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No. 2870
(June 2nd 2025 Issue)
| 'Let us rise in anti-war, anti-Ampo struggles!' Voices resounded through Okinawa May 17th-18th 'Crush all attempts to make the Southwest Islands a military fortress!' Zengakuren Okinawa and students' delegates from across the country fought in the van in Okinawa Okinawa Peace March May 17th Workers from Okinawa and from across the country marched on the US Kadena Base; students marched in the van
(pic right) Angry students chanting slogans at the first gate of the Kadena air base The white banner says 'No to Russia's aggression in Ukraine! Denounce Israel's massacres in Gaza!'
(pic right) Student marchers arriving at the venue of Okinawa People's Rally; JRCL members giving out leaflets to rally participants Okinawa People's Rally 'Scrap Ampo [US-Japan Security Treaty]!' Militant students' sharp calls evoked enthusiastic approbation among participants in the Rally  Zengakuren students calling on workers to 'remove US bases' and 'scrap Ampo' in the people's rally Henoko May 18th Militant students held a demonstration at the reclamation site
Bring down the Ishiba government moving to strengthen Ampo and expand armaments! Denouncing established leaderships' neglect of struggles, militant students created struggles to 'Shatter Putin's war!', to 'Denounce the massacres in Gaza!' [2] The Ishiba government conducted a simulation drill for 'local people's emergency evacuation' in Okinawa 'No to the raising of school fees!' 'Stop the massive military buildup!' Angry students' protest action held in Kanazawa University May 1st, Kanazawa [3] The shadowy side of Chinese e-commerce companies Frequent occurrence of 'indiscriminate murder and physical injury cases' in China Tragedies of people groaning under oppression by the Beijing bureaucracy [4] Stop the worse revision of the law that 'entrenches' teachers' overtime without pay! Let us be firmly opposed to the passage of the revised bill through the Upper House! Wretched working conditions of workers hired by the fiscal year Stop the rapid increase in the number of a municipal version of the working poor! [5] Foil the management plan to dismiss 10,000 NTT workers! Topics The Ishiba government is watching for a chance to drastically cut the total national medical care expenditure TOP |
No. 2869
(May 26th 2025 Issue)
| Condemn Netanyahu's murderous assaults on Gaza! Denounce the genocide against Palestinians! Shatter Trump's plot to 'exile' all Palestinian people from Gaza! Putin turned down the 'thirty-day cease-fire', is hell-bent on aerial bombing - Russia took part in negotiations so as not to be forsaken by Trump - Xi Jinping exalted as a guest of honour: 'Victory Day' in Moscow
Taxation boomerangs against the foolish emperor - Astounded by fierce opposition at home and abroad, Trump was obliged to take stopgap measures - Trump's 'tariff war' results in giving succour to the main enemy China - Japan, the only 'vassal state', implores Trump for tariff 'reduction' [2] Denounce the enactment of the pre-emptive cyber attack law! Stop the enactment of the law to convert the JSC (Science Council of Japan) into a corporation! [3] Incapable of constructing warships: the militarist empire of America - The ruined empire totally relying on Japanese and South Korean shipbuilding companies - Daydreaming the 'revival of America's shipbuilding industry' with the imposition of entrance fees to its ports and harbours - The decline caused by the one-time 'world's sole superpower' itself A move to revise the law to set up the Ministry of Defense Don't allow the Ishiba government to build a military encircling net against China! A dash for preparations for war against China A multinational military exercise with US Army, Pacific, as its axis - An attack exercise called 'joint forcible entry' - An exercise aimed to 'recapture remote islands' under the 'electromagnetic combat environment' [4] Capitalists drove workers into deaths and suicides from overwork Don't avoid recognizing their deaths as work-related deaths! Never ever let them evade their responsibilities! Sacrificing public services for residents Shifting the burden authoritatively onto working people Governor Saito's impermissible plans for the 'reform of Hyogo Prefectural Government' Topics The Ishiba government intent on transforming the JSC (Science Council of Japan) into a corporation supportive of the government's war policy [5] All South Africa-hosted G20 meetings boycotted by the US government South Africa is made the target of Trump's hostile policy - Trump hurls loud reproaches at the 'persecution of South Africa's whites' - Ramaphosa is desperate to maintain his government now in coalition with a party of whites 12 years after the massacre of mine workers in South Africa (4) (From the International Workers Organizer, an international magazine of the FLTI-CI) In the heat of the combat of the black proletariat in South Africa, there are Revolutionary Trotskyists being built [6] Constitution Day Rallies held in many cities Stop the strengthening of Ampo! Stop the revision of the Constitution!'
'The voices of workers, students and citizens reverberated throughout the venues  May 3rd, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Pref. 'Stop the deployment of F-35 fighter jets in SDF Komatsu Air Base!' Kanazawa Univ. students called on rally participants Ai-Roren May Day rally
'Win a big, across-the board wage raise!' JRCL distributed militant leaflets Many workers expressed their approval for the call, while criticizing their Ai-Roren leadership's abandonment of wage struggles TOP |
No. 2868
(May 19th 2025 Issue)
| Win a big, across-the-board wage raise! Let us fight with the aim of repealing the US-Japan Security Treaty! Revolutionary and militant workers strived to enliven the 96th May Day rallies across Japan - Denounce the Rengo [JTUC] leadership for calling out for the 'survival of a national crisis' together with the government and the bourgeoisie! - Break through the danger of the outbreak of a world war! - Bring down the Ishiba-led neo-fascist Japanese government! Rengo Central May Day rally
Workers' indignation unleashed on PM Ishiba and JTUC Chairwoman Yoshino JRCL members calling for the overthrow of the Ishiba government and the smashing of Russia's aggression in Ukraine (pic right) [2] Zenroren Central May Day rally
Workers' anger focussed on the pro-JCP union bureaucrats who only propagandized the JCP's policies for the upcoming election
May 1st, Hibiya, Tokyo (pic above left) 'Win a big, across-the-board wage raise! Stop the massive military buildup!' Many participants expressed their approval of the JRCL's convincing appeal Rengo Osaka May Day rally May 1st, Osaka Castle Park, Osaka (pic above right) 'Condemn the leadership's agreement on a derisory pay raise!' Denunciations reverberated through the venue [3] Rengo Hokkaido May Day rally
Militant workers fought in opposition to the Rengo leadership's 'save-the-nation' Industrial Patriotic movement
May 1st, Kanazawa (pic above left) Workers expressed anger over low compromise figures of pay increases and the growing pay differentials Rengo Fukuoka May Day rally April 26th, Fukuoka (pic above right) 'No to wage cuts! No to dismissals!' JRCL distributed leaflets [4] The 'foolish emperor' Trump's tariff war The sole militarist empire in its death throes 1. The 'foolish emperor' Trump's tariff war and the all-out resistance of Xi Jinping-led China 2. The hollowing out of the US manufacturing industry that has given rise to the 'rust belt' - The development of the in-company international division of labour and the 'use' of immigrants: the case of the auto industry - The international division of labour dependent on foundries abroad: the case of the electrical and electronic industry - The rise of 'post-hardware' GAFA: the deepening decay of capitalism in its terminal stage [6] Denounce the agreement on a derisory compromise figure in 2025 shunto! Let us fight for a militant resuscitation of the NTT trade union movement! Topics The union leadership justifies this year's ultra-low compromise figure by saying 'The pay increase has taken root': The UA Zensen shunto [7] Stop the resumption of operation of Tomari nuclear reactor No. 3 Denounce the NRA for authorizing the resumption in accordance with the intention of the Ishiba government! 12 years after the massacre of mine workers in South Africa (3) (From the International Workers Organizer, an international magazine of the FLTI-CI) The black working class, a key fraction of the world proletariat [8] May 3rd Constitution Day Rally in Tokyo
May 3rd Constitution Day Rally in Osaka
Kobe Univ. and Nara Women's Univ. students called for anti-Ampo May 3rd Constitution Day Rally in Kanazawa  Kanazawa University students encouraging the participantsTOP |
No. 2866-67
(May 12th 2025 Issue)
| Remove all US bases! Scrap Ampo! Workers and students! Fight under the banner of 'anti-Ampo'! Achieve an upsurge in the Peace March and Okinawa People's Rally on May 17th! Bring down the Ishiba government that bows to the Trump empire and dashes to the strengthening of Ampo, to a gigantic military buildup! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL US and Japanese rulers are feverishly preparing for war against China The building and strengthening of the US-Japan joint pre-emptive attack system - The Ishiba government is making Okinawa a military fortress, sacrificing its residents Denounce the leadership of the JCP for abandoning opposition to Ampo! Stop the construction of a new US base in Henoko! No to the making of Okinawa a military fortress! - Crush Putin's war and Netanyahu's war!  Angry students in the Tokyo Metropolitan area staged a protest march May 3rd, Tokyo [2] 'Japan, US, Australia plus South Korea and the Philippines as one theater of operations' (Defense Minister Nakatani) US and Japanese rulers are escalating saber rattling against China An 'quasi-alliance' between Japan and the Philippines The Ishiba-led Japanese government maneuvering to win the Marcos government over to its side [3] The Trump empire running wild Part 3 The 'tariff man' digging his own grave 100 days after inauguration, the foolish emperor is struggling desperately An atrocious confinement facility in El Salvador Trump utilizes a 'miniature Trump' to repatriate 'illegal immigrants' US universities are subjected to government suppression The Trump administration is frantic to 'exterminate liberals' [4-5] Denounce the JTUC leadership for joining with monopoly capitalists in the wage restraint and price raising! Break through the spring labour offensive suffering from the widening of pay differentials and wage cuts! I. JTUC leadership-led shunto: real wages virtually decreased and differentials in pay widened more and more II. Break through the JTUC-type labour movement! Topics JTUC chairwoman Yoshino's speech at the May Day rally: Every single word ran counter to the feelings of workers struggling with life's hardships [6] Angry students in the Tokyo Metropolitan area staged a protest march No to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine! No to the massacres in Gaza! No to the strengthening of the military alliance, to the massive military buildup!  May 3rd, Waseda and vicinity, Shinjuku, Tokyo (pic) 'Stop the rise in university fees!' 'Down with the Ishiba government!' Zengakuren Kansai rose in protest
'No to the US-Japan global alliance! Down with the Ishiba government!' Militant students aired strong protests in front of the LDP local office in Kobe (pic above left) 1,300 workers and citizens held a rally against the strengthening of SDF bases in Kyushu and the Southwest Islands  April 20th, Tsuiki, Fukuoka Prefecture 'Oppose the building of the pre-emptive attack system against China!' JRCL appealed to rally participants by distributing leaflets (pic) 'No to the use of the SDF base in Tsuiki by US forces!' Kagoshima Univ. students fighting in the van TOP |
No. 2865
(April 28th 2025 Issue)
| Smash the strengthening of the military alliance and the massive expansion of armaments! Down with the Ishiba government victimizing working people in submission to the Trump empire! Crush Putin's war and Netanyahu's war! The Trump administration forcing the Japanese government to accept its demands for increase in Japan's military burdens The Ishiba government vowed to be devoted to building a military encirclement against China - Hell-bent on reinforcing Japan's army and building a pre-emptive attacking system Create antiwar and anti-military alliance struggles in opposition to oppression by the existing leaderships! Rise in the Ukraine antiwar struggle! Denounce the massacres in Gaza! [2] Stop the enactment of the Active Cyber Defence Law, another war law! - Every communication is to be monitored, intercepted and collected - A pre-emptive cyber attack in the name of 'active defence' - Aimed to build a system that enables Japan and the US to jointly wage a cyber war The mandatory retirement ages raised in China The Xi leadership imposing burdens on working people [3] Competition for rare metals heated in Africa: Congo as a focus 12 years after the massacre of mine workers in South Africa (2) (From the International Workers Organizer, an international magazine of the FLTI-CI) 2018-19: a mass upsurge divided by Stalinists [4] Electric workers in the 2025 Spring Offensive Denounce the leadership for reducing the offensive into labour-management consultations aimed to accept wage restraints and mass sackings [5] The Saga Prefectural authorities ordered dismissals for the reason of 'insufficient ability' Self-Defence Forces' recruitment campaigns rampant in elementary and junior high schools Topics A 'labour-government' joint press meeting by Ishiba and Yoshino, which stressed in a duet on the need 'to overcome the national crisis' [6] Kaleidoscope Georgian people's struggles against Russia's interventions in the elections A gas crisis in Moldova Putin's plot to topple the pro-EU government Russia's attempt to secure a naval base in Sudan In place of the one lost in Syria TOP |
No. 2864
(April 21st 2025 Issue)
| Don't allow the Ishiba government and the monopoly bourgeoisie to shift the burden of Trump's tariffs onto the toiling masses! Bring down the Ishiba government ruthlessly attacking working people! The launch of Trump's tariffs: the start of a trade / commerce war between the US and China - Imposing poverty on workers and people all over the world The Ishiba government and monopoly capitalists mercilessly victimizing working people - Smash the strengthening of the US-Japan military alliance and tax increases for arms expansion! Fight against wage cuts and sackings! Denounce the Rengo leadership for promoting an Industrial Patriotic movement! [2] 'Stop the deployment of F-35 fighters in the Komatsu base!' Trade union members and students held a protest at the base gate, April 1st
The Defence Ministry forcibly set up SDF missile regiments in Oita Prefecture Smash the build-up of a pre-emptive attacking system! Let us oppose the extensive establishment of ammunition depots in Kyushu and the Southwest Islands! [3] 12 years after the massacre of mine workers in South Africa: an interview dated on August 16th, 2024 From the International Workers Organizer, an international magazine of the FLTI-CI
- Stalinist betrayals carved in the African continent - Lessons from the struggle of Marikana workers [4] The rampancy of neo-Nazi AfD: German workers at a cross-roads - AfD encouraged by a new ally, the Trump administration - Agitation of anti-immigrant chauvinism AfD taking advantage of the poverty of former East German people [5] Publication workers in their spring offensive Win a big across-the-board wage raise! Let us fight assiduously to promote antiwar, anti-constitutional revision struggles! Topics An empty cry of JCP central bureaucrats: 'Build the party organization in workplaces, the sphere of labour!' [6] 'Care managing' workers in cruel conditions Leaving their jobs one after another TOP |
No. 2863
(April 14th 2025 Issue)
| Create an explosive upsurge in the antiwar struggle! Down with Putin's war and Netanyahu's war! Overthrow Ishiba's 'Dutch rolling' government madly rushing into the reinforcement of the US-Japan military alliance and the massive military buildup! Let us fight by overcoming the JCP leadership that abandons opposition to the military alliance! Central Students' Orgburo 1. Due to the clash between the US and China-Russia, the present world is in mounting danger of the outbreak of a world war A. Trump the stupid president is resorting to 'tariff wars' against the whole world B. Putin is strengthening aggression to make Ukraine a 'dependency of Russia' C. The Netanyahu regime is frantically perpetrating genocide against the Gazans --- The US, together with Israel, has started a warmongering act against Iran D. Over Taiwan and the South China Sea, the US-Japan and China are escalating political and military confrontation 2. Obediently accepting the Trump Empire's demands, the Ishiba-led Japanese government is accelerating its massive military buildup and the reinforcement of its military alliance with America ---The existing opposition movement in Japan is on the brink of extinction; students of Zengakuren are striving to break through the crisis 3. Win an explosive upsurge of antiwar struggles with new students! A. Smash Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine! B. Condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza! C. Stop the Ishiba government's reinforcement of the US-Japan military alliance and the tremendous military buildup! - Stop the building of the US-Japan pre-emptive attack system! - Crush the strengthening of the US-Japan global military alliance! - Create a resolute antiwar struggle to break through the danger of warfare on the verge of eruption amid the headlong clash between the US-Japan and China-Russia! 4. Let us create a nationwide upsurge in the struggle against high university fees! ---No to higher fees that will ruin students' lives and deprive them of their future! ---Shatter the fascistic transformation of Japanese universities! ---Don't allow machinations designed to make universities footholds of military research 5. Let us create a big wave of the revolutionary student movement starting from each of the campuses with new students! [5] A plan to deploy a 'constellation' of interceptor missiles: Tramp's mad version of Star Wars 'Defense tax' and 'military bonds': The Ishiba government justifies the massive military buildup as a 'public works project' [6] 2025 spring labour offensive of JAM [Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery, and Manufacturing Workers] Let us fight by overcoming the union leadership's petition campaign for 'price pass through'! [7] Postal workers' 2025 spring offensive We adamantly denounce the union leaders' acceptance of management's ultra-law wage raise offer, an imposition of poverty on workers! Topics Boosting prices, abandoning public transportation systems, curtailing pensions ... The government and monopoly capitalists imposing poverty on the toiling masses [8] 14 years after the nuclear disaster at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi power station Don't make disaster-stricken Fukushima a site for the development of military technology! A Rengo Okinawa rally for the spring offensive March 27th 'Denounce the JTUC aristocrats for accepting derisory wage raises!' JRCL distributed leaflets among participants calling for victory in shunto TOP |
No. 2862
(April 7th 2025 Issue)
| Smash the development of nuclear power plants and other facilities, which is inseparable from the build-up of Japan into a strong military power! - Stop the resumption of operation of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Reactors 6 and 7! - Fukushima, 14 years after the accident: the government policy of abandoning disaster victims and using the stricken area as a hub for developing dual use technologies - The Japanese government hell-bent on developing nuclear power plants and a nuclear fuel cycle amid the head-on clash between the US and China-Russia Denounce Russia's air raids on Ukraine! No to the 'peace' that acquits the aggressor Putin and tramples down Ukrainian people! [2] No to the resumption of operation of Reactors 6 and 7 at the TEPCO Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant! The Ishiba government frantic to resume the operation 'Stop the resumption of operation of Tomari Nuclear Reactor 3!' The JRCL appeal evoked warm responses 'Sayonara to nuke plants' rally in Hokkaido, March 11th, Sapporo [3] The imperialist power of Germany launching a historic military build-up The working class confronting rising neo-Nazi forces - The 'brake' on massive rearmament destroyed - SDP's crushing defeat and CDU's close victory - Interference by the Trump administration and an upsurge of anti-neo Nazi sentiments A deepening crisis of the German economy - 'Minus growth' in two consecutive years - Setbacks in the Green Deal and the EV shift - German workers rising against mass restructurings and dismissals [4] The road subsidence accident in Yashio city Denounce the government for neglecting to repair and replace decrepit drains! A policy taken by the Aichi prefectural authorities to aid manufacturing and munitions monopolies Their aim in launching the Station Ai as 'a hub for supporting startups' [5] From a postal worker My resolve: I will fight against the reorganization and rationalization of regional sorting stations Topics The government and the bourgeoisie crying for 'higher productivity in nursing care service' [6] Destruction of farming A rural town in Kumamoto forced to change in life by the launch of a TSMC [Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company] factory What I have thought on reading Kuroda's Theory of Alienation and the Materialist Conception of History TOP |
No. 2861
(March 31st 2025 Issue)
| Denounce the Netanyahu government's resumption of air raids and ground
attacks on Gaza! Denounce the genocide of the Palestinian people! Denounce Trump, an accomplice in the genocide! The Xi Jinping government cries out for 'opposition to protectionism', for the 'productive power of new quality' The meaning of the recent National People's Congress - Attempting to form an encircling net against Trump under the banner 'opposition to unilateralism' - Screaming for the 'expansion of domestic demand' and 'innovation in science and technology' - No to the strengthening of the authoritarian rule by the neo-Stalinist bureaucracy! [2] A dramatic 'raid' on a base for swindlers in Myanmar The Xi government has embarked on the disposal of the filth of an 'underworld One Belt One Road' [3] The Trump empire running wild Part 2 Hitler-like 'anti-leftist witch-hunts' and expulsion of immigrants Elon Musk's crimes Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act USAID shut down [4] The 2025 Osaka World Expo: to be started on April 13th at great cost to working people Denounce the right-wing party Ishin-controlled Osaka city authorities for cutting welfare payments [5] The quake-hit Noto Peninsula Fatal, on-the-job accidents occur frequently in the restoration work School children's 'mental health care' application software introduced into schools by the Education Ministry, aggravating confusion in the classroom Topics Japan Teachers' Union leadership abandoned the demand for 'repealing the 'special law' that legalizes teachers' overtime with no pay [6] Regional rallies of trade unions for the spring offensive Rengo Aichi Match 2nd Voices of denunciation erupting against the labour aristocrats' derisory wage hike demands and their call for 'price pass-through' Rengo Hokkaido March 10th Win a big, across-the-board wage raise!' The JRCL appeal received warm responses Zenroren's 'protest action' at Toyota Headquarters February 11th, Nagoya Anger growing against the leadership pleading with the Toyota management for wage hikes TOP |
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