Japan Revolutionary Communist League - Revolutionary Marxist Faction

Weekly Kaihoh / Liberation

No. 1950
New Year Issue

Build a strong party that
opens up a road to revolution!

The JRCL foundation 50 years on,
the Russian revolution 90 years on
Fight to develop and strengthen the anti-Stalinist revolutionary communist movement with comrade Kuroda's revolutionary thought as our weapon!
Chairman of the JRCL National Committee Ueda Takuma

I. A deepening crisis the working class faced
II. For a creative application of Marxism to the contemporary 21st century
III. Build a strong party by breaking through any difficulty!

[3-5]
Make the 21st century 'a new century of revolution'!
Break through the contemporary tragedy of the international proletariat under the new confrontation of the US and China!
I. A diastrophic change of the contemporary 21st world
II. Strengthening of the neo-fascist ruling system under a neoliberal reaction
III. Build a bridgehead for overthrowing the 'war and reactionary rule!

[6-7]
New Year cartoon: Revolting against the devils ruining the globe
See below

[8-9]
'Russia's revival as strong power': an illusion
I. Turn to an all-out counteroffensive against US imperialism
II. Attempts to become a 'big power' using oil and gas as 'weapons'
III. 'Flight from the catastrophe': a daydream

New Year cartoon
Fight the devils ruining the globe

[10-11]

determinations for 2007
- Okinawa Regional Committee
- Hokuriku Regional Committee
- Kyushu Regional Committee
- Prefectural/Municipal Workers Committee
- Postal Workers Committee
- Heavy Industrial Workers Committee

'Denounce the House of Councillors deciding the revised Fundamental Law of Education!'
- Zengakuren and workers of the JTU affiliated unions protesting against the Diet (Dec. 15th)
Photo right

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Photo special
struggles in 2006

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No. 1949
(December 25th Issue)

Denounce the decision of the
revised Fundamental Law of Education
by the House of Councillors!
Fight to advance struggles
against war and the US-Japan military alliance!

- Apparent failure of the movement to demand 'careful deliberation' dependent on Ozawa-led DPJ
- Surrender to the forced education of patriotism
- Smash the Abe-led 'education reform'! Stop the Constitutional revision!
- Oppose the strengthening of the new US-Japan military alliance!
- No revision of the labour codes! Fight for enhancing the spring labour offensive 2007!
[2]
Struggles surging to stop the House of Councillors deciding the revised Fundamental Law of Education
- Education workers demonstrating round the Diet (Dec. 7th-8th)
- 10000 at a rally in Sapporo, Hokkaido (Nov. 25th)

[3]
Fists of anger towards the local public hearing in Kobe (Dec. 4th)

End the Chukakuha remnants!

[4-5]
Change into a 'new confrontation between the US and China'
The meaning of the APEC conference in Hanoi
(1) 'A change' in the authority of the US and China in the international politics
- The 'rising dragon' of China gaining 'the leadership of the APEC'
- The deepened isolation of the Bush Empire
(2) The global domination of Yankee imperialism as the 'sole superpower' and its beginning of the end
- The multilayered building of an 'international encirclement against US imperialism' led by China
- The Bush administration suffering dilemmas
(3) The Chinese 'state capitalism' becoming a model
- Formation of a new 'countertype' to Yankee neo-liberalism
- Achilles' tendon of the 'rising' China
(4) The US-Sino new confrontation and its development

[6]
Numerical objectives imposed on teachers: a performance evaluation system introduced in Ishikawa Prefecture

Postal malfunction inevitable in the coming busy time

Topics Serious want of nurses

[7]
Kaleidoscope 2006
- Israeli nuclear
- Iwojima: 60 years on
- A new JCP textbook of the party's history

JRCL propaganda to a public workers' rally in Fukuoka (Nov. 30th)

[8]
Main articles in Kaihoh this year

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No. 1948
(December 18th Issue)

Stop the ultra-reactionary Abe government
passing the revised Fundamental Law of Education
through the House of Councillors!

- Abe's government attempting a leap into 'a nation that can engage in war'
- The Bush administration stepping towards a 'staged retreat' from Iraq
- The US-led system of alliances showing cracks
- Stop revisions of the FLE and the Constitution! No strengthening of the US-Japan military alliances! Raise waves of counteroffensive!

[2]
No FLE revision! 7000 trade union members at a Fukuoka prefectural rally (Nov. 23rd)

Denounce weak-kneed JCP-supporting leaders! Osaka prefectural rally against the FLE revision (Nov. 16th)

[3] Kaleidoscope 2006
- Lebanon: what's the colour this time?
- Grass: confession beyond sixty years, no self-reflection
- US-India, then Japan-India: Abe's nuclear double standard
- JCP Fuwa: 'Thanks to the USSR collapse...'
- Surveillance cameras at flats

[4-5]
New politics over 'unification of Koreas'
Hu Jingtao-Ro Mu Hyn's way of 'solution' of the negative leftover from the Cold War
- Clashes among national interests for the six-party talk to be resumed
- Underwater struggles for 'unification between the ROK and the DPRK'
- In solidarity with people in South and North Koreas struggling for 'Korean unification'!

[6]

No '2-net' system! Fight against intensification of labour!

Denounce the reactionary judgement on a nursing care worker!

Topics Yubari City: a scapegoat for a 'municipal restructuring' ordered by the government

[7]

Learning comrade Yoshikawa's bitter struggles in 1957

[8]
China, the leader of developing countries, bent on wining over African countries
- Manoeuvres for undermining the sole global domination by the Bush Empire
- Attempts to gain oil and other resources under the cover of 'non-intervention'
- Carrying through Hu Jingtao's strategy of 'the one contained by many'

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No. 1947
(December 11th Issue)

Stop the House of Councillors
deciding the bill to revise the Fundamental Law of Education!
Overcome the failed movement
for 'a careful deliberation' led by the official leadership!

- The Abe government to attempt a rapid passage of the bill as Ozawa-led Democratic Party being weakened
- Abe's neo-fascistic reform of education: Japanese nationalism of today's version carried through
- Complete bankruptcy of the official movement to demand 'a careful deliberation' dependent on the Ozawa-led DPJ
- Go forward by breaking through the crisis of the opposition movement!

[2]
Don't decide the bill!
- 3500 JTU members at a rally against revision of the Fundamental Law of Education (Nov. 25th, Tokyo)

Zengakuren Kansai denounce the House of Representatives decision of the bill (Nov. 16th)

Introduction of 'a summary justice system' and its reactionary nature

[3]
Successive protests against a US aircraft carrier entering Sasebo port (Nov. 6th-7th)

Kagoshima Univ. students fight to stop a US aegis destroyer calling on their local port (Nov. 2nd)

An attempt to intensify the coercive security order under the cover of 'parking control'

[4]
Ozawa-led Democratic Party of Japan: dreaming of winning the power under the pretence of 'liberal'
- Calling for a challenge against the Abe government 'based on the cooperation between four opposition parties'
- The reactionary nature of the 'Ozawa vision' heavily made up
- Denounce the Takagi leadership of Rengo forcing the membership to support the DPJ!

[5]
US Forces in Japan: reorganization and strengthening (No. 3)
- Iwakuni: becoming a unified base for aircraft carriers and Marine Corps

[6]
Postal work: Fight back against the plan to expand an assigned territory in the name of 'adjustment of delivery areas'!

1000 workers at a prefectural rally for the season's struggle (Nov. 14th, Kanazawa)

Topics 'A labour big bang': The Abe government scheming a complete negation of the postwar system of labour codes

[7]
Memorial tributes to comrade Kuroda
I will struggle for a permanent self-revolutionalization in response to comrade Kuroda's criticisms

Denounce the reactionary judgement on a nursing care worker!

[8]
Kaleidoscope 2006
- North Korea: 'There've countries ruined for weak guns but none for famine'
- A 'socialist hereditarianism'
- DNA worship of a conservative Japanese intellectual
- Darkness in the 'new Europe'

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No. 1946
(December 4th Issue)

Break through the crisis of warfare
intensified in Asia and the Middle East
under the 'new confrontation between the US and China'!

(1) The Bush Empire forced to decide a 'staged retreat' from Iraq
(2) Surging sentiments against imperialist America and Zionist Israel
(3) Hu Jingtao's China strengthening an 'anti-American' encirclement worldwide
- Opposition between the US and China over the North Korean issue
- China's gaining of the leadership in the formation of an Asian regional economic sphere
(4) The Abe-led Japanese neo-con government revealing its incompetence and confusion
(5) Denounce the central JCP leadership degraded as war assisting forces

[2]
'No revision of the Fundamental Law of Education!' Zengakuren struggling against regional hearings of the bill
- Tokai (Nagoya, Nov. 8th), Hokkaido (Sapporo, Nov. 13th)

JRCL leaflets encouraging 3500 workers at an Osaka Peace Centre rally (Nov. 1st)

[3] Kaleidoscope 2006
- 'Another 1956'?
- Manoeuvrability
- The latest response from the new poodle
- Casino business in Chinese Macao: surpassing the US?

[4-5]
A grand political reversal in Ukraine
Formation of a Janus-faced government: 'anti-NATO' and 'pro-Russian and pro-EU'
- Victory of 'pro-Russian' Yanukovich
- 'Janus-faced' basis policies
- A crisis of Ukraine under the confrontation between the US and China-Russia

On the death of Milton Friedman

[6]
Fight back the Japan Post authorities planning to deprive the 'exceptional break' in New Year busy time!

Smash the offensive for massive reduction in personnel by the Hokkaido prefectural authorities!

Topics SONY, Hitachi and Sanyo losing business for successive troubles of products: Don't impute the managerial failure to workers!

[7]
'Counter-terror drills' escalated in the Hokuriku region under the war readiness against North Korea

Ishikawa Prefectural Peace Movement Centre's rally on Oct. 18th: Filled with the sense of danger against the planned legislation of the 'crime of conspiracy'

[8] Memorial tributes to comrade Kuroda
I will lead my life befitting a 'disciple of Kuroda'

Poems: Kuroda's death

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No. 1945
(November 27th Issue)

Fight to stop the revising bill
of the Fundamental Law of Education
passing the House of Councilors!
Overcome the official movement
'to demand a careful deliberation'
dependent on the Ozawa-led Democratic Party!

- The Abe government planning to institutionalize a patriotic education and an ability-first education
- A national mobilization system being built and strengthened to be 'a nation that can wage war'
- Fight to advance struggles against war, against the military alliance and neo-fascist reactions!

[2-3]
Struggles nationwide against the revision of the Fundamental Law of Education
- Zengakuren protest the bill passing the House of Representatives (Nov. 15th-16th)
- A national rally against the revision joined by 8000 workers, students and citizens (Tokyo, Nov. 12th)
- 3000 people participate in the Osaka rally against the forced introduction of patriotic education (Nov. 11th)
- Okinawa (Oct. 31st), Sapporo (Oct. 25th)

Antiwar demonstration in Nagoya (Oct. 22nd)

'Stop the US-Japan war readiness against North Korea!': Kanazawa University students protest the prefectural LDP office (Oct. 20th)

[4] Keynote report at the Second Half of the Oct. 15th JRCL Public Political Meeting
Sweeping the negative legacies of Stalinism,
leap to be a powerful proletarian vanguard party!
(1) Our anti-Stalinist revolutionary communist movement and the horizon it has opened up
- Keeping comrade Kuroda's teachings in our minds, fight for another leap!
- Our JRCL, which has established itself as a genuine vanguard party in name and in reality
(2) Break through the 'century of wars and a dark rule'!
- The issue of North Korea's nuclear test and the shaking domination of the world by US imperialism as the sole 'superpower'
- Build a struggle to root out the wars under the 'new confrontation between the US and China'!
(3) Create a revolutionary struggle to sweep away the negative legacies of Stalinism!

[5]
Learning from comrade Kuroda's determination 'to die and live'
- Reading his 'What I Was in 1956'

[6]
Postal workplaces: overtime work day after day due to the reorganization of collection/delivery centres

Militant workers struggle to uplift a Tokyo Teachers' Union rally

An Osaka infant school teaching kids the wartime Imperial Prescript on Education

Topics Tricks and deceptions with Abe's policy of 'Helping another challenge'

[7] Kaleidoscope 2006
- 50 years on: 'an agent of imperialism' today in Budapest
- Nicaragua: Revival
- A 'tax reform' planned by Abe's (no) brains
- A scandal in Myanmar
[8]
Chukakuha remnants: disintegrating and disappearing

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No. 1944
(November 20th Issue)

Stop the Diet passage of
the Fundamental Law of Education!
Oppose the continuation of the US-Japan war readiness
against North Korea!
Smash the offensives of the Abe government
attempting to build 'a nation that can wage war'!

- The Bush Empire given a finishing blow to the Iraq occupation
- The Abe government rushing for revision of the Fundamental Law of Education and the Constitution
- Denounce the central leadership of the JCP helping the chauvinist agitation against North Korea!
- No revision of the Fundamental Law of Education! No revision of the Constitution! Fight to stop the strengthening of the US-Japan war readiness against North Korea!

[2]
Antiwar voices shaking the city of Osaka
- The united action of workers and students in the Kansai region (Oct. 22nd)

Stop revision of the Fundamental Law!
- 1000 education workers and students at a rally in Kagoshima (Oct. 28th)

[3] Kaleidoscope 2006
- Made in USA: Dense Inert Metal Explosives, mincing, burning, and poisoning
- Afghan skulls: ghosts of Nazis
- Abe's plan for bioethanol: a copy of Bush's
- The jellyfish spiral in the Sea of Japan: an outbreak

[4-5] The Second Keynote Report to the Oct. 15th JRCL Public Political Meeting
Sweeping the negative legacies of Stalinism,
leap to be a powerful proletarian vanguard party!
(1) Our anti-Stalinist revolutionary communist movement and the horizon it has opened up
- Keeping comrade Kuroda's teachings in our minds, fight for another leap!
- Our JRCL, which has established itself as a genuine vanguard party in name and in reality
(2) Break through the 'century of wars and a dark rule'!
- The issue of North Korea's nuclear test and the shaking domination of the world by US imperialism as the sole 'superpower'

(The following to appear in next issue)
- Build a struggle to root out the wars under the 'new confrontation between the US and China'!
(3) Create a revolutionary struggle to sweep away the negative legacies of Stalinism!

[6]
Fight back against the planned cut-down of the wages and the gratuity by the Tokyo Prefectural and Ward authorities!
JRCL Prefectural/Municipal Workers Committee

Smash the offensive of wage cuts and sackings by the Hokkaido prefectural authorities!

Topics 'The point is to annihilate the JTU and Jichiro!', shouting the LDP hawks

No. 1943
(November 13th Issue)

Denounce the North Korean nuclear test!
Oppose the US-Japanese war readiness
continued and strengthened against North Korea!
Fight for struggles
against war and the military alliance
to break through the crisis of warfare in East Asia!

- Bush in agony before the expected defeat in the midterm elections
- The Hu Jintao government of China pressing Kim Jong Il to return to the six-party talk
- The Abe government rushing for neo-fascistic offensives of reaction
- Overcome the official peace movement degenerated into one supporting the 'sanction'!

[2]
'No revision of the Fundamental Law of Education!'
- Zengakuren rise in a struggle in front of the Diet building (Oct. 30th)

'Stop the Constitutional revision!' - Antiwar demonstration in Sapporo (Oct. 22nd)

Kagoshima University - Antiwar students action (Oct. 21st)

[3]

Annual report of the National Police Agency: stressing the need for 'crisis control of information'

Shika nuclear power plant Reactor No. 2: 900 pieces of polishing material scattered

[4-5]
Resolves expressed at the Oct. 15th JRCL Public Political Meeting
Open up the future of our anti-Stalinist revolutionary communist movement!
Shigeru Yonei

We the young generation pledge ourselves to fight in the forefront!
Ryuta Takigawa, for the Marxist Students League

We workers pledge ourselves to build a vanguard party of workers
Akira Iwamizu

From messages to the meeting
You, revive now in Japan's blossom!
Ryohei Komiyama

[6]
Ishikawa Prefectural Peace Movement Centre
- Militant workers fight in the forefront of rallies (Oct. 23rd, 27th)

Aichi Prefectural Federation of Trade Unions, Oct. 20th rally
- Storms of denunciation against JCP bureaucrats

Topics Major steel companies planning 'higher wages'?

[7]
Education ministry's 'investigation into the actual conditions of work' of the teaching staff
- Fight against the offensive to revise the form of payment of wages and to intensify the management of labour!

[8] Kaleidoscope 2006
- Putinka: Russia on the bottle
- The true cause of crash: 'win-win' relations over Taiwanese bananas
- 'Usable nuclear weapons'
- US and Japanese 'merchants of death'
- The last neo-con

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No. 1942
(November 6th Issue)

Waves against the military alliance - Oct. 22nd
Zengakuren, Antiwar Youth march on the US embassy, Diet

Denounce North Korea's nuclear test!
Oppose the US and Japanese government strengthening the war readiness
- Break through the crisis of warfare under the new confrontation between the US and China!
- 'Overcome the JCP-led sanction supporting movement!' (Zengakuren chairman)

[2]
Surging angers against US Kadena Base, Okinawa
Workers, students, citizens block the deployment of US PAC3 missiles (Pic upper left)

Antiwar Student Action in the Kansai region
- October 15th, Kobe University (Pic lower left)

[3]
Stop the revision of the Fundamental Law of Education by the Abe-led Japanese neo-con government!
Overcome the official leaderships dependent on the 'joint struggle of parliamentary oppositions'!
JRCL Education Workers Committee

(1) Attempts to reorganize the education for making 'a nation that can wage war'
- Revision of the Fundamental Law of Education for 'institutionalization of patriotic teaching'
- Central leaderships of the JTU and NTU dependently supporting the 'joint struggle of parliamentary oppositions'

(2) Fight to stop the neo-fascistic education reform!
- Overcome the degeneration by the JTU leadership into a movement to demand an 'education reform based on the Fundamental Law'!
- Fight the struggle as 'a struggle against war, against the military alliance and neon-fascism'

[4-5]
Oct. 15th JRCL Public Political Meeting - The first keynote speech
Consolidate the bridgehead for advancing the anti-Stalinist communist movement by succeeding comrade Kuroda's will and work!
Shigeo Maehara
- Make the revolutionary spirit of comrade Kuroda our own!
- A tragicomedy 50 years on from the 'Hungarian revolution'
- Re-subjectivize the origin of the anti-Stalinist movement!
- Open up another advancement of our anti-Stalinist movement!

[6]
Smash the planned reorganization of postal delivery stations!
- Denounce the full cooperation by degenerate trade union leaders! (Kyushu region)
- Fight to stop the desertification of 'underpopulated areas'!

Topics The number of deaths from overwork increasing in China

[7]

No. 1941
(October 30th Issue)

Fight for a great leap
towards the only and genuine vanguard party!
In pursuance of Comrade Kuroda's high will and work,
open up a new century of proletarian revolution

My resolve at the October 15th JRCL public political meeting
Takuma Ueda, Chairman of the National Committee of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League
- Our party organization as the supreme product of Comrade Kuroda
- The JRCL, which has established its position as the genuine vanguard party
- Assimilate now Kuroda's 'philosophy of the topos of praxis'!
- Strive devotedly and courageously for proletarian liberation!

[2-3]
To the memory of Comrade Kan'ichi Kuroda
On the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution
Oct. 15th JRCL Public Political Meeting
The starting point formed for the anti-Stalinist communist movement after Comrade Kuroda

- Fight more to strengthen our party organization, which has made the leap to the only vanguard party!
- Confirm 'the origin' of our movement to make it pabulum for advance
- Break 'the negative legacy of Stalinism' to open up the road of revolution!

[4]
Smash the planned enforcement of 'marketization tests' for scrapping public sectors and promoting privatization!
- The Japanese neo-con government rushing to enforce the 'Marketization Test Law'
- Greedy Japanese and US monopolies motivated by the 'opening of government-run markets'
- The extreme intensification of labour by the Health and Labour Ministry under the pretext of 'opposition to privatization'
- Overcome the JCP-led movement demanding the 'development of employment service'!

[5]
Denounce the mass punishments on workers in the Social Insurance Agency!

[6]
Successive industrial accidents: false subcontracts as their hotbed

Fight back against the planned mass sackings of workers at national university agencies!

Topics The government and monopoly capitalists bent on introducing the exemption system
[7]
Memorial Tributes to Comrade Kan'ichi Kuroda
Hold the encouragements by Kuroda close to our hearts!

With a resolve of 'life after death'!

[8] Kaleidoscope 2006
- Fake liberal
- Radioactive drainage from a US submarine: covered-up
- An assassination again in Moscow
- Political walls on the US borders

Zengakuren protests the Diet and the US embassy (Oct. 18)
- Denounce the nuclear test by the Kim Jong Il government! Stop 'visitation' as a martial action by the US and Japanese governments!

(Slogans)
(1)
- Denounce the nuclear test by the Kim Jong Il-led military Bonapartist government of North Korea!
- No to its outrageous acts based on the policy of martial brinkmanship!
(2)
- Oppose the US and Japanese governments strengthen a constant combat readiness against the DPRK!
- Fight against anti-DPRK visitation as a wartime economic blockade!
- Denounce the sanctions imposing an extreme misery on the North Korean people!
(3)
- Oppose the counter-US strengthening of nuclear military power by China and Russia!
(4)
- Denounce Chauvinist agitations by the Abe-led Japanese neo-con government!
- Fight in solidarity with the Korean people struggling for the unification of North and South Koreas!
(5)
- Oppose the strengthening of the new US-Japan military alliance! Stop revisions of the Constitution and the Fundamental Law of Education! Overcome the JCP-led peace movement degraded as 'sanction' supporting movement!

Fight to advance the revolutionary antiwar struggle to break through the crisis of warfare under the new US-Chinese confrontation!

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* Weekly Kaihoh is edited in Japanese, no English edition available.

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