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No. 2580
(August 5th 2019 Issue)
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Rise in a struggle against the Abe government! - - Many lower-echelon members revolted against the party leadership: JCP bureaucrats thinking only of protecting themselves -- Let us fight under the banner 'No to the strengthening of the Japanese neo-fascist ruling system!' - The danger of the outbreak of war mounting in the Persian Gulf, in the South China Sea and in the Korean Peninsula - Push forward a fight against the constitutional revision, against the dispatch of Japanese troops to the Persian Gulf and against the Abe government! [3] NATO ally Turkey introduced a Russian-made air defense system - Erdogan's 'revolt' against the Trump administration - The Erdogan government intervening the civil war in Syria in league with Putin-led Russia - With sanctions imposed by the US, Turkey has plunged into a deep economic crisis Xi Jinping's round of visits to Central Asian countries: with the aim of forming an encircling net against the US in alliance with Putin [4-5] The fallacious conception of 'peaceful security' The criminal nature of the JCP's 'plan for peaceful cooperation in Northeast Asia' I. The plan is premised on the acceptance of the existence of the US-Japan military alliance II. The bourgeois idea of 'security' incorporated in the plan III. Bring to light the JCP leadership's degeneration in policies and ideology! [5] China's corralling of African countries into the 'one belt, one road' initiative - The Xi government attempting to strengthen its ties with African state rulers - Promotion of the 'digital one belt, one road' initiative in Rwanda and elsewhere - Quite a few African countries are deeply mired in debt to China [6] No to the management's large-scale dismissal and rationalization plan! Denounce the Japan Post Union leaders for immersing themselves in 'managerial consultation' with the company's executives! The Postal Workers Committee of the JRCL - Shatter the plan to dismiss and compulsorily redeploy more than fifty thousand workers! - Oppose the rationalization programme in the name of 'reviewing the collection and delivery system'! Topics A great many hospital doctors are forced to work in university hospitals without pay for a long time Denounce the Abe government for cutting medical expenses [7] A rapid unfolding of negotiations for a peace agreement in Afghanistan The Trump administration is in a rush to reach an 'agreement' with the Taliban for pulling out its troops America's munitions industries are livened up under Trump's policy of expanding armaments Don't allow the rampancy of those merchants of death! [8] The Defense Ministry deployed Japan's first 'regional cyber forces' in confrontation with China TOP |
No. 2579
(July 29th 2019 Issue)
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Shatter the Abe government's attempt to revise the Constitution! - The Trump administration is hell-bent on forming a 'coalition of the willing' against Iran - The Abe government is in a headlong rush towards massive military buildup and tax increases - Fight resolutely, overcoming JCP bureaucrats' parliamentarianist distortion of the struggle! [2] Denounce the effective Japanese Marine Corps' amphibious exercise at a beach resort in Nagasaki! The Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade conducted a week-long exercise in June besides a combat training en masse with US forces The JS Kaga will serve 'in the region and far beyond': evil intentions seen through in Trump's address delivered in front of Japanese and American troops
[3] 'No to the assault landing exercise!' Zengakuren Hokkaido, together with workers, staged a protest at the beach of Hamataiki, Hokkaido, July 8th 'Block the landing of the LCAC!' Protesters raising a chorus of yells at the landing craft (pics right) The series of joint SDF exercises, close to actual battle conditions, are all aimed at strengthening Japanese troops' capabilities for invading enemy territory [4-5] Don't allow the attempt by the labour aristocrats to ultimately destroy the spring labour offensive! Denounce the labour aristocrats for cooperating with monopoly capitalists! Fight for the 'deconstruction' of the JTUC! I. Reviewing the 2019 spring labour offensive and the strenuous efforts of revolutionary and militant workers II. Overthrow the neo-fascist Abe government imposing war and poverty on workers! Topics A trend to introduce 'collaborator-type' robots to boost productivity Capitalists are bent on making workers engage in dangerous work by positioning them side by side with robots, without setting up a safety barrier [6] Oppose the mass sackings by the Japan Display (JDI) management! The government-backed corporation is driven into financial difficulties, abandoning production of 'all-Japanese LCD' panels Don't allow the Economy Ministry and the JDI management to sacrifice workers for the survival of the corporation! A local government office worker committed suicide from the strains of overwork: Oita Prefecture No to long working hours! No to the intensification of labour! [7] A JCP-kept scholar endorses 'improvement in local government business operations by the use of artificial intelligence' [8] The Fukushima nuclear meltdown: Scientists' advance warning against the onrush of a massive tsunami was neglected by the government and Tepco -- A seismologist recently revealed their criminal act of suppressing an admonition given by his seismological association in 2002 Don't allow the resumption of any nuclear reactor in this earthquake-prone archipelago! No to the economic sanctions imposed on South Korea by the Abe government in retaliation for the South Korean court judgment on Japan's wartime drafting of Korean workers! TOP |
No. 2578
(July 22nd 2019 Issue)
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Rally to the International Antiwar Assembly! - Oppose the nuclear arms race between the US and China-Russia! Oppose the arms race in outer space! - Create an explosive upsurge of struggle against the Abe government now! [2] Iran: raising uranium enrichment levels again Iranian rulers are demanding from EU countries the reopening of the oil trade in compliance with the 'nuclear agreement' 'America ... is the world leader in emission reductions'?! (from the final agreement of the G-20 Osaka Summit) By submissively following 'Trump first' all through the summit meeting, Shinzo Abe again showed his true colours as head of a servile state [3] A pigheaded kept scholar's objection to JCP leader Fuwa's 'blasphemy' against Engels [4] Don't allow the Abe government's imposition of retaliatory economic sanctions on South Korea! Don't let it justify Japanese militarism's crimes of corcibly drafting Korean workers! The Trump administration has decided to sell arms to Taiwan US-China confrontation is increasingly intensifying over this Taiwan issue [5] The Trump administration is desperate to hinder the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Italy: a storm of campaign for the exclusion of refugees Home Minister Salvini arrested the captain of Sea-Watch, an rescue boat [6] A new form of mobile service: Toyota is pinning its hopes of survival on the development of MaaS (Mobility as a Service) It is lagging behind Western countries and China in technological development called CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Services, Electric) revolution Topics The catchword is 'a career change, anytime' Recommending more use of 'disposable workers' to monopoly capitalists, while preaching the need to 'voluntarily improve one's skills' to workers : a government panel report on the use of AI technology [7] Last month's fire in a textile factory in Fukui Prefecture The accident that killed four workers, including a Vietnamese 'trainee', was due to the company's cost reductions and negligence of safety measures Palestinian people in indignation Trump finally scrapped the Israel-Palestine coexistence programs At the end of the endless Brexit argument... The Tories are on the brink of disintegration [8] My study note How are we to go beyond the Stalinist theory of the united front? -- Learning from Kuroda's Theory of the Vanguard Organization, 1961 -----The partial English translation of this book of Kuroda's is included in Kuroda's Thought on Revolution, 2000, Tokyo TOP |
No. 2577
(July 15th 2019 Issue)
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Overthrow the Abe government with the united power of workers and students! - Smash drastic cutbacks on pension payments and social security budgets! - Topple the Japanese-type neo-fascist government of Abe stirring up the flames of chauvinism! [2] Down with the Abe government bent on the revision of the Constitution! 'A prompt revision of the Constitution' is specified in the Abe-led LDP's election pledge An outrageous 'support plan for Palestinians' The Tramp administration held a meeting with Arab rulers with the aim of quashing Palestinian people's liberation struggle Competition becoming intense among big powers for landing probes on the moon [3] Japan's commercial whaling resumed Blindly following Trump's example, the Abe-led Japanese government seceded from the International Whaling Commission Casualties caused by asbestos: Don't let the government evade the responsibilities! [4] No to the imposition of low wages and severe working conditions ---by introducing a mandatory retirement system at the age of 65! Stoke up the anger of the postal workers and shatter the outrageous plan! [5] US and Japanese rulers frantic to deploy huge quantities of F-35 jet fighters [6] Anger widespread at the central JTUC leadership's support for the new US base construction in Henoko -- 2019 JTUC Peace Action in Okinawa, June 23rd - 24th JRCL leafleteers called on rally participants to oppose the US base construction, to stop the constitutional revision Topics The government's outline for promoting measures to 'prevent' senile dementia With the aim of Draconian cuts in public nursing-care insurance benefits, it emphasizes each should depend on his/her own efforts to 'prevent the disease' [7] Denounce the oppression of Uygur people by Xi-led China I. Xinjian Uygur Autonomous Region now turned into a Gulag Archipelago II. The 'anti-terror struggle' designed to secure the 'one belt, one road' economic sphere - The Chinese government's 'extensive development of the Western Regions' destroying the foundations of Uygur people's livelihood - A forcible assimilation of Uygurs into the great Chinese nation' [8] My study note I'll make Marx's burning passion underlying Das Kapital my own flesh and blood Don't allow JCP leader Fuwa's anti-proletarian interpretation of Marx! TOP |
No. 2576
(July 8th 2019 Issue)
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No to the G20 Summit!
- Militants marched on the US Consulate General despite the tight police cordon (pic above) - 'Let us advance revolutionary antiwar struggle based on proletarian internationalism!' Demonstrators fortified their determination prior to the action (pic right) - Fight resolutely under the slogan 'No to the nuclear arms race between the US and China-Russia!'! [2] 'No to pension cuts! Down with the Abe government!' Militant students staged a protest action together with hundreds of workers and citizens in front of the PM's Official Residence June 26th
Students' chants delivering a blow to Abe. "Don't let the Abe government dodge the issue of "short of 20 million yen for living"'! Students called on protesters to develop the anti-Abe government struggle. Kagoshima Univ. students' speech gained favourable responses from workers and citizens  Their call for an antiwar, anti-constitutional revision struggle echoing through the area June 21st, in front of Kagoshima Station [3] 'Oppose the strengthening of the US-Japan nuclear military alliance!' Hokkaido Zengakuren and Antiwar Youths held a militant demonstration Workers and students' united action in Hokkaido, June 16th
 Calls against war, against constitutional revision resonated through the streets of NagoyaWorkers and students' united action in the Tokai Region, June 16th 'Smash the US-Japan military alliance!' White-helmeted demonstrators advancing in columns (pic right) [4-5] The US-China economic war for high-tech supremacy - Trump temporarily suspended imposition of heavier punitive customs duties on China: trade talks resumed - Chief issues: China's government subsidization of industries and 'intellectual property rights' - Trump is desperate to block China's dash towards a 'top power in the high-tech industry' - The Xi government is reorganizing China's manufacturing industry under the banner of 'supply-side structural reform' 'America must fight until it breaks up that state capitalism': Bannon's cry closely reflects the intention of hawks within US rulers 'America must start a battle with its non-white rival': A high-ranking black bureaucrat stirs up white supremacism in view of anti-Chinese containment [6] The 80th Central Committee meeting of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation Union leaders show their positive responses to the government's policy for tax increases and cuts in social security Denounce the leadership for proposing a 'prompt construction of the new US base in Henoko'! Topics 'The average working hours of teachers in Japan are one and a half times as many as those of the world average' (The latest OECD report): The Education Ministry hurried to conceal the reality [7] Don't allow the resumption of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant operation! Denounce the power company management, together with Keidanren, for rejecting the plan of embankment raising! Decomission all nuclear reactors! Osaka Immigration Bureau arrested a number of foreign workers by conspiring to incriminate them for 'working illegally' Don't allow the frame-ups engineered by the Immigration Bureau and the police to tighten controls on foreign workers! [8] Overseas Appeal for the 57th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Break through the crisis of war created by the US-China confrontation! Oppose the nuclear arms race between the US and China-Russia! Build up solidarity among workers and people of the world against war and impoverishment! - Stop US imperialism's military attack on Iran! - A bitter rivalry between the US and China for hegemony in the 21st-centiury world - No to the strengthening of the US-Japan nuclear military alliance! Stop the revision of the Constitution of Japan! - Create antiwar struggle based on proletarian internationalism! Click to read the Appeal for the Assembly TOP |
No. 2575
(July 1st 2019 Issue)
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'Stop US imperialism's military attack on Iran!
- 'Block the revision of the Constitution!' 'Smash the US-Japan nuclear military alliance!' White-helmeted workers and students marched on the Diet Building, on the US Embassy and on the PM's Official Residence (pics above) - 'Eradicate the danger of war amid the head-on confrontation between the US and China!': --- All the participants fortifyed their resolution in the solidarity rally prior to the demonstration - Let us make a surging battle against the Abe government!
'Stop the dumping of sand in the Henoko seashore!' Workers and students' united action in Okinawa, June 16th - The demonstration received enthusiastic responses in the busy street of Naha (pic 1) - Militants solidified their resolve to stop the constitutional revision, to overthrow the Abe government in the solidarity meeting (pic 2) 'Rise in a revolutionary antiwar struggle to root out the danger of a world war!': a JRCL representative's address [3] 'With an elderly couple's pensions alone, it will be 20 million yen short of their living expenses; each needs self-help efforts' (a Financial Services Agency report) Denounce the Abe government for shifting all the responsibility for submitting this shameless report onto the bureaucrats of the relevant Agency! Down with the neo-fascist government plunging workers and toiling people into poverty! [4-5] No to the school version of the 'work-style reform'! - Don't allow the imposition of intensified labour and long working hours on education workers! - Abolish the special measures law that legalizes teachers' overtime without pay! - Stop the introduction of a 'working hours system on a yearly basis'! - Fight resolutely by criticizing the official leaderships of the teachers' unions for depending on the Education Ministry to solve the issues! Topics 'The elderly and low-income earners, too, must be "on the supporting side" of the social security costs': the Abe government's Economy and Fiscal Policy 2019 Don't allow the bad revision of the social security system! [6] The government is hell-bent on bringing into wider use of each person's 'My Number [identification number] card' Don't allow the intensification of state surveillance and control systems! The Narendra Modi-led Indian government: the inflammation of Hindu supremacism [7] Monopoly capitalists are frantic about developing self-driving cars Fatal accidents occurring in succession [8] The fall of the two major 'middle-of-the-road' parties and the rampancy of ultra-right tendencies -- The meaning of the European Parliament election results - Stephen Bannon, together with Donald Trump, bolstered the 'anti-EU forces' - A counteroffensive launched by Merkel and opposition among European people against the Trump administration - The EU on the edge of disintegration The collapse of the coalition government of Austria The confidential talk of the ultra-right Liberal Party leader with a Russian female secret agent TOP |
No. 2574
(June 24th 2019 Issue)
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Denounce US imperialism's conspiracy
[2] 'Don't allow the extension of the runway! Stop the construction of a US powder magazine! A rally against the reinforcement of the SDF air base in Tsuiki, Fukuoka June 2nd Militant students from Kyushu called on participants to oppose the US-Japan nuclear military alliance
Workers, students and citizens acted out their anger in the demonstration June 2nd, Kyotango, Kyoto Kobe Univ. students fought in solidarity with the battles against the deployment of the Thaad system in Korea and against the US base construction in Okinawa [3] Rise in action against the G-20 Osaka Summit scheduled for June 23rd! - Confrontation between the US and China-Russia over trade and Iran's nuclear issue - Abe's 'environmental measures': simply following the policy of Trump, safeguarding the interests of monopoly capitalists - Oppose the G-20 summit! Stop US imperialism's military attack on Iran! Rise in workers and students' united action! [4] 'Enhancement of human resources for technical innovation' The government's plan to drastically reorganize the general course at high school - Monopoly capitalists hell-bent on getting hold of personnel capable of 'fully using artificial intelligence' - Increase in education workers' long hours of overtime and the intensification of labour [5] A US-Japan joint development of the SDF's next-generation main fighter - The Abe government is planning to develop a new-model fighter on the pretext of 'coping with the threats of China and Russia' - The Trump administration is making Japan subordinate to the US; --the Abe government and monopoly capitalists of munitions industries wish to take the initiative in the development - Japanese munitions industry capitalists, intent on 'strengthening competitiveness', are desperate to develop high-tech weapons [6] The number of childhood thyroid cancer cases keeps on increasing in Fukushima The Abe government is trying to cover up the damage caused by the exposure to radiation Topics Encouragement of harsh 'double jobbing' The government's panel proposes removal of controls on side jobs and side business [7] As many as three times in six weeks: Maritime SDF helicopter destroyer Izumo took part in 'joint military exercises' led by the US against China - Japanese warships have been deployed in the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean since April - Formation of the 'US-Japan integrated army' is progressing steadily Kim Jong-un is pinning his faint hope on Trump's 'deal' What with sanctions and what with drought, North Korea is in a tight box The LDP's plan for 'free tertiary education' is an outright lie! -- Abe's fraudulent policy for 'schooling assistance' [8] The confusion and revolts among JCP-affiliated union members of Zenroren [National Confederation of Trade Unions] - A miserable breakdown in the recent 'joint caUS and Japan-ledUS and Japan-ledmpaign' with other non-government parties in Osaka's gubernatorial election - An empty emphasis on the 'uniqueness of the Japanese Communist Party' - Not a few JCP members' sympathies are going to the militant call of the revolutionary left Kaiho could be the 'shining hope' for distressed members of the JCP now in decline TOP |
No. 2573
(June 17th 2019 Issue)
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No to the buildup of the new US-Japan military alliance! - Advance antiwar struggle to eradicate the danger of war amid the confrontation between the US and China-Russia! '[2] 'No to the Trump-Abe meeting! Smash the nuclear military alliance!' Militant workers, together with students from Hokkaido University, held antiwar demonstration, May 25th, Sapporo
'No to the new US base construction in Henoko!' A mass action held, part of a national campaign against the base construction in Okinawa, May 25th, Sapporo
[3] Rulers of Saudi Arabia follow the Trump administration to oppose Iran - King Salman's plan for a unanimous decision to build up an anti-Iranian network failed in the Arab League emergency summit - Saudi rulers are ready to participate in military actions against Iran by the US - They take sides with Israel's Zionist rulers suppressing and massacring Muslim people South Sudan No to the prolongation of the period for dispatching SDF troops to the UN peacekeeping operation headquarters! [4] Denounce the union leaders of the leading electricity companies for accepting low wage hike figures! Don't allow the labour aristocrats' distortion of the spring labour offensive into labour-management consultation designed for the development of the industry! [5] The criminal nature of the 'five emergency proposals for peace' presented by the bureaucrats of the Japanese Communist Party Sticking to the plan for a 'joint election campaign' with other non-government parties, the JCP leadership is hell-bent on elaborating their right-leaned policies [6] Amazon: The introduction of robots into the labour process is 'casting workers into Hell' Contract manufacturing companies of UNIQLO in Asian countries: Capitalists are sucking up the 'lifeblood' of workers Topics The Abe government is planning to link each people's health insurance card to their 'My Number [identification number] cards' Don't allow the strengthening of state surveillance and control systems! [7] The Sisi-led Egyptian government frantic to strengthen its military junta-helmed autocratic regime - The government bulldozed the referendum for the constitutional revision through by oppressing people -- A tremendous strengthening of the power of the president - People's discontent and resentment mounting; gaps beginning to appear in the military rule - The government is pressing forward with its plan to build a new capital in a desert counting on China's investment - It is promoting a military buildup and tightening security controls -- People of Egypt! Rise in a struggle against the oppression and imposition of poverty by the Sisi-led military government! [8] Kaleidscope - A failed attempt to set up a coalition government in Israel: Netanyahu is forced to hold a general election again in a predicament - The Peking bureaucrats are intent on repressing Christians in China whose number is approaching a hundred million - The frustrated plot of a puppet of US imperialism: Guaido failed to gain support from Venezuelan people TOP |
No. 2572
(June 10th 2019 Issue)
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Workers and Students' United Actions, June 16th - A confrontation escalating between the US and China in East Asia - - Rivalry heating up over supremacy in the field of high technology - Let us create a huge upsurge of antiwar struggle! -- Shatter all attempts to strengthen the new US-Japan military alliance! -- Stop the revision of the Constitution! -- Advance antiwar struggle to eradicate the danger of a world war amid the confrontation between the US and China-Russia! -- Stop a US military attack on Iran! -- Down with the neo-fascist Abe government!
[4] Voices against the Trump-Abe meeting resounded in the heart of the metropolis, May 25th 'Stop US imperialism's military attack on Iran!' Zengakuren students marched on the US Embassy, on the PM's Official Residence Demonstrators' angry chants echoing, in front of the PM's Official Residence (pic 1) 'Stop the new US base construction in Henoko! No to the constitutional revision!' Thousands gathered to besiege the Diet Building, May 25th Militant students fought in the forefront Students' big placards saying 'Repel the US-Japan Security Treaty!' (pic 2) [3] 'No to the Trump-Abe meeting! Smash the nuclear military alliance!' Zengakuren Okinawa made a protest at the US military headquarters in Okinawa, May 25th Militant students' banner saying 'No to the US-Japan summit! Stop the base construction in Henoko! Shatter the nuclear Ampo!'(pic 3) A shameless toady to Trump: Abe's diplomacy is a laughingstock of the world [5] Aggravating marine pollution with plastic waste Expose the deceptions in Abe's countermeasures against plastic waste! - The government announcing makeshift measures to reduce plastic waste with the G20 meeting just around the corner - Mass production and mass disposal of petrified goods, products of 20th-century capitalism - Monopoly capitalists excited to find another moneymaking opportunity in the antipollution measures [6] The government is planning to drastically reorganize the general course at high school Topics Immediately sacked if regarded as 'no longer needed': A government panel made proposals to spread a new employment system Uber drivers went on strikes around the world [7] Postal labour front Denounce the union leadership's compromise on a 'mandatory retirement system at the age of 65', a criminal agreement destructive of the life of elderly workers! [8] The delay in the restart of nuclear reactors, stagnation in developing new power supply networks... : Monopoly capitalists express their irritation and greed in Keidanren's opinion concerning the 'power system reform' Denounce the enforcement of the revised 'Wiretapping Law'! TOP |
No. 2571
(June 3rd 2019 Issue)
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Stop a US military attack on Iran! - Backed by China and Russia, Iran is putting up anti-US 'resistance' - Let us advance antiwar struggle in solidarity with the people in the Middle East standing up against US imperialism, against Zionism!
A Constitution Day rally in Nagoya, May 3rd 'Smash Abe's move to start parliamentary procedure for constitutional revision!' Aichi Univ. and Nagoya Univ. students fought in the van of the mass demonstration (pic right) An invisible war: The Abe government is planning to deploy top-of-the-line electromagnetic weapons in many stations of the Ground Self-Defense Force [3] Peace March and People's Rally in Okinawa uplifted May 17th-19th, Okinawa 'No to the dumping of sand in the Henoko seashore!' 'No to the constitutional revision!' Thousands of workers, students and residents rallied in protest
- Protesters' anger exploded at the continued construction of a new US base, near the US Marine Corps Air Station in Futenma (pic right) - Denounce the parliamentarianist distortion by the JCP! Fight against the buildup of the US-Japan nuclear military alliance! Overthrow the Abe government! Revolutionary workers and students fought for a militant uplift of the struggle [4] The JCP Osaka chapter shaken The leadership's gamble for 'collaboration between opposition parties and citizens' bankrupted: Criticisms cropping up among JCP lower echelon members Intraparty revolts spread widely: JCP activists showing distrust and defiance to their leadership, while voicing their approval of the JRCL appeal in May Day and other rallies [5] The Brexit accord failed to get parliamentary approval -- Theresa May finally announced her resignation A. The postponement of the time limit to avoid a 'no deal Brexit' B. Exclusionist forces encroaching on the foundations of the Tories C. The growing wealth gap behind the globalization of the economy and preferential treatment to financial business [6] Sharp Corporation factories successively laid off 3,000 temporary foreign workers Behind the management's boast of 'recovery in business performance', huge numbers of foreign workers are being exploited and sacked mercilessly Topics From the reemployment of retired workers to the raising of retirement ages: More and more monopoly capitalists are changing their employment systems Don't allow them to overwork elderly workers for still lower wages! [7] Denounce the labour aristocrats of the Federation of Printing Information Media Workers' Unions@for agreeing on ultra-low compromise figures of pay increase! Let us fight out the 2019 spring labour offensive on the printing / publishing labour front! [8] Hot competition between the US and China-Russia in the development and deployment of AI weapons China: in hot pursuit of US imperialism by combining military and civilian sectors under the leadership of the CPC The US: countering China with a tie-up between the military, industry and academia, plus mobilization of its allies TOP |
