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No. 2070
(May 25th 2009 Issue)
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Fight to stop the deployment of - Military tensions between the US and China-Russia mounting behind the started talks for 'nuclear arms reduction' - The Sao-led Japanese government hurrying to send troops off Somalia and to Djibouti - Denounce the central JCP leadership cheering US and Russian power holders voicing 'nuclear arms reduction' (Pic above: 'Remove military bases!' Workers and students putting up their fists at the annual people's rally in Okinawa, May 17th)
Break the fatal crisis of the labour movement I. The Japanese working class compelled to suffer the most miserable defeat in the history of the spring offensive (A) The worst cuts in wages (B) The failure of the Rengo leadership's plan 'to bring trade unions of the domestic demand related-industry to the forefront' (C) Rengo leaders' support to monopoly capitalists for sacking workers including temporaries (D) The leadership's dependence on the tripartite consultation system between labour, management and the government (E) Struggles carried out to break the fatal crisis of the Japanese labour movement (Included in the previous issue, No. 2069) II. Cruel burdens shifted onto the working class (A) Monopoly capitalists' offensive of restructuring and cuts in wages for surviving their crisis (B) The Aso government busy bailing out major corporations (C) The industrial patriotic movement developed for 'overcoming the national crisis' III. Organize a working class counteroffensive against the coercion of 'war and impoverishment' (A) Break the industrial patriotic movement of Rengo (B) Smash the major restructuring offensive! Down with the Aso government! [2-3] Antiwar actions of students nationwide (Pics in the right) - Kansai: 'Don't impose 'war and poverty' on us!' Voices resounding through a busy street in Kobe (Apr. 26th) - Hokuriku: 'Down with the Aso government!' Kanazawa University students marching through their local city (Apr. 29th) - Okinawa: 'Don't build another US Marine base!' An antiwar march in Naha City (Apr. 29th) - Tokai: 'No increase in tuition!' Students of Nagoya University and Aichi University jointly marching through Nagoya City (May 3rd) - Kyushu: 'Stop the dispatch abroad of troops! No increase in tuition!' A campus demonstration at Kagoshima University (Apr. 24th) 'Oppose the port call by a US aegis-equipped destroyer at Osaka Port!' Kobe University students protesting in solidarity with trade unions (Apr. 23rd) An antiwar rally in Okinawa denouncing the bilateral agreement for the US Forces' relocation (Apr. 28th) [6-7] Denounce the labour aristocrats in the Japan Post Workers Union requesting a new wage system thoroughly based on ability and merit evaluation [8] Fight to abolish the Worker Dispatching Law Struggles for a militant upsurge of May Day rallies - The banner of the JRCL held aloft at the Rengo Osaka rally (May 1st) - Revolutionary leaflets from the JRCL to thousands of workers at the Rengo Fukuoka rally (Apr. 29th) Topics The latest notice from the labour ministry recommending capitalists to employ workers in the disguise of subcontract TOP |
No. 2069
(May 18th 2009 Issue)
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Break the fatal crisis of the labour movement I. The Japanese working class compelled to suffer the most miserable defeat in the history of the spring offensive (A) The worst cuts in wages (B) The failure of the Rengo leadership's plan 'to bring trade unions of the domestic demand related-industry to the forefront' (C) Rengo leaders' support to monopoly capitalists for sacking workers including temporaries (D) The leadership's dependence on the tripartite consultation system between labour, management and the government (E) Struggles carried out to break the fatal crisis of the Japanese labour movement (To continue to the next issue) [2] Osaka University of Economics: militant students won the suit The Osaka District Court declared 'the expulsion of the five students from the school is against the law and invalid' - The complaints by the students were fully approved - Criminal acts by the school authority was exposed in and outside the court - Fight to press the reactionary authority to withdraw the unjust decision [4] 'A sound development of capitalism': the illusion of the converted Stalinists The culmination of the JCP's degeneration (Continued from the previous issue) III. A thoroughly rightward development in its policy for revised capitalism (A) The complete abandonment of its idea 'against monopoly capital' (B) Illusion about the 'unlimited development' of capitalism (C) Decoration with arbitrary ideas about 'future society' [5] Oppose the cuts in summer bonuses for the national civil servants The recent fire at an unlicensed facility for poor old people: a tragedy caused by the revision to worse of the social security system [6] A neoliberal scholar trying to brainwash education workers The Oita prefectural board of education pressing municipalities to disclose the results of the national achievement test A district meeting against 'the working poor in local governments' (Fukuoka, Apr. 26th) Topics Rengo's 'demands and recommendations about policies of the government' [7] Constitution Memorial Day events (May 3rd) - The foolish leader of the JCP showing his dependence on Obama (The Hibiya meeting) - A Peace Forum meeting for supporting the DPJ Denounce the successive disemployments of supply teachers by the Okinawa prefectural board of education [8] What I learned about 'concretization of struggle = organizing tactics' [3] Kaleidoscope - The Georgian President in isolation - South Africa's new President clad in panther skin - Hungary's new Prime Minister: no way out of the nation's economic disaster - China's new aircraft carrier TOP |
No. 2068
(May 11th 2009 Issue)
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Fight to advance antiwar, anti-military alliance
struggle!
- Fight to block ratification of the US-Japan agreement for the US Marine relocation! - Oppose the operational strengthening of the new US-Japan military alliance! - Oppose the competitive strengthening of nuclear capabilities by the US and China-Russia! [3] The 80th May Day in Japan Militant workers struggling to break the stagnation of the labour movement The central Rengo rally (April 29th): labour aristocrats shouting for 'a paradigm change through a change of government' The central Zenroren rally (May 1st): Praises for Obama and cries for 'change to a government for the people' The Zenrokyo rally (May 1st): Empty cries by trade union leaders for 'change from neo-liberal policies' [4-5] 'A sound development of capitalism': the illusion of the converted Stalinists The culmination of the JCP's degeneration - 'Proposals' for 'improving the Japanese economy' - The JCP's 'recommendations for the departure from casino capitalism' and their theoretical decorations [2] 'Down with the Aso government!' A demonstration by angry students in Tokyo  Students rallying in response to the call by leaders in five students' associations in the metropolitan area (April 25th) [6] Hokkaido: planned closures and combinations of public hospitals imposing burdens on medical workers and residents Topics Guidelines by the public management ministry ordering to close 'hospitals at financial deficits' Osaka: Rengo leaders started a 'network for working' to cover up its abandonment of temporary workers [7] Chukakuha remnants' last-ditch attempt for survival: a scream for 'fight against the establishmentarian labour movement' (Continued from the previous issue) - A caricature of syndicalism [8] A battle on the South China Sea between US and Chinese forces Kaleidoscope - China's import regulations: 'to prevent computer viruses' - Japan's military build-up in outer space TOP |
No. 2067
(May 4th 2009 Issue)
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Down with the Aso government
- The total failure of Obama's 'smart power' diplomacy - The trilateral conflicts intensified over a reduction in nuclear armaments - Overthrow the Aso government servile to US imperialism [2] 'Stop the new legislation for sending troops abroad!' - Zengakuren protested in front of the Diet Building (Apr. 23rd) (Pics in the right) Okinawa: anger flamed against US warships entering a civilian port of the Ishigaki Island (Apr. 3rd-4th) [3] For a militant upsurge of the annual peace march and rally in Okinawa Fight it by overcoming the official peace movement demanding the 'reduction' of military bases without opposition to the US-Japan military alliance JRCL Okinawa Prefectural Committee - US and Japanese governments strengthening the new US-Japan military alliance for actual operations - The official leadership misleading the peace movement into 'a protest about damages from bases' - Advance antiwar, anti-military base and anti-military alliance struggle by overcoming the JCP-led peace movement abandoning opposition to the US-Japan military alliance [4-5] Chukakuha remnants' last-ditch attempt for survival: a scream for 'fight against the establishmentarian labour movement' - Hopeless attempts to slip into trade unions in Rengo and Zenroren - A strange thesis: 'Turn the depression to a proletarian world revolution!' [6] The latest revision of the Industry Revival Law: for bailing out monopoly capitalists and promoting their corporate restructuring Fight against the planned introduction of 'new posts' by the Okinawa prefectural board of education Topics The announced 'agreement between the government, labour and management for job security': full of deceptions [7] Denounce the leadership in the chemical workers' federation accepting dismissals and cuts in wages [8] Kaleidoscope - The Americas Summit: Cuba playing a starring role, the US isolated - Obama's charm campaign: impossible to liquidate the crimes - Weapons with no 'moral responsibility' - JSOC units: Schutzstaffel led by Cheney TOP |
No. 2066
(April 27th 2009 Issue)
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Smash massive dismissals and cuts in wages! - Attempts for extensive restructuring by monopoly capitalist corporations backed by the government's measures for their bailout - Labour aristocrats depending on a 'consultation between labour, management and the government' and revolutionary workers' fight - Fight to overthrow the Aso government by overcoming the industrial patriotic movement! [4-5] Political friction between the US and Japanese ruling classes over Japan's 'independence from the US' What's behind the disclosure of Nishimatsu Construction Co.'s 'illegal donation' to Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan I. The manipulated exposure of the Nishimatsu scandal aimed at Ozawa - Extraordinary arrest and indictment II. The Nishimatsu scandal, just the tip of the iceberg: newly formed dark connections between politics, bureaucracy and business - What is called the 'illegal donation' to Ozawa - The US Eastern Establishment manipulating the exposure - Destructive reorganization of the bilateral structure of jobbery between the Bush administration and the mainstream politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party III. A new policy towards Japan taken by the Obama administration desperate to revive the US unipolar dominance over the world  - Forcing 'servility' by various means, including
the intimidating exposure of the Nishimatsu
scandal- Ozawa, ambitious for 'independence from the US' [2] 'Denounce the ratification of the US-Japan agreement for the US Force relocation!' - Zengakuren protested the vote by the House of Representatives (April 14th) (Pic right) 'No to the resumed operation of dangerous Reactor No. 1!': Kanazawa University students protested at the gate of the Shika nuclear plant (March 28th) A street propaganda in Fukuoka against the mobilization of the missile defence system against North Korea's launch (April 4th-5th) [3] Series Stop Japan's development of nuclear plants and weapons! No. 8 - Hamaoka nuclear plant in Shizuoka Prefecture - Pluthermal operation planned in the focal region on the alert for a disastrous Tokai Earthquake [6] Introduction of a 'Japanese dual system' in high schools: measures for job education and training in the interest of capitalists for producing skilled workers Militant workers struggled at a Hokkaido regional rally of JCP-led trade unions (Sapporo, March 29th) Topics A 'Green New Deal' in Japan: extensive restructuring through transfers, redeployments and sackings of workers [7] Harsh exploitation of Chinese 'trainees' in Japan My participation in the Feb. 15 workers' meeting [8] Kaleidoscope - Obama's dream: Money can save people in Afghanistan - Detectors were detected: A Russian reconnaissance plane detecting waves from US and Japanese radars set for a North Korean launch - The international space station: operation continued - Israeli T-shirts of madness TOP |
No. 2065
(April 20th 2009 Issue)
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Down with the Aso government servile to US
imperialism!
- Useless makeshift measures for economic stimulation by the US-dependent Aso government - Fight to advance politico-economic struggles, the spring labour offensive and antiwar struggles! [4-5] Fight to overthrow the reactionary Aso government! Advance antiwar struggle and politico-economic struggle against the stormy offensive to thrust the toiling masses into war and impoverishment! Central Students' Orgburo I. The Obama administration desperate to rebuild its unipolar world dominance: a newly-emerged confrontation between US imperialism and China-Russia (A) The Obama administration taking a twofold policy to confront China and Russia (B) China and Russia rushing to strengthen their nuclear capabilities against US imperialism (C) Intensification of the triangular conflicts under the global financial bankruptcy and the simultaneous worldwide depression II. The Aso government on its death bed thrusting the working people into 'war and impoverishment' (A) More vassal obedience to US imperialism (B) Stagnation of the Japanese class struggle and the challenge of the revolutionary left to break it through III. Rise in a struggle to overthrow the Aso government! (A) Denounce the JCP bureaucrats abandoning their 'opposition to the US-Japan Security Treaty' and 'to monopoly capital' (B) Advance to overthrow the Aso government by break through the stagnation in the Japanese class struggle! [2] Series Stop Japan's development of nuclear plants and weapons! No. 7 Pluthermal operation planned to start at the Genkai Nuclear Plant, Kyushu, for the first time in Japan: the growing danger of a nuclear disaster - Plutonium-mixed fuel due to arrive in Japan in May Three international alliances in the nuclear business heating up competition over the supply of fuel to nuclear plants [6] The compulsory learning of English introduced in elementary schools in Japan: troubling teachers and children Cuts in wages, and cuts in pensions after retirement Anger against degenerate responses by the central Rengo leadership to temporary workers' hardships Topics A McDonald's worker won the suit: a 'nominal manager' given no pay for his overtime work [7] Denounce the monopoly capitalists in the auto industry deciding a major cut in wages! Denounce the central leadership in the NTT Workers' Union misleading the spring offensive to a humiliating defeat [8] A contribution from Ukraine What is Happening in This Country? 'A historical materialist solution for the problems is to bring up Tibetan capitalists': an astonishing remark by a JCP economist, cheering the Chinese bureaucracy The US Congressional legislation to tax on AIG executives' bonuses: a political show for bailing out financial monopolies [3] Kaleidoscope - 'US Commitment for a world without nuclear weapons'? - Obama's trip 'to remove misunderstandings' - The second ultimatum to the former 'Big Three' - An arrest of a notorious neo-liberal Japanese economist for luggage theft: for his greed TOP |
No. 2064
(April 13th 2009 Issue)
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Fight to overthrow the reactionary Aso government! I. A newly-emerged confrontation between the Obama administration desperate to rebuild the US's unipolar world dominance and China-Russia (A) The Obama administration taking a twofold policy to confront China and Russia (B) China and Russia rushing to strengthen their nuclear capabilities against US imperialism (C) Intensification of the triangular conflicts under the global financial bankruptcy and the simultaneous worldwide depression II. The Aso government on its death bed driving workers and people into 'war and impoverishment' (A) More vassal obedience to US imperialism (B) Stagnation of the Japanese class struggle and the challenge of the revolutionary left to break it through (To continue to the next issue) [3] US and Japanese imperialist rulers bent on strengthening the missile defence system by taking advantage of North Korea's rocket launch [4] Criticize the central leadership of the 'Peace Forum' adopting degenerate tactics for 'opposition' to the deployment of SDF troops off Somalia: the deceptive nature of its alternative, 'non-military cooperation for maritime security' - A superficial 'analysis' of the military deployment - Proposal of 'non-military alternatives' for international cooperation dependent on the Ozawa-led DPJ - 'Soft power-based measures against pirates'? - The deceptive nature of its alternative: 'human security' [5] Denounce the Japan Post managerial responding to the demands from workers' union with wage cuts! [6] Denounce the disciplinary actions by the Tokyo Prefectural Government against teachers who rejected the forced respect for the Reign-of-the-Emperor anthem UAW Workers forced 'a wage level equal to those in Japanese makers' Toyota: a grand failure in its management Topics The JTU leadership stressing 'a change of movement from a demanding type to an achieving type' [7] 'Down with the Aso government!' Militant voices nationwide - Osaka (March 19th) - Fukuoka (March 22nd) - Sapporo (March 11th) [8] A contribution from a British Marxist For Soviets and Marxist Philosophy TOP |
No. 2063
(April 6th 2009 Issue)
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Denounce the US-Japan joint combat readiness - The US imperialist Obama administration starting diplomatic dealings with China and Russia - Economic war intensified between the 'three blocs', the source of global warfare - Rise up to overthrow the Aso government by overcoming the degeneration of the official opposition movement [3] Fight to stop the ratification of the Agreement concerning the Relocation of the US Marine Corps from Okinawa to Guam  - The Japanese government pledged the US
a tremendous expenditure of the Japanese
taxpayers' money for the relocation together
with the construction of a new Marine base
in Okinawa- The Obama administration introducing modifications in the US imperialist strategy for world domination - Fight by denouncing the central JCP bureaucrats abandoning the opposition to the US-Japan Security Treaty 'Down with the Aso government!' A militant demonstration by workers and students in the Tokai region (Nagoya, March 20th) (Photo right) [4] Let us fight on by denouncing the central leadership of metal workers' unions crying out for 'overcoming the crisis of companies' [5] Denounce monopoly capitalists of private railway companies rejecting a raise of wage level Workers in social welfare offices: extremely intensified labour amid a storm of dismissals [6] Militant workers struggling at regional Rengo rallies for the spring labour offensive - Rengo Aichi Prefectural rally (Nagoya, March 8th) - Rengo Ishikawa Prefectural rally (Kanazawa, March 10th) - Kyushu regional rally of transport and traffic workers' unions (March 6th) Topics Drastic cuts in bonuses: the total yearly wages to decrease by 10% [7] The national JTU meeting for education research - Militant workers struggled to organize discussions against the chauvinistic reorganization of education Temporary workers in public services thrust down into poverty - Cuts in wages imposed on them under the pretext of the National Personnel Authority's recommendation to reduce working hours of the civil service  [2] Zengakuren: the 126 meeting of the Central Committee - Prepared to advance a struggle to overthrow the Aso government on its death bed (Photo right) [8] Kaleidoscope - Ukrainization of Japan?: a Gazprom project - A global war for re-dividing farmland - The French NPA: a miserable mutation of degenerate Trotskyists TOP |
No. 2062
(March 30th 2009 Issue)
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Denounce the monopoly capitalists' unheard-of response, lower wages! - A historic betrayal by labour aristocrats under the pretext of 'securing jobs' - Monopoly capitalists threatened by 'a simultaneous downfall of the US and Japanese economies' - Down with the Aso government by breaking the industrial patriotic movement! [4] Denounce monopoly capitalists of private railway companies rejecting a raise in basic monthly wages Fight it out by overcoming the official movement to demand 'higher wages to secure the management of the domestic demand-based industry' Overthrow the Aso government imposing war and poverty! - Monopoly capitalists in the railway industry suffering from the great depression - The central leadership in the General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions submitting to the capitalists imposing lower wages - Reveal the nature of the leadership's agenda against the working class: 'a spring labour offensive for securing the foundations of domestic demand-base industries' - Denounce the 0% hike settlements in major companies! Now is the time for workers in minor railway and bus companies to fight the 2009 spring offensive [5] Monopoly capitalists in the steel making industry desperate to find their ways of survival amid the depression [6] Nursing care service: the deceptive 3% raise in the official rate of remuneration Topics Drastic decreases in corporate taxes causing financial crises to prefectural and municipal governments [7] The 26th convention of the Zenkyo, JCP-led teachers' union - The central leadership ordered a vote collecting campaign under the banner 'for solution of the poverty of children'
Revealed crimes of labour aristocrats in Rengo Osaka: helping a cover-up of Panasonic's illegal labour contract [2] The electronic industry: Denounce monopoly capitalists' decision to reduce the wages against the demand for higher wages! Stop the deployment of Japanese troops off Somalia! - Militant struggles by Zengakuren Kansai in the port city of Kure (March 14th) (Pics right) [3] Series Stop Japan's development of nuclear plants and weapons! No. 6 Kansai Electric Power's Oi nuclear plant: the main pipe of the 3rd reactor nearly broken Smash the plan of plutonium-mix operation at Tomari Nuclear Plant! A rally of protest in Sapporo (March 2nd) The regional economy in Hokkaido in the midst of the crisis [8] Kaleidoscope - 'Workers' spring' in France - A salvager of El Salvador? - Pakistan: the restored Chief Justice - Spy hunters TOP |
No. 2061
(March 23rd 2009 Issue)
Fight by denouncing the degeneration of the official leadership! - A militant demonstration- Down with the Aso government imposing war and poverty! Battle cries raised at the rally - Advance antiwar struggles, politico-economic struggles and the spring labour offensive!
[4] Denounce monopoly capitalists of the electrical industry deciding 'lower wages' against the unions' demands for higher wages - Monopoly capitalists' offensive for massive dismissals and lower wages - The central leadership in the electrical workers' union submissive to the capitalist offensive - The central leadership's line 'for improving general conditions of labour': its nature against the working class - Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring labour offensive by denouncing the leaderships' oppression [5]
Fight by denouncing the central leadership in the publication workers' union misleading the spring offensive under the slogan 'for the revival of the publication industry' - Monopoly capitalists in the publication industry victimizing workers for their survival of the depression - 'The 2009 spring offensive for reviving the publication industry': the fallacious agenda of the central leadership - Smash the massive dismissals and wage cuts! Down with the Aso government! [6] Labour aristocrats in the Toyota workers' union playing a leading role in accepting dismissals and destroying the spring labour offensive Poverty imposed on workers in Hokkaido Topics The central leadership of the postal workers' union decided no demand for higher wages
[7] Growing anger against the Rengo leadership - Tokyo: the central rally of Rengo for the 2009 spring labour offensive (March 7th) (Pic. right above) - Rengo Fukuoka rally: a storm of anger against labour aristocrats (March 1st) - Rengo Okinawa rally: against attempts to destroy the spring offensive (Feb. 25th) [2] Militant students in the Tokai region denounced the deployment of PAC-3 missiles in the ASDF Gifu base (Feb. 27th). A protest rally against a nuclear plant in Satsuma Sendai, Kagoshima (Feb. 21st) An urgent rally of protest against a US parliament leader visiting Okinawa for strengthening military bases (Feb. 20th) A trade union-based demonstration against the deployment of MSDF troops off Somalia (Kanazawa, Feb 25th) [3] Stop the deployment of MSDF troops off Somalia! - Zengakuren protested in front of the Defence Ministry's headquarter (March 14th) Reveal what is aimed by the newly enacted law 'against piracy' Join the 126th meeting of the Zengakuren Central Committee! [8] Kaleidoscope - A new 'east-west' opposition in Europe? - 'There's no zombie bank in the US', said a zombie. - Draught in China: a result of the Olympic - Obama's strategy of 'soft power' and a new business by US merchants of death TOP |
