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No. 2890
(October 20th 2025 Issue)
| Rise up for an anti-war, anti-fascist struggle! Smash the reinforcement of the US-Japan military alliance! No to the massive military buildup! Don't allow the establishment of an antiespionage law! Rise to workers and students' united actions on October 19-26 - Komeito's withdrawal from the coalition government and the plunge of the Takaichi-led LDP into a Dutch roll - The Democratic Party for the People and JTUC's Yoshino leadership pressurize the Constitutional Democrats to change their policies - Don't allow the buildup of the Japanese-style neo-fascist ruling system! - Put up an anti-fascist battle front! [2] The retaliatory tariff of 50 percent Trump the stupid emperor enraged at the conviction against Bolsonaro, his sworn friend - 'Bullying' Lula da Silva, a supporter of China Threatening to cancel the license Trump the despot frantic to attack the media [3] No to the massive arms buildup in preparation for hybrid warfare of the 21st century type! A rush to a large-scale deployment of attack drones: Japan's Defense Ministry - Introduction of Israeli-made lethal drones! Colluding with each other on the mass production of drones for attacking Ukraine: China and Russia - Russia is perpetrating homicidal attacks using 800 drones in one night GSDF 'electronic warfare corps' No to the deployment of the corps on the Southwest Islands! - The deployment is one with the buildup of a missile attack system - The US-Japan vs. China-Russia: fierce rivalry in the domains of 'outer space, cyberspace and electromagnetic waves' [4] The 92nd regular convention of the General Federation of Private Railway and Bus Workers' Unions Reviewing 2025 shunto Criticisms cropped up against the leadership's arrogant justification for low compromise figures - The leadership justified themselves by saying 'Let's look hard at our present position' - 'For a big wage raise!' Delegates' voices raised one after another - Let us create antiwar, anti-Ampo struggles! Stop the revision of the Constitution! [5] In the disaster-stricken area of the Noto Peninsula The number of local authorities' cancellation of welfare payments soaring suddenly - 'Donations for relief are counted as income' Merciless notice given unilaterally to evacuees: the case of Wajima city Don't change for the worse of the pension system! Don't allow the strengthening of mass expropriation! Topics Japanese teachers work the longest hours in the world Abolish the notorious law that entrenches teachers' overtime without pay! [6] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Why did the prewar Japanese Communist Party lose its battle against Japanese militarism? - The war was conducted as a result of the setback of Japanese leftists - Self-complacence about 'not abandoned communism despite long-term imprisonment' - Surrender to Japanese nationalism Delivery at the risk of their lives Postal workers in Ukraine: delivering mails and pensions to villagers despite bombardment TOP |
No. 2889
(October 13th 2025 Issue)
| Foil a full-scale reactionary offensive to be launched by the Japanese-style
neo-fascist state power headed by ultra-rightist Takaichi Stop the establishment of an espionage law, today's version of the wartime Maintenance of the Public Order Act! It is time to create a mighty struggle against fascism! Declaration of the reinforcement of the US-Japan nuclear military alliance and the buildup of a pre-emptive strike system aimed at China Defense of Japan 2025 - Emphasis placed on an 'organic cooperation' with the United States' nuclear capabilities - 'Joint operations' to cope with an 'emergency in Taiwan' pushed to the front - Justifying the buildup of a pre-emptive strike system against China - An inflammation of 'national defense consciousness' by which to urge youths to join the SDF [2] No to Resolute Dragon 25! Zengakuren Okinawa protested at the gate of the US forces headquarters (pic below) September 12th, Ishinda, Okinawa  Voices of 'anti-war, anti-fascism' reverberated '10 years after the War Law - No to War!' Rally in Hokkaido September 19th, Sapporo  Students of Hokkaido University marching with workers and citizens (pic above) [3] September 3rd Tiananmen Military Parade Xi-led China showed off its nuclear attack system to the Trump Empire - 'The three legs of China's nuclear triad' with the US mainland within range - A headlong rush to the development and deployment of weapons for 'intelligent warfare' and 'usable nukes' 'New-quality saturated production' China's EV manufacturers are suffering from surplus stocks and debts An order to get vocational training Chinese youths are forced by the Xi government to undergo difficulty in finding jobs and suffer poverty [4] The Trump Empire: a dash for the extermination of 'liberals and the left' - Seer madness: a crackdown on 'liberals' by using the Charlie Kirk shooting as a pretext The US-Japan tariff negotiation The LDP government of Japan, America's vassal state, agreed to pay the tribute of 80 trillion yen - 'Hey, Japan, you just pay money; we'll decide the use of it' - The Japanese government also yielded in terms of rice, steel, weapons and natural gas to Trump [5] Postal workers' struggle over the 'inappropriate roll-calling' issue Strike back against the intensification of labour and the tightening of labour management due to 'thoroughgoing inspections'! Topics Rengo's self-restrained policy for demanding wage hikes in next year's shunto [6] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Mitsuo Taketani: the physicist who insisted to the last on his justifiability as one who praised the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki On the social responsibility of natural scientists The tragedy caused by Japan's colonial rule over Korea and its oppression under the Maintenance of the Public Order Act Thinking deep in 80 years after a Korean poet died in a fit of anger Poetry Oh! People of Palestine! People of Judea! TOP |
No. 2888
(October 6th 2025 Issue)
| Denounce Israeli forces' inrush into Gaza City, viz. a massacre of Gazans! Condemn Trump for aiding and abetting the genocide! Repeal the War Law! Stop the legislation of the espionage law! Launch an extensive antiwar, anti-fascist movement! Action at the Diet Building gate, September 19th 
- Militant students called on workers and citizens to fight in unity - As leader of the JCP, Tamura has no sense of crisis nor backbone to organize a fightback - Build an anti-fascist united front! [2] The 95th Zengakuren National Convention held September16th Militant students established a bridgehead for farther advance in the coming autumn Smash Putin's war! Crush Netanyahu's war! Organize struggles against Japan's massive military buildup, against the reinforcement of the US-Japan military alliance! [3] Denounce Zapad 2025, Russia's massive manoeuvres conducted with Belarus! Putin strengthens his military threats against NATO states Taking advantage of people's needy circumstances, Putin is frantically recruiting soldiers No to Resolute Dragon 25! Workers and citizens gathered from all over Hokkaido to oppose the US-Japan joint exercise September 10th, Sapporo
(pic above right) Protest rally prior to the demonstration A scheme to deploy newest-type weapons for EABO operations: US forces in Okinawa [4] Cruel tyrant Tramp's law to 'support the rich, forsake the poor, and enforce repression' The extremely reactionary nature of One Big Beautiful Bill Act - A reverse-Robin Hood bill: to give to the rich and take from the poor - Intended to swell violent apparatuses while exterminating 'the left' - An enormous military buildup, promotion of AI and semiconductors, and the abandonment of decarbonization - What will be brought about by a colossal amount of debts accumulated -- The working class in America! Rise in Anti-Trump struggles! [5] Steel monopoly capitalists increasing blast furnace shutdowns Don't allow monopoly capitalists to exact sacrifices from workers! - Planning to rebuild 'optimum production systems' - Overseas expansion for the survival of steel companies - The degenerate union bureaucracy is to extend full cooperation to the mid-term management plan Topics JTUC chairwoman Yoshino's aims in her third term Scheming to provide support for the buildup of Ampo, military expansion and the resumption of nuclear power operation [6] The Modi government 'hugged' the Chinese and Russian rulers: in defiance of high tariffs imposed by Trump - Modi made a display of India's strengthened ties with China and Russia - Modi's domestic and foreign policies aimed to realize 'Make India Great Again' TOP |
No. 2887
(September 29th 2025 Issue)
| Rise in antiwar, united actions throughout the country! Crush Putin's war! Smash Netanyahu's war! Stop Japan's massive military buildup! No to the reinforcement of the US-Japan military alliance! Let us fight by overcoming the JCP-led opposition movement! Central Students' Orgburo Chapter 1 The present world: the danger of the outbreak of a world war increasing amid the headlong clash between the US and China-Russia A. Putin-led Russia expanding its war of aggression against Ukraine B. Netanyahu-led Israel pushing forward with its total seizure of Gaza and eviction of the Palestinians C. East Asia: the danger of war increasing Chapter 2 The Ishiba-led Japanese government plunging into an enormous military buildup and reinforcement of the US-Japan military alliance -- The collapsing of official opposition movements and strenuous efforts of Zengakuren to break it through Chapter 3 Achieve an explosive upsurge of the revolutionary antiwar struggle! A. Denounce the central leadership of the JCP for abandoning 'antiwar, anti-Ampo, anti-fascist' struggles! B. Crush Putin's war! Smash Netanyahu's war! Stop Japan's massive military buildup and the revision of the Constitution! -- Shatter the Russian aggression in Ukraine! Never allow the attempt to seize the territory of Ukraine! -- Condemn Israel's genocide of the Palestinians! -- Create an explosive upsurge in the struggle against massive military buildups, against the strengthening of Ampo, and against the revision of the Constitution! -- Let us build a battle front against fascism!  Stand up for an extensive battle front against fascism! Action at the Diet Building gate Metropolitan area militant students making an ardent appeal to 2,300 workers and citizens Sept. 19th, Tokyo (pic above) [5] No to Resolute Dragon 25! Protesters stood firm against the US-Japan joint exercise Kagoshima Univ. students fought in the van under the banner 'Anti-Ampo!' September 13th, Kagoshima (pic below left) 'No to the military exercise!' Marchers yelling in the city streets of Kagoshima (pic below right)
Angry workers and citizens of Okinawa raised fists to protest against the joint field training exercise September 10th, at SDF Camp Katsuren, Okinawa (pic below left) 'Remove all bases!' Antiwar workers in Okinawa fighting together (pic below right)
Topics Leading electronics companies are reviewing their long-standing practice of simultaneously recruiting new graduates [6] In solidarity with medical workers of Ukraine - For class unity, without being slaves to a 'spirit of service' - Say 'No!' to the exaction of sacrifices from medical workers! - Strike back against the new wave of neo-fascist attacks! TOP |
No. 2886
(September 22nd 2025 Issue)
| Denounce Israel's bombing of Qatar! Stop invading Gaza City! Stop the total occupation of Gaza! Check the expansion of settlements in the West Bank! Condemn the genocide of the Palestinians by the Zionist state power! Trump, Putin, Xi speed up the scorching of the globe - Trump intends frantically to 'eradicate' preventive measures for global warming - The EU's decarbonization measures bankrupted by Putin's war - Xi accelerates the heating of the globe with open state egoism [2] No to Japan's export of new-model frigates to Australia - Promotion of military cooperation by using the 'joint development' of frigates as a lever - Formation of a multilateral military alliance against China - Reinforcement of militarist Japan's war sustainability A dark ideologue 'The most efficient regime should be "monarchy"'!? [3] The Lee Jae Myung government of South Korea plunging towards the strengthening of the nuclear military alliance with the US and Japan Developments of a 'pragmatic diplomacy' in the face of the collusion between China, Russia and North Korea The Chairman of the SDF Joint Staff Council requested US forces to use 'nuclear threats' towards China [4] The Japanese Communist Party forsaken by workers and people - 'The election was lost because there was a gust of wind': JCP's review of the recent House of Councillors election - 'For a new cooperation among people': A cry rang hollow - All members of the JCP, break away from your rotten central leadership! Topics The raise of the minimum wage recommended makes fools of workers and the toiling masses [5] Concealing massive water leakage, the company kept the operation of a high-speed passenger liner In total disregard of safety: a subsidiary of JR Kyushu What has become of the classroom after the introduction of Chat GPT? [6] Messages from overseas to the 63rd International Antiwar Assembly (4) - Die Linke, Germany - LALIT, Mauritius - Parti ouvrier indépendant, France - Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori (PCL), Italy - Organization of Communists Internationalists, Greece TOP |
No. 2885
(September 15th 2025 Issue)
| Chinese, Russian and North Korean rulers plunging into stronger collusion
'against America' China's military parade on the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japanese aggression Denounce the Xi Jinping leadership for supporting Russia's aggression in Ukraine! The Beijing bureaucrats hell-bent on pulling through troubles from within and without No to the extensive deployment of long-range missiles over the country! - Oppose the making of a military fortress out of Okinawa and Kyushu! - Don't allow the reinforcement of the US-Japan joint pre-emptive attack system against China! [2] Stop the US-Japan joint military exercise Resolute Dragon 25! Production of suicide drones enormously increased by Putin-led Russia By deceitfully recruiting and abusing female workers from Africa [3] Layoffs for the introduction of AI to invest in AI development The meaning of the mass dismissal in Microsoft - The replacement of technical workers with generative AI No to the resumption of operation of reactor No. 6 in the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power station! [4] The inspection operations of sewer conduits in Gyoda City Denounce the fatal accident that took the lives of four workers! Condemn the LDP government for neglecting the maintenance of ageing sewer conduits! From a reader I've made up my mind to fight with my fellow readers of Kaihoh [5] 80 years after WWII No to military buildups! No to the revision of the Constitution! Let us oppose the promotion of nationalist education! The Education Workers Committee - No to the glorification of the ultra reactionary Imperial Rescript on Education! - Oppose the new form of meritocratic education based on the active use of information and communication technology! - Denounce the still worse revision of the notorious law that 'entrenches' teachers' overtime without pay! We definitely oppose the tightening of personnel management! - Raise our voices for antiwar / peace movements from our work place of education! Topics Zenroren sponsors a 'gathering of union members': a desperate attempt to break the impasse threatening the existence of its organization [6] Messages from overseas to the 63rd International Antiwar Assembly (3) - News and Letters Committees - Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation - Iosif Abramson, Russian Communist Wokers Party - Iosu Del Moral, Spanish Section of the Forth International - The Left Radical of Afghanistan TOP |
No. 2884
(September 8th 2025 Issue)
| Condemn Russia's massive air raids on Kyiv, massacres of people! Denounce the homicidal monster Netanyahu's bombardment on a hospital! Stop him from starving the people of Gaza to death! - Stop imposing famine and starvation! - No to the crazy operation to gain control of Gaza City! [1-2] 'King' Trump is hell-bent on reorganizing the US into a state under the President's arbitrary rule - Launching an all-out attack to 'sweep away liberals' - Stand up against Trump, against fascism [2] Trump the tyrant gives a command to accelerate the development and active use of artificial intelligence The brain drain from the US By massively purging researchers and scientists from public office, Trump has dug his own grave [3] 'No to Resolute Dragon, the the SDF's joint exercise with US Marines!' Stop the training in the use of US forces' intermediate-range ballistic missile launcher in the US Iwakuni Base! Excessive inter-enterprise competition inside China The solar battery industry is mired in overcompetition The 'state of New Caledonia' Macron's deceitful recognition of a 'state within a state' [4] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Part 4 100 years after the enactment of the Maintenance of the Public Order Act Trade unions and left organizations suppressed brutally to wage war My memory of an air strike Major air raids on the whole of Japan [5] Let us fight for a militant upsurge of the autumnal wage offensive! Rise in antiwar struggles despite suppression by the JTUC leadership! The Prefectural / Municipal Workers Committee - Let's say 'No' to the strengthening of the neo-fascist ruling system! - Stop the massive military buildup and the revision of the Constitution! - Let us fight in solidarity with workers and the toiling masses struggling against the increased cost of living! - Shatter Putin's war! Smash Netanyahu's war! Topics JTUC Chairwoman Yoshino presses the Constitutional Democrats and the Kokumin to merge [6] Messages from overseas to the 63rd International Antiwar Assembly (2) - Tavini Huiraatira no te Ao Maohi - The Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International / FLTI - Исайчиков Виктор Фёдорович, Marxist Platform, Russia TOP |
No. 2883
(September 1st 2025 Issue)
| Condemn Russia's indiscriminate, massive attacks on Ukraine! Crush an attempt to carve up and seize Ukraine based on collusion between the US and Russia! - Ukrainian and European leaders resistant to the US-Russian collusion - Driven by a fear of Russian invasion, European leaders stuck together - Shatter an attempt to carve up and seize Ukraine! Liven up struggles to crush Putin's war! [2] Condemn the Kim Jon-un regime for getting more and more involved in the war of aggression against Ukraine! - Kim promised Putin to send 30,000 more troops - Sacrificing the lives of North Korean people for the survival of Kim's nepotist regime Poetry Together with workers of the world Nippon Steel made US Steel its wholly-owned subsidiary Desperately seeking to survive by becoming a 'global company' [3] Antiwar assemblies were completely successful August 3rd The Okinawa assembly Urasoe Antiwar battle cries from the islands of military bases against China  The Hokuriku assembly Kanazawa Break through the danger of a thermonuclear war!  [4-5] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Part 3 Crimes of Stalin's USSR Entry into war with Japan: expansion of territories and promiscuous massacre of people Long-term detention of 600,000 Japanese war prisoners in freezing cold Siberia [5] Toyota Don't allow the drastic change in the personnel and wage system! - The widening of range in the bonus-related evaluation - The evaluation of skill-demonstration and the pay system on this basis to be abolished - Don't allow the reworking of the personnel and wage system of skilled jobs! Topics Denounce the JTUC leadership for suppressing antiwar / peace movements and anti-constitutional revision movements! [6] Messages from overseas to the 63rd International Antiwar Assembly (1) - European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) - Jim Smith, Revolutionary Marxists in Britain - Fourth International Programmatic Tendency - greek section of the Fourth International (TPT-"4") - Union Pacifiste de France - All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions (APFUTU) TOP |
No. 2881-2882
(August 25th 2025 Issue)
| No to the carve-up and seizure of Ukraine based on collusion between the US and Russia! The meaning of the US-Russian summit meeting 80 years after the Second World War Break through the danger of the outbreak of a thermonuclear war! - Definitely NO to competition between the US vs. China-Russia over the strengthening of nuclear capabilities! - Prevent warfare from breaking out in East Asia! [2] What prevents ending of war? Two main problems Vitaliy Dudin Problem 1 - Pseudo-pacifism among Western progressive forces Problem 2 - The Ukrainian state's inability to put the public interest over market interests Condemn the genocide by the Zionist regime against the Palestinians in Gaza! [3] 'Stop the construction of a new US base in Henoko!' Workers and students staged a protest in front of the Camp Schwab gate August 2nd, Henoko, Okinawa
ASDF's training exercise for attacking Chinese aircraft carriers The Ishiba government heading straight for the buildup of a preemptive attack system A psychological war over 'backdoors' between the US and China Attack and defense intensifying over semiconductors for AI [4-5] Feature articles 80 years after the Second World War Part 2 The truth of the Kume-jima Massacre: in the final stage of the Battle of Okinawa, June - August, 1945 We'll never allow the government to conceal the mass slaughter of islanders by the Japanese military! The Great Tokyo Air Raid by the US military: March 10, 1945 The genocidal massacre of 100,000 people in one night Colonial rule over Korea: the crime of Japanese imperialism Hell-bent on exterminating the Korean nation and repressing their revolts Unit 731, a 'unit of the Devil' in Manchuria Dropping of bacteriological bombs on Chinese people; repeated experiments on living human subjects: atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army [6-7] Antiwar assemblies held across the country Aug. 3rd Stop a thermonuclear war! Cries rose up The Hokkaido assembly Sapporo Crush Putin's war!  The Tokai assembly Nagoya Resolves renewed to stop a world war breaking out  The Kansai assembly Osaka Down with the neo-fascist government!  The Kyushu assembly Fukuoka Don't make the Kyushu region a military fortress!  [8] Series: Workers struggling in the workplace Anger whipped up into flame Part 6 Postal workers Win a big, across-the-board wage raise and a drastic improvement in working conditions for delivery workers! - Deceptions in the so-called 'pay improvement' of workers of the 'general position' - Unscrupulous intensification of labour due to the vacancies in the staff Topics The Zenroren chairman, a JCP-affiliate, self-betrayed his abandonment of antiwar, peace movement TOP |
