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No. 2620
(May 25th 2020 Issue)
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Bring down the Abe government!
- The Abe government is plunging people into unemployment and poverty while granting monopoly capitalists every facility -- Condemn the government for neglecting support to health care and welfare institutions! - The Abe government was obliged to abandon the revision of the public prosecutors office law - Stop Abe's attempt to revise the Constitution by taking advantage of the pandemic! -- No to the strengthening of the new US-Japan military alliance amid the head-on clash between the US and China! - Overthrow the neo-fascist Abe government with the power of workers and students! [2] Russia 20 years after his first presidential inauguration: Putin is besieged with people's angry denunciations Covering up the fact of 'healthcare collapse' and suppressing dissidents Putin's 'medical aid' funnelled to promote disintegration of the EU [3] The Xi government's 'face mask diplomacy': aimed to cover up the crime of the century, that of spreading the COVID-19 across the globe - Beijing bureaucrats declared the 'century of American imperialism' to be over - China's medical support to coronavirus-stricken developing countries: designed to prevent anti-China sentiments from spreading wide - Stepping up suppression of people by using an 'anti-US imperialist, patriotic' propaganda as a smoke screen [4] The harsh realities of postal workers amid the 'coronavirus crisis' Denounce the postal management for putting business above the lives of workers! 1. Postal workers are exposed to the danger of infection 2. Fake preventive measures against the infection and the realities in the workplace for mail collections and deliveries 3. Reduction in business hours at the windows has increased opportunities for close contact with visitors 4. Don't work us in hazardous conditions! [5] Let us raise angry voices against the Abe government from the workplaces of healthcare workers! - Unduly harsh working conditions in the 'coronavirus ward' where I work - It is inexcusable that Abe is neglecting to provide necessary reinforcements to healthcare facilities - Let us spread a ground swell of the 'anti-Abe government struggle' from our workplace! Denounce the Abe government's imposition of sacrifices on health centre workers! Topics The Education Ministry is imposing still longer working hours on teachers for the reopening of schools [6] A militant student's resolution I'm resolved to fight based on the working class standpoint The Xi government is strengthening digital surveillance systems in the name of countermeasures against the COVID-19 Tanka Poems Resolute to fight in unity With the working class fighting a hard fight TOP |
No. 2618-19
(May 11th-18th 2020 Double Issue)
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Bring down the Abe government which is leaving the masses in the lurch!
- Abe's economic measures will create more predicaments in the life of working people -- Aid only to save monopoly capitalists - The totally incompetent, do-nothing government has brought about the spread of the epidemic - Now is the time to overthrow the neo-fascist Abe government!
White-helmeted Zengakuren bitterly denounced PM Abe May 8th, in front of the PM's Official Residence 'Down with the Abe government leaving the masses in the lurch!' (pic 1) Militants addressed angry protests to the Education Ministry on the same day 'Give livelihood supports to all students!' (pic 2) [3] Denounce the Abe government for abandoning students in financial difficulties! Free tuition for university students! Give livelihood supports to all students immediately! The Japan Marxist Student League (RMF) Waseda University Branch - The Abe government is imposing hardships upon students amid the 'pandemic depression' - Students of Waseda University! Students across the country! Rise to topple the Abe government! Militant students' resolutions -- I'll fight by making Comrade Kuroda's revolutionary spirit dwell in me -- Let us advance our movement based on the strategy of 'anti-imperialism, anti-Stalinism'! [4] Education workers struggling amid the emergency school closure - The Education Ministry unreasonably orders teachers not to let children fall behind in their studies -- Education workers are swamped with new work arising one after another on account of the school closure -- The government is coercing all schools into introducing ICT in response to the demand of monopoly capitalists - Smash the imposition on education workers of extremely intensified labour and long working hours! - Bring down the Abe government,which is leaving people in hard straits! [5] Coronavirus outbreak in Britain: The Johnson government is plunging people into the epidemic and abysmal poverty Let us create the unity of the world working class! Chilean and Argentinean workers fighting hard amid the spread of Covid-19 [6] Crush the attempt to make workers pay the price for the crisis of the car industry! No to dismissals, unilateral rejection of the renewal of employment contracts and wage cuts! No to the strengthening of state surveillance directed against people in the name of epidemic prevention measures! Topics Layoffs, reassignment of personnel to remote regions, deserting of subcontractors... Fight back against major restructurings carried out by the monopoly capitalists of the steel industry! [7] Denounce the Abe government's application for an 'engineering change' in the construction! Stop the new US base construction in Henoko! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL Condem the US forces for discharging massive amounts of foamy fire-extinguishing agents from US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma! Cancer-causing substances were scattered around extensively, contaminating the residential area of the city of Ginowan, Okinawa [8] My study note On the penetration of our organizing tactics in the topos of mass movement Studying Kuroda's 'Lecture on Revolution', included in his Introduction to Marxism, vol. 4 Tanka Poems -'Friends, let us not forget the tragedy amid the pandemic - -How I abhor capital that takes advantage of the coronavirus epidemic' TOP |
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No. 2617
(May 4th 2020 Issue)
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Denounce the Abe government for forsaking toiling people - Supply funds and goods of first necessity to healthcare and welfare facilities right away! - Now is the time to rise in an 'anti-Abe government struggle'!
Denounce the Abe government's application for an engineering change in the US base construction! Zengakuren Okinawa made an emergency protest against the continuation of the reclamation work in Henoko despite the discovery of a fatal mayonnaise-like seabed in the construction site, April 24th, Kadena, Okinawa [2] Condemn the Trump administration for inviting the explosive spread of the epidemic! 1. Trump is plunging the toiling masses into unemployment, poverty and deaths from infection 2. Hysteric accusations against China: the historic downfall of US imperialism [3] Denounce the Abe government for abandoning students in financial difficulties! Free tuition for university students! Give livelihood supports to all students immediately! Students across the country, struggling amid the 'pandemic depression', unite! The Japan Marxist Student League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) Misery of small businesses abandoned by the Abe governnent in Higashi Osaka, a city of local industry 'We simply can't tide over this difficulty with what little money granted by the state' [4] Denounce the NTT union leadership for agreeing on absurdly low figures of pay increase! Don't allow the leadership to cooperate with the management in raising productivity! Let us strive for a militant strengthening of the NTT union! [5] Condemn the Toyota management and labour aristocrats for agreeing on a 'zero pay increase'! Let us lose no time in launching a counterattack! Topics 'We've got no surgical masks, no reinforcements, no training for infection prevention, no nothing!' Workers in eldercare facilities are shouldering the burden of looking after regular visitors who are 'suspected of being infected' [6] One fatal accident followed another in a construction site in the Takahama nuclear power station Kansai Electric Power Co. [Kepco] puts the highest priority on the curtailment of the construction period Accuse Kepco of its disregard for the safety of workers! The investigation report covers up the crucial point in the corruption scandal Bring to light collusive ties between the Abe-led Liberal Democratic Party MP Tomomi Inada and Kepco over the restart of Takahama nuclear reactors! The NRA [Nuclear Regulation Authority]'s arbitrary judgment exposed: over countermeasures to be taken by Kepco's three nuclear power plants against possible volcanic ash falls Denounce the NRA's move to give the green light to resume the risky operation of suspended nuclear plants! TOP |
No. 2616
(April 27th 2020 Issue)
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Denounce the Abe-led Japanese government - Give immediate support to medical workers who are struggling to save patients on the brink of a 'collapse' in the health care system! - Denounce the US and Chinese rulers for battling with each other, each showing their own state egoism! - Workers of the world, unite across national borders! [2] Shinzo Abe: an incorrigible moron incapable of paying heed to the hardships of the masses He has no idea how people gets mad at him when they watch him on his SNS site sitting comfortably on a neat sofa with his miniature dachshund and saying, 'Stay home like this.' 'It's just a cold'!! Bolsonaro is plunging Brazilian people into a calamity of virus infection Making the state of emergency permanent The Orbán-led Hungarian government is consolidating its authoritarian rule in the name of preventing the spread of infection [3]
Workers and citizens gathered in front of the Okinawa Defense Bureau building to block the Japanese government from making an application to Okinawa Pref. for a change in the reclamation plan, April 8th, Kadena, Okinawa 'Stop it!' Protesters objecting to the continuation of work despite discovery of a soft seabed in the construction site (pic right) No to the construction of the maglev Shinkansen promoted by JR Tokai and the Abe government! Digging tunnels through mountains is causing environmental pollution, a serious decrease in water flow and so a shortage of domestic water In the chains of Ampo (6) 60 years after the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty [Ampo] Northern Viper: a preliminary US-Japan joint field training exercise for EABO [Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations] conducted, Hokkaido, January-February [4] A crucial moment for the 2020 spring labour offensive of JAM [Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery, and Manufacturing Workers]! Fight it out by overcoming the union leadership's attempt to divide the united industrial struggle for wage hikes! [5] Denounce the degenerate leaders of the private railway workers' union for agreeing on ultra-low figures of wage increase! Don't allow the imposition of sacrifices upon workers amid the corona virus pandemic! Topics Bus drivers, exposed to infection, are faced with company managements' attacks of wage cuts and layoffs made for their survival Workers, now is the time to strengthen class-based unity! [6] My study note I'll grasp the quintessence of anti-Stalinism and make it my own On learning Kuroda's thought by studying his 'lecture on revolution', included in his Introduction to Marxism, vol. 4 TOP |
No. 2615
(April 20th 2020 Issue)
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Denounce the Abe government for abandoning people in hardships! - Give emergency support to medical and welfare workers struggling on the edge of healthcare collapse! -- Education workers are also forced into intensified labour due to Abe's inconsistent policy [2] 'Emergency economic measures' announced by the Abe government No to the abandonment of people suffering in the middle of the pandemic! - '300 thousand yen each' - only once, only to very limited households - Financial aid to small businesses, which cannot even be called chicken feed - 'The emergency project totalling 108 trillion yen' : full of forgery and manipulated account figures [3] A report from medical workers in Tokyo Struggling on the brink of a collapse in the health care system 1. Exposed to the danger of infection, medical workers are struggling in the forefronti 2. Abe government's unpardonable mistakes in its 'anti-infection countermeasures' --1) Falsification of the number of infections with the intention of avoiding the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics ----2) Abandonment of efforts to secure hospital beds for infectious diseases ----3) Years of cutbacks in the number of public hospitals ----4) Failure in taking measures against the epidemic on the cruise ship 3. Don't allow the strengthening of the NSC-helmed authoritarian ruling system! [4] JCP leader Fuwa is making frantic efforts to cover up his erstwhile glorification of China found in the previous version of the party programme (revised in 2004) JCP Chairman Shii is licking the boots of Ichiro Ozawa, an anti-Abe conservative politician, with a faint hope of taking a seat in a coalition cabinet [5] Don't allow mass lay-offs of metal workers in the metal industry amid the pandemic! The anti-proletarian nature of the action plan for the 2018 spring labour offensive of JAM [Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery, and Manufacturing Workers]: The JAM leadership cries for a 'genuine improvement in productivity' by following after the labour aristocrats of the JC Metal [Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions] GPIF [Government Pension Investment Fund] suffers a huge loss (25 trillion yen) caused by big stock price falls Never allow any cuts in the pension benefits of toiling workers! [6] In the chains of Ampo (5) 60 years after the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty [Ampo] The Trump administration urges the deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Japan A big fake! The 'lifting' of the blockade on Wuhan The Xi government deceitfully insists China has 'won a victory in people's war against Covid-19' The Governor of Hokkaido declared a 'state of emergency' for the prefecture without compensation for people's income losses The plague of locusts: Food price rises caused by the egoism of the great powers are driving poverty-stricken people in Africa and Asia to starvation TOP |
No. 2614
(April 13th 2020 Issue)
Condemn the Abe government for abandoning the poverty-stricken masses! No to the strengthening of the new US-Japan military alliance! Stop the revision of the Constitution! - The US and Chine confronting each other, each showing their own state egoism - The Abe government bent on revising the Constitution and strengthening the US-Japan military alliance - Overcome the JCP-led peace movement that abandons opposition to the US-Japan military alliance! [2] Putin's scheme to crush US shale oil companies - The OPEC-Plus conference in March broke down - Russia is attacking US shale oil companies' 'weak points' by reducing oil prices - A slump in oil revenues amid the pandemic will cause a financial crisis in Russia [3] Say 'No!' to big tuition increases! Oppose the government plan to 'liberalize' the setting of national university fees! A security conference on the theme of 'Westlessness': EU states rejected the US government's demand for the exclusion of Huawai Fierce competition for leadership in United Nations organs The US hindered a prime Chinese candidate from being elected as Director General of the WIPO [World Intellectual Property Organization] In the chains of Ampo (4) 60 years after the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty [Ampo] Stop the deployment of Aegis Ashore anti-missile systems in Japan! [4] Postal workers' spring labour offensive Denounce the Japan Post Union leaders' acceptance of 'zero pay increase' for five consecutive years! Absolutely no to the management plan to cut 10,000 jobs! [5] Topics Smash the JP management's plan to reduce 10,000 workers! Don't allow the labour aristocracy of the JP Union to give a helping hand to the management's streamlining project! Listening to Beethoven in my sickbed: an essay contributed by a 'Khaiho' reader That Violin Concerto reminds me of Comrade Kuroda's denunciation of JCP leaders referred to in his Gorbachev's Nightmare In the Classroom A series of tanka poems contributed by an education worker [6] My study note A decision wells up in me to build a revolutionary organization full of life and energy Learning from Kuroda's theory of organization TOP |
No. 2613
(April 6th 2020 Issue)
Denounce the Abe government bent on giving aid to monopoly capitalists! - Rescue suffering people now! - No to the strengthening of the neo-fascist ruling system! Stop the revision of the Constitution! Now is the time for the working class to unite across borders! Don't let the rulers sacrifice the toiling masses amid the 'pandemic depression'! (1) No to dismissals, unilateral rejection of the renewal of employment contracts and wage cuts! No to all the offensives launched by monopoly capitalists for their own survival! Denounce the Abe government intent on giving aid to monopoly capitalists! (2) Don't allow the Abe government to tighten the authoritarian, military ruling system by taking advantage of 'countermeasures against the coronavirus'! (3) Oppose the Shinzo Abe-led neo-fascist government! Denounce the rulers of the world each stirring up state egoism and chauvinistic nationalism! Workers of the world, unite and bring down the rulers who are plunging workers into abysmal hardships! See slogans for a fightback [2]  Fight against the US base construction in OkinawaWorkers, students and residents staged a mass sit-in against the carrying in of sand and liquid concrete for land reclamation March 19th, Henoko, Okinawa (pic right) Under the banner 'Down with the Abe government!', protesters blocked the way and kept construction vehicles off the worksite Denounce the Abe government for covering up the truth of the Moritomo School scandal and the falsification of related official documents! [3] Global warming aggravated by the governments of the US, Japan and Europe, as well as China and Russia! I. The governments of the world's largest CO2 emitting countries are removing or relaxing restrictions on emissions II. US, Chinese, EU and Japanese rulers are each showing their own state egoism III. Don't allow those rulers to accelerate environmental destruction! [4] Fight out the 2020 spring labour offensive in opposition to the destructive attempts of the leadership of the JAW [Confederation of Japan Automobile Workers' Unions]! Denounce the labour aristocrats of the leading auto companies for accepting terribly low wage hike figures! [5] Massive 'coronavirus dismissals' assailing US workers Never ever allow the imposition of sacrifices on workers! Not insured, low-wage earners must bear all medical expenses when infected with the virus Many of them have no choice but just to wait to die Topics 3.28 million US workers made applications for unemployment insurance in a week (from March 15th to 21st) Workers of the world, unite and resist mass dismissals! From a comrade present at the Workers' Solidarity Meeting on February 9th Based on Kuroda's 'philosophy of revolutionization', I'll fight! [6] In the chains of Ampo (3) 60 years after the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty [Ampo] The Abe government is spending huge money to buy US-made weapons, as told by Trump Virus research in China: incorporated in the national strategy of China
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No. 2612
(March 30th 2020 Issue)
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No to the imposition of sacrifices upon the toiling masses - Crush the neo-fascist government's move to introduce a 'state of emergency' clause into the Constitution of Japan! - Rulers of the US and China are each frantic to survive their own economic, political crisis - Stop the rulers coercing workers and toiling people to make sacrifices and tightening authoritarian ruling systems! [2] Denounce Shinzo Abe for covering up his own involvement in the ultra-right Moritomo School scandal and the falsification of related official documents! The government is arrogantly ignoring the accusation, in the form of a suicide note, by a finance bureau staff member involved What lies at the bottom of the exposure of the 'casino scandal' - Last year's arrest of an LDP Diet member delivered a shock to the Abe government - The Trump administration is aiming for the monopolization by American gambling enterprises of Japan's newly developed 'integrated resort' business - Chinese casino enterprises inveigled some of the ruling party members to make inroads into Japan's new 'resort business' - Denounce the Abe government obsessed with the promotion of a gambling business! [3] The fight of chemical industry workers in the JEC [Japanese Federation of Energy and Chemistry Workers' Unions] Don't let the labour aristocracy destroy the spring labour offensive! Fight for a militant upsurge of the 2020 labour offensive! I. By sacrificing workers, chemical monopoly capitalists are seeking to strengthen the international competitiveness of their companies II. Let us fight for higher wages, denouncing the union leaders' abandonment of setting 'standards' for wage increase demands! [4] Shatter the Toyota labour aristocrats' attempts to destroy the spring labour offensive! - Denounce the leadership's acceptance of 'zero pay increase'! - Condemn them for converting labour-management talks into ones for the survival of the company! - Let us fight resolutely against all their attempts to destroy the spring labour offensive! The city authorities of Sapporo are intent on introducing ICT systems into municipal offices and childcare facilities [5] No to the reorganization of metropolitan hospitals into 'independent administrative corporations'! Stop the rigorous imposition of a self-supporting accounting system! Don't allow the metropolitan authorities to close hospitals and reduce the number of hospital beds! Topics Stop the enactment of the so-called 70-year-old people employment law! The government and the bourgeoisie are urging elderly people to work 'freelance' [6] In the chains of Ampo (2) 60 years after the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty [Ampo] US and Japanese naval forces conducted their first joint minesweeping exercise in the Bay of Ise on the supposition that the Strait of Hormus is blockaded with mines laid by Iran Xi Jinping, the principal person concerned in spreading the new-type infectious disease, is now desperately attempting to cover up his historic crime 'Judicial reform' in Poland The Law and Justice regime is hell-bent on tightening controls on judges TOP |
No. 2611
(March 23rd 2020 Issue)
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Don't allow the Abe government to plunge toiling people - Monopoly capitalists are imposing dismissals, wage cuts and intensified labour upon workers - Let us fight unbendingly by denouncing the JTUC leaders' acts of destroying the spring labour offensive and giving full cooperation to the capitalists! [2] Recognition of the 'sovereignty' of Israel alone, rejection of a Palestinean state: a criminal 'peace plan for the Middle East' announced by Trump - Anger boiling up against US imperialism, against Israel - Trump's plan concocted to obtain the votes of evangelicals - Patronizing the annexation of Jewish settlements and the occupation of Jerusalem by the Zionist regime - The expansion of Iranian influence in the Middle East and the countermeasures of US imperialism driven by a sense of crisis - The bankruptcy of the rule of US imperialism over the Middle East [3] Let us make a militant upsurge in the 2020 spring labour offensive of Shitetsu-soren [Japan General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions]! Don't allow the union leadership to distort the offensive into a campaign 'to achieve demands for better traffic policies'! 1. Traffic industry capitalists are intending to go through with wage restraints 2. The union leadership is distorting the spring labour offensive into one for the 'reconstruction of attractive industry' 3. Strive for a militant upsurge of the private railway workers' 2020 spring labour offensive! [4] For the uplifting of the spring labour offensive of Denki Rengo [Japanese Electrical, Electronic & Information Unions]! Don't let the Denki labour aristocrats degrade the labour offensive into joint labour-management consultations designed to 'improve productivity'! Denounce the acceptance of low wage hike figures by the union leaders of the leading electricity companies! A. A tendency towards self-restraint prevails in demanding wage hikes this year - The management is imposing wage restraints on the pretext of the spread of the infectious disease B. Let us fight resolutely, overcoming the distortion of struggles by the labour aristocracy of Denki Rengo! [5] JCP leader Fuwa's anti-proletarian falsification of Das Kapital - The JCP bureaucrats pledged to forsake 'revolution' all over again - They are attempting to justify their own descent into revised capitalism - A thoroughly anti-proletarian interpretation of Marx's so-called 'totally developed' worker - Total disregard of the alienated labour of the proletarians - Denounce the JCP bureaucrats, converted Stalinists who hinder workers from being awakened to class consciousness! Topics Abe's coercive measure to close schools across the country has caused the collapse of workers' daily lives The government lays bare its haphazardness in providing subsidies that were supposed to compensate for workers' income loss [6] In the chains of Ampo (1) 60 years after the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty [Ampo] The Abe government's dispatch of Maritime SDF troops to the Middle East Integration of the Japanese forces into the US-led forces of the 'coalition of the willing' The 'new-type coronavirus special measures law' bulldozed Crush Abe's intention to add an 'emergency clause' to the Constitution of Japan! Abe is frantic to prolong his political life The retirement of a superintendent public prosecutor, Abe's follower who has long been taking on Abe's dirty laundry, was postponed perversely, even by twisting the interpretation of the public prosecutors office law TOP |