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No. 2160
(March 21st 2011 Issue)
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Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown - Immediately stop all nuclear power plants! - We stand in solidarity with toiling masses hit by disasters [3] Toiling Muslim masses in the Middle East, march on to topple the pro-US imperialist state power of your country! Fight to stop the military intervention by US and European imperialist powers! - Struggles of toiling Muslim masses burning throughout the Arab world - The Obama-led US administration pursuing an imperialist military intervention - Advance an international antiwar struggle in solidarity with fighting Muslim masses! [2] Denounce the hostile comment by Kevin Maher on antiwar, anti-base struggles in Okinawa! 'Condemn the Maher remarks! Remove the Futenma Air Station!' Okinawa Kengakuren protest immediately (March 10th-11th) 'Okinawans are lazy and use their island's hosting of US military bases to extort benefits' (the US state department's Japan desk chief, Kevin Maher) Topics The government-labour talk on March 4th: the Rengo leadership pledging a full cooperation to the Kan government [4-5] Declaration of wage cuts on the pretext of 'global competition' Criticizing the annual labour report issued by the employers' federation - A bugle for 'global competition' - Changes planned in labour management policies for 'global business development' - Refusal of wage talks in the name of 'partnership talks between labour and management' - An expedient use of Rengo leaders' theory 'same wages to same-value labours' - Praises for the 'spirit of labour-management cooperation' [6] The General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions Oppose the central leadership distorting the spring labour offensive into a campaign of demanding a better traffic policy! - Monopoly capitalists of private railways victimizing workers for their survival - Oppose the leadership immersed in a campaign of demanding a better traffic policy! [7] For a militant upsurge of the spring labour offensive in the electric industry Denounce the labour aristocrats leading today's Industrial Patriotic movement! - Monopoly capitalists and the Kan government coercing the working class into poverty and war in a new form - Break the 'patriotic' degeneration of the spring offensive! - Fight for an antiwar struggle and a militant spring labour offensive! [8] Castro, say why you do not denounce the brutality by Khadafy! Kaleidoscope - The Russian Tricolour on the Kuril Islands - What's behind the South Korean fake report on 'Chinese forces deployed in North Korea' - Police security tightened under the pretext of 'anti-terror measures' TOP |
No. 2159
(March 14th 2011 Issue)
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Win a big and uniform wage hike! - Monopoly capitalists coercing the working people into poverty and unemployment - Denounce the Rengo leadership who recommends the government to raise the consumption tax rates! - Fight for militant spring labour offensive and antiwar struggle! Break the 'patriotic' degeneration of the offensive! [2]  For the 130th meeting of the Zengakuren
Central
CommitteeBuild a bridgehead to advance an international antiwar struggle! - Today's world shaken by the successive uprisings of toiling Muslim masses in the Middle East - The war crisis in the Korean Peninsula growing amid the confrontation between US imperialism and China - Fight in solidarity with the toiling masses struggling all over the world against the coercion into war and poverty! Stop the US-Japan joint military drill! Zengakuren Kansai protest together with workers and local residents near the SDF Aibano training field (Shiga prefecture, Feb. 13th) (Pic right) [5] Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring labour offensive in the telecommunication industry! Denounce labour aristocrats in the NTT Workers' Union pledging an all-out cooperation in the 'global business development'! - The NTT management desperate 'to expand global businesses' - Degeneration of the spring offensive into a 'spring talk' for 'business development' - Create an 'antiwar and spring' offensive in the telecommunication industry! [7] For a militant advancement of the spring labour offensive in the metal industry Denounce labour aristocrats calling for a 'spring offensive for recovering the Japanese economy'! [4] The leaders of the JCP-led national labour centre Zenroren begging the ruling class 'to raise wages for recovering the Japanese economy' The criminal nature of their agenda for the '2011 spring offensive' (1) Under the slogan 'a healthy development of the Japanese economy' - The awkward return of 'demands for higher wages' - Attempts to patch up the failed campaign of begging the DPJ government 'to perform the election premises' (2) Advertising an 'economic recovery led by domestic demands' - 'A big business-centred structure distorting the Japanese economy': superficial analysis - 'Use the company's excessive internal reserves for wage hike': an anti-proletarian alternative (Above in the previous issue) (3) Justification of the agenda with bourgeois ideas - Emphasis on the so-called 'corporate social responsibility' based on beautification of capitalist corporations - The idea of 'welfare state' based on revised Keynesianism [3] Japan Post: Smash the massive sackings of temporary workers! Fight back against another bashing on the Hokkaido Teachers Union! [6] The Panasonic factory at Kurume, Kyushu, to be closed Caseworkers at social welfare offices in Hokkaido: Extreme intensification of labour due to the austerity policy of the government Topics Japan Federation of Basic Industry Workers' Unions: labour aristocrats recommending the government to promote a trans-Pacific free trade, military build-up and nuclear plant export [8] Kaleidoscope - The JCP desperate to cover up the friendly relation with Ben Ali - A fictitious monologue by Naoto Kan's wife - The pearl square is burning - Chinese peasants protesting the dispossession of their lands TOP |
No. 2158
(March 7th 2011 Issue)
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Let us fight in solidarity with toiling Muslim
masses  - Toiling Libyan masses battling on to topple
the Khadafy regime- Struggles to topple the ruling governments spread over the Arab world - International shock waves sent by the uprisings of toiling Muslim masses - Fight in solidarity with anti-US imperialist, anti-Zionist struggles by toiling Muslim masses 'Denounce the Khadafy regime for murdering the rebelling masses!' Zengakuren protest in front of the Libyan embassy in Tokyo (Feb. 24th) (Pic right) [4-5] The leaders of the JCP-led national labour centre Zenroren begging the ruling class 'to raise wages for recovering the Japanese economy' The criminal nature of their agenda for the '2011 spring offensive' (1) Under the slogan 'a healthy development of the Japanese economy' - The awkward return of 'demands for higher wages' - Attempts to patch up the failed campaign of begging the DPJ government 'to perform the election premises' (2) Advertising an 'economic recovery led by domestic demands' - 'A big business-centred structure distorting the Japanese economy': superficial analysis - 'Use the company's excessive internal reserves for wage hike': an anti-proletarian alternative (To continue) [2] Bolivian workers' fight foiled the plan to raise gasoline prices Distrust and anger growing against the Morales government Russian and Chinese rulers teaming up for territorial claims against Japanese imperialism [3] Fight against the offensives by the elected heads of Aichi prefecture and Nagoya city to reduce the public workers and services! Prefectural governors in the Kansai region allied in response to the Kan government project for 'local government reform' [6] Japan Post: deceptive 'regularization' of temporary employees Rengo Okinawa's rally for the spring offensive Topics Rengo leadership recommending a consumption tax hike [7] Deceptions in the Kan government plan 'to grant civil servants a right to strike' Win back the total rights of workers! Denounce the labour aristocrats of the IMF-JC abandoning even the demands for 'wage improvement'! [8] Japanese semiconductor manufacturers losing the international competition in developing advanced technologies TOP |
No. 2157
(February 28th 2011 Issue)
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Down with the Kan government! - Kan's desperate dash to the reduction of social security and the increase in the consumption tax rate - Monopoly capitalists bent on sackings and wage cuts - Fight for a militant upsurge of the 'antiwar and spring' offensive! [4-5] Criticizing Rengo's 'report for the 2011 spring offensive' A 'patriotic' agenda stressing the need 'to revive the Japanese economy' - Justification for a 'patriotic' course - Superficial analysis of the situation based on a hope for a perpetual prosperity of capitalism - Deceptive demands for 'wage restoration' - Demands for 'redistribution of added value' to conceal capitalist exploitation - Proposals for 'profitable use of temporary workers' - Political demands on the government 'to encourage the economic growth' - Oppression of antiwar struggle coupled with the emphasis on 'national interests' - Pledge of the cooperation with the ruling class in 'surviving a national crisis' - Break the 'patriotic' degeneration of the spring labour offensive! Fight for a deconstruction of Rengo! [2] Zengakuren Hokkaido protest successive port calls by aegis-equipped US warships (Otaru on Feb. 4th, Tomakomai on Feb. 5th) 'Smash the repression on the students' association fighting antiwar struggle!' Militant students protest the authority of Okinawa International University (Jan. 20th) Denounce the court decision to justify the government-controlled Residents' Registration Network! Oppose the order for Kunitachi City to be connected to the system! [3] A special address by the JRCL to the Feb. 6th Meeting of Workers Down with the Kan Government coercing the working people into war and poverty! [6] Toyota: Labour aristocrats desperate to oppress the spring labour offensive A militant appeal from the JRCL to Toyota workers at the Zenroren-led rally (Feb. 11th) Nippon TV Co.: severe cuts in wages imposed on workers Topics The Kan government successively scrapping the DPJ election promises for 'supporting the lives of the people' [7] Trans-Pacific Partnership for free trade: Talks started between the US and Japanese governments Oppose the successive price rises in foods, kerosene and gasoline! [8] Kaleidoscope - Obama's mid-winter nightmare: domino-effective collapses of pro-US governments - Japan's exports of nuclear plants - What's behind the so-called sumo scandal - X-47B: A killer of China's 'aircraft carrier killer' TOP |
No. 2156
(February 21st 2011 Issue)
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Advance the spring labour offensive and antiwar
struggle!  Main slogans the JRCL proposes for the 2011 spring labour offensive See below [4-5] Keynote Report to the Meeting For a militant upsurge of the spring 'labour and antiwar' offensive Smash the coercion into war and poverty! (1) The government and the ruling class victimizing workers for the survival of Japanese imperialism (2) Break the industrial patriotic movement! Fight for a militant advancement of the 2011 spring labour offensive! [3] Egyptian working people, march forward to the overthrow of the pro-US imperialist state power! Fight against repression by the military junta supported by US imperialism! Japanese workers, fight to stop any warmongering by the Zionist government of Israel! Advance an international antiwar struggle in solidarity with toiling Muslim masses! The Muslim Brotherhood, a leading organization of the uprising A popular uprising in Yemen
[2] Stop the US military drills! Worker and students in Kyushu protest against the transportation of US military munitions for the drills (Feb. 2nd) (Pics, right) Stop a new Korean war! Zengakuren Kansai protest in front of the US consulate in Osaka (Jan. 29th) An antiwar campus rally (Kagoshima University, Jan. 21st) The Hu Jintao government fearing that the popular uprisings in the Middle East would spread to China [6] Severe poverty tormenting children Morinaga Milk Industry, Snow Brand Milk Products, Asahi Breweries ... Japanese monopolies in the food industry successively closing their factories Topics Monopoly capitalists campaigning for 'deregularization' in the medical and nursing care services [7] A law suit against the order to obligate pupils and teachers to respect the Rising-Sun flag and the Reign-of-the-Emperor anthem Condemn the worst decision by the Tokyo High Court! [8] Russia: desperate to resurge as a 'great power' The Russian state strategy for survival amid the serious confrontation between the US and China (1 ) A war-footing against the US amid the impending crisis of a Korean war (2) Intention to break the unipolar US dominance over the world in the name of 'multipolarization' (3) A strategy for undermining the US dollar system and globally controlling energy resources - Proposal of an 'IMF reform' under the banner of 'new international economic order' - Ambition to control oil and gas resources and acceleration of nuclear plant export - Attempts to strengthen the ties of the CIS for building a Russian economic sphere (4) Barriers to Russia's 'contemporarization' Main slogans the JRCL proposes for the 2011 spring labour offensive  Fight back against the Kan government and
monopoly capitalists coercing the toiling
masses into poverty and war!Break the 'patriotic' degeneration of the spring labour offensive! Fight for a militant upsurge of the offensive! (1) Smash mass sackings and wage cuts! Win a big and uniform raise in wages! Fight for a drastic improvement in employment conditions of temporary workers! Denounce labour aristocrats in Rengo submitting to the capitalist attack to suppress the wages! (2) Foil the plan to increase the consumption tax rate! Oppose Japan's participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership for free trade! Smash the attacks by the Kan government to victimize workers for supporting monopoly capitalists! (3) Fight to stop a new Korean war! Oppose the strengthening of the tripartite alliance between the US, Japan and South Korea! Advance antiwar, anti-military alliance struggles! (4) Deconstruct Rengo, today's Industrial Patriotic Association ordering workers to contribute to 'Japan's economic recovery'! Down with Naoto Kan's reactionary government, blindly following US imperialism and supporting monopoly capitalists! Fight in solidarity with toiling Muslim masses rising up in fights to overthrow the governments of their countries backed by US and European imperialist powers! Fight in solidarity with workers and people fighting all over the world against the coercion into war and poverty! (The Feb. 6th meeting in Tokyo, seen in the photo, right) TOP |
No. 2155
(February 14th 2011 Issue)
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Down with the Kan government  - Japanese imperialism suffering from unprecedented troubles both at home and abroad - Naoto Kan's government bent on strengthening the US-Japan military alliance and increasing taxes - Denounce the degeneration of official opposition leaders! Rise in a fight to overthrow the Kan government! The JRCL on Egypt Muslim people, advance struggles on the basis of Islamic inter-nationalism to overthrow the state power of your country! Working people all over the world, create a storm of international antiwar struggle in solidarity with them! See the full text [2] No US Marine drills! Workers and students protest near the site in Kyushu (Jan. 23rd) Before the start of US Marine live-firing drills, Rengo Kyushu held a rally for 'reducing' US bases near the site. Militant workers and students fought to change it into a militant protest action against the drills under the banner: Stop the Marine drills! Fight to stop a new Korean war! (Pic above) [4-5] Russia: a desperate struggle to resurge as a 'great power' The Russian state strategy for survival amid the serious confrontation between the US and China - The war-footing against the US in the face of the impending crisis of a Korean war - Intention to break the unipolar US dominance over the world in the name of 'multipolarization' - Strategy for undermining the US dollar system and globally controlling energy resources (To continue.) [7] Criticizing 'Rengo's agenda for 2011' Labour aristocrats pledging their assistance to the Kan government in supporting imperialist monopolies - A growing sense of crisis to an impending bankruptcy of the global financial system and another recession of the world economy - Kan's 'new growth strategy' seen as a duty that takes top priority - Rengo's 'policy proposals' for supporting the 'growth strategy' from below - The new catch-copy of 'labour movement familiar to communities': for assistance in creating a 'new common sphere' - Acceptance of a low-level standard of wages - 'Labour movement connected with the world': a slogan for helping capitalists oppress labour disputes abroad - 'Legalization of a employee representative system' proposed for maintaining the control of workplaces by labour aristocrats Denounce the Japan Airlines managerial planning to dismiss 165 designated employees [6] JCP-led Zenroren's degenerate response to the annual report of the Japan employers' federation Machine-making enterprises in Ishikawa prefecture staking their survival on their inroads into emerging economies Topics Rengo Officials' comments on the annual report of the Japan employers' federation [8] Studying a posthumously published book by Kuroda I will assimilate Young Kuroda's struggles and passion My resolution: I will fight in opposition to official leaders of my trade union who hate to increase even an official minimum wage [3] Kaleidoscope - High prices in foods and oil: not a natural but a man-made disaster - The age of zero G - The TGT [Tokyo-Guam-Taiwan]: a triangular water vital for US Forces TOP |
No. 2154
(February 7th 2011 Issue)
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Zengakuren march on the Diet, US embassy,
Jan. 23rd  - 'Stop a new Korean war!' A militant
demo- Speeches with burning anger - Fight to stop the outbreak of a Korean war! Oppose the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance! No to the consumption tax hike! Down with the Kan government! [4] Criticizing 'Rengo's agenda for 2011' Labour aristocrats pledging their assistance to the Kan government in supporting imperialist monopolies [5]  The new 'National Defence Program Guidelines':
Japan's new military strategy against China- Emphasis on 'dynamic defence force' - A sense of fear about 'grey zone disputes' - Submission to the Obama-led US imperialist strategy for world domination - Plans to strengthen the Japanese forces for joint military operations with US forces [2] Zengakuren Hokkaido protest the GSDF drills of airborne operation (Jan. 17th) (Pic right) Zengakuren Tokai protest an 'evacuation drill' for a Korean emergency at an ASDF base (Jan. 19th) Missile defence exercises in the Sea of Japan against China and Russia  [3] Nagoya University: No hike in tuition! 100 students march through the campus (Dec. 7th) (Pic right) A regional meeting of students (Nagoya, Dec. 25th) Resort facilities in Hokkaido bought out by Chinese capitalists one after another [6] Labour aristocrats in the IMF-JC [International Metalworkers Federation - Japan Council] for 'correction on the yen's rise' and 'participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership for free trade' in their agenda for the spring offensive The Koga-led Rengo leadership openly support Kan's plan for consumption tax increase The authority of Saijo City sacked the whole personnel of the public hospital Topics The annual report of the Japan Employers' federation [7] No participation in the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] for free trade! The domestic agriculture plunged into ruin [8] Kaleidoscope - 'Follow Tunisians!' - Hu Jintao in North America - Chinese and Japanese computer makers to ally TOP |
No. 2153
(January 31st 2011 Issue)
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Fight the 2011 spring labour offensive and
antiwar struggle! (1) Monopoly capitalists and the Kan government coercing the working people into poverty and war - Massive sackings and wage cuts for the 'transfer of production offshore'' - The Kan government bent on increasing taxes and strengthening the US-Japan military alliance - Distortion of the offensive by official trade union leaders anxious for 'another growth of the Japanese economy' (2) Break today's Industrial Patriotic movement! Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2011 spring labour offensive! - Reveal the deception of Rengo leaders' demands for 'restoration of wage levels' and 'correction of the imbalance'! - Fight the spring labour offensive together with antiwar struggle! [4-5] Down with Kan's reactionary government! Smash the all-out offensives by Japanese imperialism for surviving its desperate crisis! Central Workers' Orgburo (1) The growing crisis of war arising from the serious confrontation between the US and China (2) New intensification of the global struggle among the three poles (3) All-out offensives by Japanese imperialism for its survival (4) Denounce the Rengo leadership for strengthening today's Industrial Patriotic movement! (5) Strengthen our revolutionary base to overcome the ruinous labour movement in Japan! [5] Zengakuren's resolve for New Year [6] Let us fight to activate discussions in the national JTU meeting for education research! Fight back against offensives by the Hokkaido prefectural government for massive cuts in wages! Topics Rengo's demand for 'a 1% apportionment to wages' rejected by the employers' federation [7] Japan Post: Fight back against the massive restructuring plan Okinawa: Militant students march on the US consulate (Dec. 12th) [8] Kaleidoscope - Industrial espionage against Renault - PIIGS in Europe: Following G and I is P - Children of immigrant workers in China - 'Home-grown terrorists' TOP |
No. 2152
(January 24th 2011 Issue)
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Down with Kan's reactionary government! (1) The growing crisis of war arising from the serious confrontation between the US and China (2) New intensification in the global struggle among the three poles (3) All-out offensives by Japanese imperialism for its survival (To continue) [4-5] Advance the revolutionary antiwar struggle to break the war crisis arising from the serious confrontation between the US and China! Central Students' Orgburo (1) Our revolutionary antiwar struggle: a radiant fight (2) Accurateness of our analysis of the international situation (3) Advance in our fight to break the converted Stalinist party (4) Revolutionary significance of our antiwar, anti-military alliance struggle (5) Fight to advance antiwar struggle to break the crisis of global warfare! [6-7] Break up the Japanese Communist Party suffering from the total bankruptcy of its 25th-Congress line! (1) The JCP on the verge of the collapse of the organization - Acknowledgements of the organizational crisis - The root cause of the crisis (2) What the JCP calls 'constructive proposals' and their reactionary nature - 'The stream of peace in Asia and the world': an illusion - An 'equal and impartial' US-Japan military alliance: a castle in the air - The JCP version of 'economic growth strategy': its nature against the working class (3) The converted Stalinist party aggravating its ideological corruption of revised capitalism JCP-led trade union activists shaken by our struggles A talk at a workplace with a veteran JCP member [6] Resolves for New Year - The Chugoku Regional Committee [6] - The Metal Industrial Workers Committee - The Communication Industrial Workers Committee - The Heavy Industrial Workers Committee - The Small and Medium Enterprise Workers Committee - The Antiwar Workers Conference in Eastern Kanagawa District TOP |
No. 2151
(January 17th 2011 Issue)
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Advance the revolutionary antiwar struggle  - Our revolutionary antiwar struggle: a radiant
fight- Accurateness of our analysis of the international situation - Advance in our fight to break the converted Stalinist party 600 workers and students denounce Kan's visit to Okinawa (Naha, Dec. 17th) (Pic right) [4-5] Build a revolutionary base to overturn the war-raging world! 20 years after the collapse of Stalinism: Fight to build a genuine vanguard party! (1) Rise in a fight to stop a new Korean war! (2) Today's world in a war crisis and an economic turbulence - An diastrophic change in today's world - 'Another reversion of history' (3) Advance our anti-Stalinist revolutionary movement! - Rise in a fight to overthrow the Kan government! - Win a great leap forward to be a stronger vanguard party! [6-7] Resolves for New Year - The Okinawa Prefectural Committee - The Hokkaido Regional Committee - The Hokuriku Regional Committee - The Traffic and Transport Workers Committee - The Postal Workers Committee - The Masscommunication Industrial Workers Committee - The Welfare Workers Committee [8] Denounce the Okinawa prefectural police for arresting 4 militant students! Smash the destructive attack against the revolutionary student movement! Japan Marxist Students League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) MSL Okinawa Prefectural Committee TOP |