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No. 2050
(January 1st 2009 Issue)
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Build a bridgehead for struggle (A) The final collapse of the US dominance over the world as 'the sole superpower' (B) The total bankruptcy of neo-liberalism (C) Japanese imperialism victimizing the working class to wriggle out of the abyss II. Now is the time for a contemporary renaissance of Marxism! A. Fallacies of the JCP's 'neo-Keynesianist' alternative B. Make a revolutionary bridgehead for eradicating the warfare over the world and the impoverishment of peoples! [5] The foolish dream of 'sound finance': the worst degeneration of the converted Stalinists I. Pragmatic changes in the theory of 'finance separated from the real economy' II. Fallacies due to its dependence on bourgeois economics III. The JCP theory of a 'sound finance': trusting capitalism to realize its dream [6-7]
Putin's Russia fearing the signs of failure in its ambition to be a superpower I. Difficulties in achieving its ambition of being a superpower II. Measures to cope with its economic crisis in the middle of the global financial turmoil with the world simultaneous depression III. Russia's offensives against the US unipolar dominance over the world [10-11] Resolves for the New Year (1) - The Kansai Regional Committee - The Hokkaido Regional Committee - The Kyushu Regional Committee - The Postal Workers' Committee - The Electric Workers' Committee - The Prefectural/Municipal Workers' Committee - The Traffic and Transport Workers' Committee [12]
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No. 2049
(December 22nd 2008 Issue)
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Dec. 7th - Build a revolutionary bridgehead for struggles to eradicate wars and people's impoverishment! - 'Fight against their offensive to victimize working people for their survival of the economic crisis!' - Worker comrades expressed their resolutions - The Zengakuren chairman exposed the worst degeneration of the converted Stalinists - Unanimously confirming the present duties of the anti-Stalinist communist movement amid the great turbulence of the world [4-5]
The Japan Marxist Student League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) Central Secretariat - Militant promotion of mass struggles for antiwar and politico-economic issues - A great advance of the revolutionary student movement achieved through struggles against destructive offensives on students' self-governing associations - Theoretical lessons from the antiwar struggles and the politico-economic struggles [2] Stop the legislation to prolong the overseas anti-terror mission of MSDF troops! Oppose the bill to spend taxpayer money for bailing out financial institutions! - Zengakuren students protested in front of the Diet Building (Dec. 12th) (Pic.1) Struggles against US-Japan bilateral military exercises - Kadena, Okinawa (Dec. 1st)(Pic.2) - Komatsu, Ishiawa (Dec. 1st)(Pic.3) [3] A defiant attack by armed Islamist forces against Obama's US administration-to-be Shock waves from the November 11th guerrilla attacks in Mumbai: the first strike to beat Obama to the punch - NATO forces in Afghanistan cornered into an impasse - The Pakistani government and military showing its inability to control Islamist forces - The flame of Islam burning at the centre of the vortex of the global conflicts between three poles [6] Fight against the planned change in the nursing care insurance system! 'Oppose massive dismissals of non-regular workers!': 2000 workers at a rally in Tokyo (Dec. 4th) Topics The leadership of the NTT Workers Union: abandoning its demands for raising the wage base [7] Postal service: the annual busy time to come - Fight against the forced long duration of labour! Fight to stop the planned resumption of operation at the dangerous fast-breeder reactor Monju! - Workers, students and residents at a rally of protest (Tsuruga, Dec. 6th)(Pic.4) [8] Main articles in this year TOP |
No. 2048
(December 15th 2008 Issue)
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Smash massive dismissals and tax increases! - The Aso government: no measures to do with the depression - An impasse due to vassalage to US imperialism - Labour aristocrats in Rengo dreaming of a DPJ-led government - Smash the offensives for dismissals and lower wages!
[4] Oppose the deceptive amendment of the Worker Dispatching Law! Fight to scrap the Law! - A fake 'amendment' for the purpose of maintaining the form of temporary employment - Denounce the leadership of Rengo helping the amendment! [5] Oppose a tightened control of teachers through the introduction of the new position of 'leading teacher'! Oppose the Hokkaido Prefectural Board of Education planning to introduce 'a new position and a new rank'! [6] NTT West Japan: Fight back against the worsened condition of labour for temporary workers! Denounce the leaders in public workers' unions in Hokkaido calling off the November 18th strike! Topics Rengo's decision to demand a raise in the wage base for the first time in 8 years: its deceptive nature [2] Struggles against US-Japan bilateral military exercises - Workers and students marching on the US White Beach, Okinawa (Nov. 18th) - A battle to stop an 'anti-terror' exercise at the GSDF Aibano Base, Shiga (Nov. 22nd) (Photos in the right) [7] A 'civic movement-oriented' piece among fragmented Chukakuha remnants [8] Reading Kozo Uno's posthumous works: 30 years after his death My struggle at a new workplace [3] Kaleidoscope - 'ALBA' (new dawn) of the 'backyard' - Russia's counterattacks: but with many troubles - A Japanese doctor of Russian literature awarded a Pushkin prize TOP |
No. 2047
(December 8th 2008 Issue)
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Down with Aso's futureless government! - A fierce challenge by Muslim militants to Obama's next presidency - The Aso-led Japanese government revealing its incompetence for tackling with the grave crisis - Denounce the JCP bureaucrats dreaming of a 'sound capitalism'! [4-5] Poverty, famine and environmental destruction: groans from the sub-Saharan Africa - Another destruction of the environment in the name of the Clean Development Mechanism - War for natural resources escalated between the three blocs - Greedy expropriation intensified amid the tripartite struggle [2] War-justifying remarks by the Air Self-Defense Force chief, Toshio Tamogami - A demagogic view of history: seeing the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and Pearl Harbor as 'Comintern's conspiracies' - Patronized by an influential construction company's chief - Smash the rampancy of neo-fascist outrages! [3] A dam construction project in Kumamoto Prefecture stopped Labour aristocrats in the Federation of Electric Power Related Industry Workers' Unions calling for the 'promotion of nuclear power generation' [6] Angers growing against degenerate leaders trying to end the struggle: a rally of the Fukuoka Prefectural Workers Union for its season's wage struggle (Nov. 14th) Oppose the Hokkaido prefectural authority planning massive job cuts! Topics 14,000 workers in 12 companies: Fight back against Japanese auto monopolies planning mass sackings! [7] Dogmatic defenders of 'nations' rights to self-determination' and their fallacy - Self-styled Fourth Internationalists making irrelevant comments on the Russia-Georgia war [8] Kaleidoscope - The Detroit Three: the erstwhile 'spine', today's burden - Mao to internationalize: the Chinese yuan - Castles on the oil TOP |
No. 2046
(December 1st 2008 Issue)
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Join in the December 7th JRCL public political
meeting! - The illusion of the 'American dream' - Japanese imperialism in crisis suffering from the Dutch roll of Aso's government - Rise in a struggle in solidarity with workers and people all over the world groaning under poverty and war [4-5] The Japanese economy at an impasse (continued from the previous issue) (I) The Aso government victimizing workers and people for surviving the financial breakdown and the economic depression (II) The Japanese economy revealing the vulnerability of its fundamentals - The explosion of contradictions of the 'Americanized' financial market in Japan - The revealed vulnerability of its politico-economic structure dependent on exports to the US (Hereafter in the next issue) (III) Japanese imperialism desperate to survive the tripartite struggle of the world The central leadership of Rengo proposing 'a better way out of the national crisis' Successive refusals by Tokyo prefectural hospitals to treat expectant mothers [2]  Protests against US-Japan joint military
exercises- Okinawa: workers and students denounce a port call by the US nuclear-powered submarine Ohio (November 12th) (Pic right) - Kagoshima: fists of anger against US military aircraft flying to the local SDF base (November 7th) [3] A major bilateral exercise of US and Japanese forces according to a plan of military operation against China and Russia An SM-3 missile fired from a Japanese MSDF ship fail to intercept a target in a test for missile shield [6] Fight in solidarity with Keihin Hotel workers! Denounce the manager closing the business and sacking the employees! A JCP-led 'rally for medical and nursing care service': angers growing against its distortion for the party's election campaign (Oct. 19th) Topics The deceptive 'final report' from the government's advisory for the social security system [7] A grave industrial accident at Nippon Steel Co. Yawata Works - Excessive attempts for cost reduction without measures for safety [8] Kaleidoscope - The Chinese economy hit by shock waves from the US depression - Prague's autumn: 'Ne' to the radar and to Russia - Piracy: the son of the war on terror - Rich and poor, unite as a people!: Obama's speech from within a grass shield TOP |
No. 2045
(November 24th 2008 Issue)
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Break through the crisis of global warfare
and  - The beginning of a financial, economic
war between three poles: the US-Japan, emerging
economies led by China-Russia, and the EU
centring around France and Germany- The breakdown of the USD system and the global move towards the formation of new economic blocs - The collapse of the unipolar US dominance over the world and the impending crisis of a new world war - Down with the Aso government desperate to prolong its life! [4-5] The Japanese economy at an impasse - The Aso government victimizing workers and people for surviving the financial breakdown and the economic depression - The Japanese economy revealing its vulnerable fundamentals [2] 'Stop the continuation of the MSDF anti-terror mission!' - Students in Okinawa demonstrate on the prefectural LDP office (Oct. 26th) (Pic. right) Missile defences - FPS radars: 'the eyes of the MD system' - 'A spy satellite that can escape from missiles' and 'a upgraded communication satellite' [3]
Smash reactionary repressions on the revolutionary left! (Pic 1) Two detectives (X in a striped shirt and Y) trying to pick up a taxi for their tail (Pic 2) Detective X before changing his shirt (Pic 3) Detective X changing his shirt, unaware of being shot Oppose the attempt to strengthen the state surveillance system of the people in the name of 'measures against organized crimes'! [6] Fight back against sackings, wage cuts and other offensives on workers in an attempt to reduce postal subcontractors for delivery service! Hokkaido prefectural authority introduces temporary workers extensively Topics Leaders in the Toyota Workers' Union demand lower pay for the coming spring offensive [7] A fallacious 'UN-centred order of peace' For a criticism of the leadership in the Peace Forum [8] Kaleidoscope - The Detroit Three in a crisis - Amid the growing anti-American sentiments: Brzezinski's choice - Japan's seat in the UN Security Council - Recovery from the earthquake in China: again according to the market economy TOP |
No. 2044
(November 17th 2008 Issue)
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Down with the Aso government,
No deployment of missile defences! Oppose the US and Japanese governments strengthening the quasi-war footing against China and Russia! - The result of the US Presidential election: an explosion of people's anger against Bush's government - Intensification of the tripartite opposition amid the 'new confrontation between the US and China-Russia'! - Aso's shaky government continuing its servility to US imperialism - Advance antiwar, anti-military alliance struggles and politico-economic struggles! [2] Okinawa: a US Cessna crash on a residential area - Protests by the Okinawa Peace Movement Centre (Oct. 27th) (Pic.) Osaka: antiwar voices of students (Oct. 19th) [3] Oct. 26th demonstrations - Sapporo: Workers and students marching on the LDP Hokkaido headquarters (Pic.) - Fukuoka: Workers and students raising their fists of anger against the ASDF Kasuga base (Pics.) A campus rally at Kagoshima University (Oct. 23rd) (Pic.) [4-5] Chukakuha remnants: fragmented [6] Rengo's 'Basic Project' for the 2009 spring labour offensive: its criminal nature Industrial accidents increasing rapidly in Fukuoka prefecture 'Nominal managerial posts': another notification by the labour ministry Topics Unpaid overtime work: the record-breaking high amount paid for 'correction' according to the ministry's guidance, only the tip of the iceberg [7] The Hokkaido prefectural board of education: nullifying the agreement with the teachers' union about overtime work Okinawa: intensification of an 'ability-first' education Hokkaido: education workers at private schools suffering from temporary employment and low wages [8] Kaleidoscope - The ruble as an international currency: Putin's challenge - A scandal of an IMF director - Gaddafi's visit to Moscow - An Azerbaijan-Armenia meeting in Moscow TOP |
No. 2043
(November 10th 2008 Issue)
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The Oct. 26th demonstration in Tokyo
- 'Smash the US-Japan military alliance!' A militant demonstration carried out - 'Fight against the government and the monopoly capitalists victimizing workers and people for surviving the financial crisis! - The militant struggle by workers and students breaking through the crisis of the class struggle in Japan - Advance antiwar, anti-military alliance struggles and politico-economic struggles! Down with the Aso government through a big upsurge of the struggles! (See the upper two pictures on the right) [4] The 2008 recommendation by National Personnel Authority: Imposing effective cuts in wages on public workers Deceptions in Aso's 'boosting measures for regular employment' [5] Oppose the introduction of 'the next system for registered post' victimizing postal workers! TOSS [Teacher's Organization of Skill Sharing], a supplementary tool for education ministry's 'moral education' [2] 'Down with the Aso government!' The Oct. 26th demonstration in Osaka - Protests in front of the prefectural LDP office (See the bottom on the right) The Fukuoka rally for the International Day against War' (Oct. 21st) Kanazawa University: a campus march against war (Oct. 17th) [3] Chukakuha remnants (after their latest splits) revealing their inability to make any response to the Georgian crisis The flood-stricken Tokai region: damage caused by ex-Prime Minister Koizumi's 'structural reform' [6] Denounce the Osaka governor disclosing the scores of the national achievement tests! Naha City (Okinawa) contracting with private companies for school lunches Topics Dissatisfaction growing among teachers about the periodic renewal system newly introduced for teaching certificates [7] The reactionary nature of Governor Hashimoto's 'reform of the Osaka Prefectural Office' A 'plan for reviving the medical service' proposed by the JCP-led medical workers' union [8] Kaleidoscope - Putin's Judo methods - Paul Krugman awarded by the Nobel committee: why? - Inharmonious society in China - The floating command on the sea TOP |
No. 2042
(November 3rd 2008 Issue)
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Don't let Aso stay in office!
- The government and the monopoly bourgeoisie imposing miseries upon workers and people in a bid to survive the economic turbulence - Fight back by denouncing the official leadership immersed in vote collecting campaigns! [4-5] The world economy on the eve of an international financial panic (1) A vicious spiral of the international financial bankruptcy and the slump - The globally simultaneous crashes in stock markets and the aggravation of the financial turmoil - The failure of the G7 agreements (2) The total bankruptcy of 'casino capitalism' - The meltdown of the US financial system - The disastrous failure of the financial alchemy invented by Yankee imperialists - Casino capitalism revealing its limitations (3) The end of the US dollar system and the formation of new economic blocs amid struggles between the three poles [6-7] The US presidential election amid the financial bankruptcy and the collapse of the unipolar dominance over the world: a real farce (1) A scream of the declining empire - A severe earthquake blowing up the election campaign - Political debates surrounded by shouts of anger - Growing streams of anti-American sentiments (2) Illusions about restoration of the unipolar dominance over the world - 'Change' without a leading idea - Delusion of the revival of the militarist empire (3) Bush's negative legacy: irrevocable [2] 
'No to the legislation to continue
the 'anti-terror'
mission of MSDF troops on the Indian
Ocean!'- Zengakuren fought against it (Oct. 21st, beside the Diet Building) (Pic. right) 'Down with the Aso government!' - A united action of workers and students in the Tokai region (Oct. 19th) (Pic. right lower) [3] NTT Workers' Union Chairman Kato: appealing power holders for 'a decision' to hike the consumption tax Overtime work for 112 hours a month: extremely intensified labour forced upon taxi drivers 'Overcome your one-sided view centred on regular workers!' - The JCP-led Zenroren leadership blaming leaders of member unions Topics 'the breakdown of the national health insurance system' depriving the poor of medical services [8] Kaleidoscope 2008  - The most aggressive US submarine calling
at Yokosuka Port- Bails and parachutes - Japanese recipients of the Nobel Prize: Taketani's tri-stadial methodology supporting their scientific studies - A JCP-version of the New Deal TOP |
No. 2041
(October 27th 2008 Issue)
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Down with Aso's shaky government! - Clashes between the US and Russia over the issues of Georgia and the deployment of missile defences - Desperate attempts by the Aso government servile to American rulers - Let us fight back by denouncing the official leadership immersed in the election campaign! [4-5] The world economy on the eve of an international financial panic (1) A vicious spiral of the international financial bankruptcy and the slump (2) Grand bankruptcy of 'casino capitalism' [2] 'Overweight is unpatriotic'? - The 'metabolic syndrome examination' imposed on working people for the supreme purpose of curtailing the medical budgets [6] Denounce the Tokyo Prefectural personnel commission recommending a reorganization of managerial posts! - Smash the offensive of the Tokyo Prefectural authority and the prefectural board of education to introduce a new managerial post and to reduce the wages of teachers! [7] Labour aristocrats in the IMF-JC and UI Zensen 'opposing' to each other over demands for the 2009 spring labour offensive From a working place of nursing care: We won a noon recess by our power of unity! Topics The Japanese economy plunging into a slump [8] Series Fight against today's pauperization! Series No. 11 Crimes of labour aristocrats in Rengo, accomplices in the coercion of poverty [3] Kaleidoscope - A tragedy of the ice land - Angers growing against the new health insurance system for senior citizens - Brinksmanship by means of the condition of his own health - Severer punishments for 'breach of confidence': servile to US imperialism TOP |