Weekly Kaihoh / Liberation
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No. 2020
(May 26th 2008 Issue)
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Down with the brain-dead Fukuda government!
Advance a politico-economic struggle
against the intensified expropriation of
the toiling masses,
against the curtailment of social security!
 - The central government and the ruling LDP
preparing to increase the consumption
tax
rate
- Power strife escalated within the political
elite over the post of the next prime minister
- Intensified expropriation of the toiling
masses to build 'a nation that can engage
in war'
- Fight by overcoming the central Rengo leadership
and the JCP leadership dependent on the DPJ!
No to a new US marine base!
- Okinawa People's Rally (May 18th) : militant workers and students
struggling in the forefront (Pic.)
[4-5]
Series Japan on a quasi-war footing
No. 1 Stop the deployment of missile
defence
systems!
- The deployment of MD systems progressing
- A dangerous attempt 'to disable',
to destroy,
the nuclear forces of China and Russia
- The planned deployment of USS George Washington,
a control tower on the sea for MD systems
[2]
'Down with the Fukuda government!' Demonstrations
nationwide
- Protests in front of the prefectural
LDP
office (April 27th, Okinawa)
- Kanazawa University students struggling
(April 25th, 29th)
- An antiwar rally at the Kagoshima
University
(April 25th)
Osaka District Court reject a suit for libel
against Kenzaburo Oe reporting the
notorious
military order in wartime Okinawa:
a blow
to ultra-nationalists
[6]
Taxi driving workers: spoiling their lives
for labour
Leaders in the Peace Forum: forcing
the rank
and file to support the Ozawa-led DPJ
Topics Deceptive remarks by the Rengo Chairman
at the G8 Labour Summit
[7]
The Amagasaki railway disaster three
years
on
- Denounce the JR West managers dodging their
responsibility!
[8]
Learning from Kuroda's Bush's War
[3] Kaleidoscope
- An elaborate plan: a diarchy in Russia? No.
- Another Kosovo: an US-engineered
tumult
in Bolivia
- The United States: a poor land
- Carbon trades by hedge funds
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No. 2019
(May 19th 2008 Issue)
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Denounce the continuation of
the road-related tax surcharge for another
10 years!
Overthrow the Fukuda government
imposing war and poverty on the toiling masses!
- Mutual deception in the name of a 'strategic
mutually beneficial relationship':
a summit
talk between Fukuda and Hu Jingtao
- The dramatic collapse of the US domination
of the world as the sole superpower
- Chinese and Russian rulers taking the offensive
against the lame-ducked Bush administration
- Down with the Fukuda government intensifying
the mass expropriation and deploying
MD systems!
[4-5]
Overcome the crisis!: The 2008 spring labour offensive forced
into defeat
Build the working class front to radically
break through the 'war and impoverishment'!
(1) All-out collaboration with the monopoly
capitalist measures to survive the crisis
- Surrender to the attack of suppressing
the wages
- Submission to the monopoly capitalist measures
for management and labour
- Deserting workers in minor enterprises
and in temporary contracts
- Betrayal to the joint struggle for higher
rates of overtime allowance
(2) Devotion to today's Industrial
Patriotic
movement
- Positive responses to the government's
attack of deserting the social welfare, of
intensifying the mass expropriation
- A tacit agreement, or support, for the
offensives to build a ruling system for 'a
nation that can engage in war'
(3) Rengo's agenda 'to correct the widening
gaps': its nature against the working class
- Rationales for 'a positive turn in the
distribution rate of labour': surrender to
the monopoly capitalists
- Deceptive demands for 'better treatments
of the casual workers'
- Complete disregard for the root cause of
the 'gap-widening society'
- The line and ideology for today's
Industrial
Patriotic Association
Build a battlefront to overcome the defeat!
Wage struggles surging up in various
countries
[2-3]
 May Day rallies: 'Down with the Fukuda government!'
Militant workers struggling
- The central rally of Rengo (April
26th)
- The Zenrokyo rally (May 1st)
- The central rally of Zenroren (May 1st)
- The Fukuoka prefectural rally of
Rengo
(April 26th)
Hokkaido students staging an antiwar march (April 26th, Sapporo) (Pic. right)
An Osaka peace and rights movement centre
rally against a US aegis destroyer calling
at a civilian port (April 11th)
[6]
Revised rates of medical treatment fee
Topics Japan Post Bank: competing in a personal
loan market
[7]
Shifting burdens to the toiling masses:
Smash
the reactionary measures 'to rebuild
the
prefectural finance' by the new Osaka
governor!
Tokyo governor's plan to move a wholesale
market place forcibly
[8] Kaleidoscope
- 'A warm spring'?: Hu's visit to Japan
- A Japanese electric company threatened
with a takeover: and a state intervention
for nuclear development
- A torch relay on Chomolungma
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No. 2018
(March 12th 2008 Issue)
No. 2017
(May 5th 2008 Issue)
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Denounce the overriding vote by the House
of Representatives
to reinstate the extra levy on gasoline tax!
Down with the Fukuda government bent on
intensified expropriation of the masses
and
expansive deployment of missile defence
systems!
Workers and students marching on the
Diet
(April 29th)
- The Fukuda government mired in a crisis
- The lame-ducked Bush administration
shaken
by the collapse of its world domination
as
the sole superpower
- The Chinese and Russian rulers launching
an offensive to demolish the unilateral domination
by US imperialism
- Fight by denouncing the leadership
of the
official opposition movement dependent
on
the DPJ!
[4-5]
The European Union on the Germano-French
axis ambitious to form a 'third pole': distresses
and friction under the new confrontation
between the US and China/Russia
- Attempts to establish the Euro sphere
- Measures for survival under the new
confrontation
between the US and China/Russia
- Political friction and social contradictions
intensified by the integration
[2]
Smash the strengthening of repressive
security
order in the name of the 'guard of
the G8
Summit'
[3]
Fallacious arguments by a ultra-nationalist
group to erase the notorious military
order
to force mass suicides in wartime Okinawa
[6]
Fight the spring offensive in the chemical
industry in opposition to today's Industrial
Patriotic movement!
[7]
Oppose the national achievement test and
the publication of the rating!
[8] Kaleidoscope
- The Indian tiger winning the British
Jaguar
- A JCP 'mission' to Europe: to meet 'better'
capitalists
- Japanese Official Development Assistance:
deregulated for big business
- A fuss over Chinese food: Who has
been
spoiling Japanese food?
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No. 2016
(April 28th 2008 Issue)
No. 2015
(April 21st 2008 Issue)
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April 29th
United Action of Workers and Students
March on the Diet!
Down with the reactionary Fukuda government!
Stop resumption of the 'provisional rate'
of gasoline taxes!
- The Fukuda government, lame-ducked
- The new 'Health Insurance System of Later
Term Elderly People Medical Treatment' for
persons 75 years of age or older: to dump
them 'on mountain tops to die'
- Fight by overcoming the official
leadership
dependent on the Ozawa-led Democratic
Party!
- Smash attacks by the Fukuda government
to cut down social security, to intensify
the expropriation of the toiling masses!
[4-5]
Down with the ultra-reactionary Fukuda government!
Oppose the deployment of missile defence
systems! No to the attempt to revive the provisional
extra levy on gasoline taxes!
Rise in the April 29th struggle to besiege
the Diet!
Central Students' Orgburo
(Continued from the previous issue)
(1) A 'cold war-like hot war' and economic
confrontation intensified between the US
and China/Russia
(2) Ultra-reactionary attacks by the lame-ducked
Fukuda government to wriggle out of the crisis
(3) Degeneration of the JCP: abandoning their
'opposition' to the US-Japan Security Treaty
and monopoly capital
- A deceptive campaign 'against military
bases' without opposition to the deployment
of missile defence systems
- 'Proposals for a better government budget'
: parliamentarianist alternatives betraying
the working people
- The JCP 'agenda for the global warming'
and its reactionary nature
(4) Overthrow the Fukuda government by surging
struggles against war and the military alliance
together with struggles against the politico-economic
attacks!
- Stop the deployment of MD systems! No to
the permanent war-footing against China and
Russia! -- For a great upsurge in anti-war,
anti-military alliance struggle
- No expropriation of the toiling masses
by the government or the monopoly bourgeoisie!
-- Advance the politico-economic struggle!
- Rise in a struggle against the G8 Toyako
Summit in July!
[2]
Zengakuren Kyushu struggling against the
planned deployment of PAC-3 missiles to a
local SDF base: a Fukuoka Prefectural Peace
Forum rally (March 23rd)
A mass rally called by the Osaka Peace and
Human Rights Centre (March 19th)
An anti-war rally of the Ishikawa Prefectural
Peace Movement Centre (March 18th)
[3]
Students of the Osaka University of
Economics
winning the suit
- Compensation ordered to the school
authority
by the Osaka District Court (March
24th)
Denounce the reactionary rule by the
Supreme
Court for the Juki-net, nation-wide
system
of resident registries!
Automatic gates: to intensify the immigration
control
An example of exaggerated advertisement
for
the Juki-net system
[6]
Denounce the central leadership betraying
the NTT workers in the spring offensive!
Oppose the government-run national achievement
test!
Topics The Prince Hotel administration justifying
itself for barring a JTU meeting from
its
convention hall
[7]
Publication industry: Fight back against
the capitalist offensive for lower
wages
and restructuring under the pretext
of 'recession'!
[8]
The Health Insurance System of Later Term
Elderly People Medical Treatment
- Oppose the new system that cuts pensions,
cuts medical care and cuts lives!
Closures and privatizations planned for hospitals
run by localities to desert localities and the unfortunates
(Continued from the previous issue)
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No. 2014
(April 14th 2008 Issue)
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Down with the ultra-reactionary
Fukuda government!
Oppose the deployment of missile defence
systems!
No to the plan to revive the provisional
extra levy on gasoline taxes!
Rise in the April 29th struggle on the Diet!
Central Students' Orgburo
[3]
Denounce the punishment on teachers by the
Tokyo Prefectural Board of Education!
- Punished for their disobeying an
order
to stand and face the Rising-Sun flag
during
the singing of the Reign-of-the-Emperor
anthem
Zenkyo: the 25th National Convention
700 casual workers turned full-time: statistically,
but how in reality?
[4]
Fight it out by denouncing the central leadership
of the UI Zensen union betraying the spring
offensive!
- Denounce the weal-kneed deal at the
lowest
rate!
- Break the Industrial Patriotic movement
from below!
[5]
Steel making monopoly capitalists desperate
to tighten their control on workers
[6]
Yubari City: burdens imposed on the
toiling
masses
Reactionary nature of the law 'to solidify
the finance of localities'
Nagoya: JRCL propaganda at a JCP-led
Airoren
rally
Kanazawa: a Peace Movement Centre rally of
young and female workers
Topics Low-rate replies from capitalists in minor
enterprises: justified by a Rengo leader
[7]
Closures and privatizations planned for hospitals
run by localities
The revised rates for medical care:
a fallacious
remark by the leadership of JCP-led
medical
workers unions
[8] Kaleidoscope
- Czech: Claus in crisis
- Rating service monopolies: easy pickings
- The new Prime Minister in Australia: Passing
Japan
- A nuclear plant rush: globally planting
the seeds of nuclear disaster
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No. 2013
(April 7th 2008 Issue)
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Denounce the Fukuda government
charging the loss from the economic
crisis
to the toiling masses!
- The declining US economy causing a global
depression
- The European and emerging economies faced
with slumps
- Chinese and Russian governments scheming
to destroy the USD system
- The Fukuda government incompetent to handle
the quadruplicate difficulties of the Japanese
economy
- Confusion over the gasoline tax and
a new
Governor of the Bank of Japan
- Advance the fight aiming to overthrow the
Fukuda government forcing war and impoverishment!
[3]
March 23rd rally in Okinawa: 11000 people
burning with anger
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- Remove the US bases! Smash the US-Japan military
alliance!
- Militant workers and students taking the
lead (See pictures)
[4-5]
Smash the today's Industrial Patriotic
Movement
led by labour aristocrats!
- Fight it out for a militant upsurge
of
the spring offensive in the heavy industry!
'Right to labour contracts' as bait
for intensified
control on public workers
[6]
Denounce the Japan Post managerial
board
offering the lowest rate!
Extremely intensified labour in postal
offices
after the privatization
Rengo Ishikawa rally for the spring
offensive:
angers towards labour aristocrats
Topics The IMF-JC Chairman justifying their acceptance
of the miserable rate
[2]
Zengakuren: the 124th meeting of the
central
committee
Aichi University: A mass rally against
the
school authority planning to move the
campus
[7]
'An Islamic revolution' in illusion
About the analysis of the situation in Iraq
by a conscientious intellectual
- Her impatience at the situation in Iraq
assuming the aspect of civil war
- Rejection of any modernist approach from
the height of the Western civilization
- A one-sided analysis of the occupation
policy by the Bush Empire
- An idealistic analysis on which her dream
of 'revolution' is projected
[8] Kaleidoscope
- Today's Lincoln?
- Watch for police officers in plain clothes!
- 'A guerrilla attack' on the Narita Airport:
plotted for intensified security
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No. 2012
(March 31st 2008 Issue)
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A uniform and big wage raise to all workers!
Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring
labour offensive
by denouncing the IMF-JC agreement to the
miserable rate!
- A globally simultaneous depression spreading
from the US economy
- Japanese imperialism suffering from serious
confusion in economy and politics
- Labour aristocrats surrendering to the
capitalists attempting to control the wages
under the pretext of 'deteriorating circumstances'
- No to price rises! No to intensified expropriation
of the toiling masses! Oppose the strengthening
of the new US-Japan military alliance!
Okinawa People's Rally, March 23rd
'We denounce the US Force crimes!'
[2]
Denounce the armed repression on the Tibetan
people by the Chinese government!
Rallies for the spring offensive in Osaka
- Rengo Osaka (March 7th)
- Osaka Zenroren (March 2nd)
[4]
For a militant upsurge of the spring labour
offensive in the metal and machine making
industry
Denounce labour aristocrats in the JAM federation
replacing the offensive with 'efforts to
make circumstances for minor companies to
raise wages'!
- The central leadership miserably asking
capitalists 'to invest in workers'
- Sharing the 'sense of crisis' with
capitalists
in minor size enterprises
- 'Wage improvement' for 'contributing
to
the business'
- Cooperation for higher productivity in
the name of 'balance of work and life'
- 'Policy-related demands' dependent on the
labour and industrial ministries
- 'We lead the wage market': deception
- For a uniform and big wage raise!
Oppose
the fixation and expansion of temporary
employment!
[5]
Denounce the major private railway
companies
replying 'no raise'
Denounce the central leadership accepting
the expansion of the merit-based payment
under the pretext 'to gain an improvement
in wages'!
- The central leadership disguising
the acceptance
as an 'effective improvement'
- Workers in minor railways, bus and taxi
workers, let us fight on for a uniform and
big raise!
the 57th JTU national meeting for education
research: militant workers struggling
in
opposition to the central leadership
distorting
the teachers' movement
[6]
Smash the attack of massive reprimands on
the Hokkaido Teachers' Union!
- The HTU strike on Jan. 30th: militant education
workers striving to overcome the distortion
by the leadership of the regional public
workers federation
- Fight back against the destructive attack
on the HTU!
Toiling masses in cold regions suffering
from ballooning oil prices
Topics The Zenroren Chairman thoroughly servile
to Rengo leaders
[7]
Monopolies in the electric industry: desperate
to reorganize their business for survival
[3]
Denounce the JCP bureaucrats keeping silence
on the deployment of missile defence systems!
Russian missiles of new types
'Bases outside the bases' in Okinawa
[8] Kaleidoscope
- A complicated proposal from the Japanese
government for the global warming: refused
by the rest of the world
- The anti-American trio in Latin America
- The Clean Development Mechanism: clean?
- Complaints from wild lives about the global
warming
- Nominal managerial posts: terrible working
conditions in McDonald's
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No. 2011
(March 24th 2008 Issue)
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Denounce the agreement of the lowest raise
by major capitalists and corporate union
leaders!
Break through the crisis of the spring
labour
offensive
led by IMFJC-affiliated labour aristocrats!
- IMFJC-affiliated labour aristocrats showing loyalty to the monopoly
capitalist class
- Fake 'improvement in wages'
- Rengo's poor agenda for 'better treatments
of part-time workers': just in response
to
the capitalist measures for labour
management
- Silence about the rising prices and taxes,
and approval for the strengthening of the
new US-Japan military alliance
- Fight it out by denouncing the all-out
surrender by the official leadership of labour
movement!
[4-5]
For a militant upsurge of the spring offensive
in the electric industry!
Fight in opposition to the distortion of
the offensive into one 'for improving general
labour conditions'
Workers in Japan Post Bank: forced
the hardest
office works
[6]
Fight it out in opposition to the betrayal
by the leadership of the Automobile Workers'
Unions
[7]
Komatsu Ltd.: forcing workers harsh
labour
under the guise of 'temporary transfer
from
a subsidiary'
Canon and Toyota: increasing the number
of
temporary workers
Iwamizawa City to introduce a 'Kids
Watch
System': in fact, for intensifying
the state
surveillance system of the people
Topics The Rengo leader in charge of a joint struggle
to win a higher rate of overtime pay: abandoning
the demand before receiving an offer from
capitalists
[2]
 Stop the deployment of new war planes!
- Workers and students from the Tokai
region
rise in successive protest near the
ASDF
Gifu and Komaki bases (Feb. 29th) (Pic.)
Angers against Toyota labour aristocrats
as watchdogs for capitalists
- The Rengo rally for the spring offensive
in Aichi Prefecture (March 2nd, Nagoya)
[3]
Denounce the education ministry erasing the
descriptions on the wartime military order
to force Okinawa people into mass suicides!
Withdraw the decision by the Textbook Authorization
Council!
Denounce the assault on the 14 year old girl
by the US Marine!
Fight it out aiming to remove the US military
bases and to repeal the US-Japan security
treaty!
JRCL Okinawa Prefectural Committee
- Deceptive changes in wording attempted
for conciliation by the government
- The US and Japanese government desperate
to construct a new US Marine base in
Okinawa
- The prefectural LDP attempting to disband
the mass organization for the textbook demand:
a crisis of the opposition movement
- Fight by overcoming the official
movement
for 'requesting the government to inherit
the historical fact'!
- Fight under the banner against the
patriot
education, against war and the military
alliance!
[8] Kaleidoscope
- The Japanese economy: a 'Galapagos in Asia'
- JCP measures for the global warming
- Shinginko Tokyo bank in fiasco: The man
who is responsible
- G8 Summit in Hokkaido: Intensified
security
in Tokyo
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