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March 2019 Issue
(Printed in January 2019)
Overthrow the Abe government! Sweep away fascism and the crisis of war! Make brilliant progress in the anti-Stalinist communist movement! The reactionary nature of the LDP's draft constitutional revisions No to the dumping of sand in the sea of Henoko! Militant students fought in the forefront of the protest action December 14th, Okinawa Colour Photogravure 2019: Fight against the constitutional revision! Fight for the overthrow of the Abe government! Fight for victory in the 2019 spring labour offensive! Stop the revision of the Constitution! Win big, across-the-board wage hikes! Don't allow the JTUC leadership to destroy the spring labour offensive! Central Workers' Orgburo Denounce the railroading of the bill to revise the Immigration Control Law! Don't allow the abuse of foreign workers with low wages, under wretched working conditions, and as 'easily disposable labour-power'! No to the increase in the consumption tax rate to 10 percent! Drastic changes in the industrial structure and 'manpower shortage': t he deepening decay of the Japanese economy A radical change in the pharmaceutical industry under the policy of reducing medical costs The revision of medical fees in 2018 by the Abe government: Medical workers are compelled to work under harsh conditions A criticism of a pro-JCP scholar's ideology about nursing care labour -- The preaching of 'a specialist consciousness and duties' of nurses On reading Kuroda's article 'A Method for the Study of the Young Marx', in The Logic of the formation of Marxism |
No. 298
January 2019 Issue
(Printed in November 2018)
Down with the Abe government! Create a big surge of struggle against the constitutional revision, against the US-Japan military alliance! Shatter the revision of the Constitution! Stop the new US base construction in Henoko! Advance antiwar struggle to sweep away war crises amid US vs. China/Russia confrontation! Central Students' Orgburo Stop the Abe government's dumping sand in the sea of Henoko! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL The Zenkyo [All Japan Teachers and Staffs Union] leadership's approval of the 'work style reform' posed by the Education Ministry Denounce the National Personnel Authority's recommendation of only small increases in wages! The realities of labour in a sweltering job site Japan Post managers imposing extremely long hours of delivery work on postal workers under a blazing sun The Hokkaido Earthquake disaster: The government and Hepco's 'nuclear power first' measures increased the damage Deception of the 'speedy reconstruction' of Kansai Airport submerged by the typhoon No to the discharge of tritium-contaminated water from the Fukushima NPS into the ocean! The rise of neo-Nazi AfD in Germany The virtual passage of a vote of no-confidence against Merkel A revolution in postwar Japan betrayed by the Japanese Communist Party _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 6) Struggles against the Vietnam War in 1968 - The struggle against the port-call of the US aircraft carrier Enterprise in Sasebo, Kyushu, January - The struggle against the setting up of a US forces field hospital in Ohji, Tokyo, February-April - The struggle at Shinjuku Station against the transport of jet fuel for US forces, Tokyo, October _________________________________________ Messages from Foreign Friends to the 56th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 2) |
No. 297
November 2018 Issue
(Printed in September 2018)
Create a gigantic upsurge of the struggle against the revision of the Constitution! The keynote speech delivered in the central meeting of the 56th International Antiwar Assembly Eradicate the danger of war amid the confrontation between the US and China! Prevent the start of dumping sand! Stop the new US base construction in Henoko! Fight for the removal of all US bases! For the repeal of the US-Japan Security Treaty! Stop the pouring of gravel into the sea of Henoko! A great number of protesters rallied against the US base construction in Henoko ______Colour Photogravure ---------------No to the new US base! -- Fight on land and sea; protest in Okinawa and Tokyo The trade war between the US and China The west Japan deluge disaster: The Abe government abandoned the flood disaster victims Stop the revision of the Waterworks Law aimed to accelerate the privatization of water services! Abe justifies negligence in flood-control by saying, 'A flood of this scale cannot be prevented' A JCP bureaucrat praises the 'reform in teachers' work styles' set out by the Education Ministry council The JCP leadership is flustered at a strong reaction from below to their praise for the Education Ministry-led 'work style reform' plan, caused by the criticism of the JRCL Postal workers' struggles: Smash the management plan to rationalize the sector of collection and delivery! On the difference between 'service labour' and 'commercial labour' -- Some consideration on my labour at the window of a post office The Korean War in 1950-53: Korean people torn apart by imperialism and Stalinism Learning from Kan'ichi Kuroda's lecture, Introduction to Historical Materialism _________________________________________ Overseas Appeal for the 56th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan (English translation) Messages from Foreign Friends to the 56th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 1) |
No. 296
September 2018 Issue
(Printed in July 2018)
Denounce the JCP bureaucrats for spreading the illusion of 'peace'! Shatter the deployment of CV-22 Ospreys in the US Yokota base! Combat training is being intensified by the Japanese Ground SDF and US forces combined The newly launched Japanese version of the Marine Corps Japan's new military strategy drafted by the ruling LDP follows in the footsteps of the US Hot competition between the US and China for the command of the southern sea The Moritomo school scandal: The Abe government is making a frantic effort to cover up its great evil Don't allow the cover-up of the Kake school scandal by the noe-fascist government! Denounce the railroading of the 'work-style reform' bill through the Diet! -- Militant workers and students' protest in front of the Diet Building, June 29th Stop the historic revision of labour laws! Trump has started another warmongering in the Middle East Overseas Appeal for the 56th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan Oppose the nuclear arms race between the US and China-Russia! The Executive Committee for the 56th International Antiwar Assembly 'Let us fight together to change the dark 21st century world covered with wars and poverty!' The JRCL delegation called on workers and people in France I will cultivate my own 'view of history' as an anti-Stalinist revolutionary Marxist -- My determination on the centenary of the Russian Revolution _______________________________________________________________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 5) - The 'April 28th Okinawa Day' struggle, 1967 - The Ampo [US-Japan security treaty] / Okinawa struggles, 1968 - Two struggles at Haneda Airport against the US-Japan summit meeting, 1967 |
No. 295
July 2018 Issue
(Printed in May 2018)
Fight against the constitutional revision, against the US-Japan nuclear military alliance! Stop the revision of the Constitution! Stave off a nuclear Korean war! Bring down the Abe government! Central Students' Orgburo Don't allow the cover-up of the Moritomo and Kake school scandals! Denounce the air strikes on Syria by the US, UK and French imperialists! No to the massacres of Syrian people by the al-Assad regime! A survival strategy of the US militarist empire writhing in its death throes _____________________________________
Break through the distortion of struggles into a 'productivity improvement campaign' An agreement on a zero wage increase for three consecutive years Denounce the treachery of the Postal Union leadership! Coercing workers to dedicate themselves to the 'creation of a bright future of the company' -- A criticism of the Postal Union leadership's action plan for the 2018 spring labour offensive The NTT union leadership's acceptance of ultra-low pay figures Toyota labour aristocrats' pledge to 'work in unison with the management for boosting competitiveness' With emphasis on the 'improvement of each worker's skills', the leadership of All Toyota Unions distorted labour offensives Labour aristocrats of the JC Metal instructed workers to take an active part in the 'productivity improvement campaign' A declaration of the intention to intensify capitalist exploitation in the name of a 'work-style reform' -- A criticism of the Japan Business Federation's '2018 Labour Policy Report' _________________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 4) The struggle against the expansion of the US Sunagawa base in Tokyo, 1967 _________________________________________ An Illusion of a 'worldwide economic boom' |
No. 294
May 2018 Issue
(Printed in March 2018)
Don't allow the cover-up of the Moritomo school scandal by the Abe government! Confrontation and manoeuvring between the US, North Korea and South Korea over the 'denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula' Down with the neo-fascist Abe government intent on participating in the war and revising the Constitution! Central Students' Orgburo Denounce the repeated accidents caused by US forces! Stop the new US base construction in Henoko! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee _____________________________________ For the victory in the spring labour offensive! Against the revision of labour laws! Crush the distortion of struggles into a 'labour movement for higher productivity'! Central Workers' Orgburo Smash Abe's 'work-style reform' bill! Labour aristocrats acting in concert with the government and monopoly capitalists for the 'work-style reform' -- A critique of the 'Japanese Trade Union Confederation White Paper 2018' Don't allow the pro-JCP leadership of Zenroren to abandon fighting for higher wages! _________________________________________ A desperate and dangerous move of the Trump administration in death agony Xi Jinping's ambition to build a 'contemporized socialist power' -- An analysis of the 19th National Congress of the CPC _________________________________________ Lenin and Trotsky right after the 1905 revolution (Part 2) Kan'ichi Kuroda |
No. 293
March 2018 Issue
(Printed in January 2018)
A century after the Russian Revolution Take a huge step forward for the advance of the anti-Stalinist movement! Create a titanic struggle to eradicate the danger of a nuclear war and the imposition of poverty on workers and people! Trump-led American imperialism in historic decline Colour Photogravure Make 2018 a year of a great leap forward in the anti-Stalinist movement! _____________________________________ The centenary of the Russian Revolution Lenin and Trotsky right after the 1905 revolution (Part 1) Kan'ichi Kuroda Lenin's strategic change in the April of 1917: What made the October Revolution possible JCP bureaucrats' blasphemies against the Russian Revolution A JRCL overseas appeal On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution JRCL appeals to the working people all over the world Photogravure Carve out a 'second century of proletarian revolution'! _________________________________________ The planned revision of labour laws and the so-called work style reform The Japan Post management imposes intensified labour on workers and tightens labour management by using disciplinary 'meetings for the case studies of job accidents' |
No. 292
January 2018 Issue
(Printed in November 2017)
Shatter the all-out offensive by the neo-fascist government aimed to revise the Constitution! Down with the Abe government resting on the NSC autocracy! Stop a nuclear Korean war! Block the constitutional revision! Central Students' Orgburo Denounce the Japanese Communist Party's plunge into a position of 'defending the homeland'! Advance the anti-Abe government struggle! Abe is high-handedly tightening controls on media The reorganization of administrative structures The drastic revision of the Guidelines for School Teaching by the Education Ministry Don't allow the tightening of state control over school curriculums! The total bankruptcy of Abenomics: The economic crisis is deepening in Japan What lies beneath the meltdown of Toshiba Corporation Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' huge investment in a French nuclear power industry An appalling degeneration of Chukaku-ha remnants, tools of state power _____________________________________ For truly making Marxism indigenous to Japan -- Learning from Kan'ichi Kuroda's inquiry The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 3) The struggle against the Japan-ROK Talks and the conclusion of the Japan-ROK Treaty, 1963-65 Creation of struggles against the Vietnam War, 1965 Efforts to recast the Antiwar Youth Committee _____________________________________ Messages from Foreign Friends to the 55th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 2) |
No. 291
November 2017 Issue
(Printed in September 2017)
Denounce the Kim Jong Un regime for testing a hydrogen bomb! Stop the Trump administration's nuclear attack on North Korea! Stop a nuclear Korean war with the united power of the people of Japan, the US and North and South Korea! The keynote speech delivered in the central meeting of the 55th International Antiwar Assembly Rise in the anti-Abe government struggle! Advance the revolutionary antiwar struggle based on proletarian internationalism! Let us stop the reclamation work in the US base construction in Henoko with the full power of workers and people! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL For the uplifting of the struggle against a Korean nuclear war, against the constitutional revision The Japan Marxist StudentLeague (Revolutionary Marxist Faction) The leadership of the Japan Postal Union spurs workers to 'raise productivity' for the 'development of the company' Don't allow the Abe government to revise the public nursing care insurance system! For a critical analysis of the BOJ's monetary policy dubbed 'different dimension easing' -- In answering 'some questions' posed by a reader _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 2) The struggle against US and USSR nuclear testing: Part 4 Ideological struggles for the overcoming of two deviations, leftist and rightist, 1962 Serious ideological opposition within our organization over the 'Cuban Crisis', 1962 _____________________________________ Overseas Appeal for the 55th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan (English translation) Messages from Foreign Friends to the 55th International Antiwar Assembly (Part 1) |
No. 290
September 2017 Issue
(Printed in July 2017)
Create a big surge of antiwar, anti-constitutional revision, anti-Abe government struggle! Repeal the conspiracy law! Down with the Abe government! The Kake Gakuen scandal created by a Cabinet Secretariat initiative Block the legislation against 'conspiracy crimes'! Stop participation in the war and constitutional revision! Don't allow the enactment of today's version of the prewar Maintenance of the Pubic Order Act! Documents 'Stop the passage of the conspiracy bill!' Anger besieged the Diet Building day after day JCP bureaucrats incapable of making a counterattack against Abe's offensive of revising Article 9 of the Constitution! The fall of the JCP leadership into a position of 'defending the homeland' -- The criminal nature of its policy line adopted in the 27th Party Congress We denounce the firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile by North Korea! Thwart a military attack on North Korea by the US, South Korea and Japan! Stop a nuclear Korean war! Oppose US, Chinese and Russian rulers bent on a nuclear arms race and warmongering! -- Overseas Appeal for the 55th International Antiwar Assembly in Japan The executive Committee for the 55th International Antiwar Assembly Solidarity messages from abroad to the call of the JRCL to 'Stop a nuclear Korean war!' (Part 2) - Vladimir Pronin, Ukraine - The International Secretariat of the Fourth International The 2017 spring labour offensive distorted as a whole into 'joint labour-management consultations for the increase of productivity' Create workers' offensive for higher wages in workplaces of small and medium enterprises! Steel industry capitalists rushing to introduce 'high information technology' at the cost of workers _____________________________________ The history of the revolutionary antiwar struggle (Part 1) -- Reprinted from Kaihoh Nos. 1557-1637 The struggle against the US-Japan Security Treaty fought in1960 The struggle against US and USSR nuclear testing: Part 1--Zengakuren fighters' demonstration in Red Square in Moscow, August 6th, 1962 Part 2--Zengakuren's flaming controversy with Chinese and Soviet student bureaucrats in the International Union of Students in Leningrad, 1962 Part 3--Declaring bankruptcy of the movement against A- and H-bombs, 1962-63 |
No. 289
July 2017 Issue
(Printed in May 2017)
 Stop a nuclear Korean war!Stop the war with the united power of the people of the USA, Japan, and North and South Koreas! Overthrow the Abe government hell-bent on war and the revision of the Constitution! Denounce the Trump-led US imperialist government attacking Syria! No to the massacres of Syrian people by the al-Assad regime! Crush the forcible start of the reclamation work for the construction of a new US base in Henoko! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL The danger and reactionary nature of the conspiracy bill The Abe government's ultra-reactionary designs underlying the conspiracy bill An attempt to introduce dirty American methods of police investigation Abe's commitment to the scandal-ridden Moritomo school management Topple down the neo-fascist Abe government tainted with the Moritomo Gakuen scandal! Abe played a leading role in giving preferential treatment to the school Moritomo head Kagoike's sworn testimony in the Diet It's Ishin, another neo-fascist party, that gave permission to the foundation of this school The scandal of the 'far-right school' was reported across the world Moritomo's ultranationalist education style: a model for 'patriotic' education promoted by the Abe government Abe's Cabinet decided that it's justifiable to use the ultra-reactionary, prewar Imperial Rescript of Education for teaching in schools Brainwashing in the Moritomo-run kindergarten: hatred for Chinese and Korean people is instilled into the minds of pupils The government is plotting to restore a 'guideline for wartime home education' designed to whip up nationalism The ultra-nationalist Nippon Kaigi [Japan Conference] was exposed as one pulling the wires behind the scenes The active role taken by the Defense Minister Inada in founding the ultra-nationalist school Another Moritomo scandal: Abe's involvement in providing a huge special advantage to Kake Gakuen was revealed Denounce the distortion of the spring labour offensive into one aimed to 'increase added value and productivity'! Toyota: The ultra-low compromise figure for wage increase was covered up by the management's superficial trickery about nursing allowance Electricity industry: Denounce the joint labour-management consultation for the deceitful 'work style reform'! Japan Post: Condemn the labour aristocrats' unprecedented, on-the-spot decision to accept management's 'zero wage hike' offer! NTT: Expose the labour aristocrats' falsehood, 'the average wage increase of 1,400 yen per person'! Private Railways: The leadership's distortion of struggles into a campaign to demand better traffic policies from the government The realities of the monopoly capitalist form of 'work style reform' Legalization of murderous '100 hours of overtime a month' The cruel trick of 'curtailing hours of overtime' Artificial Intelligence introduced in labour control in the name of 'human resource technology' Intensification of labour imposed on workers in the transport business Monopoly capitalists' true intention in the 'work style reform': presenting an increasingly unscrupulous way of exploitation in the name of 'workers' self-reliance' The continued operation of decrepit, dangerous nuclear reactors Formidable difficulties in decommissioning Fukushima nuclear reactors The inhumane nature of China's 'new urbanization plan' Solidarity messages from abroad to the call of the JRCL to 'Stop a nuclear Korean war!' - Fraccion Leninista Trotskista Internacional - Colectivo por la IV Internacional (FLTI), Argentina - The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), Afghanistan - The Russian Party of Communists, Russia - The Organising Committee for the Reconstitution of the Fourth International (OCRFI), France - Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK), Greece |
No. 288
May 2017 Issue
(Printed in March 2017)
 Fight for a militant upsurge of the spring labour offensive against the
all-out reactionary offensive!Crush the imposition of 'war and poverty' on workers! Win a huge upsurge of the 2017 spring labour offensive! The keynote speech delivered at the February 12th Workers' Solidarity Meeting Solidify the unity of the world working class to eradicate war, poverty and oppression! The speech given by a representative of the JRCL at the Workers' Solidarity Meeting Monopoly capitalists cry out for 'labour-management negotiations for the sake of increasing productivity' Criticism of Keidanren's 2017 labour management report The Rengo leadership is intent on 'riding out the national crisis in cooperation with the government and monopoly capitalists' The JC Metal labour aristocrats advocate workers' contribution to the 'creation of a strong Japanese economy' Advance antiwar struggle amid the cataclysmic upheaval in the world today! Stop the revision of the Constitution of Japan! Create an explosive upsurge of the anti-war, anti-Security Treaty struggle! Central Students' Orgburo Student loans plunge students into a living hell of heavy debts Foil the new US base construction in Henoko! Fight for the removal of all US bases! The Okinawa Prefectural Committee of the JRCL Reports Block the reclamation work in Henoko!: Protesters rose on land and sea Six years after the Fukushima disaster: Stop and scrap all nuclear power plants and fuel facilities! The advent of Trump: War clouds are hanging over the world The Trump administration shaken by the 'Putin-gate' scandal The European Union in danger of being torn apart by Trump and Putin Europe: The rampancy of 'mini Trumps' Civil war in Syria: Ever more serious due to the tie-up between Russia and Turkey Trump enforces construction of two pipelines in disregard of environmental destruction 'Immigration from Mexico has produced higher unemployment' is a downright lie! A shady relationship between Putin and Trump Present-day Goebbels appointed by present-day Hitler: Stephen Bannon, Trump's chief strategist Some reflections on my own labour in terms of the theory of technology |