Advance struggle against war and the US-Japan military alliance
together with struggle to stop a large increase in taxes!
Fight to stop the deployment of the nuclear-powered carrier George Washington!
Oppose a consumption tax hike!
Down with the ultra-reactionary Fukuda government
imposing war and impoverishment upon the working people!

- Intensification of a cold war-like hot war between the US and China-Russia
- The 'brain-dead' Fukuda government bent on ultra-reactionary offensives
- Down with the Fukuda government by an upsurge of antiwar struggle and politico-economic struggle!

(Pic Militant workers and students struggling to stop the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan entering Sasebo Port in Kyushu, July 28th)

[4-5]
The beginning of an environmental = economic war between the three poles
The G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit held amid the new confrontation between the US and China-Russia
- The end of the G8 Summit: a change in its nature
- Intensification of an economic war connected with conflicts over environmental issues between the US-Japan, the EU and rising economies led by China/Russia
- Tripartite acceleration of the destruction of global environment

[2]
No to the hypocritical G8 Summit!
- Kagoshima University students demonstrating (July 5th)

Militant workers and students struggling at a mass rally against the deployment of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to Yokosuka (July 19th)

The JCP praising an ex-UN officer for DDR in Afghanistan

[6]
Fight against the Hokkaido Prefectural authority's plan to close 16 prefectural high schools!

The central leaders in the Electric, Electronic and Information Workers' Union styling themselves 'guardians of temporary workers'

[7]
India struggling to be an 'economic big power'
(Continued from the previous issue)

[8]
Converted Trotskyists insulting the Russian revolution in 1917

The Communist No. 236

[3] Kaleidoscope
- Anger of the Maoi people
- US-dependent Japan turned an obstacle for the US
- The Olympic amid miseries of the Chinese people
- The Osaka governor
- A coercive immigration control for the G8 Summit


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Fight for an international upsurge of antiwar struggle!
Fight in solidarity with workers and people all over the world
struggling against war and impoverishment!

Resolute struggles against the hypocritical G8 Summit
July 5th-8th
Oppose the tripartite acceleration of environmental destruction
between the US-Japan, the EU and emerging economies led by China-Russia!

'Smash the G8 summit meeting!' Workers and students marching as crushing police repression and rightists' assaults (July 8th, Sapporo)

Demonstrators chanting passionate slogans (July 8th, Sapporo)

Students starting a demonstration from the Hokkaido University (July 7th)

A long banner showing our revolutionary tactics to thousands of workers and people at the 'Peace Walk' (July 5th, Sapporo Odori Koen park)

Students with masks and placards exposing crimes of the G8 Summit (July 5th, Sapporo)

Workers and students struggle
in Hokkaido

The 46th International Antiwar Assembly, Aug. 3rd.
Advance antiwar struggles!
Fight against war, forced poverty and environmental destruction!

Overseas Appeal for the Assembly See

- The Fukuda government bent on raises in consumption tax and in the prices of daily necessaries
- A cold war-like hot war intensified by the new confrontation between the US and China/Russia
- Fight to advance the revolutionary antiwar struggle!

(Pic right: No to the hypocritical G8 Summit promoting the destruction of the global environment! Militant students struggling in the 'Peace Walk' in Sapporo, July 5th)

[4-5]
Two years after Comrade Kan'ichi Kuroda passed away
Fight for the renaissance of Marxism to break through the rotten 21st century world!
Chairman of the National Committee of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League Takuma Ueda
Politorgburo of the Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction)
- Division of the present-day world into three blocs and the newly-intensified economic conflicts connected with environmental issues
- The collapse of American imperialism's dominance over the world as the 'sole superpower' and its historic, ideological meaning
- War, poverty and the destruction of Nature (human beings) exacerbated in a catastrophic form
- Fight for a greater advance in our anti-Stalinist revolutionary movement!

Rise in struggle in Hokkaido on July 7th-8th
Oppose the hypocritical G8 Summit
accelerating the destruction of the global environment!

Oppose the hypocritical G-8 Summit held under the clothing of 'prevention of the global warming'!
Oppose interactive acceleration of environmental destruction by the rulers of the US-Japan, the EU and rising economies!

- War over environmental issues entangled with economic conflicts intensified by the new confrontation between the US and China/Russia
- The official opposition movements in crisis and struggles by the revolutionary lefts
- Fight by overcoming the official opposition movement which is making a positive response to monopoly capitalist measures for the environmental protection

[4-5]
Series Environmental destruction of the earth accelerated by the triangular confrontation: No. 2
- The global warming and climate changes: aggravated destruction of the global environment

[3]
June 15th united action of workers and students to siege the Diet building in Tokyo
- Down with the Fukuda government!
(Pic right)

[6]
Series Fight against today's pauperization
No. 5 - Immigrant workers in hell - Intensified exploitation with no rights

Topics UI Zensen union leadership speaking for capitalists in the worker dispatching industry

[7]
Oppose the development of nuclear plants and nuclear arms under the cover of 'measures for the global warming'!
- Protests in front of the nuclear facility for Monju, a fast breeder (May 16th, Tsuruga in Fukui) (Pic right)

Angers against a plan for plutonium-mixed operation of Tomari Nuclear Plant (June 1st, Sapporo)

'Down with the Fukuda government!'
- Kanazawa University students demonstrating through their local city (June 1st, Kanazawa)

Students meeting in the Kansai region (May 15th)

[8]
Oppose the G-8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit!
We call on workers and all toiling masses in the world!
Full text

People who prefer radioactive fallouts to CO2

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Rise in struggle
against the G-8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit
Oppose the rulers from the US-Japan, Europe and rising economies
mutually promoting the environmental destruction

The beginning of an environmental/economic war
- Clashes over the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
- The Japanese government as the 'host' in a tight corner
A new form of neo-colonialism raising a flag of the 'protection of the global environment'
- 'Ecobusiness' : moneymaking ventures of financial monopoly capital
- Destruction of the global environment aggravated by the confrontation between the three blocks
Denounce the labour aristocrats in Rengo and the JCP leadership abandoning struggle! Create the working class strength for overthrowing the Fukuda government!

(Pic: workers and students in the June 15th demonstration in Tokyo)

[4-5]
Series Environmental destruction of the earth accelerated by the triangular confrontation:: No. 1

An environmental/economic war between the US-Japan, Europe and China/Russia
A new form of struggle for dominance over the world market through the 'emissions trading'
- Serious oppositions revealed in the Meeting of the Ministers of Environment
- An environmental/economic war: a 21st century form of the struggle between imperialist powers
- A new development of an environmental/economic war between the three blocks

[2]
'Antiwar Students' Walk' in Sapporo
- Under the banner of 'No G-8 Summit at Lake Toya!' (Pic right)

[3]
Series Japan on a quasi-war footing
No. 5
The Tenth Division of the Ground Self-Defense Force in Nagoya: marching through downtowns with arms
The GSDF 33rd Regiment:
boastful of being 'the heir to the Imperial Army'

Oppressive security tightened for the G-8 Summit

[6]
The Basic Law for Civil Service Reform
- In disregard for basic rights of labour / the Secretary of the Cabinet given stronger authorities for personnel control

Critical voices against the leadership: May 15th meeting of Osaka prefectural workers unions

Topics Farcical arrests of bosses in a notorious company of workers dispatching business

[7]
Series Fight against today's pauperization
No. 4 - A livelihood (no)protection system for deserting the poor

[8] Kaleidoscope
- A fictitious monologue from Castro, after the Food Summit
- Food Crisis
- Privatization of commissariat
- The revealed dark side of China hit by the earthquake
- Military Facilities being erased from maps

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Rise in the June 15th demonstrations!
Stop the deployment to Yokosuka
of the nuclear-powered carrier USS G. Washington!
Stop a consumption tax hike! Oppose the G-8 Summit!

- The new US-Japan military alliance strengthened in reality as an offensive and defensive alliance against China and Russia
- G.W. Bush faced with the total collapse of the US dominance over the world as the sole superpower
- Chinese/Russian rulers destroying the unipolar dominance of US imperialism
- Fight by overcoming the JCP-led 'anti-base' movement with no opposition to the military alliance

[4]
The autocratic Putin regime consolidated in the guise of 'a tandem'
- Medvedev's inauguration: a ceremony to continue the Putin line
- The Prime Minister's Office with stronger authority and the reorganization of the ruling apparatuses
- 'Leap to a world power': difficult to attain

[2]
'No to the MD deployments!' Kansai students marching through (May 25th)

A hundred students demonstrating against the planned relocation of the campus (Aichi University, April 11th) (Pic)

[3]
Series Japan on a quasi-war footing
No. 4 - Special units reinforced for guerrilla war

For US forces: excessively luxurious residences in Sasebo City

Japan's new law for a military use of space

[5]
Series Fight against today's impoverishment!
No. 3 - Workers with disguised managerial posts: no pay for overtime work

[6]
Postal workplaces: reorganization of collection/delivery centres

'Invalid dismissal' ruled by a High Court against Matsushita PDP

Topics Don't force overtime work upon nurses with no pay!

[7]
The new subway line in Tokyo: danger-ridden

Teachers increasingly replaced by temporary staff

[8] Kaleidoscope
- The JCP: immediate support for the SDF dispatch to China announced (and failed) by the Fukuda government
- Cluster-bomb ban: riddled with holes
- GM foods: dietary dependence
- The Osaka Governor: 'You are no responsible for the financial crisis, and yet must answer for it as public servants'??

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Down with the Fukuda government!
Stop an increase in the consumption tax!
Fight against the worst change in the social security system!
Advance the antiwar struggle and the politico-economic struggle
by breaking through the Rengo's industrial patriotic movement!

June 15th
March on the Diet!
Oppose the deployment of missile defence systems!
Fight to stop the consumption tax increase!
Throw over the ultra-reactionary Fukuda government
with the power of struggles by workers and students!