Weekly Kaihoh / Liberation
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No. 1840 (October 18th Issue)
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24 Oct. Antiwar Actions
Don't make Japan
the US hub base for the 'war on terrorism'!
Denounce the Rengo leadership,
advocators of the Constitutional revision!
- The international donors conference
for
Iraq held in Tokyo: an attempt to support
the puppet government of the US
- Complete bankruptcy in the US occupation
- Death agony of the Bush administration
- Global 'transformation' of the US
forces
for the 'war on terrorism'
- Attempts to strengthen SDF forces
as the
Japanese military for war of aggression
- Against the war! Against the US-Japan
military
alliance! Against revision of the Constitution!
Advance the antiwar struggle!
Antiwar actions on 24 October in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya
[2]
Remove Futenma Air Station! Stop the
building
of a new US Marine base!
- 3500 people at a rally in Okinawa,
militant
students in the forefront (2 Oct.)
Denounce the US helicopter crash!
- Okinawa Kengakuren and Antiwar Youth
demonstrating
on Futenma Base (23 Sept.)
'Lift the ban on Japan's arms export!': the
recent report from Koizumi's advisory committee
- Intending to boost the plan of US-Japan
joint development of missile defence
systems
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Irregular heartbeats of Blair
- One after another Iraqi cities become no-go zones
- A 'black-box strategy' of the Japanese high-tech industry: showing
its decline
- 'Capability of intelligence gathering': of the 51st state of the US
[5]
Okada-led Democratic Party of Japan: proposing
revisions of the Constitution under the pretext
of 'respect for the UN Charter'
- With UN resolutions, 'Japan's use
of force'
unlimited
- Showing its inclination to 'independence
from the US'
- Attempts to refer to 'the UN Charter'
for
justifying revisions of the Constitution
- In the name of 'anti-bureaucracy',
proposing
a top-down-system headed by a Prime
Minister
- Denounce the Democratic Party and
Rengo
leadership, advocators of the Constitutional
revision
[6]
Collapse of the 'weekly 35-working-hour system'
in Germany
- German monopoly capitalists imposing
longer
working hours
- Imperialist inroads into Middle and
East
European countries
- A complete surrender of the GI Metal
leadership
- Defeat in its struggle for shorter
working
hours
- Schroeder's SDP government driving
forward
deregulations
[5] Labour Front
Jichiro's 75th Regular Convention: The leadership
starting to discard the war-renouncing Article
9 under the pretext of the need 'to discuss
the Constitution'
- Rengo president Sasamori publicly
proposing
a 'revision of Article 9'
- Angry voices against the historic
worst
Counsel from the Personnel Authority
- Leaders' proposal supporting the
introduction
of new personnel and wage systems based
on
ability and performance
- Fight against the 'municipal restructuring'!
Denounce the leadership supportive
for it!
Stop revision of the Fundamental Law
of Education!
2000 education workers and other people
rallying
at a national meeting despite the abandonment
of struggle by the JTU leadership
- Angers against the pointless keynote
report
- Three guest speakers calling on the
audience
to fight back, from their senses of
crisis
- Vigorous calls against the revision,
during
a demonstration
Topics Rapid increase of NEETs: reported by the
labour ministry only stressing measures for
capitalists
[7]
Thinking over the significance of the 'dialectic
between the organizing of mass movement and
the building of vanguard organizations'
- How this logic was constructed
- What I thought reading Kuroda's "1960
struggles against the Security Treaty
and
students' participation in politics'
- After reading again his Humanism
and Marxism
[8]
Reading K. Kuroda's Life and His Works
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No. 1839 (October 11th Issue)
24 Oct. United Antiwar Actions of Workers
and Students!
Stir up the flame of struggles
against the Iraq war,
the US-Japan military alliance and
the Constitutional revision!
JRCL Central Students' Orgburo
Oppose the continued US occupation of Iraq!
Pull out Japanese troops, accomplices in
the occupation!
Don't make Japan the hub base for the 'war
on terrorism'!
Stop revisions of the Constitution!
I. Muslim people's struggles surging against
US imperialism and the death agony
of the
militarist empire of America as the
'sole
superpower' in the world
- Elections in January 2005: no prospect
- The failed ambition to monopolize
the Iraqi
oil
- Planned 'transformations' of the
US Forces
for the 'war on terrorism'
II. Franco-German imperialism, Russia and China
in rivalry with the sole domination
by US
imperialism
III. The reshuffled Koizumi Cabinet rushing to
strengthen the US-Japan military alliance
- Collapse of the official peace movement
and the struggle by the revolutionary
leftwing
IV. Against the Iraq war! Against the US-Japan
military alliance! Stop the revision
of the
Constitution! Build a powerful struggle!
1. Expose the UN-dependent distortion
of
antiwar struggles by the central JCP
leadership!
- 'A process towards the recovery of
the
Iraqi sovereignty': a delusion
- The JCP alternative of 'UN-based
assistance
for the Iraqi people in building its
nation'
2 Fight now aiming to overthrow the
reactionary
Koizumi government! Advance the struggle
against the Iraq war and the military
alliance!
Stop revisions of the Constitution!
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- The same ghost-writer for W. Bush and Allawi
- 56 % of the kids ignorant of the heliocentric theory
- Japan vs. US: a war over the IC tip market
- Zimbabwe: an artificially bordered country on a map
- Is that a horror novel? Why I became a terrorist?
[4-5]
Japanese economy: in a critical situation
with the rising oil prices and the bank failures
1. An uneven 'recovery': aggravated
differences
2. Japanese monopolies seeking for
their
recoveries dependent on growing demands
from
China and exports to the US
3. Forcible major restructurings for
breakthrough
- Cell production systems
- Manufacturing of high-tech products
returning
to home
- Reorganization and selections of
banks
4. Simultaneous recessions impending
to the
US, Japan and China
[6]
2004 Counsel of the National Personnel Authority
proposing the worst revision in the wage
system for the civil service
- No basic raise, cuts in special allowance
for northern districts
- Considerable cuts in the basic pay
under
the pretext of 'appropriate distribution
among districts'
- Introduction of the 'performance-based'
wages
- Fight it back by denouncing the Jichiro
leadership supporting the revision
Topics 'Fab-less' manufacturing: tragedies caused
by the out-sourcing
[7]
Devastated medical service and intensified
labour in the name of 'managerial efficiency'
- Like scenes of The Modern Times
- Spread of MDCTs
- Excessive checkups for patients:
declined
technicality of doctors
- Intensified competitions among medical-related
capitals
- Reorganized forms of management of
public
hospitals
- Organize a fight-back from workplaces!
Nurses to be killed together with patients
- Public hospitals starting to seek
for profitability
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- "The Resolute Will to Revolutionization",
included in Selected Early Writings
of Kan'ichi
Kuroda
The recent flood in Fukui prefecture: Why
did the left bank of the river collapsed?
- Hardships of the sufferers
- Local authorities shifting the causes
to
the natural factors
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No. 1838 (October 4th Issue)
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Fight to overthrow the Koizumi government!
Oppose the continued US occupation of Iraq!
Oppose Japan's participation in the occupation!
Stop the strengthening of US military bases
in Japan!
Stop Japan's military build-up!
- Koizumi's scheme to get Japan's permanent
seat on the UN Security Council
- The bankrupted military occupation
and
the international isolation: the Bush
administration
in a dead impasse
- US forces reorganized and strengthened
for the 'war on terrorism'
- Fight to overcome the confused official
opposition movement!
[2]
Zengakuren: 74th Regular National Convention (17-18 July)
- Prepared to fight against the Iraq
war
and the Constitutional revision
- New Chairman and other leaders elected
Denounce the Tokyo prefectural board of education
issuing an official order for the Rising-Sun
flag and the Emperor's-Reign anthem!
- A new order to forcibly guide the
students
for 'standing up and singing in unison'
- A punitive training on all teachers
at
98 high schools where their students
did
not stand up for singing
- Fight back! Denounce the social-democratic
leadership abandoning the fight!
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- A pre-emptive defence strategy before criticism: even a 'desire' for WMD
can justify US invasion
- 100 years after the Russo-Japanese war: a Japanese socialist who called on Russian
comrades to fight together against the war
- A rare strike by 'mere baseball players' in Japan: Now,
it's mere workers' turn!
- A brave and a fool at the Yankee Stadium: a player from 'an Okinawa in the Caribbean'
and the Japanese prime minister
[4]
Chukaku-ha remnants: 'revolution of the party'?
[5]
Okada-led Democratic Party of Japan: raising
its banner of 'revision of the Constitution'
- Openly justifying Japan's use of
force
'as a sovereign right of the nation'
- In response to the employers' federation
moving to revision
- Internal strife between Okada and
Ozawa
- Denounce the Sasamori leadership
of Rengo
supporting the Democratic Party!
[6] Labour Front
Leaders of the Japan Post Workers Union fully
accepting the worst revision in the 'communication
rules'
- The revision for a 'speedy' completion
of restructuring measures
- 'Joint consultation systems' from
the top
to the bottom
- Fight for the rebirth of postal workers'
movement!
Harsh burdens shifted onto on workers: amid
the 'Osaka taxi war'
- Suicides, deaths from overwork, traffic
accidents ...
- More cars and cheaper rates: an overheated
competition
Topics Rapid increase of suicides from depression:
belated review of the standards of compensation
for industrial accidents
[7] Jichiroren [JCP-led Municipal Workers' Unions]
Jichiroren regular national convention: central
leaders distorting workers' struggles against
restructurings, the Iraq war and the Constitutional
revision
- 'Stop the Constitutional revision!'
An
order from above with no opposition
to the
Iraq war or the military alliance
- 'Build a steady workplace organization!'
Empty cries
JRCL leaflet for the convention Create waves against Iraq war, revision
of the Constitution and restructurings! Fight
from workplaces in spite of oppression by
JCP-affiliate leaders!
[8]
Poem: Oh, Chechnya!
Book Review: The Imperial Army's war experienced by
a private to be a writer
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No. 1837 (September 27th Issue)
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Advance struggles against the Iraq War
in solidarity with fighting Muslim people!
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30000 people at a rally in Ginowan,
600 OIU students with the red flags
of their self-governing association |
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No Futenma Air Station!
The huge banners of OIU students encouraging
the rally |
Denounce the Putin government murdering people
in North Ossetia!
Stop the bloody repression on the Chechen
struggle for independence!
- Exposed limitations of the coercive
FSB
regime
- Flames of Islamic revolts burning
all over
the world
- Drastic changes in the international
dynamics
and the unstableness in the Bush emperor
- The poodle government in crisis
[2] Okinawa
30000 people protesting the US helicopter
crash: 600 OIU students fighting in the forefront
(12 Sept.)
- A mass rally of protest was held at the
OIU ground by a sponsoring committee formed
of Ginowan City, OIU etc. Fighting students
from local universities stood in the forefront
in solidarity with militant workers after
developing campaigns of their self-governing
associations.
- Stop now US military drills for the Iraqi
invasion! The OIU Students' Self-Governing
Association holding a student rally prior
to the City-sponsored rally
Stop the building of the new Marine base
at Henoko!
- Protests against the preparatory
boring
(9 Sept.)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- After the female celebrities, a popular
comic hero: a comical trick to popularise the unpopular Japanese troops in Samawah
- A Korean writer's new novel: for a never erasable emotion of the nation
- Who attempted to poison a Russian writer
describing the 'unstoppable' Chechen war?
- 'China's low degree in civilization'? Ultra-nationalists feigning to be victims
[4]
A cyber alienation spoiling children: a juvenile
murder at an elementary school in the Kyushu
region
1. Causes for the incident
- Exchanges of words on the net, leading
to a 'murderous intent'
- Rivalries for exams, and hardships
of life
2. Structural deformities of the today's
education in Japan reflected on the
incident
- The 'virtual reality' confounded
with the
actual reality
- Isolated kids with no 'playing'
- Escalation in the talent / ability
first
education
- Difficulties in livelihoods under
Koizumi-led
'structural reforms' and a crisis in
home
education
'Teach the preciousness of life!',
the education
ministry agitating
- An arbitrary justification for revising
the Fundamental Law of Education
- Accusations from below by a struggling
education worker
[5]
Fight back against the intensification of
the repressive security order under the pretext
of 'counter-terror measures'!
Police bureaucracy attempting to build
a
Japanese CIA
- 'Outlines of Counter-Terror Measures'
announced
by the National Police Agency
- Intensification of the surveillance
system
of the nation for its control under
the pretext
of 'prevention of terrors'
- Reorganization and strengthening
of the
police system
- Overthrow of the Koizumi government
producing
'a nation that can wage war'!
[6]
Now at a hospital for the aged people: severe
labour imposed on nursing care workers
- Hospital wards reorganized for higher
profitability
- Wards redefined as 'special treatment
wards'
with no increase in the personnel
- Meal, evacuation, bath … too busy
to care
all
- A nurse redeployed for 'punishment'
- Let us break through the difficult
status
quo!
Topics 'A market-based examination' introduced
in the tender system by the Koizumi government:
a copy of the Anglo-American method of privatisation
[7]
'Nothing can be done after death!' Angers
emerging against the headquarters of
the
JCP-led National Teachers Union
- The central leadership depressed
by the
party's defeat in the latest elections
- Abandonment of the struggle against
the
punishment on teachers against the
national
flag and anthem
- Right-wing 'reforms' of the union's
national
research meeting for education
- The central leadership with no sense
of
crisis to Japan's participation in
the multinational
forces in Iraq
No to the planned end / cut in the special
allowance for civil servants in cold districts!
- By max 100-thousand yens per household
- Fight it out in spite of the betrayal
by
the central leadership!
[8] Review
Uzumebi: compiled interviews with Ouchi Tsutomu,
with no contents or visions
- Poor interviewers unable to make
critical
questions
- No investigation into Ouchi's study
on
state monopoly capitalism
- A devastated 'school'
- What to be taken over
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No. 1836 (September 20th Issue)
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Smash the postal privatization, four-way
split!
Fight back against the major restructuring
forced in the name of 'structural reform'!
- A finish in the 'structural reform'
led
by Koizumi and Takenaka
- Power struggles in the LDP intensified
over the privatisation of the national postal
service
- Attempts to dismantle the postal
savings
and the Kampo life insurance: pressed
by
American financial scavengers and the
national
Federation of Bankers Associations
- Rengo and JPU labour aristocrats:
full
cooperation in the restructuring
- Fight it back! Overcome the all-out
surrender
by the official leadership!
[2]
Denounce the Putin government committing
a massacre in North Ossetia!
- No to repression onto Muslim struggles
for independent Chechnya
Fight back against Tokyo Governor's decision
to adopt the ultra-nationalist school textbook!
- Fight against the imposition of the
rising-sun
flag and the reign-of-the-emperor anthem!
Exposures of secret police funds: what is
going behind the scene
- An attempt to reorganization of Japan's
police according to the US intention
[3]
Kaleidoscope 2004
- A 'stupid white' man but with the rising rate of approval
- Hell in Beslan
- A new Japanese novel titled 'Case Officer': stressing Humint for the CIA
Leaders in the Municipal/Prefectural Workers
Union praising the emergency-related laws
- 'Localities to lead responses to
an emergency'??
[4-5]
The four-way division and privatization of
the national postal system: A finish in the
Koizumi-led 'structural reform'
1. The planned division and privatisation
to victimize postal workers
- Koizumi, how many workers do you
kill!
2. Contents of the 'basic policy'
3. Internal power struggle intensified
within
the government and the ruling class
- A simple imitation of US neo-liberalism
- Realization of the economic interests
of
Japanese financial monopolies
- Disagreements and power struggles
4. Smash the 80000 sackings planned
before
the privatisation! Fight back against
the
major rationalization offensive!
Education in today's Britain is that in tomorrow's
Japan
- Schools without teachers, non-Shakespeare
English, 'bankruptcies' of PFI schools...
[6]
Hellish workplaces in the social insurance
service
- The performance-based principle
The forefinger is equivalent to the second
or the third finger?
- Compensation standards for industrial
accidents
revised to worse by the labour ministry
Aichi Prefecture: Japan's No.1 in the number
of deaths from industrial accidents
Topics A death from overwork only 50 days after
the employment: the publication industry
under a storm of rationalization
[7]
Schools in Osaka: fewer teachers than their
quota
- No teachers to fill a vacancy
- Difficulties in the transition to
a 'special
assistant education'
- Fight back against the decrease in
the
quota of regular teachers! No to the
intensification
of labour! Smash the prefecture's policy
'to curtail the personnel expenses'!
Fight
it back by overcoming the campaign
'to demand
more state budget' led by the leadership!
[8]
Reading books
Torture in the name of 'atonement': deceptions
seen in a book on 'the Kobe juvenile killer'
After reading the article, "What I have
thought of as working and learning"
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No. 1835 (September 13th Issue)
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Oppose the drastic strengthening of
the US-Japan
military alliance!
Pull out the Japanese troops from Iraq!
Stop the Constitutional revision!
- The Putin government shaken by Chechen
uprisings
- The US forces in Japan reorganized for
carrying out the 'war on terrorism'
- The government and the ruling class crying
for lifting the ban on arms export and revising
the Constitution
- Deceptive JCP bureaucrats giving no reference
to the Allawi government
[2]
Zengakuren struggle to stop the US nuclear
carrier Stennis (21 Aug)
- Protests on the water and in the
street
- Together with 1500 workers rallying at
a local trade-union rally
(Pic left lower)
Okinawa: Denounce the US helicopter crush!
- 2200 people at a protest rally near the
US base (21 Aug)
(Pics above and upper in the left)
[3]
To the 74th regular convention of Zengakuren!
- Let us build up a fighting line against
the Iraq war and the Constitutional
revision!
Kaleidoscope 2004
- The truth behind the stomach-ache of an Iraqi Muslim leader: the Japanese government taking too much
for granted
- Oil-rich Equatorial Guinea: another Gulf
- 'Counter-terror measures': eventually, a domestic passport system
[4-5]
A school is the epitome of today's Japanese
society: Now is the time for education and
municipal workers to rise up in unity
1. Life-hazard of kids seen in schools
- Kids who cannot 'play' and parents
who
have no inter-humanity
- Difficulties in relating to kids,
and to
parents
2. Japanese society reflected on kids'
growing
up
- Kids and their tragic realities
- Realities of parents worried about
bringing
up children in isolation
3. 'Education reform' proposed by Tokyo
Governor
Shintaro Ishihara: Destruction of 'juvenile
education'
- 'Tokyo Revolution in the mind' driving
kids and moms into impasse
- What is caused to kids by separations
by
the degree of progress and the worsened
rules
for teachers' redeployments
- Characteristic responses by Ishihara
approaching
the juvenile issues as those of security
- Reduction in the personnel for public
juvenile
halls and clubs
oclubs -related issues Responses charaCharaTo
Approaching
Fight back against the Tokyo Governor's decision
to adopt the ultra-nationalist textbook for
history
- Publicly praising the war of aggression
[6] Labour front
Denounce the leadership of Jichiro [Municipal/Prefectural
Workers' Unions] starting to desert war-renouncing
Article 9
- Denouncing the leaders moving towards
the
Constitutional revision
- Fight back against the planned mobilization
of workers for building a national
mobilization
system!
- No to negative revisions to the civil
service
system!
- Fight back against sackings, redeployments
and intensified labour!
- Fight back by overcoming the Jichiro-version
of the employer-employee consultation
line
Fight back against redeployments, dismissals
and intensified labour imposed on medical
workers!
Fight it by denouncing Jichiro leaders
ordering
the ranks to 'work hard in competition
with
private hospitals'!
- Drastic changes in the managerial
form
of public hospitals
- Intensification of labour
- Hell of electronic medical records
- The reason why the leadership fails
to
propose any tactics for fight back
[7]
Support Mitsubishi Motor workers in adversity!
- 'Employment troubles to ease': Toyota's
deception
- Workers forced into 'retirement from
personal
reasons'
- Labour aristocrats helping the restructuring
[8]
Reading Kuroda's books
- "Participation in Students' Movement",
included in Selected Early Writings by Kanichi Kuroda Vol. 1
- Anthropology
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No. 1834 (September 6th Issue)
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Against the Iraq war!
Against the US-Japan military alliance!
Against revision of the Constitution!
Fight in solidarity with Iraq people rising
up
to break the US occupation and to overthrow
the puppet government!
A Zengakuren boat struggling to stop
the
US carrier Stennis
entring Sasebo port in Kyushu (21 Aug)
- Setback in the US operation to wipe
out
the Mahdi Army
- The Bush driven into a corner
- Strengthening of the US-Japan military
alliance and the intensified attempt
to revise
the Constitution
- Build a battlefront to stop the Constitutional
revision, as stressing the position
against
the war and the US-Japan military alliance!
[2]
Stop the Stennis!
- Zengakuren struggle to stop the US
nuclear
carrier entering Sasebo port, together
with
local trade unions (21 Aug)
Nationwide student protests against the US
helicopter accident in Okinawa and the massacre
in Najaf!
- Tokyo (13 Aug), Nagoya, Osaka and
Kagoshima
(14 Aug)
See the JRCL statement on the accident
General meeting of students in Kokugakuin
University (10 July)
- Elected a militant leadership again!
- Decided a course against the Iraq
war and
oppressions on students' activities
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Scavengers again from America and their accomplices
- From subcontractors to subcontractors: an American chain of subcontract beyond
oceans
- The truth of the nuclear fallouts on pacific islands: revealed fifty years after
- Victimization by the occupation forces:
doubts emerging over the Iraqi guerrilla attack on two Japanese journalists
[4]
Stop Tokyo ward administrations planning
to introduce a new personnel system based
on job classes and ranks! Fight back against
intensified control and lower wages!
- Introduction of a job-and-rank based
system
under the guise of 'personnel employment
system'
- A drastic intensification of labour
management
- A sharp cut in wages of workers
- Redeployment and multiplied duties
- Fight back in opposition to the leadership!
In solidarity with workers in dust
collecting
divisions!
[5]
What I thought of hearing the news of the
nuclear accident in Mihama Nuclear Power
Plant
- Immediately
- The meaning
[6] Labour front
Fight back against the major restructuring
offensive by the Hokkaido prefectural authority!
- 50% reduction in personnel planned
- Outsourcing
- 'Plans for financial reconstruction'
based
on neo-liberalist ideas
- Fight back in opposition to the leadership's
initiative for 'reform and financial
stability'
Fight back against closures and reduction
in personnel in Okinawa prefectural hospitals!
Topics Bargaining over the cut in the state share
for the compulsory education: the weak-kneeled
leadership of the JTU
[8]
Why I fight on: in spite of the restructuring
offensive
- Alone at a 'restructure room' all
day
Reading Kuroda's book
- 'Participation in student movement', included
in Selected Early Writings by Kan'ichi Kuroda
42nd International Antiwar Assembly
[7] Regional meetings
(Continued from the previous issue)
Kansai meeting in Osaka
- The significance of the solidarity with
the Muslim people highlighted (Pic top in
the left)
Tokai meeting in Nagoya
- The basics confirmed for autumn struggles
to stop the dispatch of Japanese troops from
an SDF base (Pic middle)
Kyushu meeting in Fukuoka
- Workers and students united against the
war and the Constitutional revision (Pic
bottom)
[5] Messages of solidarity
(Continued from the previous issue)
- Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK) (Greece)
- Northstar Compass (Canada)
- New Communist Party (Britain)
- Movement for a Socialist Future (Britain)
- International League of People's
Struggle
- USA
(To continue)
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No. 1833 (August 30th Issue)
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Stop the Najaf massacre
by the US occupation force!
Stop the revision
of the Constitution!
- The puppet government of US imperialism
driven into a corner
- The planned reorganization of US
Forces
for the 'war on terrorism'
- Currents towards a 'Constitutional
revision
in 2007'
- Fight in solidarity with Iraqi people
struggling
indomitably!
[2]
Denounce the US helicopter crash on
the OIU
campus!
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No cover-up! Students struggling to stop
US vehicles taking out the wreckage (16 Aug) |
Right after the accident: OIU students rallying
at the campus (13 Aug) |
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| A trade union based rally of protest near
the US Base (16 Aug) |
Remove Futenma Base! Stop the building of
a new US Marine base!
Fight now for an explosive struggle
against
the Iraq war and the US-Japan military
alliance!
JRCL Okinawa Prefectural Committee
- Defective, outdated helicopters used
in
drills for the 'war on terrorism'
- Stop the strengthening of US bases
in Okinawa
and nationwide as bases for sorties!
See the full text
Danger of death threatening students and
workers in Okinawa International University
with its neighbours
- Depleted uranium munitions possibly
loaded
on the copter
- The US military sealing off the site
including
the campus and its neighbourhoods
Report: the first six days of protest
- Explosive angers from workers, students
and residents: the Okinawa Kengakuren
in
the forefront
- An emergency rally of protest at
the very
site, face to face with armed US troops
(13
August)
- 800 people rallying at the nearest gate
of Futenma Base (16 August)(Pic left)
- Students struggling to prevent the
US force
from taking out the wrecked copter
for cover-up
Students' protests expanding nationwide against
the US helicopter accident
[3]
Denounce the accident at the No. 3 reactor
at Kepco Mihama Nuclear Power Plant!
Criminal operation of overage facilities
with no inspection for safety for reducing
the costs
- The historic worst accident on nuclear
plants in Japan
- A forcible operation in disregard
for safety
- Protest against KEPCO and the government!
Protests continued against KEPCO and the
government
- Osaka (9 Aug), Kanazawa (10 Aug)
[4]
The central JCP bureaucrats threatened with
a life-and-death crisis
Complete bankruptcy in its line for
'cooperation
with conservative voters'
1. Causes for the historic defeat in
the
latest election
- Manoeuvres to prevent defections
- Lost of the energy of the party
2. The criminal nature of the party's
tactics
'to stop the Constitutional revision'
- Separation from the issues of Iraq
and
the Security Treaty
- Changed contents of its position
'against
the Security Treaty'
3. A complete bankruptcy in the party's
strategy
for revised capitalism
[5]
Concealed strife between Japan and the US
over the domestic production of weapons
- What underlies the 'Mitsubishi bashing'
- Struggles over the development of
Boeing's
new aircraft
- Japan's munitions industry launching
its
own development of aircrafts
- Drives for 'independence from America'
[6] Labour Front
Workers at US military bases in Japan forced
severe labour: under a state of preparedness
for war
- Female workers breaking down successively
- Angers exploded against the US military
authority
The school personnel reduced in Osaka prefecture
- Confusion caused by the SSC
Topics 'Festa in a post office' sponsored by the
JPU leadership, ordering the members to work
hard 'to avoid a privatization'
42nd International Antiwar Assembly on August
1st
[7] Regional meetings
Okinawa Meeting in Ginowan
- 'No to the strengthening of US forces in
Japan!' Keynote report by the chairman of
the Okinawa Kengakuren (Pic left top)
Hokkaido Meeting in Sapporo
- Great significance of the struggles against
the dispatch of SDF troops to Iraq (Pic left
middle)
Hokuriku Meeting in Kanazawa
- Raise the flag of solidarity with fighting
Iraqi people! (Pic left bottom)
(To continue)
[8] Messages of solidarity from abroad
- Communist Party of the All Union
(Bolshevik)
(Russia)
- Regional Party of Communists (Russia)
- Peasant Movement of the Philippines
(KMP)
- Former Chairman of the War Resisters
League
David McReynolds (US)
- News and Letters Committee (US)
- Workers International League (US)
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No. 1832 (August 16th Issue)
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The International Antiwar Assembly uplifted
nationwide
Central and regional meetings held in seven
cities, August 1st
The Central meeting:
1400 workers and students resolved to unite
fighting forces
against the war and the constitutional
revision
 - Keynote report highlights the revolutionary
nature of our struggles waged in solidarity
with fighting Iraqi people
- 15 massages of solidarity from abroad
- 'Your fight is our fight': participants
from Revolutionary Marxists in Britain
- A storm of applause to a militant
worker
from the Tokyo High-school Teachers'
Union
- 'We have shattered the attempt to
destroy
a students' association in Waseda University!':
Zengakuren Chairman
[2]
Zengakuren calling in the streets for the
Antiwar Assembly (30-31 July)
- Discussions developed with workers, students
and citizens
Denounce the accident at the No. 3 reactor
at Kepco Mihama Nuclear Power Plant!
Stop the continued operation of overage
nuclear
plants!
- Shortened terms for regular inspection
and extended 'limits for operation':
neglected
safety in nuclear plant operation causing
the accident
Fight back against the intensification of
the repressive security order in the name
of 'safe and relieved towns'
- Hokkaido police attempting to build
a 'neighbourhood
security net': mobilizing private companies
and 'volunteers'
- Fight back against the attempt to
repress
antiwar struggles under the pretext
of 'anti-terrorist
measures'
A 'progressive intellectual' playing the
fool at a talk in the magazine
- Praising a neo-liberalist spokesman for
the CIA, Benjamin Fulford (Forbes' Tokyo bureau chief)
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Chinese booing against a Japanese football
team: Far away from the tradition of the historic
national war against Japanese militarism
- Profitability first: Today's agriculture in Japan
- Mines in cities: mountains of wastes turned into treasures
- Intensifying oppositions with the LDP over
the nuclear recycling
[4-5]
The third oil crisis impending: Bankruptcy
in Yankee imperialism's strategy for monopolizing
world oil resources
I. Entering an age of high-price oil
- The Yukos shock
- A behind-the-scenes collaboration
between
Russia and the OPEC
II. Congested factors for the soaring
oil
price
- Bankruptcy in the US occupation of
Iraq
and the mired situations in the Middle
East
- Oil supply and demand tightened worldwide
- Heated speculations in oil resources
III. An impending crisis of world's
simultaneous
recessions
1. The US economy suffering a simultaneous
aggravation of inflation and recession
- Fears for inflation and declination
in
personal consumption
- Intensifying contradictions under
the economic
recovery
- High price of oil, low price of dollar
and rising rates of interest
2. Developments to simultaneous recessions
in the US, China and Japan
- A crisis of Japan as a 'nation with
poor
resources'
- An impending crisis of China's 'bubble
bursting'
[6] Labour Front
No to the compulsion of the rising-sun
flag
and the reign-of -the-emperor anthem!
A militant tactics decided at a regular
conference
of Tokyo High-School Teachers' Union
in opposition
to the leadership
- 'Denounce the Chairman!': A storm
of criticism
- Motions passed successively against
the
course of the headquarters
Protests against the 'punitive training'
of teachers rejecting the Rising Sun and
the Reign of the Emperor (2 August, Tokyo)
- In opposition to abandonment and
oppression
of protests by the leadership
School lessons in August!
- An irrational order by Osaka Prefectural
Board of Education 'to secure enough
days
of lesson'
Topics A new type of school introduced in a Ward
in Tokyo: 'It can be an opportunity
to change
teachers' characteristics'
[7]
Smash the major rationalization with 80000
sackings of postal workers
1. Successive deaths and suicides from
overwork
2. The Agency's plan for major restructuring
- Reorganization of the nationwide
network
of postal service: rationalization
in its
collection and delivery systems
- A major rationalization in its indoor
work
3. Denounce the leadership actively
and fully
cooperating with the authority
[8]
Speeches and messages to the 42nd International
Antiwar Assembly
- Speeches from Revolutionary Marxists in Britain
- Messages of solidarity from the Liberation Front of Polynesia, Ukrainian intellectual Vladimir Pronin and the Tumeni regional committee of the Russian
Communist Labour Party-Russian Communist
Party
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Announcement: There will be no issue of Kaiho
next week. Next issue will appear in the
week after next.
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No. 1831 (August 9th Issue)
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Build a greater battlefront
against the Iraq war and the Constitutional
revision!
Pull out Japanese troops,
accomplices in the US occupation!
The International Antiwar Assembly
(The central meeting in Tokyo, 1 Aug.)(A
report to appear next week)
- Muslim people's struggles, which
broke
the inauguration of a National Conference
- Bush-Chaney likely to lose to Kerry-Edwards
- France and Germany, as the rival
axis,
and the rise of BRICs
- The JCP bureaucrats dependent on
the 'cooperation
against the Constitutional revision
as a
single point of agreement'
[2]
 Zengakuren Hokkaido fighting against the
live fire drill by US Marines
- Hand in hand with 3000 workers at
a Rengo-sponsored
rally (25 July)
(Pic. Left)
- Pickets and demonstrations against
the
landing of munitions and troops (22
July)
Fight back against arrests of 3 demonstrators
in theJuly 4th Peace Parade!
- Intentional police provocation: even
upon
a 'common people's non-violent action'
- The state power scheming to terminate
people's
movement against the war and the Constitutional
revision
[3] Kaleidoscope 2004
- Today's King George III
- Japanese politicians: various ways of taking their responsibilities
- Japanese merchants of death: 'international cooperation with technologies
from private sectors'?
- 'Humanitarian aids' to Sudan: for oil
- 'Terminacars': robot cars for war
[4-5]
Neo-fascist reorganization of the national
education: what to be brought about by the
Tokyo Governor's 'education reform' (Continued from the previous issue)
VI. The abyss of the neo-liberalist
reform
2 Prefectural / municipal schools turned
education business corporations
3. Dehumanization of education workers
- Extreme intensification of labour
- Computer-related alienation of education
labour
- Destruction of an organized working
body
of educators
- Qualitative deterioration of the
labour
power in education
[6] Labour Front
Again in Toyota: a worker killed at
Tsutsumi
Factory in Aichi Prefecture
- In a moment under a pressing machine
with
several thousand tons of weight: a
dangerous
one-man duty imposed upon a maintenance
worker
- Successive accidents behind the 'trillion-yen
profit'
Increasing NEETs (Not in Employment, Education
or Training)
- 400 thousand youths of NEET: Five
times
increased for six years
- Results from restructurings and negative
changes in the form of employment
Topics Increased burdens with decreased benefits,
So what: Ministry's annual report to justify
the 'pension reform'
[7]
Increasing installations of CCTV systems,
and the planned introduction of a 'human
tracking system'
Fight back against the state surveillance
of people's activities using a biological
recognition technology
1. Official start of a plan to build
a 'human
tracking system'
2. Practical applications of biological
recognition
and networking technologies
3. Rapid strengthening of electronic
surveillance
systems
4. No to the intensification of the
surveillance
/ control system of the whole nation!
[8]
Reading books
- Tamagawa Nobuaki: Crimes of Security Police Seen in 'Internal
Violence'
- Kuroda: Anthropology
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