics 'labour divides' expanding rapidly
[7]
I will develop my workplace activities!
- Encouraged by my senior colleague
- Impressed with it that our activities
are
underlain by the theory of organizing
praxis
for mass movement and the creation
of forms
of vanguard organization on the basis
of
and through the medium of the former
Reading Kuroda
- 'Renaissance of Marxism in the 21st
century'
- Participation in student movement
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No. 1829 (July 26th Issue)
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Smash the offensives for Constitutional revisions
and neofascistic reactions
under today's Imperial Rule Assistance
Association!
Build a battlefront against the war, the
military alliance
and Constitutional revisions!
- Results of the elections: people's
angers
erupting against the participation
in the
'multinational forces' and the negative
revision
of the pension system
- Overthrow the Koizumi government
rushing
for strengthening the imperialist alliance
and Japan's military aggrandizement!
- Power struggles intensifying within
the
ruling class
- Denounce the central leadership of
the
Democratic Party assisting the Constitutional
revision!
- Expose the bankruptcy in the current
JCP
line for revised capitalism
The central and regional meetings of the
Antiwar Assembly will be held on the same
day, August 1st (Sunday) in Tokyo, Sapporo,
Kanazawa, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka and Okinawa.
[2]
 No to the major military drills!
- Stop the LCAC [landing craft, air cushion]!
Zengakuren Hokkaido struggling at the site
of the beach together with 1000 workers from
regional trade unions (6 July) Pic. left
No participation in the multinational forces!
- Antiwar Walk by Osaka students (4
July)
Denounce the government covering up its trial
cost calculation for a direct disposition
of nuclear wastes!
- Oppose a pluthermal operation! Oppose
the
building and operation of nuclear reprocessing
facilities in Rokkasho Village!
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- A paranoid president: terror-dependent
- A counter 'holy war': missionaries in Iraq
- The forced immigrants theory of Koreans in
Japan is for a 'persecution-maniac identification'?:
a fallacious condemnation
- A new Europe declining in the parliament elections
- Games in Athens: for security
[4]
Introduction of a 'cell production system'
in an engine-manufacturing branch
Shipbuilding and machine-manufacturing
monopolies:
an attempt to survive
- From a linear 'tact production system'
to a 'cell production system'
- Extremely intensified labour
- The number of days for assembly reduced
by half with minor augmentation of
workers
- Workers controlled by data
- Extremely hard work imposed on 'line
keepers'
- 'Hurry to hand over your parts!'
- Workers forced to compete over individual
efficiency
- International competition over engines
for electric dynamos
- For organizing a fight-back from
workplaces
[5]
Massacres by Sharon and struggles by Palestinian
radicals
(Continued from the previous issue)
2. The declining Palestinian Authority
and
Palestinian radicals strengthening
their
cooperation
- Hamas: aiming to build a united front
for
'liberation of the whole Palestinian
land'
- Struggles based on an uninterrupted
two-stage
strategy
- Pro-American elements within the
Fataha
organization attempting to oust Arafat
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade carrying
out their
armed operations
[6] Labour Front
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.12
- A day of midnight duty
- Voices of colleagues
8 million US workers turned 'exempts'
- Authorization of overtime work with
no
pay
Topics 'Throw him out even before recovery!': US
corporations 'oppressing medical expense'
[7]
A Regular Convention of Hokkaido Teachers
Union: energies against the Iraq War and
the Constitutional revision
No to the reactionary policies by the ministry
and the prefectural board of education!
Militant workers struggling in spite
of oppressions
from above
- The leadership pressed from below
to break
with the central DP leadership helping
reactionary
revisions of the Constitution and the
Fundamental
Law of Education
- Criticisms growing against the leadership
giving irresponsible pieces of guidance
- Militant workers criticising leaders
for
simply proposing 'better alternatives'
for
'ideal images of schools'
- Denouncing 'guidance' from leaders
around
the national flag and anthem: exchanges
among
workplace protests organized from below
- Expand the battlefront against revisions
of the Constitution and the Fundamental
Law
of Education! Advance antiwar struggles
against
the Iraq War!
NTT to cut 110,000 jobs: a suicide of a worker
in a lunch break
- The managerial and trade union leaders
ordering the colleagues to keep silence
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- Topos and Praxis
- K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
- 'Nihilism and the Will for Peace', Peace and Revolution in the Contemporary
Age
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No. 1828 (July 19th Issue)
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August 1st: 42nd International Antiwar Assembly
Advance antiwar struggle against the Iraq
War!
Denounce the degeneration of the official
leadership!
Read the Overseas Appeal
- Burning flames of struggles to kick out
the occupation forces and
to overthrow the Allawi government
as a puppet
of US imperialism
- Bush and Blair in death throes
- Japanese imperialism rushing to be
'a nation
that can wage war'
- Expose the degeneration of the central
leaderships of the DP and the JCP!
- For revolutionary antiwar struggle!
The central and regional meetings of the
Assembly will be held
on the same day, August 1st (Sunday)
in Tokyo, Sapporo, Kanazawa, Nagoya,
Osaka,
Fukuoka and Okinawa.
[2]
Stop the Waseda University authority repressing
Students' Self-Governing Associations on
the occasion of the faculties' reorganization
into 'academic institutes'!
Marxist Student League - Waseda University
Branch
No to the planned foundation of 'academic
institutes' for an autocratic order by the
current president!
- Students' protests that smashed schemes
to derecognize the Students' Association
in the Faculty of Social Science
- Offensives to annihilate antiwar
peace
movement
- Reactionary nature of the JCP-led
campaign
demanding 'a reform reflecting intentions
of students'
- Fight back under the manner against
the
neo-fascist reorganization of education!
Aichi University Students' Self-Governing
Associations
- 1000 students meet to resolve 'against
the Iraqi occupation' (10 June)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- 'Reinstatement of fathers': a coercive security order schemed by the
neofascist-led Tokyo government under the
guise of a 'grass-root campaign'
- The end of the end: a split of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- What the Greek government wants to conceal: a historical anti-US sentiment
of the nation
No to the intensification of the coercive
security order!
- 'Leaders of al-Qaeda hiding in Japan'?
[4]
The JCP bureaucrats dreaming of a 'democratization
of Iraq' as a 'true transfer of the sovereignty'
1. A complete failure in their UN-dependent
line
- Tricks to cover up the failure
- A pragmatic revision of their alternatives
2. 'For a building of a self-reliant,
independent
nation'?: a farce
- Opposition to the struggles by Iraqi
people
- A fallacy of 'democratization of
Iraq'
[5]
Massacres by Sharon and struggles by Palestinian
radicals
1. The Sharon government attempting
to turn
the whole Palestine into a ghetto
- A grave massacre in Rafa: the Operation
Rainbow
- Destruction oh buildings under the
pretext
'to find a secret tunnel'
- A demonstration with no arm attacked
by
missiles
- Mounting condemnations from the rest
of
the world and pressures by the Bush
administration
- Sharon's 'last bet' in consideration
of
a post-Bush development
(To be continued)
[6] Labour Front
Storms of restructuring in Okinawa
- Outcries from workers in public services
- Pressed into early retirements and
psychological
illness
- Fight back against privatisations
of public
facilities, sacking and forcible redeployments!
- Fight in opposition to the 'public
servants
bashing' by the mass media!
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.11
- 'A combined delivery of the normal and
the express to reduce labour time'?: Nonsense!
Postal Workers' Union National Convention: propaganda to reveal the JP plan of 80,000
sackings
Topics TOYOTA with 1012 yen net profit and the
increasing cases of mental disease: Trade
union leaders fearing the 'declined competitiveness'
together with capitalists
[7] Mitsubishi Motor Co.
Cover-ups of defects exposed one after another
and successive accidents
Fight back against the mass sacking
to survive
a managerial crisis!
- Announcement of factory closures
and 11
thousands sackings
- What has caused the crisis
- Fight back against the victimization
of
workers!
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- Anthropology
- 'Marx's Theory of Alienation' included
in the Selected Early Writings of Kan'ichi Kuroda Vol.1
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No. 1827 (July 12th Issue)
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Stop the perpetuation of the occupation
of
Iraq!
Advance antiwar struggles
in solidarity with Iraqi people fighting
to overthrow the puppet government!
- 'Transfer of the sovereignty': a
farce
- Surging resistance against the puppet
government
- French and German rulers against
the 'Greater
Middle East Project'
- The Koizumi government joining SDF
troops
in the 'multinational force'
42nd International Antiwar Assembly: August
1st
Central Meeting in Tokyo: Asakusa Kokaido,
opening 12:00;
Regional Meetings in Sapporo, Kanazawa, Nagoya,
Osaka, Fukuoka and Okinawa.
Read the Overseas Appeal
[2]
Kanazawa University students march against
the war (20 Jun)
- 'No to Japan's participation in a
multinational
force!'
Militant workers struggle in a peace meeting
sponsored by the regional Rengo leadership (Okinawa, 21 June)
- Angers grow against the labour aristocrats
approving the Iraqi occupation
Stop the enactments of the law to cope with
high-tech crimes and the legislation of the
'crime of complicity'
- The Cyber Crime Treaty initiated
by the
Bush administration
- Police to be authorized to copy and
record
any kind of data
- Denounce the attempt to strengthen
the
security order in the name of 'counter-terror
measures'
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- The exercise of the state's right to collective
defence stressed by Koizumi
- Mysterious developments of the shooting incident at Shibuya underground
station
- A Japanese popular uprising 120 years ago and today's votes for the JCP: imprudent
association by labour bureaucrats in the
JCP
- IC tips everywhere: IC-equipped roads to guide peoplec then
people to be surveyed
[4-5]
'A third revision of the constitution' advocated
by the evil demagogue: Secretary General
of the ruling LDP Abe Shinzo desperate
to
achieve the dream of his granddad
1. Boasting himself the flag bearer
of Constitutional
revisionists
2. Shouting for 'a third revision of
the
constitution'
3. Rushing to 'a true liquidation of
postwar
Japan'
4. Compiling grotesque demagogueries
and
tricks
[6] Labour Front
No to the mass punishment against teachers!
- 1500 education workers gather at
a rally
initiated by the three teachers' unions
in
Tokyo against the coercive allegiance
to
the national flag and anthem
'A special assistance education' initiated
by the ministry: discrimination and exclusion
of disabled students
- A neo-fascist type of Social Darwinism
Topics A mass restructuring continued in the 'good
sales': electric monopolies pressed
by Asian
companies
[7] Postal workers
No to the mass sacking planned against of
80000 workers!
Denounce the leadership cooperating
in the
restructuring!
JRCL Postal Workers' Committee
- Again a colleague killed
- Fight back against the major rationalization
in the postal service!
- No to the 'future declaration' as
a 'cooperation
declaration for the restructuring'!
- Oppose the Iraqi occupation in solidarity
with Iraqi people!
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.10
'Make ends meet by side work!' Postal
transport
workers deserted
- Deliberate liquidation for sacking
the
whole personnel
- Mass reduction in wages and holidays
- Leaders of the Postal Workers' Union
deserting
workers in the transport division
[8]
Overseas Appeal for the 42nd International
Antiwar Assembly in Japan
click to read
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No. 1826 (July 5th Issue)
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Withdraw the Japanese military
as an accomplice in the occupation
of Iraq!
Fight in solidarity with Iraqi people
rising up for overthrowing the puppet government
of US imperialism!
- Flames of anti-American resistance
expanding
- Bush's setback in the 'transfer of
the
sovereignty' and the 'Broader Middle
East
Project'
- Poodle Koizumi's attempt to incorporate
the Japanese military into a 'multinational
force'
- Overcome the official opposition
movement
revealing the fallacy of its 'UN dependence'!
[2]
Antiwar demonstrations nationwide
- Nagoya (13 June): militant workers
and
students march against the occupation
of
Iraq and against the US-Japan military
alliance,
denouncing the JCP immersed in the
election
campaign
- Osaka (13 June): 'Stop the Japanese
military
participating in a multinational force!'
Angers of workers and students resound
the
streets
- Okinawa (15 June): a trade union-based
rally against the enactment of the
emergency-related
- Kagoshima (11 June): 'No to the emergency-related
bills!' Local students march
- Sapporo (19 June): 'No SDF participation
in a multinational force!' Students
from
Hokkaido University protest against
the regional
LDP office
[3]
Fight to stop the successive military drills
in Hokkaido!
Marxist Student League Hokkaido Regional
Committee
- Practical drills, mobilizing units
due
to Iraq
- The global redeployment of the US
forces
and the strengthening of the US-Japan
joint
operation system
- The miserable situation of the official
peace movement and struggles by militant
workers and students
- Denounce the DP and JCP leadership
distorting
the protest into an election campaign!
- Fight together aiming to repeal the
US-Japan
Security Treaty!
[4]
No to introduction of electronic clinical
records into public hospitals!
No to extreme intensification of labour!
1. Intensification of labour and confusions
of medical labour process caused by
the electronization
of clinical records
- Terrible over-time work with no pay
- Increasing danger of medical accidents
- 'No time afforded to see the face
of a
patient!'
- 'Paperless'?
- 'Filmless'?
2. Transformation in the medical labour
process
- Doctors / Nurses / Pharmacists /
For patients
3. 'Information-based reform in the
medical
service' by Tokyo prefectural office
according
to the medical policy of the central
government
- 'Information-based reform' and the
planed
introduction of a 'combined payment
system'
4. Denounce the official leadership
of trade
unions! Organize a fight-back from
workplaces!
[5]
Don't be killed by Koizumi's 'structural
reform'!
Breakthrough the miserable situation
of workplaces
at public employment security offices!
- Extremely Intensified labour
- 'Deregulations in employment' stressed
by the government
- Denounce the leadership helping the
intensification
of labour!
[6] Labour Front
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.9
Outside workers forced to be 'multifunctional'
(for delivery, sales and collection)
- Punished for a slightest mistake
- Workplaces confused by the new delivery
order
'Freeters' rapidly increasing
- 4.5 million part-timers of Japanese-type:
exploited and thrown away
Topics An increasing number of foreign workers:
exploited with no rights and low pay
[7]
Kaleidoscope 2004
- Sophistry used by the accomplice:
In Iraq,
'SDF not to incorporate into use of
force'
(?), 'under not unified command but
a unified
headquarters'(?)
Within the clutches of the Rothschilds
[8]
Reading Books
K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
- Full of pathos and logos
Before the Theory of Organization
- On my failure to understand each
internal
world of other comrades
Crimes of Security Police Seen in Infight-Guised
Attacks on the Leftwing
- Resentments and indignation
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No. 1825 (June 28st Issue)
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13 June, Tokyo
Workers and students demonstrate
against the Iraq War
Stop the Japanese military
participating in a 'multinational force'!
- 'Against the military alliance!'
Voices
of 900 marchers through the Shibuya
streets
- The US occupation no longer!
- Fight in solidarity with Muslim people
rising up against the interim government!
[2]
 Militant students struggle in front of the
Diet Building to stop the emergency-related
bills (Tokyo, 14 June)
- Denouncing the Democratic Party supporting
the enactment of the bills
Stop the Marine SDF drill on the water! (Osaka, 4 June)
- 1000 people at a trade union based rally
(Pic. Left)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Oil at a high price: Having counted their oil before they are
produced?
- China's 'scientific view of development': reasons why they are stressing a 'human-centred'
view
- Yesterday's terrorist bomber, today's puppet: Iyad Allawi as CIA agent
- Enemies inside: for the Secretary of Defence
[4-5]
Lessons from the people's uprising in Iraq:
the uprising led by Muqtada Al-Sadr,
its
significance and limitations
1. A popular uprising in Fallujah and
its
victory
2. Signs of a revolutionary united
front
3. The Al-Sadr faction in the forefront
of
people's struggles against the US occupation
- A 'premature' armed uprising
- Discontent to the Grand Ayatollah's strategy
of patiently waiting for a good opportunity
4. The strategy and tactics adopted by the
Al-Sadr faction
[6] Labour Front
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.8
A Japan Post version of the 'Toyota
system'
bankrupted everywhere: Mass delay in
the
New Year delivery by a local post office
- A 'Japan Post system of New Year
cards'
delivery' imposed on workers by the
local
post authority
- All burdens onto workers
The negative revision of the Worker Dispatching
Law:
dispatched workers used out and discarded
- A 23-year-old worker and his suicide
from
overwork
- A worker branded as an 'unexpectedly
bad
purchase'
Topics 'Worker dispatch to manufacturing industries'
Fight back against the harsh treatment by
monopoly capitalists!
[7]
Smash the mass punishment against teachers
by the Tokyo prefectural office for the national
flag and anthem!
JRCL Education Workers' Committee
- Coercion and punishment for the 'rising
sun' flag and the 'His Majesty's Reign'
anthem:
to force the students to pledge allegiance
to 'the state that can wage war'
- 'Training by order' for a forcible
conversion
of the teachers' conscience
- Let us build up a joint action from
below
in spite of the schemes to divide it
by social
democratic and Stalinist leaders in
trade
unions!
- Smash the 'training by border' for forcing
the teachers to obey 'the state that can
wage war'!
Fight back against 'the official order' for
'leading the students to sing the anthem'!
Denounce the leaders in the JTU and the Zenkyo
submissive to the neo-fascist reorganization
of education!
Let us advance a joint action to stop
the
revision of the Fundamental Law of
Education!
Propaganda to build a 'police state' for
surveying the nation
- Yomiuri Shinbun newspaper speaking
for
the government
[8]
Reading Kuroda's 'Organization and Human
Entity' [included in Kuroda's Thought on Revolution]:
importance felt keenly as to criticism and
self-criticism, comradely struggles in the
party
- Kuroda's indignation against Khrushchev's
'Stalin Criticism'
- What is a vanguard organization that
tolerates
the personality cult?
- Class awareness and the sense of
responsibility
- My fresh resolution
'The Song of Homeland' overwhelming the roaring
of warplanes
- The national pride shown by a Kurdish
film
director
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No. 1824 (June 21st Issue)
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No participation of the Japanese military
in a US-led multinational force!
Denounce the JCP central leadership
praising UN Resolution 1546 and
the 'transfer of the sovereignty'!
 - G8 Summit confirms the UN resolution approving
the US occupation
- The 'transfer of the sovereignty'
to a
US-puppet government
- A growing resistance against US imperialism
and the coalition forces
- Advance in solidarity with fighting
Iraqi
people!
[2]
Angry fists of students to the US embassy (Tokyo, 5 June)
(Pic. left)
- Stop the new UN resolution! No participation
of the Japanese military in a multi-national
force!
No to the maritime SDF drill! (Osaka, 4 June)
- Zengakuren Kansai closes in on war
vessels
A bloody state conspiracy on 2 June plotted
under the guise of 'internal strife within
a radical leftist sect'!
Smash attempts to intensify the repressive
security order in the name of 'measures
against
terror'
- The murder impassively committed
under
a police vigil
- The twin factions within the tiny sect
used again as tools by the CIA and the Japanese
intelligence
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Fearing another hundreds of Charles Jenkins
in Iraq: why the US force 'mistakenly' fired at a
wedding party
- A hired president in Georgia: Over a half of his salary comes from the
US
- What is called 'scientific risk research'
on the imported beef: 'Paying 200 billion yens for saving a life'
is 'to ruin the country'?
- Honorific expressions peculiar to the Japanese language and their
latest transformations
[4] North Korea
A desperate attempt to prolong the autocratic
rule by Kim Jong Il: on the latest Shino-Korean
talk
1. Imploration to China and South Korea
2. Trends to a 'Korean federation'
3. An impending economic catastrophe
and
collapse of the regime
[5] JukiNet [national online of resident registries]
Nine months on from the expanded operation:
troubles in succession
1 Leaks and falsifications of personal
data,
new ID cards for less than 0.1 % of
the population,
etc.
2 What is called a multi-purpose operation:
for covering up the failure
3. Smash the building of a national
surveillance
and control system!
[6] Labour Front
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.7
Computerization of the office work
for postal
savings service causing a mess
- Workers under extreme pressures
- No sooner than its introduction,
the new
system troubled
- Defective is the very system!
- Denounce the trade union leaders
justifying
their acceptance!
Transmutation of kids: distresses to
education
workers
- Kids in these days: restlessness
/ changes
in playing / declining strength for
daily
lives
- Embodiments of the contradictions
in the
contemporary society
- Angers from teachers against educational
policies of the government neglecting
the
realities
Topics 'Get new customers in the evening!' A flextime
system introduced in the sales work for postal
insurance
[7]
The CAP [Contract of all partners] system in Daiei retailing capital: a drastic
reorganization of the forms of employment
and payment -
Fight back against victimization of
workers!
- Dismantlement of the current form
of employment
based on the lifelong employment system
- New systems for personnel management
and
assessment on the basis of 'performance'
- Reorganization in the wage system:
from
seniority to qualification
[8]
Chinese farmers in miseries: a latest best-seller
in the country describing the dark side of
China's 'reform and open' policy
- A long piece revealing the realities
of
poor farmers
- 'Unimaginable poverty and hardship'
- Why the lower-ranked bureaucrats
plunder
the farmers
- Illusions for a solution of the 'three
agricultural problems' by the Hu-Wen
leadership
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No. 1823 (June 14th Issue)
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No to the major restructuring!
No to the deadly intensification of
labour!
Fight back despite oppressions
by the official leadership
supporting for the Koizumi-led 'structural
reform'!
- Smash the mass punishment upon teachers
against the 'rising sun' flag and the
'reign
of the emperor' anthem by neo-fascist
Tokyo
Governor Shintaro Ishihara!
- Sacking and intensified labour driving
workers deaths and suicides from overwork
- In opposition to oppressions by labour
aristocrats! Fires of anger from workplaces!
June 13th United Antiwar Actions of Workers
and Students
- Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya
[2]
A Peace Forum rally against the emergency-related
bills (28 May, Tokyo)
- 'Denounce the Democratic Party approving
the bills!' 2500 workers rallied
No to the emergency-related bills!
- Students from Hokkaido Univ. protest
(20
and 22 May, Sapporo)
- Students from Kobe Univ. protest
against
the prefectural LDP office (20 May,
Kobe)
No occupation of Iraq!
- An 'Antiwar Walk' by Kanazawa Univ.
students
(29 Apr, Kanazawa)
Stop the Aegis-equipped war vessel
departing
for the Middle East!
- Students from the Kyushu region protest
at the port (17 May, MSDF Sasebo base)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Rapes and murders: a countdown before the collapse of the Hakenkreuz army
- Pension reform: premiums going up benefits down
- SILMID: the latest South Korean movie invoking
the erased history
- Fahrenheit 9/11: chats behind the scene
- A 'pro-Constitutional revision' of the Constitution???
[4-5]
Roh Moo Hyun's South Korea on the road to
the 'reunification'
A historic victory of the Uri Party and its
shock waves
1. A drastic change in the political
structure
of South Korea
- Cold-war 'shadows' swept off
- A destructive reorganization of the
traditional
'east-west' confrontation within South
Korea
- A surging aspiration for the 'reunification'
and the latest economic growth
2. Uplift of Anti-US or US-phobic nationalism
- Machinations by Yankee imperialism
to depose
Roh Moo Hyun
- A growing tendency to 'independence
from
the US'
3. Latest development of Roh's 'policy
for
prosperity'
The growing Chinese dragon exhausting its
oil resources
[6] Labour Front
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.6
Workers in savings divisions pressed
by the
'zero trouble' order
- 'Don't leave the office before finding
out the cause of your mistake!'
NTT: No more victim!
- 60 deaths in every year from overwork
and
suicide
- Workers pressed for more sales
- 'Trainings' during recesses
- Let us fight together
Topics A ministerial report lying: '157 deaths'
a year from overwork, '40 deaths' from suicides
[7] Zentei [Postal Workers' Union]
'Declaration for building the future' with
no workers' future: the central leadership
intending a self-destruction of the
trade
union
1. What they call 'a new postal workers'
movement under the new Agency'
2. The 'people first' principle for
tricking
workers
3. A 'labour movement serving the business
and the state'
4. Attempts to dismantle the class
unity
of workers
[8]
A tribute to the memory of the late Prof.
Amino Yoshihiko
- What attract me in his works
- Shocked by Kuroda's criticism of Amino
in Topos and Praxis
- An independent historian who loved
Marx
all his life
I do my best to organize a revolutionary
nucleus in my workplace!
- A year on from my becoming a wageworker
- Just a word changing the atmosphere
of
the workplace
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No. 1822 (June 7th Issue)
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June 13th
United Antiwar Actions of Workers and
Students
Now is the time to advance antiwar struggles
against the US occupation of Iraq!
Expose the deceptive change by the JCP central
leadership
stressing its 'support to the Iraqi
people
for building their own country'!
JRCL Central Students' Orgburo
1. The total bankruptcy of the US occupation
and oppositions intensified over the
'transfer
of the sovereignty'
- Death agony of the Bush administration
- The upsurge of anti-US resistance
and its
development towards a united front
- Oppositions by the 'Franco-German
axis'
stressing the UN's intervention
- The Koizumi government ambitious
to metamorphose
Japan into 'a country that can wage
war'
- Confusions and weakness in the official
opposition movement and struggles by
the
revolutionary leftwing
2. Fight for a revolutionary advancement
of the Iraqi antiwar struggle!
- Denounce the Democratic Party of
Japan
helping the enactment of the emergency-related
bills!
- The JCP central leadership changing
its
alternative to a policy 'to support
the Iraqi
people for building their independent
country'
- Fight in solidarity with Muslim people
struggling for the Iraqi liberation!
[3]
Stop the emergency-related bills! 10000 rallied
in response to the call from transport-related
trade unions (Tokyo, 21 May)
- Denounce the passage through the
House
of Representatives!
- Let us advance joint actions to stop
the
Constitutional revision!
Stop the second contingent of the Japanese
Army to Iraq!
- Workers and students demonstrate
in Hokkaido
(Sapporo, 16 May)
May Day rallies
- Aichi: Supportive responses to the
JRCL
call 'Fight in solidarity with Iraqi
people!'
- Hokkaido: Angers seething against
the worst
revision to the pension system
[4]
The Social Democratic Party of Japan: threatened
with extinction
- The party of Doi Takako's children
in its
last days
- Fallacious view of 'trends to peace'
- Tactics 'against the dispatch of
troops
to Iraq' with no opposition to the
US-Japan
military alliance
- Degeneration in its ideals 'pro-Constitution
and peace'
- Overcome the social democracy that
has
now gone bankrupt!
[5]
The Chechen president blasted to death as
a Russian puppet
Challenges to the Putin government
- Planted bombs under the royal box
- Bankruptcy in Putin's policy 'to
normalize
Chechnya'
[6] Labour Front
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.5
'Standing work' torturing postal workers
- 'My back hurts,' 'Blood goes down
to the
legs,' 'It's a torture!'
'Computerization of medical service' causing
its dehumanisation
Topics Panics on doctors and nurses: the introduction
of digitalized clinical records causing an
extreme intensification of labour
[7]
Stop the building of a new Marine base in
Okinawa!
JRCL Okinawa Prefectural Committee
- Forcible preparations stopped by
local
protests
- US military bases reorganized and
strengthened
as the fortress for the 'war on terror'
- Central and prefectural governments
have
started preparations
- Fight by overcoming the official movement
to demand 'reduction of bases'!
16000 people rallied to chain a US base in
Okinawa
(Pic above)
[8]
Reading Kuroda's Humanism and Marxism: 'Truly subjective forces' of peace movement
of today
- Limitations with humanist opposition
- How we should break through the limitation?
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No. 1821 (May 31st Issue)
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Fight to advance struggles
against the US occupation of Iraq and
against the US-Japan military alliance!
Stop the strengthening of the military alliance
under the pretext of
'war on terrorism' and 'threat from
North
Korea'!
- The defeated US forces imploring
Grand
Ayatollah Sistani for 'truce mediation'
- French and German power holders attempting
to strengthen the EU axis as opposed
to the
US
- The US-obedient government of Japan
desperate
'to retrieve the prestige' through
'talks
with North'
- Fight in solidarity with Muslim people
struggling for the Iraqi liberation!
[2]
Stop the emergency-related bills!
- Students' associations from the Tokyo
area
protest against the Diet and the US
embassy
(20 May)
In solidarity with Iraqi people fighting
in Fallujah!
- Militant workers and students in
Okinawa
demonstrate through the capital city
(29
April)
Zengakuren meet to welcome fresh members (Tokyo, 9 May)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Confession by an SDF officer back home:
'I don't want to go to Samawah again'
- Neo-con representatives confessing their failure
- 'Lurking security': intensified repression under the 'war
on terror'
- One of the released Japanese hostages: darkness in his personal history
Don't justify the dispatch of the Japanese
Army!
- The 'self-responsibility' theory
against
the released hostages for hunting 'anti-Japanese
elements'
[4-5]
Failure in the 'performance-based payment'
now obvious
The Japanese monopoly capitalists busy repairing
it
1. Self-acknowledgement of the failure
2. Revealed limitations in their evaluation
of 'ability and performance'
- Definition of the 'performance-based
principle'
- Material bases of its adoption
- Makeshift measures
- With no consideration from the viewpoint
of technological theory
3. A 'system of personnel and wages'
for
an extremely intensified exploitation
- Today's version of 'piece wages'
- Ways to evaluate 'performance'
- What they call 'wage system with
plural
bases'
[6] Labour Front
Series Postal workers in hell: We fight back!
No.4
- Blows of anger to the dark workplaces
The municipal version of restructuring in
Okinawa
- No to sacking, lower wages and destruction
of livelihood
Part-time workers exploited heavily
- Part-time workers occupying 90 %
in 'family
restaurants'
Topics Death of a 30-year-old system engineer from
over work for 88 hours a month: the bereaved
family files a suit against the trade union
as well as the managerial
[7]
Reports from local May Day rallies
- Osaka, Kanazawa and Fukuoka
[8]
Conflicts between China as the would-be
Asian
leader and 'militarist' Japan: over
the issue
of Senkaku / Diaoyu Islands
- The landing by Chinese 'civilians'
and
the strong measures in response by
the Koizumi
government
- A political bashing against 'minor Japan'
- Japan's isolation from the rest of
Asia:
irritations of the Koizumi government
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